HIRED GUNS

ANDI HARRIMAN, WRITER

A music journalist who writes mostly about all things ’80s-centric—except that cheesy stuff...well, sometimes that, too. Even though she’s the author of Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace, a book about the 1980s post-punk and goth subculture, she tries not to take herself too seriously (also a lie, because being goth is very serious). Between her record collection and her affinity for those really clunky vintage synth machines that sound cool, she has little space left in her Brooklyn apartment for anything else, but that’s okay.

JANE “PAIN” CHARDIET, PHOTOGRAPHER

A regional potato chip expert from NYC— like for real FROM NYC, not in that bullshit “I’ve been here 10 years, so that counts, right?” kind of way. She currently fronts the blackened punk band Melissa and the borderline riot grrrl band Safe Word. She has been photographing and writing about the underground noise, punk, and freak electronics scenes for well over a decade at Jane-Pain.com. Check it out, but no more lukewarm memes of her photo of the homie playing a guitar with a vibrator. Please and thank you.

MOSI REEVES, WRITER