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art

  1. AUREL SCHMIDT

    PLAGUE OF SURFACES: AUREL SCHMIDT MAKES ORNAMENT FROM EXCREMENT wordsby nicholas brown...
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  2. DAVID SHRIGLEY

    LIMERICKS OF THE FUTURE: THE BLEAK HUMOR OF DAVID SHRIGLEY wordsby saelan twerdy In...
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music

  1. mickey avalon

    GLITTER RAP: MICKEY AVALON'S GLAMOROUS SLEAZE wordsby dustin koop illustrationby ben tour With the ugly/pretty sex appeal...
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  2. DEERHOOF

    MISFIT MAGIC: DEERHOOF REINVENTS ROCK, AGAIN. wordsby saelan twerdy illustrationby jonathan paulsen Deerhoof...
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skate

  1. DEER MAN OF DARK WOODS

    DEER MAN OF DARK WOODS words&photosby dylan doubt It has been a few years now since...
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  2. ALIEN

    DANIEL ANTHONY NELSON ...that spells DAN wordsby matthew meadows photosby alana paterson In...
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life

  1. RYAN SMITH

    SOBER SEVEN WITH RYAN SMITH wordsby sandro grison photosby mike blabac He...
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  2. melbourne

    MELBOURNE FOR THE HARD AT LURK. words&photosby tim hillier There were threats of calling...
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fashion

  1. AT THE DINER

    AT THE DINER stylingby tanus lewis castingby mila franovic hair&makeupby janice rhodes models...
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Editor's Letter

wordsby scott radnidge backside disasterdeer man

In the Californian warm nighttime sky, neon signs and jukeboxes played through the night. On freshly painted multi-lane roads letterman jackets and homecoming queens, high on pop and nicotine, rode giddily in convertibles that

jockeyed for position in lines of snaking cars, whose fins glittered and pierced the nocturnal darkness with luminous tailfins.

While idling at a stoplight, the din of piano-fueled rock limped over the AM radio waves and oozed out of the waiting cars’ open tops and ajar windows…