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Boy Willows for Local Wolves
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Landon Fleischman was overjoyed to hear that his pre-NYC photoshoot face mask was packed with lavender. “I’m obsessed with lavender,” he explained, slathering the product on his face. “I painted my whole room lavender, bed frame, I have a lavender shag rug, I have this lavender owl, it’s all due to my mom.”
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pronoun: music mastermind
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When Alyse Vellturo, mastermind behind pronoun, released her newest track "run" into the world, she was a little nervous that the track would struggle to find its footing. "It was a lot of, 'This doesn’t sound like anything else,'" she explained, "but not in a good way, like, 'Oh wow!' It was more like, '...no one asked for this. But I was wrong, which is nice!" |
Yoke Lore: Movement, Spirit and Identity
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Yoke Lore, the solo project of Adrian Galvin, was born out of one-off acoustic gig under the banner of his old band Yellerkin. “I was asked to play this set and me and the person who I had been doing Yellerkin with had a falling out and I had been writing a bunch,” Galvin explained. “They asked me and I said I would just do an acoustic show. I played Beige for the first time, I played Snow Day, and I played Heavy Love. I introduced myself as Yellerkin, and by the end of the show I wasn’t Yellerkin anymore.”
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OPINION: Fight the Boys' Club Through Proactivity
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When those in the industry, specifically in the plethora of successful male rock bands that litter arena shows and festival line ups only pick from their circles, they're picking people that are like them. When you're consistently aligning with people who have similar backgrounds, upbringings and social circles, more often than not, they physically resemble them as well. Note that in the photo, every single one of the men is white passing as well.
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Public: Sour, Sweet, Here to Stay
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Matthew Alvarado recounts that the rest of the evening was pretty routine, with the trio snacking and playing video games like any other group of teen boys. However, the events of that night had flipped a switch for the group as a whole. “I don’t remember if it was that night, or some time that week, but it was pretty late for high school, around midnight probably,” he said. “I got a one word text from John. It just said ‘Matt.’ And I said ‘Yeah?’ And he said, ‘Are you ready to heed the call?’”
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