Artist Journeys
It’s not just about how they got here. It’s also about where they’re going next.
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GUESS THIS IS GROWING UP
I started running from my body as soon as I hit puberty. That’s when the startlingly vivid dreams about kissing girls began. I’d wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, utterly confused and completely terrified.…
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Becoming maxime.
One morning last year, I woke up and decided I was going to skip my math class and write a song. (I’m currently studying Economics at the University of Ottawa, which is located in, as you might have guessed, Ottawa,…
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Making Something From Nothing
I must say, this journey has had its ups and downs but now I’m at the age where I can appreciate the duality of existence, the good and bad in the process to get to where I artistically need to…
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I’m a Monkey Baby, Make Me Sing
A year ago, I left my home in California to embark on a 365-day tour across the USA in a 30-foot Winnebago with my partner. We played shows across the country to crowds of 150+ and crowds of 2. We…
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Broke, But Not Broken
Sometimes I think that if I weren’t broke, I would be a lot happier. I would be able to pay my bills on time, I could put more than half a tank of gas in my car, and I could…
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FREEDOM: My Journey to Creative Fulfillment, Thanks to Synch
At five years old, when my kindergarten class was tasked with taking turns standing at the front of the room and telling our peers what we wanted to be when we grew up, I had no problem coming up with…
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Daft Punk at The Trash Fence
We have actually never told this story before and it has been itching us for a while. The time is Electric Forest 2018. Our team had been running the EVOL and Good Looks Collective after shows with The GoodBus in…
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Reality TV vs Reality
When I was 16, I got a phone call from an old friend asking if she could stay the night with my family and I in Nashville. Turns out, she was coming to audition for “The Voice.” I had never…
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Making Music to Survive
I come from a city in the south of Brazil called Curitiba. Growing up, I was always interested in getting involved with music- my father was a violinist and my mother a ballerina. Music made sense, it runs in my…
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Jeffrey Lewis, Will Oldham, And A Switch In The Tracks
“Artists are pussies, and they end up getting fucked,” – so sings American anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis in his song “Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror.” The song describes Lewis meeting his musical hero Bonnie Prince Billie on the L-train in New…
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