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Posted by The Glutster
May 17, 2012

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Check out my profile on Alice Bag for LA Weekly’s People Issue 2012, out today!

Photo: Kevin Scanlon Never in my life would I have imagined the day where I wrote a 500 word profile on someone that I grew up listening to. A couple of years ago, I only knew Alice Bag through my brother’s milk crates filled with vinyl compilations where she was featured in, in particular Dangerhouse,…
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Posted by The Glutster
November 11, 2011

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A Glutster double header Thursday: Health food in East L.A. for Zocalo Public Square and The Bouncing Souls for LA Weekly Music

(top image from wearyourimage.com) I woke up yesterday to find a couple of my stories published for two different publications. One was a painstaking thousand worder on the up and coming East LA health food consciousness for Zocalo Public Square. It took a couple of weeks to research and finish, who knows how many homework-eating…
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Posted by The Glutster
October 24, 2011

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My review of Astrid Hadad and Hoppo’s Dia de Los Muertos show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on LA Weekly Music

This last Saturday I checked out the Dia de Los Muertos celebration that takes place atop Hollywood Forever cemetery every year. The headliners were Astrid Hadad and Hoppo (singer of Cafe Tacvba’s newish side project). My verdict? Well…read my review on LA Weekly Music and pay especially close attention to my “Critical bias” confession at…
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Posted by The Glutster
October 7, 2011

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The Misfits! My review of their latest show on LA Weekly Music

This was the hardest review  I have had to write ever so far!  Never mind the epicness of The Misfits, I had literally flown in from Portland–sleepless–that same morning, had a full evening of school and then chugged a <i>Rogue</i> growler filled with JJ Hazelnut (their Hazelnut Brown Nectar aged for six months in their…
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Posted by The Glutster
September 27, 2011

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Letters to The Glutster: A Punk Scholar in UC Berkeley Says Thank You

Email’s like these keep me going! Hi Javier, I’m writing to you to thank you for featuring brown punk rock kids from LA in your article published in this week’s LA Weekly. I myself was one of those kids when I was a teenager, and I fondly remember the missions and adventures my girlfriends and…
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The five most underrated East L.A. backyard punk bands of all time (my follow up story for LA Weekly’s “Anarchy in East L.A.”)

Here is another bonus story for my “Anarchy in East L.A” piece that I wrote for West Coast Sound, the LA Weekly music blog. Last week I wrote about movers and shakers on the current East L.A. backyard scene, but there’s a long line of great and influential bands that paved the way for the…
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September 22, 2011

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The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands: Bonus Story on LA Weekly Music!

Growing up in the East L.A., it seemed like everyone tried to form a punk band. Even I did. The scene goes through bands quickly, as kids graduate high school and get into metal, thrash or New York style hardcore. But there are a proud few that have evolved musically without forgetting their roots. Here…
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