On July 20th, 2024 it was a Saturday summer day. It was another hot summer night when we hit ninety-degree weather. However, Pound Booking had something in store for us to do this Saturday. They…
Oscar Celis is a photographer and founder of First Class Studios based out of SoCal . Growing up in Southern California, he was always part of the music scene his sister use to be a…
After a five-year absence, in part due to the pandemic causing disruptions in touring, Dávila 666 has returned to the west coast like a drug-addled bat out of hell. Doing 19 dates in just about…
Put yourself through a staggered cycle of existential dread with Wazoo’s latest, “ASCO” The music scene is saturated with countless entities, so much so that regardless of narrowing it down to Los Angeles, discovering a…
You told me it was your favorite Billie Holiday song. I was already hooked but silently swooned. Mine’s been You’ve Changed since the waitress I worked with at the Waldorf Astoria told me it was…
The warm, overhead glow of tungsten string lights illuminates the black walls and white tile floor of a small backstage space. Flanked to the left by a wall with large holes and crumbs of plaster,…
Block chords before block chordsafter block chords, I could write aboutthe way the infrastructurecarries the light inside itself,carries ithands on its hips, half-hidden polyphony.I could write about Scarlatti dueling Handel.Scarlatti by himself, reachingsubstituting…
By Michael Sheehan Not long after finding out about Jandek, I drove 300 roundtrip miles to see him perform on a Friday evening in April 2017 in Houston. It seems fitting that I had to…
by Jennifer Shneiderman It’s my neighbor Annette’s birthday and reservations at the tony Connie and Ted’s seafood restaurant are not an option. We like to get dressed up and sit on the patio. We…
You can add up the parts; you won’t have the sum You can strike up the march, there is no drum Every heart, every heart to love will come But like a refugee Ring the…
Born to Die I am 17 and I’m not ready for the rest of my life. This much life already feels like an accident, and the approach of my twenties a confusing, improbable indulgence. I…
What was the line the singer said Me naked with textbook poems and it felt real we felt a part in the room’s hush its boom and sway the sloppy shuffle of drum and bass…