Abby Ringiewicz, Author at amadeus

Exclusive First Listen: NOVA ONE’s “if you were mine”

Abby RingiewiczMay 18, 2018

Her/their forthcoming debut album, secret princess, is the upshot of ten-plus years of personal growth, trials, errors and successes. In collaboration with Community Records and her/their own intuition and, NOVA ONE, whose hair is a muted peach bob against Raskin’s azalea-pink do, sings about love and loss in oscillating 60s-pop tones: hazy, dream-like and calmative.

Amadeus x Insight Sounds: Valerie J. Bower

amadeusmagMay 15, 2018

Photographer Valerie J. Bower has an ear for soulful and funky oldies, which you can stream via her playlist for our ongoing series Insight Sounds.

Bishop Briggs Delivers Spell-Binding Performance at The Fonda

amadeusmagMay 11, 2018

Bishop Briggs has been busy selling out shows across the US and dazzling audiences with her extraordinary voice recently; her stop in Los Angeles at the Fonda last week, was no exception

A polaroid of a swap meet sign in San Gabriel Valley.

San Gabriel Valley, I Love You

amadeusmagMay 9, 2018

Los Angeles-based photographer, Desilu Muñoz is perpetually chronicling the history of Southern California, and more specifically her home, the San Gabriel Valley.

Artist Ryan Ormsby Takes The Amadeus Questionnaire

amadeusmagMay 7, 2018

Influenced by old rave, punk, and metal show flyer aesthetics, the San Francisco-based artist examines what has come before him in order to not only inform his creations, but also to reconstruct into new, head-turning compositions.

B-Side Brujas: Bringing Community Together To Reclaim The Dance Floor

Alex KhatchadourianMay 4, 2018

“For me, B-Side Brujas stand for solidarity and sisterhood, and a very intense attitude of ‘we belong wherever we are’.”

In The Studio With Artist Jen Stark

amadeusmagMay 4, 2018

We spent the day in Jen's studio talking about psychedelia, plants, and her collaboration with Miley Cyrus for the MTV Video Music Awards in this Amadeus short directed by Matthew Kaundart.

All the Feels: A Conversation With The Band FEELS

Maya EslamiMay 2, 2018

FEELS has been shredding as a single force field since 2015, when they were the new band about town playing every show, every night of the week, every chance they got.

Woman laying in trunk of car in a Rusty Cuts jumpsuit.

Rusty Cuts Creates Clothing That Seduces The Senses

Valeri SpiwakMay 1, 2018

California-born fashion designer and self-proclaimed “stitch witch,” Judith Rothman-Pierce, knows a thing or two about creating clothing that seduces the senses

Francesco Igory Deiana Examines The Translation Between The Digital and The Analog

Aaron JupinMay 1, 2018

Francesco Igory Deiana's work offers commentary on the way in which our increasing dependence on everything digital has overshadowed the primacy of human relationships.

Why Half Waif’s ‘Lavender’ is an Instant Classic: Live at the Great Scott

Sofia WolfsonApril 30, 2018

Half Waif has a way of capturing the sensations that become hard to put words to in the face of loss. And you can tell when she sings she’s reliving it, the mark of a true artist.

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Guadalupe Rosales: Building Community Through Archives of Southern California’s Latinx Subcultures

Alex KhatchadourianApril 30, 2018

Guadalupe Rosales's Instagram accounts, @Veteranas_and_Rucas and @Map_Pointz, both archive important but previously inaccessible material of an underrepresented and unstudied group of people.