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Various Artists: Counterpart, Issue 2

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Counterpart

If I was 16 and picked this up, I’d cream my pants thinking that there’s a whole world out there that looks progressive and exciting. This is such a simple idea, but it works really well: compile a bunch of music videos of artists with a fun, DIY approach to filmmaking (Holy Fuck, Operator Please, Matt & Kim) and run them alongside interviews with bands, funky short films and interesting artwork. A DVD magazine, in other words. Somehow people think the internet is a better place for doing such a thing. Not true - this manages to put popular culture into an organised and edited framework. It has more effect as a consequence. Some other peeps featured: The Teenagers and two Pigeon contributors: Emmy The Great and Jeffrey Lewis.

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