Check out the DUM DUM’s kickstarter page and give something, preferably big, but small will do–I think high rollers get a boat ride out of the deal.

[Read more →]

Currently the series only has 9 days left in their Kickstarter campaign, and they have only about 1/3 of the $15,000 they need to self-publish! Please, visit their Kickstarter page and, if you’ve ever read their anthology or just want to read this year’s copy, contribute something. Most donations will get you a copy of the book itself–even a tiny donation can land it into your Kindle–so check it out.

[Read more →]

The New L.A. Folk Fest is planning quite the event for August 6. L.A. Record’s Daiana Feuer says she will start selling her body parts in order to make it happen. We need her to keep her fingers so she can keep writing for us so give a $1 or give $3500 please. The 2nd [...]

[Read more →]

Mia Doi Todd is looking for some cash and white flowers to produce a music video for her song “Canto De Iemanja” next weekend on Rosarito Beach. If she doesn’t reach the Kickstarter goal, then they get none of the $ pledged and the goddess of the ocean gets no Mia Doi Todd in her [...]

[Read more →]

First came post-punk cult hit Border Radio and then came Sugar Town, a film about the music industry, aging rock stars, and the women in their lives. Now Strutter, the final chapter in Allison Anders and Kurt Voss’ unexpected trilogy, is well underway. Allison and Kurt have been friends since UCLA film school and even share matching tattoos of the girl in chains on the back of Leonard Cohen’s first album. This interview by Lainna Fader.

[Read more →]

Hecuba hasn’t played in forever. They’ve been writing a new album, which we anticipate like a delicious giant cake with a babe hiding inside, but they’re also hard at work on a short film. They need your $$$ pronto to get this puppy produced right. The film is called Brass Knuckles and stars Jasmine Albuquerque, [...]

[Read more →]

This letter arrived tangled in a tumbleweed that floated all the way to Los Angeles from Spindrift on tour. We extracted it carefully and found this message scrawled with the blood of a coyote. Hello all from Spindrift, Spindrift is taking pre-orders for our next brand new album due out Spring 2011 on Xemu Records. [...]

[Read more →]

Tom Brosseau & Angela Correa aka Les Shelleys appear in this video from The New Los Angeles Folk Festival to help raise money through Kickstarter for the fest so it can give more money to charity. The festival, taking place August 7 at HM157, is giving $ to the Environmental Defense Fund so it can [...]

[Read more →]