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Kishi Bashi is Kaoru Ishibashi&#8217;s self-recorded and self-produced project. Ishibashi is a founding member of Jupiter One, and, for a few years, was a member of the band, Of Montreal. His new record, Sonderlust, is out now.
(Photo credit: Shervin Lainez)

Kishi Bashi

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You Will Never Make a Masterpiece

Claire Beaudreault&nbsp;a.k.a. Clara Bizna$$, is a rapper (from the group Hand Job Academy), writer, nail artist and multi-hyphenate living on the Brooklyn/Queens border. New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-, Manila- and West Virginia-bred, she moved to NYC a decade ago with two suitcases and $1,000. Bylines include BarkPost, Bust, Salon, Brokelyn and xoJane. She has got a Chihuahua, a Captain Beefheart tattoo and once played a hooker on SVU. Her religion is karaoke.&nbsp;Follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/ClaraBiznass" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/clarabiznass/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. (photo credit:&nbsp;Hayleigh Hatcher)

Clara Bizna$$

“Fuck Donald Trump”: Obama, Music and Missing 2008

Nick Jaina is a writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon. In addition to recording and performing, he co-founded the Satellite Ballet Collective in New York City. His newest album Brutal Lives is available on iTunes, Spotify and digital outlets. His book Get It While You Can was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Nick Jaina

What I Learned on What Might Be the Longest Book Tour Ever

Juliana Hatfield is a singer, songwriter and guitar player. She began her music career in the late 1980s in Boston with the Blake Babies. Since then she has released approximately fifteen solo albums and been involved with numerous other groups including the Lemonheads, Some Girls (with Freda Love Smith) and MInor Alps (with Matthew Caws from Nada Surf). Her latest project is a collaboration with Paul Westerberg called the I Don’t Cares. Their debut album, Wild Stab, came out in early 2016. Hatfield&#8217;s new album, Pussycat, will be released on April 28, 2017.
(Photo credit: Brad Walsh)

Juliana Hatfield

Trump’s Recent Comments About Sexual Assault Had Juliana Hatfield Reaching for Her Valium

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

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.

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