HIRED GUNS

Erik Jensen
Erik Jensen began committing artistic larceny after happening upon an uneaten Hardee’s Mushroom & Swiss Burger, a stack of foot porn, and 14 dog-eared issues of CREEM under his cousin’s bed in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Erik made the mistake of stealing the latter, and thus began his journey to cowriting (with wife Jessica Blank, who has magnificent arches) and starring in the Lester Bangs play How to Be a Rock Critic. Jensen was eventually relegated to the world of prestige TV and now chomps a cigar while building castles for his children out of bundles of hundred-dollar bills.

See: Of Pop and Pies and Fun, page 82

Sarah Coulter
When Coulter was born, in Cleveland, her mom was strikingly not concerned that she came out of the womb with liberty spikes. Coulter got her start by documenting live shows—driving her posh Saturn SL2 to gigs across the Midwest, cutting her teeth by shooting broken ones. Nowadays the photography director is known not only for her obnoxious bounty of Judas Priest merch, but for shooting virtually every celebrity under the sun from Kevin Costner to Jean-Luc Picard. And though she specializes in historic photo methods, Coulter assures us that she did not put an old-timey mustache on Jamie from Midnight.

See: It’s Midnight, page 44

Christopher R. Weingarten
Christopher R. Weingarten understands the future prospects of music journalism and is thusly using his remaining bio space to advertise his abilities as a front-end software engineer. Weingarten has nearly four years’ experience in ReactJS, Javascript, CSS3, and HTML5. Having just completed an 18-month role at a SAAS platform, his skills also include Jest, Prisma, jQuery, Typescript, Git, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, SQL, mySQL, and XML. He is a team player who is self-motivated and has a passion for clean and thorough code. His DMs are open.

See: Buck Mild, page 12

Meaghan Garvey
Meaghan Garvey is a writer and illustrator living on the beach in the Midwest of the United States of America. She arrived to the world of rock ’n’ roll journalism roughly 50 years too late for fame, fortune, and quaaludes, but you really can’t win them all. The best piece of advice she can give you is to always get a room in a cheap motel with no restaurant that is near a better restaurant where you can eat and drink. Many have called her ongoing “SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE’’ newsletter “the only Substack I actually like to read.”

See: Salem’s Lot, page 40

Albin Sikora
Albin Sikora started his own oral-history interview magazine in NYC called Young Philosopher and has directed documentaries, including a film about the first Japanese dancer to win the Showtime at the Apollo amateur contest (an official selection at the Edmonton International Film Festival). He later served as a Peace Corps Volunteer and then spent seven years at an international communications firm in Washington, D.C., and Saudi Arabia, where he rose to director of public affairs before starting Black Fox Productions with his brother, Joseph Sikora.

See: Power Trip, page 28

Brynn Michaels
Brynn Michaels is a Texas girl living in New York City. She is a writer and sex worker who loves her small doggy Buckley, getting fisted, and loving on her friends. Throughout her seven years in the adult industry she has started her own porn company, launched her line of merchandise with Feels So Good, and done the deed with and alongside industry titans for the likes of Brazzers, among others, all while supporting her fellow workers as well. Brynn has been published in MSCHF Mag and is a staff writer and guest editor of Dirty magazine.

See: Nerd Shit, page 38