Coloring Outside Your Guidelines
A. J. Urquidi asks, “Who’s punk? What’s the score?” to a bunch of rad nerds at Cal State Fullerton’s PunkCon 3.
A. J. Urquidi asks, “Who’s punk? What’s the score?” to a bunch of rad nerds at Cal State Fullerton’s PunkCon 3.
Copydesk chief A. J. Urquidi ponders urban doom loops, world peace, and sacred riffage at the Helmet and Cro-Mags show in Los Angeles.
In the musical justice system, shoegaze is represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the fans who brought earplugs and the bands who...
LARB copydesk chief A. J. Ur-squid-i asks, “What’s Kraken?” at Squid’s Leap Day show at the Orange County Observatory.
A. J. Urquidi and God pounded some Jägerbombs and braved an atmospheric river to sample grind, noise, and “doug rock.”
So bad it’s good, or all the way around to bad again? A. J. Urquidi ponders this and more at a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s sophomore film.
BOYGENIUS with 100 GECS and SLOPPY JANE, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, October 31, 2023. Emo-folk supergroup boygenius joined hyperpop scoundrels 100...
A. J. Urquidi treks to Orange County to report on the nexus of country, glam, psychedelia, post-punk, and noise rock.
THE POSTAL SERVICE & DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE: Give Up & Transatlanticism 20th Anniversary Tour with BUILT TO SPILL, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, October...
FONTAINES D.C. with BEEN STELLAR, The Wiltern, Los Angeles, October 3, 2023. Ambassadors of a new guard of post-punk revivalists—a wave referred to...
ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA: INTERSECTED HORIZONS, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, September 9, 2023–May 2024. PAOLA VEGA: THE MYSTERY OF PAINTING...
KEITH HARING: ART IS FOR EVERYBODY, at the Broad, Los Angeles, May 27–October 8, 2023. A. J. Urquidi brings you the details: On Saturday, August 19...