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Named &#8220;One to Watch&#8221; by BBC tastemaker Annie Mac, Kat Cunning (aka Katrina Cunningham) is an actor and recording artist with a degree in concert dance. Cunning, who prefers to be gender neutral, made their television debut in HBO&#8217;s The Deuce starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, playing Franco’s love interest, Christina Fuego. They currently co-stars in the NETFLIX YA hit TRINKETS as Sabine. TRINKETS will see its second season this year.
A rising voice on the NYC arts scene, Cunning opened for recording artist LP on their sold out North American tour in late 2019, performed on Broadway in &#8216;Dangerous Liaisons,&#8217; Cirque Du Soleil&#8217;s &#8216;Paramour,&#8217; Punch Drunk’s  ‘Sleep No More’ and was a featured performer in Refinery 29&#8217;s sold out 29Rooms exhibit with famed artist Juno Calypso.

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The Way We Get By: Kat Cunning Is Just Letting Emptiness Happen

Martin Courtney is the singer-guitarist of the Brooklyn band Real Estate, whose fifth album The Main Thing was released earlier this year. Like every other musician on the planet, his band’s touring hopes were dashed by the pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped him from working. The band has recently launched their augmented reality “Quarantour,” which can be experienced by visiting <a class="c-link" href="https://slack-redir.net/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Frealestatequarantour.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-sk="tooltip_parent" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-b2345888-2af2-46ab-881d-cef22bdd9c6f">realestatequarantour.com.</a>
(Photo Credit: Jake Michaels)

Martin Courtney

Martin Courtney (Real Estate) on Being a Quarantine Dad and Music Life in Limbo

Andy Jenkins is a musician based in Richmond, Virginia. His latest album, Sweet Bunch, was released in 2018 via Spacebomb Records.

Andy Jenkins

The Way We Get By: Andy Jenkins Borrowed Ninth Street Women From the Library Before It Closed

The composer/electronic musician/healer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s new album The Mosaic of Transformation on Ghostly International is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2017 album The Kid.
For her, expressions found in the physical body&#8217;s relationship to sound and color became the foundational frequency of the new album. A bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself, with a distinct healing quality to it that existed long before society’s recent shift. Katilyn continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body&#8217;s relationship to sound and color. It is this life-guiding interest that forms the foundational frequencies of the new album.  While writing and recording, she embraced a daily practice of physical movement, passing electricity through her body and into motion, in ways reflecting her audio practice, which sends currents through modular synthesizers and into the air through speakers.
Not a dancer by any traditional definition, she taught herself improvisatory movement realizing flexibility, strength, and unexpectedly, what she calls “a visual language” stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, &#8220;as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,&#8221; much like a mosaic.
(Photo Credit: Chantal Anderson)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Rick Moody Talk Physicality, Electricity, and Earworms

Pete Yorn is equally indebted to Bruce Springsteen’s blue-collar introspection as Lou Reed’s deadpan stream-of-consciousness. He first broke out in 2001 with his extraordinary Columbia Records debut, Musicforthemorningafter, which was hailed by NPR as one of the year’s finest and Rolling Stone praised it as “atmospheric, gently lit by sunlight and regret.” In the decades that followed, Yorn solidified his status as a songwriters’ songwriter, releasing six more solo albums and collaborating in the studio with everyone from Frank Black and Peter Buck to Liz Phair and Scarlett Johansson (Yorn and Johansson’s joint 2009 release, Break Up, went Platinum in France). Yorn has performed on a plethora of TV shows including Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel, Ellen and more; as well as sharing the stage on tours with artists as varied as R.E.M., Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Foo Fighters and The Dixie Chicks, and festival slots from Coachella and Bonnaroo to Glastonbury and Austin City Limits.
(Photo Credit: Jim Wright)

Pete Yorn

Pete Yorn’s Wholesome Quarantine Routine Includes Puzzles and Painting

Natalia Yanchak is a member of the Montreal-based band The Dears. Their latest album, Lovers Rock, was released in May 2020.

Natalia Yanchak

Natalia Yanchak of The Dears is Playing Video Games During Quarantine, As You Do

Anna B Savage is a London-based singer-songwriter.
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Anna B Savage

The Way We Get By: Anna B Savage Is Really Into Birdwatching

Kristian Mattson performs as The Tallest Man on Earth. His latest album, I Love You. It&#8217;s A Fever Dream. was released April 2019 via Dead Oceans.

The Tallest Man on Earth

Kristian Matsson (The Tallest Man on Earth) Interviews Pharis And Jason Romero

John Rzeznik is the frontman of the Goo Goo Dolls. Their latest album, Miracle Pill, was released September 2019 via Warner Records.

John Rzeznik

Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik is Cleaning, Livestreaming, and Raising Money

For 19-year-old Jordana Nye, kaleidoscopic bedroom pop songs aren’t merely outlets for observations, but ways to endure and embrace turbulence. Listeners will hear in full when she re-releases her treasured debut album Classical Notions of Happiness with three brand-new songs on March 27 via Grand Jury Records. 
Growing up in North Beach, Maryland, Jordana was surrounded by music in the most devout sense of the word. Her father, an organ player at the local church, encouraged her to learn piano from a young age. Instead, she found herself drawn to the violin, which she played for years before eventually switching to guitar. Classical Notions of Happiness is the culmination of a decade of practice and a slow delve into the expanses of SoundCloud.

Jordana

On Being a Virtuoso, with Jordana and TV Girl’s Brad Petering

PINS is a post-punk trio from Manchester. Their latest album, Hot Slick, is out May 29 via HAUS OF PINS.
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PINS

The Way We Get By: Faith Vern (PINS) Finds Iggy Pop’s Free To Be a Nice Escape.

For Albuquerque, New Mexico new wave/synth-pop band Lindy Vision, family casts a shadow over everything. The trio — comprised of three Black Native sisters, Dorothy (Dee Dee), Natasha (Na), and Carla Cuylear — has spent the last six years honing their unique sonic palette, a mix of dark ‘80s new wave, bouncy synth-pop, and ethereal indie-rock that has drawn comparisons to Santigold, M.I.A., Devo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more. In that time, their music has landed them on bills supporting Spoon, Durand Jones and the Indications, A Tribe Called Red, Magic Giant, and more.
On their new EP, Adult Children Part II, Lindy Vision continues to create sweeping, synth-heavy soundscapes that provide a foundation for their introspective, emotionally raw musings on adult life after a tumultuous upbringing.
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