Peter Holslin

The California Institute of Abnormalarts (CIA) sits next door to a smog check shop on a run-down stretch of Burbank Boulevard in North Hollywood. A nightclub and sideshow museum, it looks like something out of a Rob Zombie movie — half carnival fun house, half serial killer’s dungeon. The front......

What happens when visual artists decide to make pop music? In the case of 18+, you get sweetly intimate bedroom jams that double as abstract cultural commentaries. The members of the L.A. electronic duo — Justin Swinburne, 29, and Samia Mirza, 28 — don’t necessarily consider themselves musicians. But in......

If you run a donut shop, chances are you eat a lot of donuts. That’s certainly the case with Mark Trombino, owner of Donut Friend in Highland Park. In years past, the 48-year-old musician and record producer was known for producing emo and pop-punk albums and for playing drums in......

You know a music trend has lost its sparkle when even a guy who’s benefited from it starts looking elsewhere. Two years ago, Salva got his big career break after he and RL Grime dropped a trap remix of Kanye West’s song “Mercy.” The track arrived right when the trap......