Our First Anniversary Zine is out now!

Happy first anniversary to From the Intercom!!!!

I can’t believe it’s already been a whole year since the website was started… and I can’t believe the amount of friends we made and support that we’ve gotten from the community in that time. When I first started the site, I never thought that people would react to the site the way that they did. Within the year or so we’ve been active, we’ve also hit a few milestones…

• Published/written more than 150 articles!
• We’ve interviewed various musicians (Casper Sun, Priska, OHYUNG, Parekh & Singh, dolltr!ck, Liance), film directors (Maegan Houang, Andrea A. Walter/Osric Chau, Nanfu Wang, Pennacky, Emily Ting), and others (Bao Ngo, Eric Duong)!
• Wrote up a list of our 50 favorite singles of 2018 and 18 favorite albums of 2018! (note: this was a personal goal of mine and we accomplished it!)
• We’ve covered two major festivals–Austin’s SXSW and Los Angeles’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• Accepted submissions from all around the world–namely from the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Singapore, to name the most popular country submissions.
• Hit 25k+ total pageviews! For context, the first two months of the website’s existence only drew in about 50 page-views a month so this is a win for us!
• Made a zine!

To celebrate our site hitting one, I worked with our branding manager, Derrek Chow, to create a zine (that’s a self-published magazine, in other words) showcasing some of our favorite articles of the past year.

They’re now available on our online shop, https://fromtheintercom.bigcartel.com/product/from-the-intercom-zine-vol-1.

The cost of the zine is calculated so that we can break even on the zine’s production costs (unfortunately, we don’t get paid for any articles that we do). We hope you’ll pick up a copy… Derrek and I worked really hard to emulate the style of a proper magazine despite never designing one before. Go easy on us!

Fingerprints Music. Go find us in the book section!

For those in the Los Angeles area, we’ve also stocked a few, limited copies in several storefronts at a discounted price:

• Fingerprints Music

  • 420 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90802

• Pop-Hop Books & Print

  • 5002 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042

• Other Books Comics and Zines

  • 2006 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033

• Skylight Books

  • 1814 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

• A Shop Called Quest (all three locations)

  • 2006 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033
  • 300 S Santa Fe Ave B, Los Angeles, CA 90013
  • 5 E Citrus Ave #101, Redlands, CA 92373

As the founder/head editor/writer of From the Intercom, I’d like to thank you for your continual support of the website and great music/films! I’d also like to use this opportunity to mention that we’re always looking for new writers. I never realized just how much great art was out there in the Asian/Anglo-Asian community, and it’s been very, very difficult trying to keep up with all of the releases that we get sent. Any help would be appreciated! That being said, remember that our inbox is always open to your submissions. 🙂

I hope you’ll stay around for the future, and here’s to another great year!

Li-Wei Chu

Li-Wei Chu

Li-Wei Chu is the chief editor of From the Intercom. When he’s not editing drafts and searching for new artists to cover for the website, he loves watching cult films, cooking, and listening to his ever-growing collection of vinyl records. You can follow him on LetterBoxd and make fun of his taste in movies here!