Liz Ohanesian

It wasn't long ago that Kate Ellwanger, Dot to those who follow her beats, was working in the Pro Audio department at a Guitar Center. There were days at the gear hub where being a girl on the floor was a non-issue. Then there were the days when guys creeped......

It sounded like a joke. There was no way that my favorite DJ, Jason Lavitt, was trying to reach me. He was the tall guy in the booth who would make us dance at the goth club Helter Skelter, with big helpings of Marc Almond and a dash of the......

It's easy to get swept up in a music nerdfest with Cold Cave. On a recent weekday morning, the conversation quickly veers from their own tunes to the artists that inspire them. Wesley Eisold, who founded the project, rattles off a list of artists he played in a recent DJ......

On a recent Saturday afternoon, husband and wife team Brad and Tanya Berry prepare for the upcoming grand opening of their Burbank synthesizer emporium, Perfect Circuit Audio. The large showroom, warehouse and office space on Empire Ave. has been in the works for well over a year. For the past......

It's Friday night inside the Monte Cristo, a gorgeous Koreatown venue hidden behind a plain Wilshire Boulevard facade near Southwestern Law School, and Amanda Jones is keeping the industrial dancers going after midnight. They pump fists and jerk knees towards their guts in time with stomping beat of bands well-associated......

For Amber Giles, life changed early one morning at an art car parked on the grounds of a music festival in Tennessee. A few weeks earlier, at her 22nd birthday party in Arizona, the people behind the Burning Man–famous Kalliope car heard Giles on the decks and asked her to......