LOAM: Up & Coming
We're up to our ears in working our first print issue, and couldn't be happier about it. One of our featured artists is Jess Best, a jazz-R&B-all-things-good musician based in Brooklyn. We fell in...
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SUPER LADY MUSIC: PLAYLIST by JAMILA WOODS
This fresh from our Harvest Edition playlist by Jamila Woods is sure to warm any winter day. IMAGE: ERIKA DICKERSON-DESPENZAWORDS: NICOLE STANTON & JAMILA WOODSJamila Woods is very much so a Super...
View ArticleLOAM: WOODLAND CITY
WORDS & PLAYLIST: Josh the WordFrom a dear friend of Loam, a playlist for your ears. I grew up in the woods. When I moved to the city, suddenly some of my favorite songs didn't sound the same. Try...
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PODCAST: HOLISTIC BODY LOVE
From our friends at holistic feminism blog The Shapes We Make, a podcast on learning to love the many facets that make up you. Practicing an integrative body love perspective is a key step in...
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PODCAST: THE SENSUOUS ENVIRONMENTALIST
IMAGE: ELIJAH STEVENSWORDS: KATE WEINERIn our latest podcast, the lovely Lily Myers and I (co-creators of The Shapes We Make) discuss our desire to come at environmental activism from a place of joy...
View ArticleJESS BEST: KID AGAIN
The ladies of Loam have fallen head over heels in love with the latest album from sun goddess Jess Best. Her gorgeous lyrics and soul-stirring beats beautifully capture the raw beauty and revitalizing...
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WATER THAT SOUND
Celebrated poet Mariana Rojas and Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner are collaborating on a new podcast series. "Water That Sound: The Loam Podcast" is our way of bringing you into the conversation...
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TO STAY
WORDS: MARIANA ROJASThe Perseids meteor shower peaked overnight. The sky a swelling carpet of fire, each star battling, making a target out of black holes and here we were, Lia and I, siting like a...
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WATER THAT SOUND: WELCOME
In our first podcast for Water That Sound, Artist-in-Residence Mariana Rojas & Loam Creative Director Kate Weiner talk about the importance of integrating sound into the Loam experience. Listen in...
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WATER THAT SOUND: A CONVERSATION WITH LYNN TROTTA
What would love do? It's the most gentle and compassionate question that I can ask myself. LYNN TROTTAIn our second podcast for Water That Sound (Mariana sadly couldn't make it—that girl is scaling...
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WATER THAT SOUND: REWILDING
In Loam's third podcast, Mariana and Kate explore the notion of rewilding, ancient wisdom, and wilderness therapy. With endless thanks to poet Pat Mora, whose words on desert women—"when we bloom, we...
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WATER THAT SOUND: A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA SANDERS
Loam loves to listen! In this podcast, we talk to Andrea Sanders of Be Zero about living in a circular economy, inhabiting contradictions, and carving out the space for more experience—and less...
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THE SENSUOUS ENVIRONMENTALIST
WORDS: KATE WEINERIMAGE: ELIJAH STEVENSMy environmentalism is grounded in sensuous experience. The way a branch of elderberry echoes the shape of a lung. How it feels to walk through a wave of grey...
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CORNELIUS on BRONX ZOO
Photo by Mark Nakhla At Loam, we strive to share the work of musicians because music makes us fall in love with the world. And to us, it's that that love—the experience of listening to and learning...
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HOLY by JAMILA WOODS
Photo by Christopher Hall of Mixtape Magazine Music is a healing space for me when the world feels heavy. With our sociopolitical and ecological climate in crisis, I've come to consider art—whether...
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THIS IS OVERCOATS
WORDS: KATE WEINERIMAGES: ALLIE CHERNICKThe lovely Nicole Stanton first interviewed Overcoats for our online magazine two years ago when the soulful electronic folk duo Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell were...
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AMIRIO FREEMAN of BGWB & KATE WEINER of LOAM on RECONNECTING TO ROOTS
How can reconnecting to our roots help us to nurture a sustainable relationship to environmentalism? In this conversation, Amirio Freeman of Being Green While Black (BGWB) and Kate Weiner of Loam...
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