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Repelican’s Jon Ehrens Ponders the Cosmos

Repelican’s Jon Ehrens Ponders the Cosmos

“There was a site you probably remember called MP3.com, it was like pre-social media,” says Jon Ehrens, 41, thinking back to the music he made in high school. “I needed a name fast because I recorded four songs and just wanted to upload them immediately, and I used the name Repelican.” 25 years later, Ehrens…

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PUP Announce Live Album, Documentary, and Zine

PUP Announce Live Album, Documentary, and Zine

PUP are immortalizing their recent Megacity Madness tour with a live album, video documentary, and 196-page zine dubbed the Megacity MegaZine. The bumper crop of archival material is drawn from the Toronto band’s six-show stint behind the May album Who Will Look After The Dogs?, which took them to successively bigger hometown venues—each with a…

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How a Still-Defiant Shepard Fairey Turned Punk Rock Attitude Into 30 Years of Activist Art

How a Still-Defiant Shepard Fairey Turned Punk Rock Attitude Into 30 Years of Activist Art

In the life and work of artist Shepard Fairey, social justice and the musical counterculture have always collided, igniting many of his most striking images. Most famously, they have come in the form of 18-by-24-inch posters, with messages against police violence, war, and government surveillance, and calling for peace, civil rights, and multiculturalism. There are…

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