Music Union : Live Your Music

Wednesday October 7th, 2009
by Josiah Daniel Golojuh

Walking through downtown LA on Wednesday night, one would quickly notice a proliferation of lightsabers, Stormtroopers, and Jedi Knights, but not as many as you might think. (…)

Story by Young Jin Choi
Photos and Illustrations by Alexis Hawkins
The naturalization — or perhaps more precisely, the desertification, — of the landscape starts spreading its bale poison around slowly as we get out of the Los Angeles County, and by the time we get near the border of San Bernardino county on Route 10, it completely engulfs us into its swirling gorge of sand and dust. (…)

Story and Photos by Alexis Hawkins

Robedoor @ Eagle Rock Music Fest
Eagle Rock. Home of Occidental College. Home of Oinkster and home of Leo’s Taco Truck. (…)

October 4th, 2009
by Josiah Goulojuh
Saturday night I sat on a stool perched above the stage. The light from the iconic blue neon sign illuminating my face. (…)

Text & Pictures by Mariana Knabben

Three weeks ago at the same Brazilian Day, walking from stand to stand, I stopped at this one because it got my full attention. (…)

What do you get when you cross a Haight-Ashbury born singer songwriter with a fire-breathing equine creature of mythological proportions? A horse of a different color? (…)

They arrived in a clown car. (…)

Dave Ellis — Drama Per Orgasm [self-published, 2009]

By Young Jin Choi
“I’ll throw in high notes sometimes /Any word’s fine as long as it rhymes[.] / I’m catchy, I’m edgy, I own this mic / Now here’s the chorus and I think you’ll like it.”
Sings the sardonic Dave Ellis on “Songwriter,” the first song of his debut CD, Drama Per Orgasm. (…)

Text & Pictures by Mariana Knabben
 

I really like LA! The city, the people and everything that offers to you. (…)

Story and Photos by Alexis Hawkins

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I once spent a week in rural China eating nothing but a couple rice balls each day, ingesting unspeakable Chinese medicinal herbs in a mysterious hospital, where no one spoke English and angry nurses stabbed at me with unidentifiable syringes. (…)