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The Battle Cry of the Shontelle Republic
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By Darla Musick
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 Though her music is of the variety likely to be blasting out of the car window on any given girl’s night, Shontelle is not your typical pop princess. This twenty-three-year-old Bajan songstress is not afraid to get her hands dirty (she was an Army cadet after all), or break a sweat achieving her dreams. Her second album, No Gravity, which released in 2010, garnered her most successful single to date, “Impossible,” and only drove her ambitions higher. Shontelle recently discussed her past in Barbados, what the future looks like for her career, and what it was like to go from being Rhianna's drill sergeant to co-writing "Man Down."
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Chatting With The Boy Who Wrote Girl
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By Jesse Sposato
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| | Like everyone else “in the know” in high school, I looked to Blake Nelson’s Girl like it was my bible. All the confusing feelings and twisted emotions I was having as a nonconformist teenager were documented perfectly in this book. My friends and I passed around our one collective copy, each signing it like it was a sacred artifact. |
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By Ryan Willard
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“It never starts the same way,” says Julie Budet, lead singer of the French electro-pop band Yelle. Budet explains how she creates music with her band members GrandMarnier (Jean-François Perrier) and Teper (Tanguy Destable): “It could be a melody, a sentence, a beat—no rules.”
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From Fake Blood to Quantum Physics: A Conversation With Bambi Killers
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By Sophie Rae
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| | The Bambi Killers play music, but don’t call it a band. It's a group of artists, musicians, activists, magicians, pyrotechnicians, dimensional travelers, and vaudeville circus performers. The list goes on. But what’s more important than what you call these three women is their message: anti-brainwashing, pro-individual freedom, and tapping into the human potential. Whether they’re drinking fake blood out of coke cans, smashing TV sets, or singing about UFOs and quantum physics, the Bambi Killers aren’t afraid to say what they think, even if you’re afraid of hearing it. | |
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Duck Hunting With Francesca Lia Block
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By Jesse Sposato
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| When I was a junior in high school, my friend Liz Deull, a wise and mature senior, told me it was time to grow up. She handed me a pack of Camel Lights to swap out my Marlboro Reds for, and young adult novel Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block. Things would soon start to change. | |
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