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Jess Rotter

An avowed vinyl head, music plays a role in all of Rotter’s projects, from t-shirt label Rotter and Friends, a sartorial ode to her music idols, to the tour merch she designs for Cat Stevens, Mavis Staples, and the Grateful Dead. Her first book, I’m Bored (Hat and Beard Press), an idiosyncratic array of illustrations, is an ideal remedy for its titular quandary.


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Mixtape Tracks

Jusqu’à ce que la force de t’aimer me manqué Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
Beginning Tomorrow Joy of Cooking
City of the Angels Elyse Weinberg
The Juggler Fox
It’s Not Likely Catherine Howe
Train Song Vashti Bunyan
Don’t Let Me Down Linda Bruner
Stormy Kathy Heideman
Grey Today Woody Simmons
Maggi’s Flute - Lifting Off Joanna Brouk
Go Your Way Anne Briggs
Making Losing Better Bridget St John
Om Shanti Alice Coltrane
The Donor Judee Sill



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