HIRED GUNS

JOSEPH PATRICK, PHOTOGRAPHER

Born and raised in Nashville, Joseph wanted to be an artist, went to school for engineering, and ended up becoming an artist anyway. With many fire art shows under his belt, he finds himself toeing the line between creativity and commerce. Often found with his head in the clouds, he says the only thing keeping him from floating away is the years of physics claiming it’s improbable. Influenced by photographers such as Carrie Mae Weems, Tim Walker, and Herb Ritts, Joseph aims to merge imaginative storytelling and physical beauty with surreal and absurdist ideas.

See: Stars Cars, page 8

NIKKI SNEAKERS, PHOTOGRAPHER

A staple of the underground NYC music scene, Nikki Sneakers has been a promoter and documentarian since she first began taking the train from Long Island in her teens to shoot bands. With an instantly recognizable style, her work is a perfect documentation of the grit and glory of downtown, capturing live events including her own Nothing Changes concert series, which featured rare early appearances from Iceage, Shame, Boy Harsher, Youth Code, and many more. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her cats, listening to music that you’ll probably be into 10 years from now.

See: A Piece of Ash, page 84

LUISA COLON, ILLUSTRATOR

Currently based in Brooklyn, Luisa Colon is a born-and-bred New Yorker with a Travis Bickle-like persona that developed organically from her scrappy Upper East Side upbringing. When she’s not talking to herself in the mirror or looking for hidden romantic messages in Morrissey’s live performances, she is spreading a deep sense of melancholy and hopelessness with her various creative endeavors. Luisa starred as an exceptionally glum suicide bomber in the 2006 indie film Day Night Day Night, and her recently released first novel, Bad Moon Rising, will bum you the fuck out. She also loves to crochet.

See: CREEM Comix, page 126

JERILYN JORDAN, WRITER

Jerilyn Jordan is an award-winning writer and the delightfully mentally ill daughter of a stripper and a Ford factory worker. Her first known written work was a poem about the color black in the third grade, a foreshadowing of the dysfunction to come. She served as music editor at a legacy altweekly, Detroit Metro Times, where she honed her craft and formed an ongoing feud with Kid Rock and his grammatically challenged fans. Filmmaker Terrence Malick once sent her a typewritten letter about why love is worth having, and she once wrote a screenplay for Nicolas Cage. (Spoiler alert: It was rejected.)

See: Tiger Bairn, page 92

LYNDON JAMES STOCKBAUER, BON VIVANT

Lyndon James Stockbauer is a legendary Texas barman. As a result of harsh treatment from private school nuns, he pursued a career in hospitality. A beloved staple in the local punk scene from the late disco era to the present day, he’s known for opening and closing many venues and watering holes across Austin over the past three decades. Now retired from the bar business, he was last spotted on stage in Los Angeles introducing powerviolence icons Crom at their Cocaine Wars party. He is believed to currently reside on his yacht outside of Sausalito, California.

See: Booking the Buttholes, page 32

JOEL SELVIN, WRITER

Joel Selvin has covered pop music at the San Francisco Chronicle since shortly after the Civil War. He has written more than 20 books, including the definitive account of the disastrous Altamont concert and a biography of songwriter Bert Berns, Here Comes the Night (which led to Berns’ induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), in addition to Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock with Sammy Hagar. He spent the past three years researching and writing his biography of drummer Jim Gordon, Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon, to be published in January 2024 by Diversion Books.

See: Killer Drummer, page 64