By: Jackie Lo Being a teenage girl in the 90s, I had a handful of girl bands that I obsessed over. Hole was one of them. I was 14 when I discovered them and when Kurt Cobain died. I remember my mom taking me to the store and buying me ice cream and picking up a copy of the People magazine with his face on the front of it and […]

By: Jackie Lo The Royal We is a coming-of-age story that drops you headfirst into a life of climbing the Hollywood sign while underage drinking, rummaging through bushes for hookups, starting bands with friends, and coming of age in a San Francisco where punk collided with hippies and HIV and heroin were everywhere. Roddy Bottum, a founding member of Faith No More, Imperial Teen, and Man on Man, looks back […]

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 […]