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Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, <a href="http://ofherbeauty.com">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,</a> which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Terence’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. His latest release as a musician, Vortex+, came out in early 2025.

Terence Nance

Film

Hail, Caesar! and Cognitive Wanderances on Such Subjects as Overcommitment, Student Debt, Beyoncé’s Specific Juju and Bill Cosby’s Guilt

Meredith Graves is a musician and writer. She also runs a small record label called <a href="http://www.honor.press/" target="_blank">Honor Press</a>. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/gravesmeredith" target="_blank">here</a> and on Instagram <a href="http://instagram.com/gravesmeredith" target="_blank">here</a>.

Meredith Graves

Music

The Debut of ‘re: dress,’ Meredith Graves’ Talkhouse Column on Fashion in Music — and Vice Versa

Since the release of 2012&#8217;s acclaimed Solo Piano II, Chilly Gonzales composed the best-selling book of easy piano pieces Re-Introduction Etudes, produced and released Octave Minds, the piano-meets-electronica album with Boys Noize and devoted himself to finding a modern take on chamber music. The result is Chambers, out March 24, 2015, an album for piano and string quartet. Inspired by the deepening relationship with Hamburg&#8217;s Kaiser Quartett, the album re-imagines Romantic-era chamber music as today&#8217;s addictive pop. Gonzales holds the Guinness world record for the longest solo concert: over 27 hours. He’s collaborated with with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Drake, among others. He won a 2014 Grammy for his collaboration on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. With &#8220;Never Stop,&#8221; he composed a global hit for the inaugural Apple iPad campaign. You can find Chilly on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/chillygonzales" target="_blank">here</a>, Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chillygonzales" target="_blank">here</a> and his website is <a href="http://www.chillygonzales.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.

Chilly Gonzales

Chilly Gonzales Talks Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise

Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer and a founding member of the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed is a musician, songwriter, author and photographer based in New York City. He is a co-host of New York Shuffle on Sirius XM, as well as the author of Pass Thru Fire: the Collected Lyrics and The Raven, and several books of his photography, including: Lou Reed&#8217;s New York, Romanticism, Emotion in Action and Rimes Rhymes. He is a recipient of the Chevalier Commander of Arts and Letters from the French government.

Lou Reed

Lou Reed Talks Kanye West’s Yeezus

Kanye West