I wrote this the day I heard about Seymour Hoffman’s death. It’s part one of a culmination of some things I’ve been thinking about for months. -je

February 2, 2014

A week before Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead, I was sitting in my room watching an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s current web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. There was one particular episode where Jerry is having coffee with David Letterman, and he talked about how he felt life was very repetitious. He expressed that he’d been satisfied with his life for a long time and a big reason why he liked having children was because, “it was something to watch.” I know that sounds emotionally barbaric, but I understood what he meant. Seinfeld’s name is the title of the most successful television show of all time, and he’s never had any bad press, so when I saw the news about Hoffman’s death, I immediately thought, “He had nothing to watch.” Continue reading →

GINA ALEXANDRA DENTON
Baltimore, MD
Mixed Media

The uber talented Gina Denton is a veteran artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. We love her colorful, imaginative, psychedelic, asymmetrical  swirls and orbs of beautiful madness! We received a thoughtful statement about Gina’s work from her personal perspective.  Continue reading →

There’s something about being alive in 2014 that makes the possibilities of our human experience seem endless. The internet, solar powered cars, smart phones, online dating, thousands of television channels and the ability to travel anywhere on the planet are novelties that no human has ever had the pleasure…or pain of partaking in until now. Continue reading →

Written by: Lauren Espina

Listen to true.deep.sleeper here

Since its inception in 2008, Dead Leaf Echo has mastered a dark, pensive brand of new wave that drifts in a realm somewhere between dream pop and shoegaze. The Brooklyn-based outfit released its debut LP, Thought & Language, in 2013, capturing its wandering sonic aesthetic on a full-length effort for the first time after having released a steady stream 7″ and EPs. Dead Leaf Echo makes a return to the shorter format on its latest offering, the true.deep.sleeper EP, which officially drops on February 25th via Moon Sounds Records. Continue reading →

I learned about Pussy Riot before they were arrested and put in jail for “Hooliganism” and “hatred against religion” in February 2012. I’d been running an international music collective and music blog, called The Process Records and had become familiar with Estonian and Russian underground rock and roll through the grapevine of the European music scene.

I could write about dates, facts and create an intricate timeline of everything that happened to Pussy Riot, but what I’d like to do is express how these women are highlighting and even birthing a movement of soviet feminist ideology. Continue reading →

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Fantastic Plastic Machine ‎– Love Is Psychedelic / Beautiful Days 12 inch (Promo) Continue reading →

On March 8th at Amnesia in San Francisco, CA, The Deli Magazine San Francisco will be throwing an event to benefit the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp by giving a part of the proceeds from their upcoming event featuring performances by female fronted bands, Midnite Snaxxx, Primitive Hearts, Quaaludes, No Bone and Bestfriend Grrlfriend. Continue reading →

Written By: Hunter Stroope

Genre: “Synth Punk”
Label: Castle Face Records
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Pow!: An Analog Synthesis of punk and psyche, a fuck-all attitude on par with local success’s Ty Segall and Warm Soda, and the armed messengers sent from the local complaint department. They have recently released their debut album High-Tech Boom on Castle Face Records, carrying with it a constant theme, (or dare I say concept? I will…) and that theme is “We prefer San Francisco as a cultural collage, seen through the clear lens of Ray Ban, not through the pixelated dystopian view of the Google Glass (holes).” Continue reading →

It’s so interesting to think about all the things that have happened, and all the people that have lived before us. There is an old saying that goes, “there’s nothing new under the sun.”

Soon memorabilia from the ’90s will become vintage. Soon our parents will pass away, and maybe we’ll  be raising children of our own who have never seen a LAN line telephone or have written a letter to a pen pal. Hell, there’s a chance in the next few years, children will not enter a post office until they are adults…. Continue reading →

an essay about social media, introspection and telepathic connections brought on by the desperation of long distance. 

When I was a young girl, up until I was about 17, I never spoke. I hid in closets to avoid family gatherings and carried books and journals around like they were the only possessions I had in the world. I lived in my head and read Shakespeare and Camus like they were my Bibles. My classmates constantly and comfortably told me I’d never fit in. I was too quiet, and I didn’t “talk like Black people.” Everyone was so matter-of- fact about my being weird and odd. Kids in my neighborhood confidently called me ugly (even though I never really thought I was). I knew the Hunchback of Notre Dame was ugly. I knew the Phantom of the Opera, the Elephant man and Frankenstein were ugly, I didn’t think I looked like any of them. Continue reading →