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2024 Artist Essays

Artist Essay: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Punk Rock By Matt Hunter

Joshua M. Miller -
Growing up in Arizona in the 1980s it was easy to feel alienated from the rest of the country. Despite Phoenix being a fast-growing...
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Artist Essay: You Say Goodbye, And I Say Hello By Miles East

Joshua M. Miller -
I’ve often argued that my wanting to be a musician began when I first heard The Beatles—I was six years old, playing alone in...
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Artist Essay: How the Replacements Shaped Swerve’s Identity By Greg Mahdesian

Joshua M. Miller -
How could I pass up this opportunity to wax lyrical about the Replacements? When we released our debut album, Ruin Your Day, the press...
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Artist Essay: On Writing as a Path to Understanding By Sarah Grace White

Joshua M. Miller -
I was in shock, sitting in my little chair, my roommates going about their morning business in the kitchen, gripping at my journal like...
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Water Tower Sessions: Rodeo Mouth

Joshua M. Miller -
Open Wide: Rodeo Mouth Talks New Music, Performs Two Unreleased Tracks If Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon, and Roger Miller got into a back alley fist...
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Artist Essay: On Being An Amateur By Marina Allen

Joshua M. Miller -
I was out doing errands, listening to a podcast, and Maya Deren, a pioneer in early experimental cinema, was brought up in the conversation....
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Artist Essay: On Being a Quitter by Molly O’Leary

Joshua M. Miller -
On being a quitter by Molly O’Leary In June of 2023, I quit my job. What a thrill. I highly recommend everyone quits a job...
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