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Vol. 2: The Underground Rollout [upcoming, spring 2026]

Profiles, photo essays, and conversations with artists building worlds around releases without a label behind them.

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Vol. 1: [field notes](Fall/Winter 2025)
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Vol. 1: field notes (spring 2025) - A Dallas notebook on attention as craft. The aesthetic and sensibility that would later come to form The Standard's lens on independent music. Covers a wide array of everyday and creative subjects.

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