Music’s always the medicine
Stories of music's impact on our toughest moments, from teenage alienation to channeling angst through Fiona Apple to rapping in a coma.
Stories of music's impact on our toughest moments, from teenage alienation to channeling angst through Fiona Apple to rapping in a coma.
“The Side Eye” at Emerge Impact + Music was more than a showcase of music, speakers and films, it was an affirmational dunk-tank.
'I created this body of work that I thought would change my life. And that body of work sat on my hard drive for about a year.'
Plus, goose love, paying for videos with jet fuel and a spontaneous scene from "Les Miserables."
"I think of it like a relationship, where they might take you for granted until they see someone else showing interest, and then they’re like: He’s ours."
We're exhausted, inspired and overwhelmed by all the brilliant music, conversation and ideas that infiltrated the Strip this weekend.
Even here, competing with the Top 40 and the tourists and the ghost of Bugsy Siegel, Post Precious stand out.
"If we're telling the truth and we're doing it well, then it's going to come out in other places other than just our music."
Owning Your Voice was dedicated to exploring the intersection of technology, unrest, and impatience that inspires artists and thinkers to grab the microphone for themselves and take control of their own narratives.
“We can be critical of our own. If it grows without criticism, it will be the same shit. ... Shoutout to Salma Hayek, though."
"I can't bust out a face-melting solo, because I don't have a bass guitar chugging below it, but I'm also terrible at face-melting solos."
"People don't expect much from us, and then they'll be shocked.”