Issue No. 1: CITIES & STATES

Issue No. 1: CITIES & STATES

Issue No. 1 was released in Los Angeles in the Fall of 2011, printed on a 17x22 broadside on newsprint (back and front). DUM DUM's very first issue features postcard interviews, new media literature, hybrid fiction, and more!
Issue No. 2: LIGHTNESS & DARKNESS

Issue No. 2: LIGHTNESS & DARKNESS

Issue No. 2 is a literature and music album release called Lightness & Darkness, released in audio form on CD. The result is a sonic-literary experiment fusing both written and musical art forms, reshaping the way both mediums are experienced.
L.A. ZINE FEST  @The Last Bookstore this Sunday! Taleen Kalenderian

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.
Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3) Bryxan Amsterdam

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

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...
Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST DUM DUM Team

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

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,...
Featured on DUM DUM
Colpa Press Pop-Up Shop in San Francisco All Weekend!

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

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.
Introducing a transmedia print experiment: Lightness & Darkness

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 on its own.
DUM DUM Does Skylight

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

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.
Los Angeles, A Graveyard Liska Jacobs

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 class Bunker Hill, and even...
Waxing Philosophical, L.A. #6:  King Tubby's Lost Treasures at Turntable Lab Christina Gubala

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

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

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

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

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
Excorcise Won Suzanne Oshinsky

Excorcise Won

Suzanne Oshinsky

"Excorcise Won" is filled with poetic visuals about miscommunication in language. It is artist Suzanne Oshinsky's second submission to DUM DUM, a follow-up to her "Notes" series which collects fragments that explore notions of seeing vs. hearing.