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ISSUE #1 DEC 2015

"You don't have to fit a genre.

You just do whatever you want to do."

Twenty one Pilots The Genre Melting Duo release Blurryface

+ Featuring Drop Dead Clothings New Line

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INTERVIEW WITH HANNAH PIXIE SYKES

CONTENTS

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Sync or Swim?

Anch r’ d Editor-in-Chief Deanna Tidwell Executive Editor Kyle Thompson

Anchor’d magazine is a publication based solely on a l te rn a tive music and tattoo work/art. Articles inside will reveal upcoming tours, new music, bands to follow, tattoo artists, tattoo television program updates, band/ artist fashion, and much more. Artists will be featured in every monthly issue of this publication. Anchor’d magazine will have a sleek professional look including many black and white images, clear spacious formats, and much more. In addition each issue will provide several free tear out posters of his or her favorite tattoo artist(s) and/or band/musician(s).

Music/ tattoo events will be covered as well. This publication will be available at local stores such as Target, CVS, Hot Topic, Barnes & Noble, and many more.

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Anch r’ d + Inside Ink Master

PVRIS’ Lyndsey Gunnulfsen Warped Tour Line up Revealed Exclusive Interview with Hannah Sykes +

Bring Me the Horizon

A Day to Remember

Cally Jo

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR When creating this publication called “Anchor’d,” I had envisoned it being based entirely on tattoo artists/art and alternative music. I took a graphic side for the design elements throughout this publication and tried to keep the color pallet minimal to maintain the formal look of this issue. The artists featured in this issue are some of my favorites at the moment.

Twenty One Pilots new album has been very influential in my current thought process. Hannah Pixie Sykes artwork and tattoos uses pointillism and sacred geometry which I have been practicing with my own artwork for quite some time. I hope to create a publication where fans can come together to be kept up to date on his or her favorite artist or band.

Anchor’d magazine is the spot for all of your alternative music and tattoo artist/ artwork needs.

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MOCA | THE MUESUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind.​Today this location hosts the museum’s main galleries, Lemonade café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.

THE ART OF OUR TIME EXHIBIT Chief Curator Helen Molesworth has installed an exhibition highlighting the affinities between artists and artworks in an attempt to rethink the now conventional chronological installation of art. By exploring connections that emerge through artist friendships, the history of art schools, and artists’s own stated interest in other artists’s work, this presentation of MOCA’s esteemed collection of post-1945 art highlights iconic works alongside lesser known material drawn from the nearly 7000 objects in MOCA’s collection. Recently acquired work is on view, gesturing towards MOCA’s newly invigorated collecting. MOCA’s collection is considered to be among the most important collections of post-war art in the world, this installation aims to reintroduce its richness and depth as well as signal a new era of scholarship and a renewed commitment to collecting at the institution. The Art of Our Time is organized by Chief Curator Helen Molesworth. Lead support is provided by The Sydney Irmas Exhibition Endowment, the Margaret and Daniel Loeb Third Point Foundation and the MOCA Projects Council. In-kind media support is provided by KCETLink.

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Top 10 Pizza Places in Los Angeles, Ca

It’s been three years since we last put together our best pizza list, and in that time the landscape for pie lovers has changed dramatically. Fast-casual pizzeria 800 Degrees has grown from an upstart shop in Westwood to a rapidly expanding chain. A couple of Italian dudes from Nashville started making really good Neapolitan pizza in an East Hollywood warehouse. The team that brought Bludso’s to West Hollywood began serving East Coast–style slices to Fairfax skater punks. The deep-dish pizzas of Hollywood Pies, previously available only through an odd carry-out system, finally got a legitimate home in Mid-City. And, of course, the chefs behind Animal and Son of a Gun finally turned their attention to the craft of pizza.

Choosing just 10 pizza places is harder than ever — a list of 25 would still be filled solely with winners — but choose we must. Worthy pies were bumped from the list in order to make room for notable newcomers, but one thing remained the same: The wonderfully complex pizza that led the pack three years ago retained its top slot. At least for now.

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Prime Pizza

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800 Degrees

10889 Lindbrook Drive, Westwood, and other locations; (424) 239-5010, 800degreespizza.com

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Hollywood Pies

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Oli Pizzeria & Cafe

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Pizzeria Mozza

6116½ W. Pico Blvd., Mid-City; (323) 337-3212, hollywoodpies.com Olio Pizzeria & Cafe8075 W. Third St., Beverly Grove; (323) 930-9490, pizzeriaolio.com 8075 W. Third St., Beverly Grove; (323) 930-9490, pizzeriaolio.com

Mother Dough

4648 Hollywood Blvd., Los Feliz; (323) 644-2885, motherdoughpizza.com

DeSano Pizza Bakery

4959 Santa Monica Blvd., East Hollywood; (323) 913-7000, desanopizza.it

Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana

625 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena; (626) 765-9550. 13455 Maxella Ave., Marina Del Rey; (310) 306-8204, settebello.net 641 N. Highland Ave., Hancock Park; (323) 297-0101, pizzeriamozza.com

Jon & Vinny’s

412 N. Fairfax Ave., Fairfax District; (323) 334-3369, jonandvinnys.com

Sotto

9575 Pico Blvd., Pico-Robertson; (310) 277-0210, sottorestaurant.com

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Tattoing and Music All In One

Blurryfac How Twenty One Pilots found their genreless/ unique sound Twenty

One

Pilots,

the

duo

from

Columbus, Ohio, are winning hearts and minds at an impressive rate because they’re just as passionate and confused about life as the fans to whom they’re singing. This sense of being lost in life is what “the Skeleton Clique” (group of super fans) finds most endearing. Part of that feeling of confusion is the bands insecurity

in

being

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an

exact

genre.

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The genremelting duo Photography by Emma Watson

By Chris DeVille Twenty One Pilots decision to not stick to a set genre and play what they want has gotten the dynamic “genre-melting duo” both criticism and praise from the music industry. With genres mixing from Pop, Hip Hop/Rap, to indie this band has yet to find out who they are and what they want from their sound yet which has left them insecure and a little unsure of what is to come for the future of the band.

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Twenty One Pilots

Grandpa can keep U2;

hybrids

in and around Ohio, where they

you can leave Coldplay for Mom;

like Lorde’s “Royals” or see-what-

built up a massive grassroots

Mumford & Sons are strictly the

we-did-there Frankenstein’s mon-

audience before moving on to the

province of perilously uncool older

sters like Avicii and Aloe Blacc’s

world of music festival main stages,

siblings. For a growing swath

“Wake Me Up,” pop’s evolution

late-night TV appearances, and

of America’s teenagers, Twenty

has long sounded like a reverse

so on.

One Pilots are the biggest rock

Big Bang, a whole universe of

band in the world — or are they

sound hurtling towards a single

kitchen-sink

are pop? Rap? EDM?

centralized point.

Sleep,” which is embedded below,

Adore them or despise

tracks that precipitous climb. At

music has always been the sound

them — and typically there isn’t

this point it’s fair to say Twenty One

of disparate styles colliding, and

any in between with these guys

Pilots have arrived; their new

in this era of hyper-accelerated

— no band represents that convergence

album

culture, that synthesis is happening

of sounds more colorfully or

146,000 units in its first week,

faster than ever. One of the most

co n sistently than Twenty One

good enough to debut at the top

commonly cited symptoms of the

Pilots. While drummer Josh Dun

of the Billboard 200 by a mile.

MP3 era is that genre doesn’t

ste e rs the songs all over the

matter anymore; from Napster to

stylistic map ,

i P o d s t o Yo u Tu b e t o S p o t i f y ,

t o g gles

everybody has learned to mash

nasal rapping and

their music together without a

singing,

second thought. A “funny” lark

p r e e n ing across stages when

like

preppy

he’s not pounding his piano or

acoustic cover of Eazy E’s “Boyz-

strumming a ukulele. (No guitars

N-The-Hood”

now

allowed in this band.) The

seems not only #problematic but

ever-ascending duo from Columbus

Yet for a band with a #1 album,

paleolithic. Whether it results in

have long been local superstars

these

Forward-thinking mainstream

Dynamite

Hack’s from

2000

seamless,

undefinable

Tyler

between

Jos e p h rapid-fire

full-throate d

s p i raling

and

The video for their spastic anthem

Blurryface

“Ode

just

To

moved

“...I coined the phrase “schizoid pop,” which became Joseph’s favored description of their music for a while.”

-Chris DeVille

guys

are

relatively

a n o n ymous, especially in the world of online music criticism. So for those of you who scratching your heads wondering, “Who?” let’s backtrack for a moment.

Because my stint writing about music

for

Columbus Alive

c o i n cided with their rise to fame, I go way back with Twenty One Pilots: Four summers ago, when their local gigs were already drawing hundreds upon hundreds of fans, I booked them for a tiny Columbus music showcase that functioned as my birthday party.

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A few months after that, I

and I usually end up embracing

i n ner-workings of both 21st

interviewed them just before they

even fearlessly garish stylistic

century pop music and the 21st

announced their deal with Fueled

choices that make me recoil at

century teenage mind. Each song

By Ramen, the Atlantic subsidiary

first. Joseph’s rapping is what

aims for about a dozen different

that launched Fall Out Boy,

might happen if Eminem traded

pleasure points.

Paramore, and Fun.

horrorcore for nerdcore; big-tent

And a few months after

EDM drops often appear out of

generation whose attention-span

that, with their major-label debut

nowhere to jack up the cheese

has been ravaged by push

album

a

factor; I recently flinched when

n o tifications

l e n g th y co ver story about their

I heard the lyric, “The songs on

s c r o l l ing — just when they

grassroots

Somewhere

the radio are OK/ But my taste

se ttle into one aesthetic, the

along the way I coined the phrase

in m u s i c i s y o u r f a c e ” ( o n

floor d r o p s o u t a n d y o u ’ r e i n

“schizoid pop,” which became

t h e r a dio, by the way). So many

a n e n t i r e ly different song, only

Joseph’s favored description of

things about their music set off

you land on a trampoline that

their music for a while. A handful of

bad-taste alarms in my psyche.

springs y o u out the window and

my tweets that Joseph favorited

Yet they sell it with so much

into a n o t h e r c o m p l e te l y n e w

in 2013 still regularly get starred

e a rnest

they

l a n d scape. These guys have a

by obsessive fans presumably

usually end up winning me over.

way of making those musical

scrolling

Joseph’s

It is because of this genreless

shifts feel like the most natural

a ccount and mirroring his every

mix that I am very found of ther

thing in the world, as if the s o n g

expression of approval.

sound this duo.

written there c o u l d n ’ t h a v e

e v e n p o s s i b l y h a v e developed

looming,

I

rise.

wrote

through

Because of that history,

I’ve always rooted for this band,

conviction

that

It helps that Joseph and

Dun keenly understand the

It’s ideal music for a

and

infinite

in any other direction.

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spiritual in its language, give or take a reference to the devil.

That said, the album is haunted by mortality at every turn. “Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit,” Joseph sings on the opening track in one of his cleverest turns of phrase.

“Yeah I think about the end just way too

On

Blurryface,

those

Twenty One Pilots song e ve r,

creative concept that has fans

changes often happen gradua l l y,

sti l l

and new coming listeners to

u n s p o o l i n g radical evolution

S u b l i m e , P o r ti sh e a d , a n d

want to hear more.

before

A$AP Rocky.

“Heavydirtysoul,” for instance,

d y namic

morphs from some kind of

of their odd amalgams: They’ve

used to run in Christian rock

late-’90s

cultivated a following that’s

circles, and Joseph did time as a

thing to a Fitz & The Tantrums

part

f a n dom, part

worship leader before the band

song to a monolithic heavy-rock

support group. Blurryface is a

hit it big, and there’s definitely

climax without ever inducing

concept album about the war

a hint of youth group in songs

whiplash.

that rages inside, and Twenty

like Vessel’s “Screen,” with its

One

“We’re broken people” refrain.

your

eyes. O p e n e r

trip-hop/Big

Beat

“Message Man” drops the

manages

to

merge

That’s yet another one

sports

Pilots

concerts

are

trap beat and synth line from

b a sically that conflict blasted to

Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” in the

the size of a Gladiator match,

middle of a Soft Cell “Taint-

the audience cheering on as

ed Love” homage. “Stressed

the band battles their demons.

Out,” probably the most linear

It is a very overwhelming yet

Tw e n t y O n e P i l o t s genre-melting

duo

But the brand of we’re-all-inthis-togetherness they h e l p spread out at their concerts and online isn’t framed in religious terms. “Fairly Local”

much/ But it’s fun to fantasize,” he proclaims on “Ride.” The antidote for all this morbidity turns out to be (surprise!) falling in love. “Tear In My Heart” is all about how Joseph’s wife jolted him out of stasis, and on “We Don’t Believe What’s On TV,” he sings, “I don’t care what is in your hair/ I wanna know what’s on your mind/ I used

d eco d i n g ......... tyler joseph's pa i n t e d black h a n d s & n ec k Twenty One Pilots have a brand-new video out Tuesday (April 28) for “Stressed Out” and after watching it you probably have one question on your mind: “Um, what’s up with all the black stuff on Tyler Joseph’s neck and hands?”

Well, we were wondering the same thing, which is why we were all like, “What’s up with that, dude?” when the guys stopped by the other day.

Apparently, the paint — which Joseph will be wearing in every music video and p e rformance this album cycle — has everything to do with the name of the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Blurryface.

“It’s a guy that kind of represents all the things that I as an individual — but also everyone around me — am insecure about,” Joseph told Anchor’d News. “When I think about insecurities and my i n s e c u r i ties are getting the best of me, the things that I think of are kind of a feeling of suffocation and then also the things that I create with my hands.”

is pitched as a call-to-arms

troubled kids, who flood them

for “the few, the proud, and

with fan m a i l a n d s w a r m

the emotional,” and “Polarize”

them

makes things as plain as possible:

meet-and-greets. Fans come

“We have problems.” Stressed

in dressed head to toe in what

out is a song about insecurity

they call “ B l u r r y f a c e g e a r ”

built around the phrase “My

w h i c h i n cludes the typical

name is Blurryface and I care

outfit worn by Tyler Joseph in

what you think,” “Stressed Out”

the music video for “Stressed

is indicative of Twenty One

Out” with a red beanie, black

P i lots’ other M.O. They’ve

clothing, and most importantly

positioned their fan base a s

black painted hands and neck.

b o t h a 1 2 th - m a n s t y l e ex-

Truth be told this genreless

tension of the band (“you guys

duo is not quite sure what to

did it,” Joseph tweeted upon

think of their music but the

learning Blurryface had gone to

fans response is very positive

#1) and a kind of safe space for

and overwhelming great.

at

a f t e r - c o n cert

Hence, all the black stuff he’s sporting in “Stressed Out” and other vids. “Very dramatic, I know, but it helps me get into that character,” he said.

Some major Blink-182 vibes here, guys. It seems that Blurryface’s biggest insecurity — at least in this jam — is growing up and being an adult and whatnot. I think we can all relate to that.

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Inside the Ink: M eet Tat t o o

Artist

Hannah Pixie s e k y S

Her Spirtiual Journey into the Tattoo World

Tattoo artist by trade, a creative spirit by nature, a chronic doodler by design and a modest scholar at heart, Hannah Pixie

Snowdon has attracted an immense following with her array of creative talents and beautifully ornate designs. Trust us when

we say that you have seen Hannah before – she is arguably

one of the most reblogged faces on the internet. You’ve likely stumbled across one of her numerous fansites, or admired her tattoos. Or perhaps you’re familiar with her partner-in-crime, Bring Me the Horizon band frontman and fiancé, Oliver Sykes.

So we’ve had our eyes on Hannah for awhile – it’s hard not to, after all – she’s a mega-babe, having even done some side modeling projects, including for Syke’s clothing line, Drop Dead. But the real attraction is her dedicated work ethic and positive approach to her craft.

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to see so many places already, and

about 2 years ago now, I think. After

I plan on doing a lot more of that!

that tattoo, that design literally

Despite her popularity, Hannah

My mum was amazing when I was

haunted me. It was so hard to do,

remains somewhat elusive; her

little and took me all over the place. I

yet the most pleasant tattooing

Instagram account is about as close

bloody love her.

experience that I can remember – it

of a look into her private and inspired

ANCHOR’D: When do you

helps that he is an awesome dude

life as one can explore. Until now.

feel like you established your

who had a lot of faith letting me do

We spoke with Hannah about some

current artistic style?Hannah: I’m

it! The part it played in the following

of her recent travels and sources of

not actually 100% sure! I feel like in

year of my life was insane. It was

inspiration, as well as her big plans

the last year though I’ve really come

everywhere and in everything. It led

for 2014 (read: the launch of her own

into my own. I was always quite

me to believe that there is no such

tattoo project – Black Stabbath)!

unsure of myself and I think my work

thing as coincidence and you really

ANCHOR’D: As a kid, what

reflected that. I’ve still got a long way

do attract things into your existence.

did you want to be when you grew

to go and I’d like to think I will

Quite literally!

up? Hannah: I was always very

continually grow and improve and

academic-focused in school, so I

evolve in myself and my work – but I

a positive attitude and strong

think everyone – my parents and

certainly have a lot more confidence

moral compass. How do you

myself included – assumed I would

in myself now. The less I seem to

maintain that perspective, and

go into something pretty different

question things, the more they seem

avoid negativity and the pressures

haha! I toyed with the idea of being

to work! the places I’ve traveled

of conformity? Hannah: Thank you!

a clinical psychologist for a while;

in the last year reflects a lot of my

Its so nice to hear that. It’s funny

People fascinate me and my parents

work too – Vietnam was particularly

really because there was so much

are both in the medical field, but my

beautiful and inspiring.

negativity in my life up until about a

passion has always been doodling in

ANCHOR’D: Who/what are

year ago. Everyone always assumed

one form or another.

your sources of inspiration for

I had everything so under control but

ANCHOR’D: What inspires

you? Hannah: I love books! I have a

the truth is I was so deeply unhappy

you to create, be it drawing or

bunch of awesome books that I use

in m y s e l f , w h i c h r e f l e c t e d i n

tattooing?

Sometimes

regularly for reference. Books and

e v e rything I did. There was a lot

days go by where I remain uninspired,

traveling. Traditional pattern work,

going on under the surface. I really

then all of a sudden I’ll have a billion

sacred geometry and ornamental

had to start over. A lot of my friends

ideas at once. I’ve learned it’s best to

iconography from every kind of

couldn’t understand and I drifted

jot them down right away and come

religion! I’m also very grateful to

away from so many people and

back to them later, to see whether

know a bunch of mad talented artists

situations I couldn’t have previously

I’m still into it. I find traditional art

who I find very inspiring, and who I’m

imagined living without. Ultimately

from around the world the most

proud to call friends. Grace Neutral

though I really had to be selfish and

interesting, particularly stuff with an

is a hand poking princess and one of

stop putting other peoples feelings

asian influence. I’ve also learned

my main inspirations.

before my own.

to surround myself with people and

things that continuously inspire me

most memorable tattoo that you

be there. Whether you are the most

and make me happy. Traveling is a

have done so far? Hannah: I think

kind hearted or cold hearted person

massive influence on my work as

it would have to be the flower of life

in the world, someone will find a

well. I feel grateful that I’ve managed

pattern I did on my friend Plaz. It was

reason to dislike you.

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Hannah:

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As for negativity, it will always

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D O O D LES

& tat t o o w o r k :

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“

Tru th i s u nless you FIll yourself completely up with love fIrst you can never fully give it to anyone or put it into anything else.

ANCHOR’D: What can

wasn’t particularly good and it was

second shop I apprenticed in called

we expect from Black Stabbath?

taking up some prime real estate! I

Holy Mountain, with two of my

What made you decide to open

was a bit of a mess at the time and I

closest friends as bosses. I decided

your own shop? Hannah: A lot of

rushed into it. I can’t stress enough

to go it alone after a while for

magic! I’m so incredibly excited and

how important it really is to wait

various reasons, but they gave me

proud of it. I’m quite a reserved

until you’re of age to get tattooed,

the confidence I needed.

person and business can so easily

not even necessarily because you’ll

break friendships. The tattooing

regret it – but primarily because no

are not tattooing, how do you

industry can be so competitive

respectable tattooist will usually

like to spend your free time? I

and I like to dip out of it a little

be wiling to break the law and put

definitely have spent a great deal

and do my own thing, this way I’m

their reputation at stake to tattoo

more time doodling on paper this

in no-ones way . It’s not going to

someone who is underage!

year rather than people, but that’s

be a ‘studio’ as such with all the

ANCHOR’D: Where did

largely because I’ve put all my time

bells and whistles; I don’t think I’m

you get your first tattoo? It was

and energy into setting up my own

anywhere near experienced or

at the nape of my neck, a traditional

workspace.I don’t have that much

talented enough to run my own

horseshoe with roses. The roses

experience at the end of the day

studio.

looked more like little baby cabbages

and I don’t want to get ahead of

ANCHOR’D: What Made

though! I actually had one session

myself, but I’m so happy with what

you Want to Get your First

of laser removal on it before i had

I’ve created, and so grateful for all

Ta ttoo?/When did you first

it covered. I would actually

the love and support from not only

become interested in getting

r e c o m mend it – as it lightened it a

my close friends and family, but

tattooed? Hannah: I don’t really

great deal- enough so that I didn’t

from everyone who digs my stuff!

know where my obsession came

have to compromise at all with

I also love travelling and have so

from with tattooing, but I distinctly

design when covering it.

many opportunities to, to which i

remember my mum taking me

ANCHOR’D: How did you

never refuse. I love tattooing and I

along when she was being tattooed

start tattooing? I left college after

couldn’t imagine my life without it,

once – in a bid to put me off – need-

second year to start apprenticing at

but it’s definitely not my whole life. I

less to say it had an adverse effect

a small street shop in Scunthorpe.

love creating in every sense of the

and my fascination only grew. I got

The people were lovely but I didn’t

word and I try and express myself

my first tattoo underage in a small

learn anything other than how to

through every medium that gets

street shop and its the only one I’ve

be a badass receptionist – I’d say

thrown my way.

had removed. I didn’t hate it, but it

I actually learnt how to tattoo at the

ANCHOR’D: When you

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