John Coyle

It’s late October, and Soft White Sixties frontman Octavio Genera is calling from his home in Los Feliz, describing the slightly incestuous San Francisco scene which led to his band’s formation six years ago.  “It was weird, people just kind of shed one band and joined another one. That's really......

The Dead Ships frontman Devin McCluskey is laughing as he describes the bizarre shoot for “Seance,” part of filmmaking duo Leo Longo and Diana Boccara’s "Around the World in 80 Videos" project. "It was kind of terrifying, because I’d just met them, and it was like, 'Sure, you can tie......

It's 11 a.m. on a Friday in the middle of March, and Paul Gonzalez is just waking up. "I live in San Pedro, but I'm always everywhere else," he says, laughing. "Basically, San Pedro is just the place where I sleep. But home is home." The whirling trajectory of the......

Speaking by phone on a rainy Los Angeles evening, Women Fuck Shit Up Fest founders Mayra Cortez and Merilou Salazar breezily dismiss any notion that coordinating a 16-act, two-day music festival in DTLA might prove tricky. Blame sparkling optimism, but neither can remember any catastrophes happening at the first WFSUF......

Neighborhood Brats singer Jenny Angelillo doesn't want to talk about being compared to Black Flag. Instead, she jokes her "destiny" is to become Youth of Today frontman Ray Cappo. Angelillo is back home in East Oakland — "the part where it starts to get sketchy" — after a 10-day stint......