Look Daggers look to Long Beach with new album and DVD

There’s a moment halfway through the live performance/documentary DVD Alive For Now in Long Beach when Lord Zen (of Visionaries/Writer’s Block/LVX Collective) joins Look Daggers onstage at the Prospector during “The Youth is Getting Restless” and we see the band captured at or very close [...]

Crystal Antlers’ music machine

ILLUSTRATION by SHEA M. GAUER

Crystal Antlers’ wild weekend was one day at a biker fest in Las Vegas and one day at a metal fest in Reno-a kind of schedule that basically made Blue Cheer’s career and once had audiences bug-eyed on a certain chemical cheer themselves, and if you were worried [...]

Ikey Owens gets a good steak

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Ikey Owens plays keyboards most famously in Mars Volta but also alongside everyone from Dub All Stars to Mastodon to locals like Crystal Antlers and Coaxial and his own bands Look Daggers and Free Moral Agents, and he splits his office hours between Portfolio and the Prospector [...]

Chris Ziegler hitches a ride with Ikey Owens

PHOTO by MATT WIGNALL
The future mayor of Long Beach stops his Mercedes in front of my old house—he still remembers where I lived three years ago, though he’d only been there once. He gives me burned copies of his last six records. Then he lends me the laptop [...]