YabYum Music + Arts

February 2019

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Social Savvy: A Claire Slattery

February 13, 2019 Allyson Bills Band Basics Featured Articles Interview

by Allyson Bills

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If you are active in the Phoenix arts and music scene, there is a high probability that you have run into A Claire Slattery.

The brainchild behind world-famous Tempe social outings such as The Vanishing Show and the Grand Opening of Chili’s, in curating these hot events it’s evident that Slattery has an intrinsic knack for bringing the Phoenix area community together through socially-conscious discourse and ironic fun…

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Music Video Premiere: “Rear Sector Movement” by Not Your Shadow [premiere + interview]

February 11, 2019 Electronic Featured Articles Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen Premiere

by Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen

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In the Phoenix music scene I am always fascinated by artists who push themselves visually and add components not normally related to their genre. Although costumed performers and DJs can be found within the electronic music industry as a whole, there’s many electronic artists in Arizona who have yet to take that step in their branding.

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YabYum Seven: Piper Daniels

February 10, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles YabYum Seven

My name is Piper J. Daniels, and I’m thrilled to say I’m a writer. My debut essay collection, Ladies Lazarus, received the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and was named one of Entropy’s favorite nonfiction books of 2018. I am in the process of completing my second book, El Mirage, which focuses on love, gender, illusion, and the Sonoran Desert. I worked for many years as a ghostwriter but burned out on narcissism and moved to full-time manuscript consultation, where I help working and aspiring writers see and improve upon the beauty of their work…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast: The YabYum Editors

February 9, 2019 Anna Katen Bonnie Anderson Featured Articles Garrett Bowers Radio Phoenix

On this installment of The YabYum Hour on Radio Phoenix, our senior editors (Carly and Mark) choose tracks from some recently featured singles and new hits from local favorites. It’s also new co-hosts Anna and Bonnie’s first show!!

Check out the complete playlist below and make sure to tune in every Wednesday night at 7 PM for more local music fun on Radio Phoenix — where the Valley comes to Talk. Sing. Connect.

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Sara Avery Turns Collecting Kitsch into Curated Art

February 6, 2019 Featured Articles

by Carly Schorman

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Sara Avery is a difficult woman to define.

I might start out by saying she is an artist and designer, but the very broadness of those terms might be too limiting. While it’s true that she is an artist and designer, she is also a collector of kitsch, an avid secondhand shopper, an entrepreneur, and, perhaps above all else, a curator of curios. And, when taken as a whole, I would have to say Sara Avery is a visionary…

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