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Abby Weems is the lead singer and guitarist of Potty Mouth. Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, she now lives in Los Angeles where you will most likely run into her at a birthday party

Abby Weems

Music

More to Consume Than Words

A family of spiritualists, writers and performers generations deep; a home haunted by legends of literature and music; personal upheaval and a sense of being unseated in time: these are the origins of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vera Sola.
As a child she played classical piano, later guitar and bass, learning more by instinct than instruction. An obsessive reader and writer, she’d forever written poetry and been fascinated by wordplay, falling in love at a young age with Russian literature and the work of Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and William Faulkner. All this, along with a career as a stage and voice actor—combined with years of touring in Elvis Perkins’ band—would serve as a launching point for Vera Sola.
But it wasn’t until early 2017, when she booked time at Native Sound Studio in St. Louis, that she began to experiment with the idea of recording her own material. What emerged from the sessions was her debut album, SHADES, a collection of ten finely-honed and immaculately-rendered ballads. Poems and stories delivered in a mannered but casually dismissive style—full of sorrow, yet arch and wry. Songs of the present that conjure the past. Accounts of women and their ghosts: echoes of memories that just won’t quit; of relationships over or current but fleeting; of the extinction of species; the violent capture of a feminine landscape and the spirits that stick around long after; messengers from the other side.
(Photo Credit: Pola Esther)

Vera Sola

The Reaper

Ella Vos has quickly become one of the most exciting new acts in pop music. Beginning with her viral hit “White Noise,” Vos has hit number 1 on both Spotify and Hype Machine’s Viral Charts. Acclaimed for her dreamy soundscape and praised by the likes of Rolling Stone and Neon Gold, her debut album Words I Never Said has received over 200 million streams independently. Her new EP Watch and Wait is due January 25.

Ella Vos

Watching and Waiting

Butch Vig is a legendary producer (Nirvana&#8216;s Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins&#8216; Siamese Dream, among many others) and the founding drummer for alt-rock pioneers Garbage. Vig currently plays in the supergroup 5 Billion In Diamonds.

Butch Vig

Crushingly Loud: Tales from Smart Studios

Shamir is Shamir and remains Shamir through and through, no matter what the universe puts him through. You may know the singularly named artist (think—Madonna or Cher) from his 2015 debut hit record Rachet, beloved by NPR listeners and club kids alike. After quickly rising to underground fame with his Northtown EP in 2014, the DIY pop star made a sonic splash with Rachet’s lead single “On The Regular,” a poppy banger that had extensive commercial usage. But how to follow all that up? Shamir, who came from the dusty dunes of Las Vegas, to Brooklyn’s Silent Barn, to the Philly indie scene (and all over the world in between), wanted to go back to what had inspired him from the beginning. Outsider music, country &amp; punk. Raw and vulnerable tunes, stripped down to their emotional core. 2017’s Revelations explored a new avenue of guitar driven hooky indie rock and was widely critically praised in the US and overseas.
Shamir’s most recent releases, the brilliant Room 7” on Father/Daughter, and his self-released limited edition album, Resolution, are pinnacles in the catalog of the increasingly fascinating artist’s career. Room and its b-side Caballero celebrate Shamir’s love of country music, while Resolution is a deeply introspective look into the fabric of society and the artists’ own mind.  With these two releases he has refined his craft exponentially and done so in less than six months from the release of Revelations.

Shamir Bailey

Ratchet TV: Ellen DeGeneres’s Relatable

Nacho Cano was born in Mexico City and now resides in Los Angeles, California.
He attended the California Institute of the Arts where he sound designed and mixed numerous animated projects that have exhibited in festivals around the world. He helped teach sound design courses for graduate and undergraduate students.
His musical project Twin Cabins has released one mixtape, I’m Sure, and one full length LP, Harmless Fantasies.
He currently works on mixing both music and films for various artists around Los Angeles. Under his new music moniker Harmless, he recently released an EP<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2eiwVaVgAQVlGp3dDAo1pz?si=-yz8H10VT8WwPldQrxlAHw"> A Donde Te Vas?</a>.

Nacho Cano

Be Gentle, It’s My First Time Voting

Kiri Oliver is a writer and musician from Brooklyn, NY. She wears bright colors and sings about her feelings in the folk-pop-punk band Early Riser. She was a music booker for The Chris Gethard Show from its public access days through its run on truTV. Follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/kirioliver" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://twitter.com/kirioliver">here</a>.

Kiri Oliver

How to Become a TV Music Booker: An Unlikely Story in 29 Steps

Andrew Falkous has been/is a member of the bands Mclusky and Future of the Left, and is currently releasing solo not-solo music under the name christian fitness. He has an abusive relationship with music which occasionally pays for a nice holiday somewhere warm and is allergic to seafood. (Note: all seafood.) You can follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/shit_rock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>

Andy Falkous

Revisited: The Job Interview

Mackenzie Scott performs as&nbsp;Torres. Her second album, Sprinter, came out on Partisan Records in 2015. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/torreslovesyou" target="_blank">here</a>.
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Mackenzie Scott

Revisited: The Jar Will Always Lift Again

Hamilton Leithauser lives with his wife and two baby girls in New York City. He was the singer for rock band the Walkmen from 2000-2014. He recently got social on the internet and now has<a href="https://twitter.com/HLeithauser" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/jameshamiltonleithauser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and a <a href="http://www.hamiltonleithauser.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.

Hamilton Leithauser

Revisited: Remembering Richard Swift

Joe Casey is the singer in Protomartyr.

Joe Casey

Odd Jobs: a Conversation with Protomartyr and Preoccupations

David Hollander is an artist, filmmaker and collector of artist-made films and library music. He is a co-founder of CineMarfa, a film festival dedicated to showcasing rare and unseen films in Marfa, Texas. He lives in San Antonio.
(Photo Credit: Vincent Dilio)

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