Welcome back to Text Message Interviews! This month we feature the lush dreamscapes of Shana Falana, on tour from New York in support of her 2nd full-length, Here Comes the Wave in advance of their L.A. show tonight! RSVP and #getDUM!
Get DUM at our next showcase November 18 @ Ham & Eggs Tavern!
Get DUM at our next event with Shana Falana (on your from New York!), your Editor-in-Chief Taleen Kali playing solo tunes,The Tissues, and French Vanilla at Ham & Eggs Tavern Nov 18th. RSVP here.
Text Message Interview with The Regrettes by Julia Gibson
Welcome back to Text Message Interviews! This month we interviewed local LA band The Regrettes as they get ready to bring their sweet, smart, and spunky #DUMjams to venues all along the West Coast during the month of November.
Zine on the Scene: Record Club LA by Julia Gibson
Welcome to DUM DUM Zine's spankin new feature, "Zine on the Scene" wherein we cover live events in L.A. and beyond. For our inaugural feature we snapped photos of Record Clubbers and asked them to tell us which #DUMjams they brought and why. Scroll through for their record recs and #GetDUM!
Interview: DUM DUM Gets Femme w/GIRLSCHOOL
Get Femme all weekend long with GIRLSCHOOL, this 100% female fronted music fest going all weekend long at the majestic Bootleg Theater
Listen to L.A.: A Walking Playlist
Katharine Hargreaves here, your June Guest Editor, bringing you an interactive city playlist meant to evoke experiences of our fair Los Angeles. I was inspired by Yoko Ono's "Instructions" and you'll notice that each song is accompanied by a location and instructions for listening. Hopefully by exploring the familiar you'll find something new.
Text Message Interview with GIRLPOOL, by Chan Plett
A heatwave surfed through the landscape of a particularly warm Saturday, the 17th, delivering dreams scored to the sounds of a mango smoothie-filled pool and the pounding of a belly tom. The reverie raged on…carrying the wild shrieks and synched symphonies of a two-piece rock band that is presently (and very successfully) strumming their way through...
DEAD SUMMER 2K13: We killed it.
Summer's over, Dummies. And these 3 shows killed it. Check out the gallery below, featuring snaps from Echo Park Rising, Burger Records' end-of-the-summer extravaganza BURGER BASH featuring The Garden, Tashaki Miyaki, and Cherry Glazerr at the Warehouse in El Monte, and finally, Body/Head at The Echo.
Stoner in a Strange Land: LOLIPOP RECORDS Opening by Ian Dick Jones
It was 2:34 pm on Saturday, July 13th when I realized I was on the wrong side of Glendale Blvd. I stared at the crowd of hipsters gathering outside Lolipop Records' new storefront and recording studio in Echo Park and felt like I was about to compete in the Hipster Olympics.
FUTURE EYES Foto Show
L.A.'s purveyor of sight-altering kaleidoscopic fashion frames, Future Eyes, hosted its very first photo show at The L.A. Fort on Saturday night. All walks of our city's occult DIY community gathered to view crowd-sourced photographs taken through the very same crystals used inside their fashion frames
Letters from our Objects: Talking Hues
Rebekah Weikel is a publisher and project curator. She operates Penny-Ante Editions out of Los Angeles, and her contribution to DUM DUM Issue No. 3 is this lovely cassette recording.
FMLY FEST 2011: A crowd-sourced photo experiment
Last year for FMLY Fest, DUM DUM installed disposable cameras throughout the corners, stages and art vendors, asking attendees to capture their own experiences of the event. If you're wondering to expect for the final day of the festival--which is going on right now!--click through our spankin' new gallery and then head over to...