Peter Holslin

Shlohmo looks relaxed amid the controlled chaos. It's 2 p.m. on a Friday and he's just woken up from a long night of partying. An airport roller bag stands at attention in a corner of the Melrose Avenue office space from which he co-runs the label/clothing line Wedidit Collective. A......

L.A. is crawling with record collectors. But few are as charming as Elden M. Elden Man — universally known among friends, fans and customers as Elden M. — is a clerk at Wombleton Records, a cozy record store in Highland Park. As an industrial/noise music veteran and longtime lover of......

"I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can find someone who can dance better than me!" It's 15 minutes before closing time for the Do-Over's 10th anniversary celebration on Sunday, but the breakdancer who calls himself Skubi is still going strong. He's hanging out in the side room at......

Every young man needs a hearty breakfast, and right now, Earl Sweatshirt is having his. It’s a Wednesday around noon, and he’s sitting at a small wooden table at a health-conscious café in Mid-City. Before him sits a hearty one-man feast designed to add some bulk to his small, 142-pound......

It’s a musician’s worst nightmare, and last month it happened to Jason Chung. The 30-year-old electronic producer, better known as Nosaj Thing (a play on the phrase “no such thing”), had just finished a show in Houston while on a monthlong U.S. tour, after which he and his two-man tour......

Sometimes it's the music you love that hurts you the most. Jonathan Borges and Shannon Kennedy know this well. As the couple behind experimental duo Pedestrian Deposit, they’ve spent years plying L.A.’s underground noise scene, forging works of beautiful tension using sculpted feedback, modified field recordings and abused cello. To......

The mutants descended on Superchief Gallery in downtown Los Angeles like insurgents from across the hilltop. Their smashing drums shuddered through the warehouse space, while electronic noise whipped up against throaty raps and chest-pumping screams. Audience members responded with chaos: flailing limbs, colliding bodies, delirious smiles. Some took spills against......

Finger drumming is an under-appreciated art. Any hip-hop head can plug notes into a beat machine. But it takes a true master to do it live — and do it well. Jeff Logan, aka Jel, the 37-year-old co-founder of L.A.-based hip-hop label Anticon, has been tap-tap-tapping out beats in real......