Photos by Brittany Kalaj Margulieux “Welcome to the atrocity exhibition, where all doors open onto a circular corridor. For, to succeed as a punk is to fail; and to fail, to succeed.” The release of Dum Dum Magazine’s third issue was celebrated in a fashion appropriate for the title PUNKS & Scholars. The walls of [...]

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The cool, the dorky, the unsmiling, the spastic, the silent, the pimpled and the suave all rocked out with as much self-consciousness as preschoolers. No one took their pants off, yet the rafters knocked.

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Due to some issues, Los Globos had to close its doors, for now…forever… we don’t know. All we know is that it means we’ve had to move the HALLOWEEN FEVER IN OUTER SPACE show tonight and we’re headed to Echo Country Outpost at 1770 Glendale Blvd instead. And it’s a good thing! Here’s what you’ll [...]

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Three cute girls and one handsome dude all tangled up in red jumpsuits, Hawaiian shirts, toy space helmets and zombie makeup, they’re probably the least terrifying people who’ll ever show up to your party with four gallons of fake blood and a Skull in their name. They sit around on stage like kids in a sandbox, surrounded by toys and instruments and pedals and cables and things they barely understand, and they serenade you with playmusic like this is the first time they’re trying it themselves.

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Echo Country Outpost celebrated the release of Tommy Santee Klaws’ new record Of Light with a whimsical all-ages party featuring local folk musicians and art installations. The album is the first release of Outpost Records, Echo Country Outpost founder Chris Hajek’s maiden voyage into music distribution. Physical copies of the album are available for purchase [...]

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Poison: These guys wrote songs about being these guys. A friend of mine once dismissed Poison’s seminal power ballad, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” as “emotionally retarded.”  This comment did not sit well with me, for reasons both personal and scientific. On a personal level, Poison was my first Rock Show.  Tesla opened up for [...]

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It’s 420, a holiday celebrated many different ways. Some smoke it out. But it’s so hot today, it’s turned us on. We’re getting dirty. Here’s some of our favorite sexually explicit songs, collected from staff and friends. Check out the playlist on Youtube at this link. Then go watch some of these songs performed live [...]

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