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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

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Not by more than with me about the process of writing and Wes who, despite never reading Walden, a few minutes, but still enough to keep me his inspiration, an article he found in the decides to follow the example of his idol these Artist: Taking Alcatraz Band from seeing the opening play, Dumb Dinky newspaper about a woman who, like the Thoreau, whose name he never pronounces whole song – in After the Disco, the vocals Albums Album: Field Report Arms, until its second showing at 8pm. woman in this play, went to a train station correctly, and retreat into a life in the - roken Bells have done it again! are clearer. There is a larger focus on the A few minutes passed and I made it to WR ÀQG WKDW WKH YRLFH RI KHU KXVEDQG KDG woods, which goes just about as poorly - The indie rock power duo has ZRUGV0HUFHU·VYRFDOVÁRXULVKZLWKPRUH Artist: Father Figure - B the stage, where nothing but a table with been replaced, and had it changed back as one would expect. 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In this maze of love?” A Album: Entren los Que Quieran “They are anything but broken.” introduce the people Howl, Tucker Hafferty’s brilliant, and a one-act play. album, the band is constant drum beat, of Kalamazoo to the Eight o’clock joined by a four- a tambourine, a clap Artist: Jeff Pianki theatre scene and ELNSINMAKRSTDXNFSHECNMjICSIMG rolled around, piece choir and beat, and a high Album: Paper Window I I the wide variety of views of race, history, and and it was time - the seventeen-piece Angel City String synth-keyboard melody keeps one’s head offerings in the city. for the second - Orchestra. bobbing. Artist: Sampha - A Perfect World starts off the album When more people sentiment that surround the city of round of new Mercer’s boyish voice and strikingly Album: Dual - crowded into the red plays, starting with - poetic verses meld together with with fast technical beats and strong Detroit, which built to an intense - keyboard melodies reminiscent of the prior cushioned seats that Dumb Dinky Arms Danger Mouse’s catchy and creative Artist: Stara Rzeka - surrounded the stage, climax involving murder, arson, and by Justin Gibson, - synth melodies. It is a pure combination album. The electric guitar whines and $OEXP&LHĸ&KPXU\1DG8NU\W\P - WKHÀUVWSURGXFWLRQWKDW a hilarious radio - of classic alternative and synth climbs throughout this song as Mercer’s Polem I was to see that night baseball trivia.” play about a T-Rex - instrumentations – electric and acoustic voice joins with “Whoa-oh-oh’s”. His began, Mind the Gap named Rex, who guitar, organ, piano, bass, percussion, and lyricism is evident. “The open doors left Arist: Reptar by Riley Noonan. Only ten minutes long, bought prosthetic arms to be able to play synthesizers. Broken Bells is like putting me wanting more,” he sings. “…But I Album: Oblangle Fizz Y’all the play told the story of a woman named basketball with his friends Pack and Big ketchup and mayonnaise together in NQRZEHWWHUQRZ*RWLWÀJXUHGRXW,W·VD Elouise Standing, who boarded a train one Al, a Pachycephalosaurus and Allosaurus. DERZO²WKHÀUVWSHUVRQZDVSUREDEO\ perfect world all the same.” And the synth Artist: Merzbow GD\ WR ÀQG WKDW WKH SUHUHFRUGHG YRLFH RQ The radio play format allowed the play like, “Is this going to work?” And now slows and we hear an outro. “We looked Album: 1930 the intercom that routinely spoke “mind the to avoid complicated costumes, but also - we come to know it is the best possible for exit signs. 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But, they do play the bass, I’d recommend the entire album. voiced the earlier recording was her late ultimately satisfying and, most importantly, authors, frequent mispronunciations, and - organ, synth, and percussion, and wrote Though the duo may be called the Broken husband, and that the train recording of funny, with lines like “Hey Rex, I didn’t Wes’ own special cringe-inducing poetry. - all the songs. Danger Mouse skillfully Bells – and in fact, they are! – they are him was the only piece of him left in this know you had a tattoo! Made in Pangaea… Following that was Why Dogs Howl, ' , produced the album. The cover is a neo- anything but broken. Rachel Dranoff world. 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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. The second play , Walden at Fatty ran out of battery while it was giving me Then there was an hour and a half Shakes by Dustin Brown, was a full act Broken Bells: After the Disco directions and certainly through no fault of long break during which the writer spoke long, and followed a high schooler named (Don't) Pirate my own, I arrived late. 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Artist: Sampha When more people round of new Mercer’s boyish voice and strikingly A Perfect World starts off the album sentiment that surround the city of Album: Dual crowded into the red plays, starting with poetic verses meld together with with fast technical beats and strong cushioned seats that Detroit, which built to an intense Dumb Dinky Arms Danger Mouse’s catchy and creative keyboard melodies reminiscent of the prior Artist: Stara Rzeka surrounded the stage, by Justin Gibson, synth melodies. It is a pure combination album. The electric guitar whines and climax involving murder, arson, and $OEXP&LHĸ&KPXU\1DG8NU\W\P WKHÀUVWSURGXFWLRQWKDW a hilarious radio of classic alternative and synth climbs throughout this song as Mercer’s Polem I was to see that night baseball trivia.” play about a T-Rex instrumentations – electric and acoustic voice joins with “Whoa-oh-oh’s”. 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But we can’t be changed into gap” to passengers had been changed, and allowed for the delivery of jokes, whether experience, and effectively poked fun at the French fry condiment. nothing overnight. Though we know it’s Artist: Jay Rock confronted Roger and Frank, two men who dinosaur puns or the reveal that Rex had wannabee intellectuals and revolutionaries Clearing the air: neither Mercer nor over, it keeps exploding every morning Album: Follow Me Home work at the station headquarters, about the been wearing prosthetic arms all along that everyone knew, or was, in high Danger Mouse interact with French fries when we rise.” recent change, revealing that the man who to be approached in a fresh way that was school, with clever misquotes from famous on the album. But, they do play the bass, I’d recommend the entire album. voiced the earlier recording was her late ultimately satisfying and, most importantly, authors, frequent mispronunciations, and organ, synth, and percussion, and wrote Though the duo may be called the Broken husband, and that the train recording of funny, with lines like “Hey Rex, I didn’t Wes’ own special cringe-inducing poetry. all the songs. Danger Mouse skillfully Bells – and in fact, they are! – they are him was the only piece of him left in this know you had a tattoo! Made in Pangaea… Following that was Why Dogs Howl, produced the album. The cover is a neo- anything but broken. Rachel Dranoff world. And in just those ten minutes, the Isn’t everything made in Pangaea?” and Tucker Hafferty’s brilliant, emotional study futuristic image of the back of a pink grieving wife attempting to hold onto what “Someone invent medicine already!” When RIWKHFRQÁLFWLQJYLHZVRIUDFHKLVWRU\DQG naked woman’s body in purple space, remains of her husband, the proud and asked about the decision to make it into a sentiment that surround the city of Detroit, staring at the band’s out-there logo of a which built to an intense climax involving huge spiky pink orb. murder, arson, and baseball trivia. Broken Bells is the evolved, more The night ended with a brief talkback to interesting and explorative form of the the writers of the plays, which gave them Postal Service. feedback on what the audience would like 8QOLNHWKHÀUVWDOEXPZKLFKUHOLHG to see from them in the future, helping more so on the synth and organ for the to improve their current work and learn melody overall and used Mercer’s voice what to do in their future works. Anthony to back up the music – take October, Frattarelli for example, in which a strong piano melody holds the stage throughout the Page 13 Page 2

V4I3.indd 6-7 2/28/14 6:13 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-