When the four boys of LANTIC met back in 2008, little did they know that they had begun cooking up the most scrumptious sound ever heard by the likes of man. Ranging from hard hitting rock songs to psychedelic electronic, members Josh Jurovic, Ryan Jurovic, Eric Wendt, and Dakota Carley have meticulously slow roasted their sound into the rich delicious medley it is today. The Dallas Observer explained that LANTIC has “A sound you don’t have to be under the influence to understand.” Now settling in Austin, Texas, with a bond 10 years strong; LANTIC is working on a huge project for 2020.

Grammy-nominated audio engineer and deep vinyl selector. www.AlexDowidchuk.com

Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a black queer writer and the Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. A 2019 LAMBA Lit Fellow, she was a finalist in the 2018 PEN American Writing for Justice Fellowship, the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s 2019 Spotlight Award. Her debut book, HoodWitch, is forthcoming October 2019 with Acre Books. 

Her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, POETRY magazine, Kweli Journal, The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Lunch Ticket, Matador Review, and others.

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