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.
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.
Colpa Press Pop-Up Shop in San Francisco All Weekend!
Our wonderful friends Colpa Press invited us to participate in their San Francisco Pop-Up Shop this weekend, and we couldn't have been more seriously excited about sending them copies of our zines. Check out their blog post about DUM DUM!
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.
Introducing a transmedia print experiment: Lightness & Darkness
Welcome, Dummies, to Lightness & Darkness! You may have gotten a taste for our new project at its recent Skylight debut, where we released some of the sonic-literary material in the form of an album. But heads up: we're fleshing it out into a full book which stands on its own.
DUM DUM Does Skylight
November 29, 2011
Thanks to all the DUMMIES who came to Skylight Books on November 19 to celebrate the launch of our second issue, Lightness & Darkness.
The theme of the evening was the intersection between music and literature, and we had quite a nice time immersing ourselves in both--as well as caseloads of PBR--throughout the night....
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.
Los Angeles, A Graveyard Liska Jacobs
A graveyard beneath our feet: if you are on a sidewalk, it was once an apartment, a storefront; a tree once stood there. Not one or the other. But layers upon forgotten layers. Before Disney Hall, there were the slums of Bunker Hill, and before the slums there was middle class Bunker Hill, and even...
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." 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.
SHHH #5…Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
October 31, 2011
Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books.
Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM DUM's inaugural issue. Enjoy the final...
SHHH #4…Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
October 21, 2011
Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books.
Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM DUM's inaugural issue. Up next is...
Except You Are Not As Good Liska Jacobs
Remember when you first wanted to start writing? Calls for submissions from local literary publications bore the faces of your favorite writers, captioned "This Could Be You." But how--budding, in our 20s, with no fodder to speak of--could we measure up, no matter how hard academia tried to force the greats down our throats?