When I was fifteen years old, I spent hours ripping music from sketchy MP3 song download apps on the Android store. I leaned hard into the indie scene with my own version of theft, as much of the world was inaccessible to me in my suburban sprawl. A product of this time period was an […]
Can you believe it’s been five whole years since From the Intercom started making year-end lists? Five. Whole. Years! I still remember sitting alone in the local coffee shop (which has since closed down), typing away at a list that I thought that no one would bother to look at. My selection process for the […]
It started with the Summer 2020 release of her single “I’ll Just Dance” – a simple video of a younger Su Lee breaking out into an interpretive song and dance. Over a layered staccato of her pop-inspired instrumentals, her unfettered lyrics on dancing through overwhelming uncertainty hallmark her style of whimsical melancholy. “This is basically […]
It’s an unbearably hot day. The sweltering heat in Pasadena has reached heights that allowed for drink vendors at 88Rising’s Head in the Clouds fest to charge criminal prices ($15 for a 16 oz drink) — and get away with it. Bullets of sweat bead across virtually every attendee’s hairline in sight and I was […]
Nested just on the tip of the historic Sunset Strip in Los Angeles is a theater that feels like a sort of anomaly. A venue of days past, the Roxy has hosted gigs such as Neil Young, Chaka Khan, and Bob Marley, making the venue an unofficial historic landmark in the LA live music scene. […]