Thank you for pickin’ us up and checkin’ us out. I’d like to get up on my proverbial soapbox if you don’t mind, and tell you a little bit about myself and this project.
Many moons ago, I was a high schooler in San Antonio with a new found passion for Gonzo Journalism, Creem Magazine and all things print media. This newly kindled desire to be a music journalist had me out on the town in search of a beginning to a fulfilling career. I walked around with a brief case full of copies of a nearly empty resume, my most casual business wear and most importantly; hope. After walking into every local publication and radio station in town and coming out with nothing, I decided…
if no one was going to give me a chance, I had to prove to myself I was worth a chance.
I teamed up with my pal, Brandon (EIC of Nine Pin Punk San Antonio), to make our very own music publication. In about a week, we had landed on Nine Pin Punk as the name because its punchy and thought provoking. The thought it may provoke could be, “what’s up with the bowling theme?”, and to that we say…
because it’s cool.
We created Nine Pin Punk to selfishly give ourselves a platform to be published and unselfishly give others that same opportunity. In the midst of our selfish/unselfish endeavor, we created a place for bands, artists, vendors, and businesses a way to promote themselves and put their work out to an audience.
LET from EDI
After moving to Austin in January, I was feeling fresh and blessed with a clean slate. However, the slate was so fresh and clean that I was in the same place as high school me. No prospects, no connections and no one to give me a chance.
So once again here I am proving to myself that what I can do is worth someone taking a chance on me.
Now for a moment of sappiness: I like to call this project...
the Working Man’s Magazine
because I want to give everyone and anyone who has something to say a platform to do just that. Everyone deserves a starting point. It would have meant the world if someone would have given the time of day to little ol’ me a couple years ago, and now Nine Pin Punk is here to fulfill that. I know there are plenty of Austin magazines covering the same shows and topics, but Nine Pin Punk is di erent— it‘s the antithesis of exclusive.
TER the TOR
As Nine Pin Punk rolls into town, flies o the shelves, and gets thumbed through by many, I want to thank you again for pickin’ us up and checkin’ us out. It means a whole lot to us.
With loving love, Morgan Walker Editor in Chief, Nine Pin Punk
Do you wake up and have no one to say "Dad, I'm seeing things." to on a beautiful morning?
Are you tired of thumbing through books like How to Manage Chronic Pain in a Barnes and Noble?
Do you yearn for a pity that finally does not sting? Shackled in mortal chains, do you love? And will you love still when free of them? Do your hands shake every time you get a text? Are you unemployed?
Wow....today at this career center we hope to find you a spot on a team that feels like home.
You don't need to know yourself to make money. Our 9 AM seminar titled.
"How to make a couple bands by your lonely” and "When in the process of bag watching should you up the switch?"
Are both being presented by our in house specialist Yung DK Crashout.
After lunch we'll be joined by Dr.Carney to discuss what employers will be looking for in the coming quarter. Things like,
"Did you make a couple bands by your lonely?" And "Did you up the switch whilst bag watching?"
i'm a very musical person. i did karaoke before this, like i was screaming in my dogs face for two hours. music is a big inspiration for me. i like the performance aspect of it, and when i was little i would perform as all the pop stars that i liked, i would pretend to be nicki in the starships video, ariana in the break free video. but now i've become my own muse in a sense, i take a lot of inspiration from staring at myself in the mirror for hours. i'm really into the 80’s right now too. whats your fav event you have been to in the diy scene lately? shoutout colin, @colin5ever, sexual summer was the fucking vibe thats what the austin scene is missing. anytime jake and jheset go b2b, they play the hits and it's cute and fun and vibey, and it was a nice end of summer pool party. i will say the straight people came in at the end and killed the vibe, but before that the vibe was tea. sexual summer is my favorite event i've been to lately.
i like to make a playlist to capture what i think the vibe is. i like getting up there and playing my music and pretending i'm in a music video. modeling is a bit different than a traditional art because it's performance art and that's what i like about it, i'm a big performer. modeling is dancing, acting, painting a picture with your face and your body, it requires a certain je ne sais quoi to pass by a window or a puddle in the ground and find that light and flip that hair and sell the fantasy. I love to sell the fantasy and that is what modeling is. that was beautiful. thanks i love to talk. I want to be on a podcast. i tell all my friends to start a podcast so i can guest on it, i would just never start my own though. Name something you can do really well.
i can swim really good. i did competitive swimming for many years. I was also a mermaid in my past spiritual life. i don't like practicing a skill or learning a new skill, i like to do things i'm good at already but it inhibits me so i'm trying to get out of that habit. i'm really good at looking hot and showing up in a cute outfit and this and that and the other. i'm a good creative director. i'm very specific about the way i like things presented, makes me a control freak. i care less about the reaction and more about the final product, which
means i don't mind being
Do you think that your view of fashion and making clothing has changed since modeling more? playing the part of my own muse, i view the way i get dressed a little differently. i feel like my outfits are my creative outlet a lot of time, so i'm constantly trying to push myself to do something new. so, i feel weird about repeating outfits, and there's also that weird thought that everyone pays attention if i repeat something and it's major tea, but it's not. but it makes me more creative because i don't want to wear the same outfit again i have to make new pieces. the green dress i wore the other day, i just adjusted it two hours before because i saw the vision in it, i do that a lot.
What are you most inspired by when putting an outfit on?
i'm most inspired by the vibe at the moment i dress very holistically, maybe this ties into
why i don't like to repeat outfits, when i put something together it's the exact vibe, where i'm going, where my head is at its not going to feel the same another day when im on another vibe. What's your go to playlist on Spotify and who's the most prominent artist on it?
let me pull up my playlist, my liked songs honestly i dont really use consistent playlists. i love to capture a vibe with a playlist, i think i'd make a great dj because i know songs with the same vibe and can capture that vibe, but i'm never going to listen to that playlist because my mood changes so often. mood specific playlists would probably be easier, but it never hits, i never revisit it. nicki’s always going to be on every playlist though.
sorry my cat almost just hit the shit out of me
oh i hate a bitch who won't train their dog, and i'll talk to my dog like a human and she knows when i'm mad at her. all animals are sentient in a way we don't understand, all animals have a concept of life and love.
And what's been ur fav garment lately?
the real answer? my match my freak tinashe tank top. i don't care i will wear it whenever i want, i love that tank top so much.
i'm not super into locations, areas, i don't know if you ask me where to visit. but i do know how to catch a vibe, put me anywhere. so much of the austin scene is pretentious and i don't want to be that at all, a lot of people are obsessed with their art and what they do but are you a person behind all of that? you know. There's so many posers, which isn't always a bad thing, but some of yall are faking it so annoyingly. fake being cool not pretentious. i don't like the whole condescending nature and i don't think that's austin, and i don't think that's art. the scene is perfect to support and nurture the creativity here, but there's so much of people trying to make it a hierarchy thing and thats weird. i'm anti weird keep austin weird but the right kind of weird, when yall heard that you took it the wrong way.
”
2. Strong Hands and Feet
Strong hands for when you need to open a water bottle for an interviewee. They talk, they get thirsty. Strong feet
1. Narrow Gaze
A narrow gaze will pressure an interviewee to answer a question honestly, but it’s dangerous enough
5. Ugly Hype Man
Allow an ugly man to sit in the room and gas your questions up. This is a form of charity that will charm the audience, who is ugly.
7. Constant confusion?????
When you’re confused you ask better questions
9. DIVORCE
(yours or your parents or both for different results)
Divorce. If you’ve had a divorce, or your parents have had a divorce, then that means you’re either a great mediator or a terrible one. Good and bad mediators are the two extremes necessary for a solid interview.
3. Detrimentally lacking in sense of self
This is to avoid any bias within your questions. Be nothing!
4. A gun
For emergencies and the ugly hype man. Ever read Of Mice and Men? Similar situation. Act accordingly.
6. A beautiful contrarian
A beautiful contrarian, beyond adding genuine counter questions and therefore a better interview, will provide credibility. A smart, beautiful enemy will do wonders for your craft. It’s healthy.
8. Agnostic, but only by accident
10. 500 Instagram Followers
You’re nothing without them.
Agnostic by accident because you have not thought about it enough to make a decision. So you can ask questions with genuine interest in the realm of spirituality, but forget to consider them later. Falls under the umbrella of commandment three.
I ______(verb) you
You fucked my ______(noun)
It was ______(adj) what you did
All I wanted was ______(noun)
You told me I had a ______ (?) problem
But you were my biggest ______(noun)
You left in the ______(noun)
It made me feel so ______(adj)
I used to hold your ______(noun) close but now you have ______(verb) me
Do you ______(verb) me like i do for you
I ______ed all night at this party tonight. I know you’re ______(adj) I can feel it in my ______(noun). ______(verb)ing the ______(place) all night. But at the end of the night I want to ______(verb) all over the ______(noun).
My ______(adj) girlfriend just ______(past tense verb me today I hate the way you ______(verb) me but I hate the way I ______(verb) you more
What does my ______(noun) even mean to you???
It’s okay I’ll just ______(verb) without you
What if my ______(adj) love was just ______(past tense verb) forever Kill my ______(noun) kill my ______(noun) one last time
I saw a ______(noun) last night
It reminded me of you
Can’t seem to get my fucking ______(noun) out of the ______(noun)
There were so many things I ______(past tense verb) that I regret Just wanna hold your ______(noun) again
What are you doing with my ______(noun) today you left and I ______(verb)ed
I’m reminiscing ______
You fucked ______(adj)
AN INTERVIEW WITH
DJBONERBOY
INTERNET PERSONALITY / DJ (SUPPOSEDLY) / NEW YORKER / TIPPLER
In late August, internet famous New Yorker, Will Mahoney (aka djbonerboy), took a road trip with his two goons to reign chaos upon our humble Texas town for two nights. After requesting a CDJ, which values around $2k, to play the worst DJ set I’ve ever witnessed, going for a night swim in his unders at Pearl Street, stage diving into a crowd of rowdy 16 year old boys at Empire and doing what he does best – getting blackout drunk – he agreed to an over-text interview. He answered all of our very serious and very intellectual questions that we have been dying to know.
What made you come to Austin?
I’ve always had tons of people DMing me to come to Austin, like an overwhelming amount. We also know it has a lot of cool bars and pretty girls so when deciding the road trip route it was a no brainer to hit Austin.
How did Austin treat you?
The Austin reception was the best and most passionate I’ve ever seen. More than NYC even. Beautiful crowd at Pearl St. Co-op, Empire, and Saturn.
You played with In These Walls and said you listen to emo music?
the New York emo scene like?
Alt scenes are pretty cringe and I’m not involved in them. I don’t know or are interested in knowing the inner social workings of the friend groups, like who cheated on who or who’s canceled this week – but the music itself I do love.
It is good to see young kids getting excited and making
I MADE OUT WITH WILL MAHONEY.
7/10. BETTER KISSER THAN DJ.
It’s hard to pin down the true definition of NoWave, as the point of the artistic movement was to be as completely experimental as possible. Described by author and professor Lucy Sante, was “adult punk, with adult fatigue and disillusionment built in.” It was polarizing, which is exactly what it sought to do, to confuse and attract. Please dive deep into the artists mentioned as they’re all vastly different, this article (attempts) to mainly touch upon the movements’ effects on music.
During the 70s New York was a shadow of what it is now, though it never ceased to be an artistic epicenter. Even then, people flocked from their small towns to the crumbling buildings and desolate streets of 14th + Houston and Avenue B + Bowery to find cheap housing and fellow artists. “Straight people were fleeing New York so the only people coming were freaks and crazy people,” remarked NoWave pillar James Chance. This is when and where NoWave was born with the goal to push the boundaries of what art meant. It’s believed the genre first got its name from a fanzine saying “new wave, no wave.” Which, I think, proves the importance of such “small” projects. Often having the poster child, both metaphorically and literally, Lydia Lunch, plastered on the front. Lunch had left her abusive home for New York when she was just 16. There, she befriended James Chance and formed influential band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, a powerhouse of Lunch’s self expression. Chance then moved on to create his own group James Chance and The Contortions which is a vastly different sound from Teenage Jesus. If you truly want to understand NoWave give their (The Contortions) album Buy a listen or look up one of their live shows. Moreover, The Contortions included Pat Pace on guitar, who went on to be the singer of Bush Tetras. Bands were fluctuating members quickly,
sometimes only playing for three nights at most. Other influential artists from this time would be Richard Hell of The Voidoids, Suicide, Swans, and even later on Sonic Youth. The musical side of the genre aimed to fight back against the dissolving hippie movement and the growing popularity of punk. Leaning more in favor of “conceptual music making” inspired by literature, film, and other forms of physical art rather than music. Bands like Blondie and The Sex Pistols had risen to mainstream fame oftentimes being constructed of “pop-like” tunes and melodic singing. Nowave rejected these musical rules instead including screaming, harsh lyrics, and deafening instruments, sometimes played by someone who had never played before in their life.
“It wasn’t ‘punk’ and it certainly wasn’t ‘new wave.’ It was ugly and dissonant,”
the term was coined in an attempt to define bands like this that were more harsh both in lyrics and sound. (Sante, 007) During this time many musicians were in other films, photography, and bands. Equipment which was cheap and/ or broken was passed around between people creating a very specific aesthetic both for film and music. In 1978, Brian Eno of Roxy Music and self-titled fame released a curated album by the name No New York which documented a few of the musicians, this is how many people came to find the genre. Nowadays, the retrospective view on NoWave leans more positive. Respecting the movement’s push for things more illogical and thought provoking.
A large portion of information for this article is from “Nowhere New York” a book by the ever inspiring Julia Gorton. This book includes pictures and essays of and by many of the people who saw this movement themselves. Other bits and pieces can be found in the Blank City Documentary by Celine Danhier and in the Lydia Lunch documentary The War is Never Over.
It’s not every day you come across a band with such clear vision and dedication as The Daydream Twins. Known for their dreamy soundscapes and meticulous artistry, they’ve carved out a unique space in the Austin music scene.
Based in Austin, Texas, The Daydream Twins are a shoegaze pop band led by Jordan Terry and Aidan Babinski. Interestingly, both twins are former Bobcats! What started off as a relationship between the leads Jordan and Aidan, meeting at Texas State University, The Duo once called San Marcos home before transferring to Austin Community College.
Since releasing their self-titled debut, ‘Daydream Twins’, two years ago, they’ve made waves with their euphoric sound. Their music has resonated deeply with audiences, earning them a place on local stages and at major festivals like Hot Summer Nights and SXSW. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jordan and Aidan to reflect on their debut album, their creative process, and how their music has influenced their careers and contributed to Austin’s rich musical tapestry.
How did the name “Daydream Twins” come to be?
“The band’s name emerged during a late-night search for inspiration.” Jordan revealed, “We had a list of 100 names, and Carpop was about to release at that time,” she explained. “We were exploring Austin one night, looking for a fitting band name. By 2 A.M., we found ourselves on the side of the road, feeling defeated. It was then Aidan suggested ‘Daydream Twins.’ It resonated because our music is dreamy, and people often say we resemble each other and share similar personalities. The name just felt right.”
Tell me about your self-titled debut album,“Daydream Twins.”
Terry shared insights into the creation of their debut album, revealing that the process was a whirlwind. “At the time, we didn’t have a bass player; it was just us two finishing the entire album in one week,” she explained. “ I had the house to myself for a week. I suggested to Babinksi, ‘Why don’t we use this time to record the album?’ Most of the songs were written before we even met. Babinski initially created ‘Bombinate,’ but it didn’t fit our vision. Those chords eventually evolved into ‘Carpop,’ which became a staple track. Aidan added that “Aurora” was also a standout track. “I had written ‘Aurora’ with a previous band and knew it would be the opening track for our first album. The song’s long, atmospheric build-up came together seamlessly with Jordan.”
Where was the album cover shot?
Jordan described the album cover shoot, saying, “We went to White Sands in New Mexico, spent the weekend there, and brought along a friend to help. We weren’t sure what we wanted for the cover, so we experimented with digital art. One night, I was playing around and thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty cool.’”
Jordan Terry and Aidan Babinski of The Daydream Twins
Carpop
Terry elaborated on the lyrics of “Carpop,” stating, “I usually let a song write itself and understand its meaning later. Looking back, ‘Carpop’ clearly reflects my time struggling after moving to San Marcos. It’s about my feelings during that period, particularly related to Aidan and our relationship, which helped me feel free from my past.”
Do you find yourself getting worn out playing songs like ‘Carpop’ over the years?
“Honestly, no. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of ‘Carpop.’ Babinski says, “It still feels fresh to us and fills up the room every time we play. Whether in a big venue or a small room, it always takes on a new life. We’ll never get tired of playing it. It’s just so much fun!”
Is
it
true that
your
first album was recorded on Garageband?
Babinski confirms this rumor, emphasizing, “We used IRIG to plug our guitar directly into GarageBand on our phones. I’d run guitar tracks through fuzz pedals, record them on the mobile app, and then transfer them to GarageBand on my laptop. For us, it was about creating a blueprint rather than achieving a polished end result.” Terry adds “Using iRig allowed us to record effectively and save money. We’ve since gone to studios but doing it ourselves turned out much better than spending a lot.”
How do you keep up with the chaos of shoegazewhen you guys play live?
Aidan explains that learning not to replicate their recorded tracks exactly was crucial for their live performances. “In the studio, we layer guitar tracks, but live, it’s just Jordan and me on guitars,” he said. He credited Jordan for inspiring him early on, noting that it felt natural to embrace that chaos and fill up the musical space during their shows. Jordan added that, over time, they became so comfortable stacking pedals and creating huge sounds with just three pedals that it evolved into their signature style.
Cover of Debut Album “Daydream Twins”
How has your debut album impacted your career?
“We’re just grateful for the warm reception from the community.” Jordan Reflects, “Being creative every day and making a living from music is a privilege. It’s not an easy job; you have to earn it. We couldn’t ask for more.” Aidan added, “Back in high school, I dreamed of just one person playing a song I wrote on repeat. Now, it’s more than ten people. I consider that a milestone.”
Looking back to when you were students at Texas State with music waiting to be released, what advice would you give
yourselves?
Jordan advises, “Just go for it. Do it yourself. Overthinking is what holds you back. If you’re confident in your passion, it will bring your vision to life.” Aidan states, “If you have a song in your head, regardless of its freshness, make it sound the way you envision. Ensure you’re satisfied with the result. The number of listens doesn’t matter. Even if ‘Carpop’ hadn’t succeeded, I’d still be proud of it.”
What should we expect next from the Daydream Twins?
“We’re releasing our sophomore album! We took a brief hiatus to focus on recording and writing this project. After years of constant playing, we finally took the time to work on something in-depth.”
Jordan notes, “This album is more planned than our previous releases. Following the grungier sound of our EP ‘Bombinate,’ this new album returns to our roots but feels even more lush and nostalgic. It’s also more emotional.” Aidan adds, “We’re dialing back the distortion pedal a bit.”
Jordan also has hopes for a future tour, “Surprisingly, most of our streams come from cities outside of Austin, particularly L.A. and the East Coast, with some countries surpassing Austin in streams.” Jordan expresses curiosity about exploring these cities, saying, “I’d love to tour and experience these different communities.”
The Daydream Twins leave us with their new single, “Solstice for Embodiment” releasesd on August 22nd. This band is truly one of a kind. Given their impressive track record and the fact that they hail from our very own university, it’s clear that the duo is poised to once again captivate their audience with their upcoming album.
