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How to balance art and family

How do you find time for art once you start having kids? This 5-minute video breaks down the main issues and how you might resolve them.

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Rewind: Marc Johnson’s “Lost & Lakai’d” part (2013)

MJ’s unused Pretty Sweet footage made for a pretty good video part on it’s own.

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Heavy Rotation

New hardcore from Colonial Wound and No Escape, unreleased Distance and Skream, and recent discoveries Why Bother?, Tunic, and False Pockets. Plus a bunch of Unbroken and an ambient section.

Premier: Reaganite “untitled power cut” EP

This electro-acoustic piece by mvajoshua was the result of letting the process get off-track.

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Listen to a janky remix of Converge’s “Under Duress”

HALIFAX A.D. builds a Jim O’Rourke-inspired track from Converge samples

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Watch a montage of ’96 Tampa Pro highlights with a legendary line-up

Late-90’s Florida homie video “Adventures in Hi-Fi” has clips from Penny, Koston, Cardiel and the Toy Machine “Jump Off a Building” crew

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Watch “Chéparia” — Austin TX scene video with a new Austin Amelio part

Drew Pickles new video has got great color, lines galore and killer music from Shakey Graves

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A look at Alien Workshop’s analog video effects for Mind Field

“Visual Workshop” documents the in-camera effects and experiments that Mike Hill and Chad Bowers used for titles and atmosphere in the Workshop’s last full-length video.

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Watch the video for Quicksand’s new single “Inversion”

The reformed post-hardcore group continues with the hazy, informal sound they brought to life on “Interiors”

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Jon Miner dug into his archives for the Mogwai’s “Ceiling Granny” video

The filmmaker behind the Emerica videos used Super-8 and 16mm film shot from 1995–2010 for the video.

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“The Arm-Wrestling King of Baltimore is Daniel Higgs”: Nathan Bell on his time in Lungfish

New podcast talks to the bassist on “Necrophones”, “Artificial Horizon” and “The Unanimous Hour” and dives deep into the Lungfish song “Parthogenesis” with Sonny Kay of The VSS.

interviewsmvajoshuaApril 12, 2021lungfish, nathan bell, sonny kay, the vss, angel hair, amber inn, wet the rope, scott torguson, mitchell feldsteinComment

How John Olson of Wolf Eyes listens to music

The man behind American Tapes and the longest aliases list on Discogs on scheduling listening to avoid burn out. (photo by Doug Coome)

interviews, lifemvajoshuaApril 11, 2021john olson, wolf eyes, american tapes, dead machinesComment

Rewind: Dennis Busenitz in Real’s “Since Day One” (2011)

Busenitz footage is always gold but Dan Wolfe’s editing heightens the pressure on the high-speed miracle worker. Thumbnail of insane tailslide by Gabe Morford.

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Watch “Grand Prairie” the new full-length from Quasi

Heavy video from the cult brand with a 2-song opener from Dane Barker and an absolutely f**ked part from newly-minted pro Justin Henry (Thumbnail Dick Rizzo shot by Mike Hekkila)

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How John Reis of Hot Snakes listens to music

Everybody’s favorite guitarist (Drive Like Jehu/Rocket From The Crypt/The Night Marchers and more) on listening to music as a kind of research. (photo by Mike Irizarry)

interviews, lifemvajoshuaApril 6, 2021john reis, hot snakes, drive like jehu, swami recordsComment

Listen to Drumcorps masterfully mix hardcore and breakbeat production

Breakcore pioneer Aaron Spectre ditches the Botch samples on “Better Days” to instead hyper-produce his own original hardcore songs to great effect.

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Caspa returns with 4 new tunes of classic dubstep

“System Failure” captures an OG of the scene at his cold, mechanical best

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Watch a history of Etnies “High 5” video and the legend of Tom Penny

Jenkem goes into the making of the first skate video for a shoe company with it’s heavy line-up (Jamie Thomas, Koston, MJ, and Phil Shao amongst others) and the first Tom Penny part.

skateboardingmvajoshuaApril 1, 2021marc johnson, tom penny, eric koston, jamie thomasComment

Heavy Rotation

Mostly new tunes from DJ Muggs, Caspa, Lasse Marhuag, Demons, Tech Level 2 and BENNY the Butcher. Plus one of the best PJ Harvey songs ever in its demo state.

Aesop Rock’s tall tale “Long-Legged Larry” gets the stop-motion treatment

New video by Rob Shaw animates the rapper’s latest collaboration with artist Jeremy Fish

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