Star 99 is a band of friends. If there’s anything that’s been clear about their newest album Gaman and watching them perform at Growing Up is Dumb 2025, it’s that their energy comes from their chemistry. In the span of three months, I have had a unique proximity to their work, so much so that […]
I still remember that growing up, every four years the Summer Olympics brought a sense of wonder. Watch these superhuman athletes do impossible physical feats! Cheer on your favorite country! As the years go by though, that charm seems to have worn off. What was once a wondrous display of what the human body is […]
If you ask me where I’m from, I’ll say Alhambra. If you have the nerve to ask me where I’m really from, I’ll tell you, “I was born in Los Angeles. My parents immigrated to the United States from the Philippines if that’s what you’re really asking.” The latter inquiry was a real question posed […]
Here are our favorite albums of 2019. Part 3/3.
Before diving into an album named Keep Drinking, you should already have a sense that you’re in for a good time… especially if the band who made the album is called Drinking Boys and Girls Choir. After all, any album that starts off with a track called “Keep Drinking!!” and ends with “KEEEEEEP DRINKING!!!!” has […]