The Rejection and Reclamation of John Mayer John Mayer performing live in 2019 by Christian Sarkine My brother first introduced me to John Mayer’s hit song, “Daughters,” in our parents’ ugly green Chevy Astro. At seven years old, after Luong put Heavier Things into the CD player, I listened to one of the best guitarists ever to grace the stage just before he skyrocketed into fame. Today, Mayer is known for his riffs in the background of Khalid’s songs or accompanying Lizzy M

A new EP from the NYC underground singer-composer-selector Vladim Vilain & Guillotine, 2025 Album art taken as any indication, Guillotine is simultaneously magnetic and elusive. A luminescent glow halos the artist’s face, obscuring identity. She is standing on what appears at first glance to be an extraterrestrial surface, but upon closer inspection reveals itself as the beach at night. She's wearing black sunglasses and clad in black cloth, shimmering black hair cast over on

Noise Magazine: I’m here with Tova Sterling. She’s talking to me about micro-dosing, among other things. And you were saying? Tova Sterling: I think micro-dosing, or tripping in general, using psychedelics, is a very sexy thing and it helped me with the building blocks to get out of a brain that was obsessed with all these wrong things. When you get distance from that, and you see what matters, you’re able to be so much more productive in the ways that do matter. I think it’s

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