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Punk Rock Memoirs To Inspire A Fearless, Creative Life

January is not necessarily going to be the big refreshing escape from the year we’ve had, going by the news and the pandemic numbers. It won’t be the celebratory holidays we may have anticipated months ago. But what hasn’t changed, and what may bring some comfort, is that January is always prime...

Cat Woods

ONLY NOISEMusic Fuels My Postpartum Self-Care

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Liz Tracy reconnects to her former self via the music she loved before she became a mom. In the tiny basement gym in my parents' apartment building, I gingerly...

Liz Tracy

PLAYING DETROITFred Thomas "Voiceover"

Fred Thomas has a lot of feelings (and he really wants to talk about them).

Jerilyn Jordan

LIVE REVIEWHudson RiverRocks

It would seem that Pier 84 is the place to be this summer. With 4Knots boasting an impressive lineup of bands a few weeks ago, Hudson RiverRocks is upholding the more independent side of things, considering the bands and the cost, which is zero dollars. The lineup consisted of Santa Monica’s Weyes...

Madison Bloom

LOUD and TASTELESSKim Gordon

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out Kim Gordon's inspiring trajectory as prolific noise musician, visual artist, and fashion designer, peruse the looks she's had over her incredible thirty-year career, and check out the looks she's helped create. As a...

Lindsey Rhoades

LIVE REVIEWKim Gordon closes out Mike Kelley's Retrospective at MoMA PS1

Mike Kelley and Kim Gordon in August 1985, shot by John Harnois Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether [/one_half_last] Sometimes the most provocative art is that which is pieced together from various, unusual mediums and outcasted found objects, speaking as it does to obsolescence, alienation, and a crush of...

Lindsey Rhoades