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Editorial

Aug 26, 2014

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It was way back in 2002 but I vividly recall driving from my home in Silver Lake to the Giant Robot garage off Sawtelle, listening to KXLU, and hearing what sounded like vintage garage rock from Cambodia. The LMU station is rightfully famous for championing all sorts of great punk rock, post punk, and noise...

Editorial

Mar 04, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9785" align="alignnone" width="790"] Lindsey Ingram Photography[/caption] If you watched last weekend's Academy Awards, hopefully you noticed that Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture. The Cambodian/French co-production is an artful and ingenious retelling of the filmmaker's surviving the Khmer Rouge and its consideration was a milestone for Cambodians around the...

ICL, imprint culture lab long beach

Mar 26, 2013

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I've been trying to convey through writing how amazing the Music Panel will be in the upcoming Long Beach: Work in Progress conference. Having Jack Grisham from the first-generation hardcore band TSOL (not to mention the goth project Cathedral of Tears, hard rock of Tender Fury, his return to punk The Joykiller, and the dark...

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Feb 26, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_6949" align="alignnone" width="790"] Photo: Lauren Dukoff[/caption] Dengue Fever has roots in Echo Park and Silver Lake but also in Long Beach's Little Cambodia. In anticipation of April's Imprint Conference, I talked to lengthy bearded guitar player Zac Holtzman and otherworldly singer Chhom Nimol of the Cambodian psychedelic rock-inspired band about the first time I saw...