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Miles Raymer

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Miles Raymer’s Biography

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Webby Award winning writer/editor/producer working across print, digital, video, and audio.

I've covered music, culture, fashion, politics, and tech across print, digital, and video for Pitchfork, VICE, GQ, Esquire, Playboy, MTV News, Entertainment Weekly, the A.V. Club, Red Bull Music Academy Daily, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, NME,​ Paste, the Chicago Reader, Fortune, Popular Mechanics, ​the Fader,​ A​lternative Press,​ X​XL,​​ and t​he Utne Reader.

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Miles Raymer’s Journalist Portfolio

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A Brief History of Goth

A Brief History of Goth

WINNER: 2017 Webby People's Voice Award These days, "goth" can mean anything from wearing an all-black outfit…

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Solange, Skrillex, and Utopia in a Futuristic Desert City

Solange, Skrillex, and Utopia in a Futuristic Desert City

Travelogue/festival review

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How Kurt Cobain's Iconic Sunglasses Became a Hip-Hop Style Obsession

How Kurt Cobain's Iconic Sunglasses Became a Hip-Hop Style Obsession

Style/music trend piece

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This DJ Wants to Elevate Haitian Culture to the Global Mainstream

This DJ Wants to Elevate Haitian Culture to the Global Mainstream

Travelogue/artist profile from a trip down to Haiti to meet DJ/producer Michael Brun.

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Beyond Sense: Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas

Beyond Sense: Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas

Profile of cyborg artists Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas

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The Heroism of David Bowie

The Heroism of David Bowie

David Bowie memorial essay. "If transcending mundanity was David Bowie's greatest talent, close behind was…

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Articles

Pavement, “Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques”

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By Miles Raymer
| FLOOD Magazine Verified
Pavement Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques MATADOR My relationship with Pavement these days is like a friendship from way back with someone I went through a lot together with at a formative moment in our lives, but have been on a divergent path from ever since. Three decades on, I love them, and probably will forever in one way or another, but I don’t follow them on socials and I don’t usually come out when they’re in town.
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Outfitting Closets When Fewer People Came Out of Them

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By Miles Raymer
| The New York Times Verified
Michael Salem built a retail business by selling to customers like male cross-dressers and transgender women at a time when serving both was more taboo. Michael Salem, 82, trying on a rhinestone bralette at Curve New York, a lingerie trade show, in February. Credit... Kate Warren for The New York Times On a Monday in early February, Michael Salem was contemplating some silicone breast enhancers at a booth inside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Midtown Manhattan.
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On the Radical Anti-Algorithmic Appeal of André 3000’s “New Blue Sun”

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By Miles Raymer
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Twenty years after its release, it’s still hard to wrap your head around “Hey Ya!” Snappy, a little sad, and almost disturbingly hard to shake once it’s wedged in your brain, André 3000’s first hit single as a solo artist—even if it was credited to OutKast—reaches the level of pop nirvana where it’s hard to believe it was composed by a living, breathing human being, and not just manifested by the universe itself.
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