Paul Hennessy didn’t set out to overwhelm listeners. What he built with The Cost Of The Escape was something closer to an architectural feat than a stunt: twelve albums, 144 songs, released simultaneously, each piece designed to support the weight of the whole. At the core of the project is a songwriter’s instinct rather than […]
If you’ve bought concert tickets anytime in the last few years, you know the drill. You log on early, often taking time off from work mid-weekday to get in a digital line. You refresh obsessively. And more times than not, you watch decent seats vanish in real time. Minutes later you see tickets for your […]
As if the chaos experienced by protesting Minnesotans—at the hands of ICE, at the hands of the Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) — hasn’t been disastrous enough, we now know MSP is using long-range acoustic devices, or LRADs, designed to disperse crowds. Rather than pushing Maple Grove protestors away, or gently dispersing throngs of anti-ICE locals […]
NIGHT SHIFT is a new series exploring L.A.’s most decadent social scenes and subcultures after dark. Say what you will about the Grammys and who won what on Sunday, but the whole affair is much bigger than winners, losers, or who took the stage at the Crypto.com Arena. In Los Angeles, the awards make for […]
Sean “Slug” Daley will be the first to admit it. Following a night of hard drinking, the Atmosphere emcee found himself biking over to producer Anthony “Ant” Davis’ house to work on new music—extremely hungover. It was 2007. Ant had only recently stopped punching a clock, working as a janitor at a Roseville, Minnesota, clinic; […]