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L.A. ZINE FEST @The Last Bookstore this Sunday! Taleen Kalenderian
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L.A. ZINE FEST @The Last Bookstore this Sunday!

Taleen Kalenderian

Here at DUM DUM, we've been busy folding and stapling all week to gear up for the first time L.A.'s independent publishing community has gotten together in 10 years. That's right--10 years! It's all coming together this Sunday, February 19th from 11am-5pm at L.A. ZINE FEST.
WaxPhil L.A. #9: High Fidelity Records, Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #9: High Fidelity Records, Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps.
Introducing a transmedia print experiment: Lightness & Darkness
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Introducing a transmedia print experiment: Lightness & Darkness

Welcome, Dummies, to Lightness & Darkness! You may have gotten a taste for our new project at its recent Skylight debut, where we released some of the sonic-literary material in the form of an album. But heads up: we're fleshing it out into a full book which stands...
Los Angeles, A Graveyard Liska Jacobs
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Los Angeles, A Graveyard

Liska Jacobs

A graveyard beneath our feet: if you are on a sidewalk, it was once an apartment, a storefront; a tree once stood there. Not one or the other. But layers upon forgotten layers. Before Disney Hall, there were the slums of Bunker Hill, and before the slums there was middle...
Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3) Bryxan Amsterdam
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Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3)

Bryxan Amsterdam

Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing monthly feature where DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For our third installment, Bryxan speaks to Emily Reo, pop/visual shoegazer from Orlando, Florida.
SHHH #5...Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
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SHHH #5…Rocktober Comix

Zach Plague

October 31, 2011 Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books. Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM...
CicLAvia: Cycling Through Unoccupied Streets Travis Barnes
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CicLAvia: Cycling Through Unoccupied Streets

Travis Barnes

It’s an eerie feeling--dropping down on your bike into a busy intersection near Wilshire and Vermont midmorning and finding yourself without a car in sight, their honks and screeches replaced by bicycle freewheel ticks and children playing. Recall the end of that Zombie flick, where the abandoned skyscrapers and streets...
GChatting about Art: 30 minutes with Chad Wys Jana FitzGerald
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GChatting about Art: 30 minutes with Chad Wys

Jana FitzGerald

Illinois artist Chad Wys explores notions of representation, objecthood, and deconstruction in his mixed-media work. We chat with Wys on a Sunday afternoon about his motivations, art, and inspiration–and how he’d title his work if it were a poem. Jana FitzGerald 11:52am: Hi, Chad. Let’s get started. So, where are you...
Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST DUM DUM Team
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Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST

DUM DUM Team

Welcome to the second installment of festival week on DUM DUM!  Even as summer’s coming to a close, we discovered over the long weekend that L.A. kids enjoy their 90+ degree festivals as much as tiny, overpriced curry burritos from local food trucks. A few of us from DUM DUM...
SEX FACE Kenton deAngeli
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SEX FACE

Kenton deAngeli

(please read aloud) I don’t know if God created the Earth 6,000 years ago or if it has been 14 billion since the entire universe tore itself into existence from a roiling confusion of hyper-energized space-time and screamed outwards into the galaxy, creating all known matter and energy giving us,...
PUNKS AT DAWN, OR AN ODE TO VIVIENNE Gabrielle Scott
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PUNKS AT DAWN, OR AN ODE TO VIVIENNE

Gabrielle Scott

Shot entirely at dawn with Super 8, “Punks at Dawn” ruminates on the No Wave aesthetics of Vivienne Dick. Mimicking the baby-faced badass Lydia Lunch, the black robed “school girl” lazily beats around Pilsen, aimless and bored. An often forgotten island unto itself, Pilsen is a nostalgic limbo land between...
EYE EYE Yanina Spizzirri
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EYE EYE

Yanina Spizzirri

“EYE EYE,” a graphic shorthand: Mechanisms of Vision and Spatial Thresholds The eye facing the eye, in between the visual field–a path of presence, optically experienced. One eye blinks while the other clicks, both capturing space and motion and projecting its emanations onto a thin temporal membrane, onto a screen...
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Text Message Interview with Jason Baxter of USF (#4) Bryxan Amsterdam
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Text Message Interview with Jason Baxter of USF (#4)

Bryxan Amsterdam

Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing monthly feature where  DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For this special L.A. Zine Fest installment, we pay a special tribute to the Pacific Northwest.
WaxPhil L.A. #10: Mono Records in Echo Park, Leroy Smart's Best of Leroy Smart Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #10: Mono Records in Echo Park, Leroy Smart’s Best of Leroy Smart

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Juviley's Video Game Album, Our Choices Rhyme: A Hybrid Review Travis Barnes
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Juviley’s Video Game Album, Our Choices Rhyme: A Hybrid Review

Travis Barnes

Head throbbing with excess pleasures only hazily recalled, I was less than thrilled to find that Or Zubalsky--who records under the name Juviley--released his album, Our Choices Rhyme, as an interactive video game that demanded your participation to access the tracks online.
Colpa Press Pop-Up Shop in San Francisco All Weekend!
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Colpa Press Pop-Up Shop in San Francisco All Weekend!

Our wonderful friends Colpa Press invited us to participate in their San Francisco Pop-Up Shop this weekend, and we couldn't have been more seriously excited about sending them copies of our zines.  Check out their blog post about DUM DUM!
WaxPhil L.A. #8: Permanent Records, Rangers' Pan Am Stories Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #8: Permanent Records, Rangers’ Pan Am Stories

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
DUM DUM Does Skylight
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DUM DUM Does Skylight

November 29, 2011 Thanks to all the DUMMIES who came to Skylight Books on November 19 to celebrate the launch of our second issue, Lightness & Darkness. The theme of the evening was the intersection between music and literature, and we had quite a nice time immersing ourselves in both--as well as caseloads of PBR--throughout the night....
WaxPhil L.A. #7: Poo-Bah Record Shop, Prince Rama's Trust Now Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #7: Poo-Bah Record Shop, Prince Rama’s Trust Now

Christina Gubala

Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #6: King Tubby's Lost Treasures at Turntable Lab Christina Gubala
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Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #6: King Tubby’s Lost Treasures at Turntable Lab

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's biweekly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
SHHH #4...Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
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SHHH #4…Rocktober Comix

Zach Plague

October 21, 2011 Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books. Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM DUM's inaugural issue. Up next is...
Except You Are Not As Good Liska Jacobs
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Except You Are Not As Good

Liska Jacobs

Remember when you first wanted to start writing? Calls for submissions from local literary publications bore the faces of your favorite writers, captioned "This Could Be You." But how--budding, in our 20s, with no fodder to speak of--could we measure up, no matter how hard academia tried to force the greats down our throats?
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #5: Peter Kolovos New Bodies at FAMILY Christina Gubala
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Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #5: Peter Kolovos New Bodies at FAMILY

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A." is DUM DUM's Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.'s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
SHHH #3...Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
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SHHH #3…Rocktober Comix

Zach Plague

October 14, 2011 Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books. Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM DUM's inaugural issue. 

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