Being a woman is awesome. Mosh pits are fucking sick. As a woman in the pit, I love seeing other women, femmes, and nonbinary people in the pit, too. This article is an ode to you all, I stay amazed. Participating in the pit is a powerful way to enforce your own boundaries. The mosh…
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If you’re like me, at the end of every summer, you have a yearly scheduled heartbreak. School is looming, and deadlines become real, the first being your summer love. So, you made it through fall, now winter rears its lonely frost, and suddenly Target is selling heart shaped candy again. Maybe you’re over it. Or…
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SLO Brew’s main stage room was sparsely populated with eager attendees awaiting a mythical, mystical septet. The seven Seattle musicians delayed taking the stage, knowing a wave of stoned 420 merrymakers would overrun the concert space a few minutes late. High Pulp drummer Bobby Granfelt cleansed the gathering of the common show-going curse of standing…
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Returning to our bread and butter, it’s time we highlight another local artist that’s been making some real noise in the scene lately. They’re all the rage and just dropped their debut album on Spotify and streaming services: if you’re reading this, give a warm, digital welcome to Honeyboys. Our very own Connor Ellis spoke…
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Welcome to Planet Moss! Today, I will be touring you through the musical life of 21 year old Mechanical Engineering major Toby Moss Darci-Maher who spends their time banging on drums with their band “Cardio Star” and creating/producing their own personal music under the moniker “Diarchipretti”. Toby’s musical journey began where many of us once…
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Remember being little and thinking you could be whatever you wanted to be? I grew up wanting to be an artist, but somewhere along the way I adopted the belief that I could never actually go anywhere with it; that in order to be a successful artist, I would have to sell myself to capitalism,…
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Water droplets became a soft misty wind on my long journey home. The forecast said it would be sunny, but it was apparent the sun was but a dream. I walk, red sneakers dodging puddles until I can’t anymore. The moments become slower and my mind becomes sleepy – I fall in. Into the puddle,…
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Everyone already knows Lady Goodman. He’s the guy who hauled ass through the high school parking lot in his lifted, oversized pickup truck hounding the premises despite receiving his GED the year prior. He’s got all of David Wooderson’s creepiness without a sniff of Matthew McConaughey’s coolness. Despite all there is to loath about Lady,…
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Jakob Mcquade is the artist behind your relative, a nostalgia-inducing lo-fi solo music project. His moniker feels true to his relationship with the SLO DIY scene. As a former DJ and Editor-in-Chief at KCPR, he has dedicated a lot of brain space and energy caring for the growth of SLO-based music. Post-grad, Mcquade has been…
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If you type in “Couch Dog” on Google, what you’re going to find are variations of an article titled “Should Dogs be Allowed on the Furniture?” After talking with the SLO-based, surf rocky band Couch Dog I have the answer: no. Their self-described thrashy, fast, hectic, and anxious sound is bound to get you up…
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