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do you like music and/or culture? Join NAKED Music and Culture Magazine Want to Write, Design, or Edit for Naked Magazine? CONTACT US! Editor In Chief: Dylan Polcyn Head of Writing: Rachel Dranoff Head of Editing: Braeden Rodriguez Page Editor: Alex Townsend Head of Design: Danielle Nobbe [email protected] Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Tumblr (nkdmagazine.tumblr.com), and Follow us on Twitter (@NakedMCMagazine)! Tumblr Twitter Facebook Volume 4 DON’T STOP Issue 3 Winter 2014 GETTING NAKED! V4I3.indd 2-3 3/1/14 6:17 PM Naked Music Magazine Staff Table of Contents T FEATURES Dylan Polcyn - Editor-In-Chief S Braeden Rodriguez - Head of Editing I 11 Timeline 10 Alex Townsend - Page Editor L Places Around Town Rachel Dranoff - Head of Writing Y Danielle Nobbe - Head of Design Naked playlist 14 A 1. Neutral Milk Hotel- Anthony Frattarelli - Writer L 2. Bombay Bicycle Club- Audra Hudson - Writer Colin Smith - Writer P EDITORIALS Erica Vanneste - Writer Holland, 1945 Erin Bensinger - Writer (Don’t) pirate these 2 Griffin Smalley - Designer 3 Zaide Pixley albums Jay Grenda - Writer/Editor D Interview Jessie Hansen - Writer 3. Broken Bells- Naked Person Joel Bryson - Writer E Overdone of the Issue Mimi Strauss - Writer Leave it Alone 5-6 12 Mireya Gúzman - Designer K Jake Walker Stefanie Roudebush - Designer Interview Steven Sexton - Writer/Editor 4. Prince Royce- A Me Encata N EVENTS Naked Music and Culture Magazine 5. ScHoolboy Q- 6 Kalamazoo College 7-8 New Play Festival 1200 Academy Street Man of the Year Corner Record Kalamazoo, MI 49006 Store Show Art Hop 10 6. Boogarins- Lucifernandis D&D Printing 2531 Azo Drive Kalamazoo, MI 49048 7. Pavement- REVIEWS Cut Your Hair 2 Broken Bells Bombay Bicycle Club Like what we do? Have 3 comments? Suggestions? An 3 ScHoolboy Q article you want to write? Contact Jumping Fences 5-6 us! Find us on Facebook, Tumblr 8. Olivia Tremor Control- Realize Prince Royce and Twitter. 9. Jake Walker- 9 Neutral Milk Hotel Naked Music & Culture Magazine mkdmagazine.tumblr.com @NakedMCMagazine Boogarins Pavement Crooked Rain 12 10 Cover Art by Paris Weisman Page 1 Page 14 V4I3.indd 4-5 2/28/14 6:11 PM hrough the bitterly cold wind I egotistical station headquarters employee, radio play, the writer said that as long as Ttrudged a mile to the Epic Center and the caring head of security with an he got people thinking about dinosaurs, it to see Kalamazoo’s Fourth Annual New apparent drinking problem all developed was enough. Play Festival and, because my phone into unique characters. 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