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Josh Heaps is a PhD dropout, ex-publicist, perennial assistant who has also made a movie. His debut feature, <a href="https://www.factorytwentyfive.com/city-wide-fever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">City Wide Fever</a>, is out April 17 through Factory 25.

Josh Heaps

Film

City Wide Beaver

Welsh-born, New York City-based artist Rod Thomas makes music as Bright Light Bright Light, creating pop music influenced heavily by cinema, with nods to the ’80s and ’90s, his formative decades (the moniker Bright Light Bright Light is a line from Gremlins), in its colorful, effervescent presentation. He has released four studio albums including the 2020 #1 UK Dance Album Fun City, which focused on the LGBTQ+ experience and featured such guest vocalists as Sam Sparro, Andy Bell of Erasure, Madonna collaborators Niki Haris and Donna De Lory, and Justin Vivian Bond, and 2016&#8217;s Choreography, which featured three songs with Elton John, all Scissor Sisters members and Grammy-nominated Mykal Kilgore. He’s also a celebrated DJ who runs the Time Out NY Recommended party &#8216;Romy &amp; Michele&#8217;s Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance,&#8217; based on one of his favorite films, and an in-demand remixer who’s worked for Jewel, Erasure, Loren Allred, Dannii Minogue, Drag Race stars Jujubee and Katya among many others. He runs his own label, YSKWN!, which also acts as an umbrella connecting and amplifying LGBTQ+ voices in the arts and local businesses. (Photo by Warren Giddarie.)

Rod Thomas

Blood and Black Lace: A Cut Above the Rest in the Lurid World of Giallo

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<div>Stemming from various bands that guitarist/vocalist Steven Instasi and bassist Ben Semeta had been in since their teenage years, Black Beach formed in 2012 in their hometown of Middleboro, MA when the two joined with childhood friend and drummer Ryan Nicholson. Originally starting as a hardcore band, the trio decided to focus on writing a style of music that encompassed all of their interests rather than existing in the confines of any one particular genre. What resulted was a sound that took inspiration from noise rock, post-punk, proto-punk, doom, free jazz, and art rock. Eventually relocating to Boston where the band found kindred spirits in the local music scene, Black Beach found a home in the various basements and music venues in the city and began playing with international touring acts such as Thee Oh Sees, Protomartyr, and Acid King. With two EPS, a split with friends Nice Guys and 2016’s LP Shallow Creatures under their belt, Black Beach continues to evolve their genre bending version of rock music. </div>
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Black Beach

Music

Hear First: Black Beach’s Giallo

Zach Clark is the writer-director of The Becomers, Little Sister, White Reindeer, Vacation! and Modern Love is Automatic. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Zach Clark

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears

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