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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...
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #2: Pisces A Lovely Sight at Records LA Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #2: Pisces A Lovely Sight at Records LA

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. Our city has a continuing history thick with vinyl love, now more than ever with record shops opening their...
DEAD SUMMER: DUM DUM launch party presented by Summer Fun Time Society

DEAD SUMMER: DUM DUM launch party presented by Summer Fun Time Society

September 17, 2011 Dear Dummies, After an entire summer of planning, writing and creating, it's finally come time to celebrate our hard work by kicking summer in the ass. Come to THE CASTLE in Highland Park today for DUM DUM's official launch party, DEAD SUMMER, presented by L.A.'s amazing Summer Fun Time Society....
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. --Johnny Clarke 45, Wombleton Records Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A. –Johnny Clarke 45, Wombleton Records

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. Our city has a continuing history thick with vinyl love, now more than ever with record shops opening their...
Festival Week photo highlights DUM DUM Team

Festival Week photo highlights

DUM DUM Team

September 9, 2011 As we near the end of festival week (and summer, respectively), we wanted to offer up some photographic highlights. This photo of music nymph Lykke Li was taken at Lollapalooza, after hassling a security guard to let the photographer stay past the 3 song rule.
Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST DUM DUM Team

Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST

DUM DUM Team

Welcome to the second installment of festival week on DUM DUM!  Even as summer’s coming to a close, we discovered over the long weekend that L.A. kids enjoy their 90+ degree festivals as much as tiny, overpriced curry burritos from local food trucks. A few of us from DUM DUM took a break from our...
LOLLAPOSERS: Ferreting into the Guise of a Festival’s Contradictions Nicki Yowell

LOLLAPOSERS: Ferreting into the Guise of a Festival’s Contradictions

Nicki Yowell

Music festivals are for the young and tenacious. Soiled clothing, swarms of post-adolescent beer cretins, sweaty fried food, the stench of human mass. It’s all in a day’s work if you’re Taleen Kalenderian, one of my prime ladyfriends. She’s worked festivals before, not just for the pay and quick deadline turnarounds but, more or less,...
Text Message Interview with CAGED ANIMALS (#2) Bryxan Amsterdam

Text Message Interview with CAGED ANIMALS (#2)

Bryxan Amsterdam

  Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing feature where  DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For ou second installment, Bryxan speaks to Brooklyn based outer-electro artist Vincent Cacchione of CAGED ANIMALS. The conversation originally appeared as part of  Funkadelic Forever, a zine Bryxan created for Olympia’s 24 Hour Zine Thing. Text...
Postcard Interview with Dayve Hawk of MEMORY TAPES by Taleen Kali

Postcard Interview with Dayve Hawk of MEMORY TAPES

by Taleen Kali

Dayve Hawk is a recluse living in the hinterlands of New Jersey. He owns no car, cell phone or landline (which recently changed, as you’ll read). And in all 16 entries that come up after a Google search for “dayve hawk” + “memory tapes” + “interview,” you learn just that. For DUM DUM’s very first...
Text Message Interview with SPIDER PROBLEM (#1) Bryxan Amsterdam

Text Message Interview with SPIDER PROBLEM (#1)

Bryxan Amsterdam

    Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing feature where  DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For our first installment, Bryxan speaks to Shayne Easton, singer of L.A.’s Spider Problem. The conversation originally appeared as part of  Funkadelic Forever, a zine Bryxan created for Olympia’s 24 Hour Zine...