At 64, Blakesberg talks continuing to pursue his passion for “photographing bliss” as his career-spanning “The Music Never Stopped” exhibit wraps up at the GRAMMY Museum.
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In Conversation
Photographer Jay Blakesberg Is Still Living in the Front Row
At 64, Blakesberg talks continuing to pursue his passion for “photographing bliss” as his career-spanning “The Music Never Stopped” exhibit wraps up at the GRAMMY Museum.
Words: Dan Epstein
Photos: Jaye Blakesberg
Five Years in the Day of Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock
The band’s frontman takes us through the winding passages of their grief-stricken LP An Eraser and a Maze after an initial meeting around 2021’s The Golden Casket ran well off-course.
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Photo: Robin Laananen
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The punk lifer, archivist, and Cramps vault-keeper breaks down each track on the newly unearthed collection of material recorded with Alex Chilton at Ardent Studios in 1977.
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The Tenth Anniversay Issue
Celebrate our tenth anniversary with the biggest issue we’ve ever made. FLOOD 13 is deluxe, 252-page commemorative edition—a collectible, coffee-table-style volume in a 12″ x 12″ format—packed with dynamic graphic design, stunning photography and artwork, and dozens of amazing artists representing the past, present, and future of FLOOD’s editorial spectrum, while also looking back at key moments and events in our history. Inside, you’ll find in-depth cover stories on Gorillaz and Magdalena Bay, plus interviews with Mac DeMarco, Lord Huron, Wolf Alice, Norman Reedus, The Zombies, Nation of Language, Bootsy Collins, Fred Armisen, Jazz Is Dead, Automatic, Rocket, and many more.
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David Byrne Announces New 70mm Concert Film Directed by Brady Corbet
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Colin Newman and Malka Spigel’s latest album of hypnotic krautrock is full of melody, persistence, gravity, and power—it’s perfect for any old or new highway dream.
case / lang / veirs, case / lang / veirs [10th Anniversary Edition]
A 2016 meeting of the minds that’s grown to be an indie-folk classic, Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs revisit their dynamic collaboration with a trove of bonus live material.
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