Milk.xyz premieres hers. →

“Our intention with this mix is to use music as a medium to inspire, inform, and impact,” says McFlyy. “Sharing stories is what women love to do. This is our way of using our voice and our collaborator’s voices to remind us of who we are, how valuable we are, and why we should celebrate ourselves.”-Milk.xyz // Read more here.

The Refresh Radio Show #40

I spent this past winter solstice visiting The Refresh radio show with my gals Jasmine Solano and Martina McFlyy. Big up to everyone who came thru and brought vibes to the live broadcast at Meridian 23, and to Kieran Meadows for having us. It may have been the longest night of the year, but time flies when you're having fun.

Stream/DL the full show below. // Photos: Andre Power 

art after dark

Once a season, New York's Guggenheim museum hosts ART AFTER DARK, an event that invites members and the greater community to convene inside the famed Frank Lloyd Wright building for an evening of art and music appreciation, socializing and sometimes, as demonstrated on the night I deejayed...a lil dancing, a lil conga line and a lot of fun. 'Good Time Guggenheim' is what we're calling it from now on! // Photos: Stephanie Mei Ling

there's no such thing as 'first' anymore →

For years—decades, centuries even—we’ve always wanted to be first. Being first affirms our primacy in the pecking order of taste. It’s a way to stunt on our friends and competitors. It’s practically a superpower, one that separates us from them. The poetry and swagger of discovery is only for a chosen few. Everyone else? Have fun late-adopting.

Things fall apart, though. Cool became commodity, which shrunk the distance between those who know and those who would like to seem as if they do. The internet sped things up. Physical culture became emulsified: .mp3, .jpg, .gif, .mov, and more. Having a thing that someone else didn’t have—or more to the point, couldn’t have—became a virtually extinct mode of existence.

In 2015—in music, especially—the first has been drowned by the flood. Exclusivity has given way to ubiquity. The novelty of the new has been replaced by its omnipresence. ...MORE

 

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