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You Can’t Control Time
Art by DJ Short
A little more than halfway through our interview, a departing onlooker interrupts to let megiapa know that she’s doing a good job. An intrusion on its face, albeit an overtly kind one, allows the Ohio-born, Los Angeles-base...
The 2001 Project: Aesop Rock’s Labor Days
The sixth installment of our series reexamining hip-hop in the year 2001 revisits an album about your boss, your body, your time on Earth.
Editor’s note: Over the course of this year, we’re publishing a series of essays about the rap album...
Everyday Betrayals
elyslime!, “3100volts”
The only thing “3100 volts” is missing is a police siren. It sounds like New Jersey drill caught in Midtown traffic at rush hour: claustrophobic, rattling, somehow still moving full speed. The frantic claps land...
Andre 3000 and the Myth of Permanence
I’m guilty of using the metaphor in a single way. As a critic, I’ve sometimes referred to works as being xeroxes of other, more original ones. This is not complicated or cryptic—biting, copying, track nine on Cuban Linx, and so on, they’ve...
Rappers Suck: An Interview with Cletus Strap
Art by DJ Short
The first time I saw Cletus Strap perform, in West Oakland, he was touring with the punk band Zulu. For most of his life, he had found himself behind the drums, most recently sitting in with the band Sparker at Lauren Halse...
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Editor-in-Chief, POW Magazine
mostly songs, movies, pictures, and stories
Writer, critic, artist | Author, "Shake the City" from 1968 Press, second edition coming November 2026 | Words at Los Angeles Review of Books, Salvage, Jacobin, Protean, elsewhere... | X/Bluesky/Insta: @ubupamplemousse
CALTROPS PRESS is writing about rap muse-sick & “art” & litter-ature & infinite texts from an insurrectionist perspective. Insurgent music journalism that isn’t music journalism. Fuck the noise, and get off the internet.
I'm Michael McKinney, a freelance writer with extensive histories with electronic music of all stripes—club, experimental, home-listening, and whatever falls between the cracks. Words at Passion of the Weiss, RA, Pitchfork, and elsewhere.
Head of THE LINX. Contributor for POW, Pitchfork, and SuperEmpty. South Florida Superstar. \ud83d\udd17
words by dj short
Nia is a writer from the Bay Area, and for the past five years, she has covered music in the Bay and beyond through her magazine Lucky 7.
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