dao strom is an artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and contemplate the intersection of personal and collective histories. Using practices of polyvocality, fragmentation, and (re)assemblage, strom writes arrangements of poetry, music, lyric essay, image fragments, song and sound, layering voices and their echoes aurally, to be experienced as installation, videos, performance, music, multimedia, and inside the spaces of a book. Her latest work is a book/album project, INSTRUMENT/TRAVELER'S ODE, to be released in Fall 2020 by Fonograf Editions & Antiquated Future Records. 

She is also the author of a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR, 2018) and an experimental memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People + song-cycle, East/West (2015).

Doctors & Engineers are from a good family. Otherwise, they are an energetic West Coast South Asian garage punk band made up of Sri Panchalam (vocals), Jayson Joseph (guitar), Azeem Khan (keys, synth), Sumi Dave (drums), and Scott Okamoto (bass).

Chatting with musicians from the greater-LA area. 

This is a series of conversations and acoustic performances by bands you love & bands you don't know you love yet. Join us on the couch as we reminisce, swap music recs, laugh a lot, and try to figure out what it means to be a creative in a city where everyone is, or tries to be.

email: thelivingroompodcast@gmail.com

Postcolonial punk. Original songs + Bollywood faves reinterpreted as modern rock anthems.

Opening the door and brushing the dust off of local politics, art, and culture. A podcast by Nina Bhattacharya and Sheela Lal. 

This is the landing soundcloud page for ALTbrown, a podcast highlighting alternative voices in communities of color.

Secret Spells are ancient cosmic life forms. As they became telepathically tethered, they called upon mysterious portals to other worlds, creating a thousand different versions of themselves. Oh, ancient maze of mystery, where will we spend our eternity? The Lady of the Moon declares, "life without mystery... boring!"

Artist group, Impossible Moon, explore the unknown. Christine Nguyen and Michael Wysong, from Southern California, are fascinated by the diverse ecologies in their surrounding habitats as well as the imagined ones of beyond… Uncovering mysterious worlds, they share their record of making, looking, and play through personal visceral experiences. The universe agrees.

Gushing Cloud is a musical artist currently residing in Chicago IL centered on the often-electronic and colorfully experimental beat-based music of Cory Bengtsen (also known as Gus Kumo when playing live,) yet incorporating various collaborators both musical and performance art-based. Beginning to record on samplers in 2004, Gushing Cloud has developed to include many instruments and musical approaches, resulting in the most current release, Beat Wings in Vain, with its uniquely organic and emotional electronic music.

The notoriously unpredictable and lavish live shows have largely been the work of “Doggy P. Lips” (half of the experimental art duo Dog Hallucination), incorporating multiple video installations, dancing, costumes, and other methods meant to shake the audience out of its usual mode. Currently incorporating other rotating collaborators for live shows, Gushing Cloud continues to explore the blurring of lines between electronic and organic music, humor and sobriety, friendliness and leaving uncompromising impressions.

The homegrown label of friends Intangible Cat has released GC’s recordings and various other projects that include Bengtsen, such as Amalgamated and Rebekah’s Tape. Cory is also the baritone saxophonist in the avant-prog-rock group Lovely Little Girls.

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