With regard to the future, girlpuppy wrote the following artist essay about her 2020 beginnings and where she hopes 2021 might lead her.

Mina Johnson, the Founding E-I-C of PINNACLE Magazine and Music Editor for HALOSCOPE, caught up with us to describe what 2020 meant to her.

In the first entry of this series, Kathy Patino of Chicago band Girl K details the highs and lows of 2020.