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Issue No. 1: CITIES & STATES
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Issue No. 1: CITIES & STATES

Issue No. 1 was released in Los Angeles in the Fall of 2011, printed on a 17x22 broadside on newsprint (back and front). DUM DUM's very first issue features postcard interviews, new media literature, hybrid fiction, and more!
Issue No. 2: LIGHTNESS & DARKNESS
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Issue No. 2: LIGHTNESS & DARKNESS

Issue No. 2 is a literature and music album release called Lightness & Darkness, released in audio form on CD. The result is a sonic-literary experiment fusing both written and musical art forms, reshaping the way both mediums are experienced.
L.A. ZINE FEST @The Last Bookstore this Sunday! Taleen Kalenderian
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L.A. ZINE FEST @The Last Bookstore this Sunday!

Taleen Kalenderian

Here at DUM DUM, we've been busy folding and stapling all week to gear up for the first time L.A.'s independent publishing community has gotten together in 10 years. That's right--10 years! It's all coming together this Sunday, February 19th from 11am-5pm at L.A. ZINE FEST.
Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3) Bryxan Amsterdam
Interviews / Music

Text Message Interview with EMILY REO (#3)

Bryxan Amsterdam

Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing monthly feature where DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For our third installment, Bryxan speaks to Emily Reo, pop/visual shoegazer from Orlando, Florida.
SHHH #5...Rocktober Comix Zach Plague
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SHHH #5…Rocktober Comix

Zach Plague

October 31, 2011 Welcome back to Rocktober Comix, DUM DUM's foray into creepiness featuring "SHHH," a comic series illustrated by Zach Plague of Featherproof Books. Each week of October leading up to Halloween, we'll be posting a spankin' new strip from his skeletal series, which you might recognize from Plague's contribution to DUM...
Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST DUM DUM Team
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Disposable Camera Project at FUCK YEAH FEST

DUM DUM Team

Welcome to the second installment of festival week on DUM DUM!  Even as summer’s coming to a close, we discovered over the long weekend that L.A. kids enjoy their 90+ degree festivals as much as tiny, overpriced curry burritos from local food trucks. A few of us from DUM DUM...
SEX FACE Kenton deAngeli
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SEX FACE

Kenton deAngeli

(please read aloud) I don’t know if God created the Earth 6,000 years ago or if it has been 14 billion since the entire universe tore itself into existence from a roiling confusion of hyper-energized space-time and screamed outwards into the galaxy, creating all known matter and energy giving us,...
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WaxPhil L.A. #13: Jacknife Records and Tapes, Diga Rhythm Band's Diga Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #13: Jacknife Records and Tapes, Diga Rhythm Band’s Diga

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
FREE/WRITE/SHOP at Home Room 101
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FREE/WRITE/SHOP

at Home Room 101

Want to take a writing workshop, but can't dish out the 500 clams? Into experimental writing? Need a prompt to get started? Just plain tired of lonely writing nights? Join us this Wednesday at Home Room 101.
DUM DUM Serials: "DOWN" by Jessica Garrison
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DUM DUM Serials: “DOWN” by

Jessica Garrison

DUM DUM would like to introduce Jessica Garrison as the first writer we've invited to participate in our spankin' new online serials. Each month, we'll introduce a new short story by Garrison, serializing short works from her $1 Books series.
WaxPhil (TX!) #12: End of an Ear in Austin, Steven Halpern and Dallas Smith's 1984: Newsound Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil (TX!) #12: End of an Ear in Austin, Steven Halpern and Dallas Smith’s 1984: Newsound

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you. April's special installment brings you our SXSW edition, featuring End of An Ear Records in Austin.
A Big Day for Small Press--Saturday, March 24 at USC
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A Big Day for Small Press

–Saturday, March 24 at USC

Hot off the heels of L.A. Zine Fest, USC's Roski School presents a second installment of Shelf-Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press. RSVP to the free event here.
STANDING IN LINE: Outside the Edison Travis Barnes
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STANDING IN LINE: Outside the Edison

Travis Barnes

Standing in line is an unpleasant reality of going out anywhere in L.A. We don't dwell on it, but we'll spend hours standing around on the street in our hoochie-best waiting for some chump to give us permission to enter.
Opening this weekend--DUM DUM at EDICOLA newsstand kiosk in SF
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Opening this weekend

–DUM DUM at EDICOLA newsstand kiosk in SF

Starting this weekend, the talented folks over at Colpa Press will be selling books, posters, tapes, and all things printed matter at a newsstand kiosk on the corner of Market and 6th St in San Francisco. DUM DUM Issue No. 1 is going for $5, and No. 2 for $10 (a hella deal)! ...

WaxPhil L.A. #11: Rockaway Records, Vic Chesnutt's Little Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #11: Rockaway Records, Vic Chesnutt’s Little

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Text Message Interview with Jason Baxter of USF (#4) Bryxan Amsterdam
Interviews / Music

Text Message Interview with Jason Baxter of USF (#4)

Bryxan Amsterdam

Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing monthly feature where  DUM DUM contributor Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message. For this special L.A. Zine Fest installment, we pay a special tribute to the Pacific Northwest.
WaxPhil L.A. #10: Mono Records in Echo Park, Leroy Smart's Best of Leroy Smart Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #10: Mono Records in Echo Park, Leroy Smart’s Best of Leroy Smart

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
WaxPhil L.A. #9: High Fidelity Records, Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation Christina Gubala
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WaxPhil L.A. #9: High Fidelity Records, Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation

Christina Gubala

"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps.
Juviley's Video Game Album, Our Choices Rhyme: A Hybrid Review Travis Barnes
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Juviley’s Video Game Album, Our Choices Rhyme: A Hybrid Review

Travis Barnes

Head throbbing with excess pleasures only hazily recalled, I was less than thrilled to find that Or Zubalsky--who records under the name Juviley--released his album, Our Choices Rhyme, as an interactive video game that demanded your participation to access the tracks online.

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