Not everyone knows our backstory and who we are and where we came from. We’re real people, from the streets, who love to put in work and have been through so much trauma & turmoil in our lives that music ended up becoming an outlet for us. Rather than becoming full-fledged criminals and drug addicts, we’re here.
Author: Héctor Zaldívar
𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖜𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖗 @hexzald
REX BANTRON. <ENG>
I have a form of graphic rebellion: stealing images, raiding the internet, and creating something more, to make a remix of street nostalgia.
REX BANTRON. <Esp>
Siempre es mi origen y mi esencia; que soy una rata de la Ciudad de México. Esa intensidad se traslada directamente a mis cuadros, los cuales concibo como un collage total de la esencia callejera: una mezcla caótica de pintura, esténcil, rótulos, manchas y grafiti. La Ciudad de México es intensa y mi idea también: crear intensamente.
MISTER SISTER. <ENG>
Each Mister Sister is born from a moment charged with emotion. Some stem from searing pain; others, from rage. Some arose from euphoria, others from anguish, others from despair. Others were completed amidst the weariness of a heavy, drawn-out patience, while others took shape to the rhythm of a song played a thousand times in a row. It was always an intense exercise of pencil against paper, ensuring the strokes conveyed nothing contrary to what I was feeling.
MISTER SISTER. <ESP>
Cada Mister Sister nace de un momento cargado de emoción. En algunos hay un dolor punzante; en otros, rabia. Algunos nacieron de la euforia, otros de la angustia, otros de la desesperación. Otros fueron terminados en el hastío de una paciencia pesada y otros funcionaron al ritmo de una canción que fue reproducida 1000 veces seguidas. Era siempre el ejercicio intenso del lápiz contra el papel y el cuidado de que los trazos no dijeran algo contrario a lo que sentía.
Xenix on Social Networks – Pain, Truth, and Permanence
I feel like every creative should have an opinion on what they like and don’t like. You need to be true to yourself and what you think, but also open to change and differences in mentality. Even if I disagree with someone’s art or tattoos, it’s a person who found their way to make a living creatively and pushed through whatever they had to do to make it. So, fair enough. Let the next newcomer try to do their thing.
Twin Arrows, AZ.
Twin Arrows is a ghost town off of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona, located on historic Hopi & Diné
Knuckle Sandwich.
We started this band while I was finishing up coursework for a Master’s Degree in Chicana Studies; my research revolved around the performance of masculinity in Hardcore punk rock. The lyrics I write are rooted in violence as an extension of masculinity.
As art, Knuckle Sandwich isn’t necessarily an endorsement of violence, but the performance thereof. There is a ritualistic aspect to the mosh pit, as it is a space where people can assert masculinity and appreciation for the noise.
Leslie Puett’s HOUSEFIRE breaks Furniture Store into L.A.’s Art Scene
She says the name {of her book} came about because “True pain lies under our own minds like roofs… We gotta tend to what we have before we set it ablaze.”
Sob Story.
I think Sob Story as a moniker aligns with a lot of people’s lives — everyone has their sob stories they tell themselves, everybody has their excuses in life. It was born from a moment in time when things weren’t going my way, but almost satirically. I think a lot of my work depicts a funnier side of life. But the name itself comes from a Minor Threat song.