Issue No. 7: QUAR + TIME Now available online!
Our first digital issue is designed to print-at-home so that you may display the zine in tiles, unbound, on your stay-at-home wall.
WaxPhil L.A. #15: Origami Vinyl, Dent May’s Do Things Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly 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.
DUM DUM Serials: THE NEW YORK CRIMES Pt. 1 Kristen Felicetti
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 Welcome, folks, to The New York Crimes: a modern radio play by written and recorded by Kristen Felicetti of The Bushwick Review, our zine soulmate over in Brooklyn. Referencing the old-timey radio plays of America's past, Felicetti brings a Bushwick artist's bent to a 21-cast production by hard-boiling her characters...
Text Message Interview with Slim Twig (#5) Bryxan Amsterdam
Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing feature where DUM DUM collaborator Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message, then creates a one-off handwritten zine. Dig the most recent conversation with Slim Twig, hailing from Toronto with his killer sonic pleasure pastiches.
DUM DUM Serials: “PEAKING” by Jessica Garrison
DUM DUM would like to welcome back Jessica Garrison as the resident writer participating in our very first run of web serials. We close out this serial with Garrison's "Peaking" from her $1 Books series--just in time for Dollar Stories LIVE this Sunday, featuring actors performing 5 of her short stories at The Federal Bar in...
A Rrose is a Rrose:
A Lit Event in Echo Park this afternoon!
Stop on by The Hedgehog this afternoon for a reading put together by Dan Collins, L.A. RECORD New Music Editor. Your loving DUM DUM Editor, Taleen Kalenderian, will be reading some first draft fiction amongst some awesomely talented locals. It all kicks off around 3pm!
L.A. SHOEGAZE FEST
–Photo Recap
Part Time Punks really brought it this time, in the first event of its kind in L.A. and shoegaze history.
FWS #3: DUM DUM SKILLSHARE 2012 at The Pop-Hop in Highland Park
For our second to last session, we're hitting up to the spankin' new and incredibly generous bookstore The Pop-Hop for an installment of DUM DUM's Tour of L.A. workshop series. It's gonna be free. There's gonna be writing. There's gonna be, well, shopping. But most of all, a SKILLSHARE.
WaxPhil L.A. #14: Burbank’s Atomic Records, Sanford Clark’s Modern Romance Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly 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.
DUM DUM Serials: “MADONNA INN” by Jessica Garrison
DUM DUM would like to welcome back Jessica Garrison as the resident writer participating in our spankin' new online serials. Each month, we'll introduce a new short story by Garrison, serializing short works from her $1 Books series.
FWS #2: DUM DUM takes the L.A. River with “Grow Your Words”
Thursday, June 14, 2012 For the second installment of DUM DUM Zine's "Tour of L.A." free literary workshopping, Grow Your Words was the most free-form of them all. We met by the L.A. River on a sunny Saturday afternoon and began to smear patches of moss in the shape of sentences--a veritable performance of plant graffiti....
MOBIUS:
a written and visual collaboration
The following poem by Taleen Kalenderian consists of interlaced circular sentences taking inspiration from John Barth's "Frame Tale." Illustrator John McCormick accompanies the piece with his line drawings.
LUNA IS HONEY vs. Smashing Pumpkins: DUM DUM’s group review-interview
Fresh out of their home studio, L.A.'s own Luna is Honey is debuting their spankin' new EP, Coolbreeze, on cassette at Home Room tonight. You might remember the band from DUM DUM's Issue No. 1 launch party, DEAD SUMMER.