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Text Message Interview with Jason Baxter of USF (#4) Bryxan Amsterdam

Text Message Interview with Jason Baxter of USF (#4)

Bryxan Amsterdam

Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing monthly feature where  DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For this special L.A. Zine Fest installment, we pay a special tribute to the Pacific Northwest.
WaxPhil L.A. #10: Mono Records in Echo Park, Leroy Smart's Best of Leroy Smart Christina Gubala

WaxPhil L.A. #10: Mono Records in Echo Park, Leroy Smart’s Best of Leroy Smart

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
WaxPhil L.A. #9: High Fidelity Records, Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation Christina Gubala

WaxPhil L.A. #9: High Fidelity Records, Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps.
Juviley's Video Game Album, Our Choices Rhyme: A Hybrid Review Travis Barnes

Juviley’s Video Game Album, Our Choices Rhyme: A Hybrid Review

Travis Barnes

Head throbbing with excess pleasures only hazily recalled, I was less than thrilled to find that Or Zubalsky--who records under the name Juviley--released his album, Our Choices Rhyme, as an interactive video game that demanded your participation to access the tracks online.
WaxPhil L.A. #8: Permanent Records, Rangers' Pan Am Stories Christina Gubala

WaxPhil L.A. #8: Permanent Records, Rangers’ Pan Am Stories

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
WaxPhil L.A. #7: Poo-Bah Record Shop, Prince Rama's Trust Now Christina Gubala

WaxPhil L.A. #7: Poo-Bah Record Shop, Prince Rama’s Trust Now

Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3) Bryxan Amsterdam

Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3)

Bryxan Amsterdam

Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing monthly feature where DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For our third installment, Bryxan speaks to Emily Reo, pop/visual shoegazer from Orlando, Florida.
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #6:  King Tubby's Lost Treasures at Turntable Lab Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #6: King Tubby’s Lost Treasures at Turntable Lab

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's biweekly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #5:  Peter Kolovos New Bodies at FAMILY Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #5: Peter Kolovos New Bodies at FAMILY

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #4: Ric Ocasek's Beatitude at Amoeba Hollywood Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #4: Ric Ocasek’s Beatitude at Amoeba Hollywood

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #3: Daughters of the Sun Ghost With Chains at Vacation Vinyl Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #3: Daughters of the Sun Ghost With Chains at Vacation Vinyl

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Eagle Rock(in'): The Pros and Cons of community Music Festivals Monica Hunt

Eagle Rock(in’): The Pros and Cons of community Music Festivals

Monica Hunt

The absence of Silverlake’s annual Sunset Junction Music Fest this year was tangible this past weekend in Eagle Rock, for its rendition of community music festival. A glut of people from surrounding neighborhoods crammed into a blocked off section of Colorado Boulevard as unrelenting summer temperatures were still taunting Angelenos citywide. Even as time passed...