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John Colpitts, aka Kid Millions is a drummer, composer, drum teacher and writer based in Queens, NY. He is best known for his work in the experimental rock band Oneida and his percussion group Man Forever. His latest album with Oneida, <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/expensive-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expensive Air</a>, is out now on Joyful Noise.

John Colpitts

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Death By Audio’s Doc Inspires Us to Move Forward as We Look Back

As former frontwoman of the critically acclaimed New York-based group San Fermin, KAYE (Charlene Kaye) has played network television and has toured with St. Vincent, Arctic Monkeys, alt-J, and others. She recently released &#8220;Closer Than This,&#8221; the first single from her upcoming album, which earned praise from Rolling Stone, NPR, FLOOD Magazine, and more.
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Charlene Kaye

Bad Perms, Yellow Fever Dreams and Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling in Pop

Derek Kiesgen is the guitarist/bassist for Bear vs. Shark as well as the author of the forthcoming The Startling Adventures of the Men in Gold Labcoats, a novel with like seven hundred monsters in it. He is married to an angelic juggernaut of a human and has a grey cat.

Derek Kiesgen

Magic: The Gathering is the True Soul of Rock & Roll

Hutch Harris was born in New York City, raised in Silicon Valley and has resided in Portland, Oregon for the past twenty years.  Harris founded and was the lead singer/songwriter of the Thermals. He is currently working on his first solo LP. Follow Harris on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/instantanxiety" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://twitter.com/thethermals&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1539364798634000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFoiS1M3sGWO60C3dnqFFla-DuGbw">here</a>.
(Photo Credit: Westin Glass)

Hutch Harris

Inspiration in Unlikely Places: From Kurt Cobain to John Rambo and Back Again

Domenic Palermo is an artist and a musician, founder of both Death of Lovers and the award-winning and Billboard-charting NOTHING. Hailing from the Kensington/Frankford areas of Philadelphia, Palermo saw many of his friends and family fall prey to the trappings of an underprivileged neighborhood, spending time in and out of the justice system. Palermo himself also made a near fatal decision that landed him in a correctional facility, a moment that he vowed to avoid from then forward. Since then, Palermo has emerged as not only a successful artist and writer, but an advocate for Philadelphia and a vocal proponent for change, on an individual level as well as in the cogs of the justice system. It’s with this personal and peripheral experience that he created Belly of the Beats, a nonprofit with several corporate partners that seeks to help the incarcerated and their families.

Domenic Palermo

One Might Only: Domenic Palermo (Nothing) on Touring

Josh Strawn is currently one half of the electronic duo Azar Swan and the lead singer of the moody metal supergroup Vaura. He was closely involved with the now-defunct Wierd Records label and party, at which time he fronted the post-punk band Blacklist and played in the psychedelic doom folk band Religious to Damn with Azar Swan co-conspirator Zohra Atash. He has contributed written works of political and cultural commentary to various publications including Flavorwire and Slutist.
(photo credit: Jason Rodgers)

Josh Strawn

Waking Up from the Music Industry’s Complacency Nightmare

Michael Doshier is a writer, musician and the creator of queer-electro-rock multimedia performer <a href="http://johnnydarlin.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://johnnydarlin.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473952586472000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG45I2OJ33XXCjdFx-mpxjmN5kmjQ">Johnny Darlin</a>, who can be seen performing around New York City. His debut EP, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mr.-monogamy/id1023489585" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mr.-monogamy/id1023489585&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473952586472000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH86b7SxCI0lfPX6XTyC3UGyfJ_cw">Mr. Monogamy</a>, was released in 2014 and his second, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hump-daze/id1133427480" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hump-daze/id1133427480&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473952586472000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfjvr4-9CGbuLIW_tDeH9OAC2amg">Hump Daze</a>, in 2016. His New York Fringe Festival cabaret, <a href="http://www.johnnydarlin.com/in-the-closet" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.johnnydarlin.com/in-the-closet&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473952586472000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqdBQnx8lEixdQlTomNX6qB6JMKQ">Johnny Darlin: In the Closet</a>, a collaboration with video artist JPEGSTRIPES, noise duo Al-Atrash, choreographer Pia Vinson, and dancers Quenton Stuckey and Alberte Nilausen, was named Best Bet and called “seamless…sharp…fantastical” by <a href="http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/FringeFestival/2016/johnnydarlininthecloset.php" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/FringeFestival/2016/johnnydarlininthecloset.php&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473952586472000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE_OGoGz6MPyLmyYIEs7eKFr393dg">Theatre Is Easy</a>.

Michael Doshier

How Britney Spears Helped Me Settle into My Queerness

Johnny Solomon of Communist Daughter was a fixture in the tight-knit Twin Cities music scene. Forming the angular indie pop band Friends Like These and touring extensively, he received critical praise from far-flung sources that looked like the beginning of a promising career. The rising success masked his struggle with addiction and mental health problems, and quickly eclipsed his career, landing him in jail and treatment facilities across the country. Now, the band is back with a new record, The Cracks that Built the Wall, out October 2016.

Johnny Solomon

What It’s Like to Write Music When You Think You’re Going Insane

Jarrett Dougherty is the drummer of the punk rock trio Screaming Females. When not drumming, he spends his time sewing collared shirts, rebuilding his Philadelphia row home and digging for dollar bin CDs.
Getting run over by a 1956 Buick at sixty years of age can really motivate you to get your ducks in a row. After the near-death experience, Dennis Dougherty decided he needed to leave behind the comforts of suburban life and get back in the studio to make the best record of his life. Exactly twenty-five years after his 1991 album Pony Ride, Dennis is back with 2016&#8217;s Get the Angle Right.

Jarrett and Dennis Dougherty

Two Generations of Musicians Share How One Inspired the Other

What Makes a Song Great? Frankie Cosmos and “The Moment”

Nimai Larson, one half of the Brooklyn dance band Prince Rama, loves to write about her passions: <a href="http://www.princerama.com/" target="_blank">music</a>, <a href="http://www.nimailarson.com/" target="_blank">food</a> and <a href="http://www.mtvhive.com/category/columns/totally-nights-columns/" target="_blank">love</a>. 
 
(photo credit: Photo Pink)

Nimai Larson

Here’s What I Learned from Being in a Band with My Sister

Brian Viglione is the drummer for New York rock band Scarlet Sails and founding member of punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls. Brian collaborated with Trent Reznor on the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts: I-IV, which was nominated for two Grammy Awards and sold more than 750,000 copies. Brian drummed for Violent Femmes from 2013 to 2015, touring internationally and recording the band&#8217;s first material in seventeen years for the Happy New Year EP (2015), and We Can Do Anything (2016) albums.

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