Archive for February, 2010

This month’s mixtape includes a few local tracks as well as a bunch of other songs I’ve been listening to recently. I specifically recommend you check out the Band of Skulls full length that “Fires” comes from. (download) 1. “Beautiful [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be showing some rock photography at Origami Vinyl in March. There will be about a dozen prints in total including photos of Silversun Pickups, No Age, Dan Deacon, Crystal Antlers, and The Happy [...]

This Ain’t a Scene: Corinne Dinner of The Hectors On the kickball field Corinne Dinner is one of the guys. She runs, kicks, and throws just as hard as anyone else and it becomes clear quite quickly that she’s a [...]

This Ain’t a Scene: Jonathan Hylander of The Voyeurs Jonathan Hylander, guitarist, keyboardist, and singer for The Voyeurs, grew up in the South Bay and recently moved to Los Angeles a few years ago and formed The Voyeurs with drummer [...]

This Ain’t a Scene: Eli Chartkoff of The Monolators Eli Chartkoff (with his wife Mary, who plays drums) formed The Monolators close to eight years ago and have self released an impressive array of singles, EPs, and LPs. Their music [...]

Working on the video for “Death to Vivek Kemp” was a solitary activity. Except for a few hours spent with The Happy Hollows at the very beginning of the process (shooting some reference video of them playing their instruments), the [...]

Check out Issue #4 of This Ain’t a Scene, interview and photos with Sarah Negahdari of The Happy Hollows, the very first band I ever photographed live.