Ray Vaughn – 2025 XXL Freshman

Ray Vaughn – 2025 XXL Freshman

INFLUENCED BY: “My influences are Kendrick Lamar, André 3000, Meek Mill, Future and Sade. I think Kendrick Lamar is at a level of his career that I don’t think there’s any artist from the West Coast that isn’t influenced by him directly because he’s done so much. He’s covered so much ground. His whole career…

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Tom Morello Walks Into a Bar…

Tom Morello Walks Into a Bar…

In the ongoing Battle of Los Angeles, even the foot soldiers of protest need an occasional break from the fierce urgency of now. And after a few hours of photographing demonstrators on the street during the city’s sprawling “No Kings” protest on June 14, I stepped into the ancient Redwood Bar a couple of blocks…

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THE GOOD SHEPHERD

THE GOOD SHEPHERD

“Right before the breakdown hit, I would go: ‘Your dick smells like his asshole,’” says Heidi Shepherd, smiling warmly in her Miami hotel room. Later this afternoon she’s embarking on a Caribbean cruise, but for now she’s reminiscing about Mom and Dad first coming to see her perform. When her folks turned up to that…

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Deerhoof to Remove Music From Spotify

Deerhoof to Remove Music From Spotify

Indie-rock stalwarts Deerhoof will be removing their music from Spotify. “‘Daniel Ek uses $700 million of his Spotify fortune to become chairman of AI battle tech company’ was not a headline we enjoyed reading this week,” the band wrote in a statement shared online. “We don’t want our music killing people. We don’t want our…

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