By - Jackie Lo   Art Sex Music is an autobiography by Cosey Fanni Tutti, an English performance artist, musician and writer, best known for hertime in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey. Tutti first performed under the name Cosmosis and changed to the name of Cosey Fanni Tutti after it was suggested to her by a friend based on the title of the opera Così fan […]

By - Jackie Lo My first music festival was Lollapalooza. It was 1997 and my friends and I piled in to whoever had the most reliable car at the time and drove the 3.5 hours to see Julian & Damian Marley and the Uprising Band, James, Korn, Tricky, Snoop Doggy Dogg (as he was billed back then), Tool, and Prodigy on the main stage with Failure, Pugs, Lost Boyz, Demolition […]

By - Jackie Lo SST was THE record label everyone wanted to be signed to in its heyday. What started as a mail order business for ham radio enthusiasts that Greg Ginn created when he was just 12 years old, eventually became one of the most influential independent record labels putting out some of the greatest underground records of the 80s and 90s. “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall […]

By - Jackie Lo Representation is as we all know is so important. And ME being a musician that is also a woman I have always looked for the other women in music to help navigate me. Whether it be female composers when I was studying classical music, women in rock bands when I discovered guitars and writing rock records, to all my fellow female radio DJs out there showcasing […]

By - Jackie Lo I’ve always heard of similarities in the Pacific Northwest and the South. We’re remote and tours sometimes don’t stop here. It feels as if no one is paying attention to the scenes yet we are rich with these little gems that feel untouched and ours. There’s a DIY, pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of mentality and you must make your own fun because otherwise, […]

By - Jackie Lo “My life was all black and white until I met David and afterwards it was glorious technicolor as bright as the hair on his head”. That line, from the epilogue summed up the incredible story of a young girl, a hairdresser, who befriended David Bowie’s mother and wife and in turn, they turned her whole life upside down.  Me and Mr. Jones: My Life With David […]

By - Jackie Lo CBGB has always been a Holy Grail for me. A place I wished I had gotten to go to, to see a show at, to be a fly on the wall, and I’m so grateful that I know so many people that got to experience it and even a few that were lucky enough to play there. There are those irreplaceable places that we hold in […]

By - Jackie Lo The title of this book alone hooked me. Living in the South and having a love of counterculture, art, punk rock music, and having grown up in a small town searching for like-minded folks to share these interests then made me appreciate the contents within. The book is about a punkhouse in Pensacola, Florida called 309. It became a punkhouse in the 90s and is arguably […]