This is a brief, secondhand summary of punk and hardcore punk as both developed in Los Angeles. It is the … More
Category: Issue 6
The Disconcerting State of the Concert
On an anonymous day in the mid ‘90s, Antoine Roundtree (known as Skee-Lo in the Los Angeles freestyling scene) strode … More
Composing with Words: Form, Performance, and Meaning
A composer suggests what to do and how to do it. Sometimes the suggestions are very specific, and sometimes … More
Mixtape: Sepand Shahab’s “Sounds over the Internet”
A long time ago in Italy, people wrote music for pipe organ in combination with other instruments. At the time, … More