Tuesday, April 14, 2015

April Favorites

I really enjoy using this blog to promote things that might not otherwise be promoted, to give artists a chance to flourish. I think that's one of the most important things about the blogging format.

I'm going to be doing monthly segments basically listing the things that I am currently enjoying, whether it be music, books, fashion, food, etc., in hopes that someone will go out and support these creators.

With that said, let's get started.

1. JML & Tanner Garza- Desired Constellation



A psychoactive, organic collaboration between two of experimental musics most vital artists. Dripping synths and subtle samples collide with metallic drone and found sounds. Surprisingly melodic. Cop it here.




2. Brian Green's Singing Bowl Meditation Music 


Brian Green is a renaissance man. A prolific sound artist, photographer, poet, and painter, I really enjoy knowing that Green is out there wondering, making beautiful things.

He has produced a significant amount of singing bowl music, perfect for meditation but still maintaining that dreamy, melancholy Brian Green sound.

I've recently decided to meditate daily. This music is very effective in setting the mood.

3. Handsome Boy Pilot: A Queer Space Zine


A collection of space themed writing and art by queers. All of it is fantastic, but I'd like to point out the contribution of Gregory William.

William is a rather disturbing cut up writer from New Orleans whose obsession with psychic process has manipulated his work into piece of tense, scatological beauty. 

Handsome Boy Pilot contains some of his visual collages. I strongly suggest you pick it up as I have the feeling that William will make quite the literary impact, or at least will turn some heads.

Cop it  here

4. Blackfist



A clothing label founded, owned, and operated by Bradley Soileau (the guy in those Lana Del Rey videos). His clothes embrace illness, punk, high fashion, and collage culture and, as a result, are all form-fitting, vaguely-magical objects. Perfect if summer makes you sad.

5. Ocean Grunge



Ocean grunge is a rather-baffling, internet-centric musical and aesthetic movement that combines the themes of adolescent angst present in nu-metal with grainy pictures of the ocean and vaporwave-tinged drone music.

It's hopelessly 2015 and I support the new. I also support anything that is meditative and trance inspiring, which is what oceangrunge is.

Check it out here.



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