Conversation With: Zion Wright Rolling Through the Playground
Zion Wright knows what’s up. The 20-year-old is no stranger to traveling abroad and searching for spots to stack some clips, especially around Los Angeles’ diverse terrain. Between skitching cars, getting slingshotted into traffic and doing back threes up and down Melrose, Zion, and Alex Midler, hooked up with some friends from the night before…
Conversation With: Mollie Moore Drawing New Lines of Inspiration
Mollie Moore is passionate about her work. While the mediums may change from graphing to garments, her approach continues to expand the human experience. Mollie does that well, her eye is keen for style and her hand delivers in detail, her impatient curiosity keeps her exploring new destinations abroad. While at her home in Long Beach,…
Conversation With: Josh Harmony A Peek Into His Mind
Josh Harmony is softspoken and shares kindness wherever he may roam. He’s a skateboarder, musician, artist, Dad, and a spiritual human who loves humanity. So we kicked it at his pad, rolled some tape and asked him some questions about skating with Toy Machine, growing up, playing in Freckles, and how can creatives help make the…
Conversation With: The Chats Into the World of These Lads
The Chats are an Australian band of quick wit who know how to leave an impression and start a pit. There’s no doubt about that. A field correspondent named Caroline Peacock spent some time with these gentlemen to see what they were up to while at a show in Washington D.C. Together they talked about…
Conversation With: Launder Dog Walks, Breakfast Tacos and Freeing From Distraction
John Cudlip is the mind, and voice of Launder. When we arrived at his house in Silverlake, we were greeted by his dog Dita. Inside is a home studio, nestled with a range of books and records that age like fine wine. So we hung out on the couch to dive into his to past youth…
Conversation With: Ceramic Animal Love Pits at Chain Reaction
It’s not every day you run into a five-man brotherhood from Philadelphia that has a range of wild keys and smooth vocals all at once. A few nights ago, this handful of feral gentlemen stopped in Anaheim amidst their tour across the states that gathered the likes of youth at a cozy little gem in…
Conversation With: Jake Selover Welcome’s Newest Export
Jake Selover is from Bend, Oregon where the pines scrape the sky. There is green stretched for as far as the eye can see and Jake rips urban terrain wherever it lies between the lush of Bend. Rain or shine, his approach remains speedy and kinda mind-bending on transition. So we asked him about what’s…
Conversation With: Kai Borg The Interview
Kai Garcia embodies respect. A respect well earned and honored. But much has changed for Mr. Garcia in recent years as different things took on new meanings and what used to be important in life just wasn’t anymore. Kai has been going through some significant life changes, some documented, some not, so we jumped at the…
Conversation With: Gun Outfit Their new album Out of Range is out now on Paradise of Bachelors
Gun Outfit’s rehearsal space is down a long driveway next to the Collar & Leash in Silver Lake. There’s a table out front, with swivel office chairs lined up all around like some super chill conference room situation. I met the band here on one of those sweltering October afternoons where you just wanna curl…
Conversation with: Guantanamo Baywatch One of our favorite bands may have the world’s craziest tour stories
Guantanamo Baywatch are a touring machine. These road dogs know van life better than any other band, and have the stories (and nightmares) to prove it. And boy are they down to prove it. I stood outside the Echo with Jason Powell, Chevelle Wiseman, and ChrisScott one warm and sticky night in Los Angeles, and…
CONVERSATION WITH: FAT TONY Crap hustler Tony Accosta gets real with a real one
Houston born Anthony Obiawunaotu aka Fat Tony is well fed but not fat. He’s a genuine human on and off the stage, a punk at heart with Houston hip hop running through his veins. He’s not afraid to smile in a very serious ego driven Hip Hop world. Everything’s bigger in Texas especially Fat Tony’s passion for living…
Conversation With: QTY And listen to a first taste of the NYC-based duo’s single, “Michael”
New York has always had it’s own sound in music. The Velvet Underground, the Ramones, New York Dolls, and countless other influential bands that’ve paved the road for contemporary artists. But that doesn’t always mean bands want the reminder of that paving. Enter NYC-based duo QTY – pronounced Q.T.Y. – who can’t help but bring…
