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 […]