Mars Argo's "Lick It Like A Kitten"
In 2018, Brittany Alexandria Sheets - known and beloved for writing and creating music under the name Mars Argo as well as Dadaist performance art for the dreamy, pastel-bubblegum Tumblr age on the "shouldicleanmyroom" YouTube channel from roughly 2009 to 2015 - posted to her @marsargo Instagram account for the first time in three years.
On Long Drives and Late Nights - Madeline Hawthorne’s “Night Ride” Writes Love In the Landscape of Her American Heartland
Madeline Hawthorne calls home a meadow abundant in plum-purple lilacs and lavender and chartreuse-green pears, and all of the woodland creatures that fill their bellies with and build their homes from this wild flora.
Juliet Simms Becomes A Chthonic Goddess In Lilith Czar
As the ultrabrite-cherry vodka, buttercream fragranced 2000s pirouetted into the lavender heart-tabbed 2010s, and when I first met her, San Francisco-born, Los-Angeles-raised Juliet Simms was picking lavender and twisting the stalks along with lilacs into flower crowns – laurels for her girlfriends, basking on the hood of a beat-up Volkswagen Beetle, her getaway car ("Wild Child", "My Last Whiskey Tears").
Olivia O'Brien’s “Blip” – And How the Popstar Singer-Songwriter Got To It
Olivia O’Brien, born and raised in the heart of southern California, has fishtail-braided bluesy cornflower R&B, plum-and-fig-nectar pop, skull-and-bow pop-punk, and as of these days, art nouveau-orchid alternative.