Fidotrust’s new compilation surveys self-sufficient music in a self-sufficient city

CRYSTAL ANTLERS by JENNIE WARREN
When The District started, I felt lucky because we fell into one of the strongest local music scenes in Southern California——underdocumented by Silverlake-scene media and underrepresented in the LA record stores, but still packed about to bursting within a little loop of [...]

Blow Up Blow’s equations for a falling body

PHOTO by BARRI YORK HOOVER
Blow Up Blow live together under humming power lines alongside a long bleak highway and next to a nursery behind a fence—little leaves poking under wire—and sometimes creepy people come walking silently along the top of their backyard wall, and if waking up to [...]