Power Of Love

Power Of Love is a limited edition zine centered around love songs and the importance of physical media. It features writings and musical selections from the collections of fourteen New York-based DJs, musicians, and artists, including Lot Radio residents Prince Language and Cosmo, NTS Radio residents Rahill and Sasha Crush, East Village Radio host ራሄል (Rachel) of Sunstepping, photographers Lorena Lohr and Jack Pompe, multidisciplinary artists Dove Bardin and Eric Rhinestone, archivists Stella Seganti and Chance Sulpice, artist and owner of Head Hi Mösco, and local legends Butter and Cassius Luber. Power Of Love honors the sacred connection to physical media, the ritual of collecting music, listening without ads, and the tangible trace of the lived experience. A project conceptualized in the wake of Spotify funding war crimes, broadcasting ICE campaigns, and the rise of fascism, this zine calls for a collective return to analog life and a resistance to corporate control of culture and the ways we engage with media. Power Of Love highlights the paramount need to search for and evolve from real-life experiences. Simple things such as going to a bookstore and picking up a book by a writer you hadn’t heard of before, finding a dope record from digging in the bins, engaging in conversations with like-minded people, dancing at a club where your neighbor becomes a best friend, all play a critical role in the resistance and opposition of oppression. While corporations perform aggressive tactics to threaten the essential need for real-life experiences and third spaces, the objects and relics we hold onto also play a crucial role in the fight as they reflect parts of our identity, obsessions, and carry memories that modern technology simply could never match. Our mission is to inspire people to make a conscious effort in analog engagement to music, and develop their own personal archives to preserve and reclaim their lives and stories. Power Of Love is a commitment to reviving our connection to physical media and a step towards restoring love, discovery, and humanity in the everyday.