1994
Terry Richardson Is Our Favorite.
Terry lives in Manhattan’s East Village, where he takes photos of his neighbors and his friends, from junkies and drunks to artists and punks. We think he’s the best, and we hope he sticks around forever. And he just might—rumor has it that at press...
The Frente! Backlash
It wasn’t long ago that Angie Hart was a sixteen year-old regular at our favourite Fitzroy live-music venue, the Punters Club. That was just prior to one of the bar tenders asking her to join his band, Frente!, at which very moment they began...
Lisa Lisa And Cult Loeb
We look to pop icons to find our opposite, to break us out of our identity shells. I listen to Iggy Stooge and am transformed into a tofu-and-heroin-driven insanity gymnast. In real life, I am none of those things. Through Iggy, for a few minutes or...
Girl Germs
I used to feel so lucky whenever I would spot a hair extension lying haphazardly on the sidewalk. It was better than a penny or a four-leaf clover.
I Accidentally Made A Popular Zine
Last year, in the summer of 1993, I read a quote from Evan Dando, lead singer of the band the Lemonheads. It was about how he’d rather be more like a woman because “men have proved that they really can’t get it together, they can’t be cool.”
Mexico’s Burning
Marco Antonio Cruz, the director of Imagen Latina, an independent photo agency based in Mexico City, spent a few weeks in December of last year, 1993, taking portraits of blind people in the mountains of Chiapas.
Armageddon Party
As if there were ever any cause for doubt, Japan’s absolute cultural superiority over America is by 1994 a total given.
The Heart & Soul Of A Band Called Pavement
Now, we all know lots of stuff about that dreamboat Stephen Malkmus. We get it. He’s a lyrical genius, a hugely underrated guitar player, and he’s real cute. We also know enough, for now, about Spiral Stairs, Malkmus’s partner in...