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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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Sorry for weird ass dimensions of this pic, click for better view! Ahh! The music writer has become the written about, haha. Well, isn’t this a hell of a way to bust out of this month long writing hiatus (more on that to be covered on next post but in a nutshell…SCHOOL!) Believe it or…
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I will be talking about my “Anarchy in East L.A.” article I wrote for LA Weekly live today on KPFK’s The Pocho Hour of Power. Apparently, a lot of people really dug it, so cheers to that! Don’t worry, I won’t do a dramatic recital of it with the dramatic sound effects in the background…
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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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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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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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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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