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Liz Ohanesian

Liz Ohanesian is a journalist by day, DJ by night. She has written for Los Angeles Times, Noisey, Bandcamp and other publications. As a DJ, her sets range from synthpop to house. She is based in Los Angeles.

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Sam Quealy Re-Imagines a Wild Night Out in "Groovy Jungle" Video

Sam Quealy in "Groovy Jungle" Credits: Creative director @alewm, photograph @wheresjd, styling @Annie_lavie, makeup @samanthalapre, hair @virginie_pineda When we connect by phone on the Fourth of July, Sam Quealy is preparing to head back to Paris, where she has lived for the past four years, from...

The Beat Goes On

How We Mourn on the Dance Floor

In Audiofemme’s monthly column, The Beat Goes On, DJ Liz O. takes readers inside the booths of the dance clubs, bars and assorted L.A. events where she has been DJing for over 20 years. Depeche Mode circa 1987 The crowd inside the club thins as the last song for that Friday night, “Sorted for E’s and ...

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Tunnel Premieres Title Track From Debut LP Vanilla

C., where she attended Georgetown University, but she couldn't leave the local music scene behind. “I decided that I wanted to start fresh...

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La Femme Closes Out North American Tour With a Party for the Ages

La Femme at The Belasco in Los Angeles, 6/24/22 (Photo: Liz Ohanesian) Midway through their set at The Belasco in downtown Los Angeles, La Femme rips into “Antitaxi,” the synth-surf-punk opener of their 2013 debut album Psycho Tropical Berlin. The packed crowd on the floor of this grand, old...

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ΣTella Incorporates Vintage Greek Sounds Into New LP up and Away

In a way, it is a rediscovery of music that had been a part of the Athens-based singer’s youth. “When you listen to...

The Beat Goes On

Djing Means Rolling With Whatever the Night Brings, Even Tech Failures

In Audiofemme’s monthly column, The Beat Goes On, DJ Liz O. takes readers inside the booths of the dance clubs, bars and assorted L.A. events where she has been DJing for over 20 years. It’s after 1 a.m. on what is now, technically, Saturday morning, but the Friday night vibes are still swelling...

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Why ÉMilie Tiersen Sang in Breton for Her Debut As Quinquis

Seim, out on May 20 via Mute, is a Breton word that means sap. “It’s way closer to Welsh...

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Megan Louise of Desire on the Evolution of Escape

They settled into what Louise describes as a “perfect little mid-century gem” with their daughter and got...

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How Isolation Led Adult. to Becoming Undone

Since the late 1990s, ADULT. has gained a cult following of devotees drawn to the Detroit duo’s genre-blurring, dark electronic music and knack for tapping into complicated, relatable emotions and situations. Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller hadn’t planned to begin work...

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Los Bitchos Craft Deranged Tropical Rock on Alex Kapranos-Produced Debut

Their debut album - fittingly called Let the Festivities...

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How Yasmin Haddad Brought Solo Project Nightnight to Life

“It’s not a very happy record,” she says by phone. “And it comes from a place of being very isolated. This was before COVID, but...

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Boy Harsher Reveal the Inspiration Behind the Runner Film and Soundtrack

“A lot of the characters that we featured in The...

On Midnight Star, Chrystabell Builds a Sci-Fi Fantasy

m. in Novi Sad, Serbia. Texas-based singer Chrystabell is settling into the city, where she’s set to play with her band at the Church of the Name of Mary the following night as part of the 2022 Capital of European Culture Festival. “We weren’t...

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How Soltera Stepped up Her Music Practice During the Pandemic

“Basically, it’s the COVID song,” the L.A.-based electronic music artist says over a video call. In it, Ordoñez wrestles with her feelings about going out...

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Beatrice Deer Weaves Together Traditional and Contemporary Sounds on New LP Shifting

“That song, I wanted it to have that sense of happiness and I think that it really came through because it’s a song that I want to...

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Riki Turns Introspective on Sophomore Album Gold

Photo Crredit: Dustin Edward Arnold Riki knew that she wanted to include a cover song on Gold, released on November 26 via Dais Records, and had been working with a couple different song possibilities when she settled on “Porque Te Vas,” the 1974 melancholy pop song from Spanish singer Jeanette....

Soft Cell Forged the Foundation of Synthpop Forty Years Ago With Debut LP Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

The author's own copy of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. (Pic: Liz Ohanesian) Recently, I was inside a downtown Los Angeles restaurant, staring at the food photos while waiting for my own order when “Tainted Love” came on the radio. Within the first few immediately recognizable bars of the song, the...

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Nicole Marxen Shares Haunting Video for "Bones / Dust"

“I didn’t grow up playing music,” she says on a recent phone call. “It’s something that I got into by accident in my early 20s and was obsessed with it, but I always felt a little behind...

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Marie Nyx and Maude Vôs Champion Inclusivity With Delusional Records

And sometimes, the hardest part is finding one that also aligns with your artistic mission and ethos. That’s what led Los Angeles-based producers Maude Vôs and Marie Nyx to found Delusional...

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Uffie Gets Weird on Remix of "Cool" Company Records Single

When it comes to songwriting, a lot has changed for Uffie since she unleashed her mid-‘00s club hit “Pop the Glock.” Back then, the American-French singer-songwriter kept busy jaunting across Europe, where she typically played club nights, sometimes in a different country each night. “I started...

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Sound Baths Helped Center Taleen Kali; Now She Pays It Forward With Free Songs for Meditation EP

Then they hooked up the bass and synths to “a mess...

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Hackedepicciotto Renders Tumultuous Pandemic Year on the Silver Threshold

Over music that rises and falls with cinematic tension, Danielle de Picciotto tells the story of the Tower of Babel,...

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Donna Missal Shares New Sega Bodega Collab As She Embarks on First Post-COVID Tour

It’s just a few days before Donna Missal is set to leave for Houston to begin her stint opening for CHVRCHES across the United States. The L.A.-based singer has been busy with rehearsals, figuring out a cohesive way to bring together her body of work. There is new, unreleased material and songs...

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Anna Lunoe Focuses on Inspiring, Hopeful Conversations About Creativity With New Podcast

Back in September, the DJ/producer launched Create/Destroy, a series of in-depth, process-centric interviews with fellow artists. Lunoe had been wanting to do a podcast...

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Tokyo-Based Experimentalist Noah Releases Fashion-Inspired ÉToile EP

Étoile, the latest EP from Japanese musician Noah, is comprised of only three tracks and clocks in at just 12 minutes. Yet, the Hokkaido-born, Tokyo-based artist has packed in an album’s-worth of emotion that unfolds like a film score. One of her influences in making this EP, out October 27 via...

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Florencia Andrada Has a Message for Bad Men in "El Imperio"

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Poetry Provides Creative Spark Behind Latest Gemma Laurence Single "Adrienne"

” She then comments on the line “and I laugh and fall dreaming again/of the desire to show you to everyone I love.” “I just read...

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Cocktail Slippers Celebrate First LP in Seven Years With Rowdy “Say My Name” Video

On a recent Zoom call, Silje Hope and Sugar Cane are in agreement that “Say My Name” is Cocktail Slippers’ favorite song to perform live. “It’s a lot of fun to play,” says lead singer Hope on a Zoom call from her home in Oslo. It’s a dark song, she adds, the lyrics focusing on the proverbial...

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Pennywild Pens Vibrant Ode to Drag Shows With Latest Single "Dollars, Dolls, Drugs"

” The second single from forthcoming...

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Night Palace Premieres "Into the Wake, Mystified" Video

That included a gold deer...

79.5 Tune in to "Club Level" and Do Double-Duty Vocal Support After a Year Without Tours

S. The New York-based vocalists are the core of disco-soul group 79.5 and they’ve been opening for Durand Jones and the Indications since earlier in the...

Los Angeles Beat Label Dome of Doom Turns 10 With Anniversary Comp and Party

QRTR / Photo Credit: Bren Lyn Haragan Wylie Cable, the proprietor of Los Angeles-based label Dome of Doom, isn’t sure how Meagan Rodriguez, the Brooklyn-based DJ and producer better known as QRTR, first came to his attention. It could have been Soundcloud or Spotify or some social network....

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Ramona Gonzalez Brings Academic Study to Nite Jewel With Comeback LP No Sun

A.-based singer/composer/producer by phone. In that time, Gonzalez celebrated the release of her latest album with a...

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Saint Etienne Samples Y2K Pop and Name-Drops Racehorses on I’ve Been Trying to Tell You LP

K.’s COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, Saint Etienne had been working on a new album inside a small, London recording studio. The album (which, by singer Sarah Cracknell’s estimates, was about two-thirds complete) was put on hold with the onset of the...

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Pop Duo Pearl and the Oysters Document the End of Their Stint in Florida With Flowerland

“Hey, come to the beach,” she sings, “You studied all night long, you deserve a...

Figuring Out L.A. Nightlife in the COVID-19 Era

On June 15, California reopened and Los Angeles bars and clubs were able to resume business without most of the pandemic-related restrictions that had forced so many to go dark for over a year. Two days later, I returned to The Lash, the venue downtown where I was a resident prior to COVID-19, for...

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Polly Scattergood Found Inspiration in Emojis for “Saturn 9” Video

Right before COVID-19 forced the world to lock down, Polly Scattergood had settled into a new recording studio. The warehouse space had been prepared to make and record music and, for the first time in a long time, her synths were all in one place. “It felt super exciting,” the British singer...

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Anika Vents Pent-Up Pressure (and Sings for the Birds) on Sophomore Solo LP Change

” Nature was different, though, when she temporarily moved from the city to the countryside to make...

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Dot Allison Teases New Record With Premiere of "One Love"

At least, that’s the case for Dot Allison. The Scottish singer began working steadily on her forthcoming album, Heart-Shaped Scars, sometime around 2017, with some songs, like “One Love,” (premiering today via Audiofemme), taking shape in 2020....

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After Two Eps and a North American Tour, Janette King Releases Debut LP What We Lost

“For me, at least, some songs take years to finish and other songs take hours.” A singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ, King released her first full-length, What We Lost, via...

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Dani Darling Premieres Wizard of Oz-Inspired Video From Psychedelic New EP the Future

On the drive there, they listened to Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon, an album that Darling had previously heard in part, but had never listened to in its entirety....

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How a Red Wig and the Madonna Inn Led to Latest Lvxuri Single "Consulate Lust"

“When I got the wig, I wanted to know who the character was,” says Timms by phone from Troy, New York. One thing was...

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Earth Girl Helen Brown Explores Greed and Life on New EP

There's no shortage of problems on Earth, but, when Heidi Alexander conceived of an EP named for our planet, she looked to the issues lying beneath the surface. Earth, the sixth installment from Earth Girl Helen Brown's series of EPs inspired by planets, taps into the intersection of greed and...

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How '80S and '90S Horror Films Inspired Latest Glaare LP Your Hellbound Heart

A.-based band Glaare, hadn't seen Hellraiser until recently. But, she had been watching and re-watching a lot of '80s movies when her husband and bandmate, Brandon Pierce, suggested naming Glaare's second...

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After a Decade of Performing Around Toronto and Kingston, Dorothea Paas Releases Debut Album

"I could just imagine the song being arranged with the full Phil Collins treatment - chorus, guitar, big reverb tones," the Toronto-based singer-songwriter...

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Tokyo Duo Crystal Looks to '80S and Sci-Fi Influences on Reflection Overdrive

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Daphne A. Brooks on Writing Liner Notes and What She Would Like to See in Solange's Archive

Daphne A. Brooks (Photo: Mara Lavitt) "Sometimes, it feels like I've been writing this book all my life," says Daphne A. Brooks, author of the recently released Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. Brooks, a Yale professor who previously wrote Bodies in...

With Faith, the Cure Crafted a Dark, Vivid Album

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Elizabeth Hart and Iván Diaz Mathé Turned a Studio Experiment Into Their Daughter's First Album

In the fall of 2019, Elizabeth Hart, best known as bassist for the band Psychic Ills, was pregnant and looking for a project that reflected this moment in her life. "I was interested in finding some way of collaborating with my physical state in a way," she says on a video call from Buenos Aires,...

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Retro-Futuristic Aesthetics and "Broken Heart Syndrome" Inspire New Album From L'impératrice

It's a devastating and beautiful animated sci-fi clip directed by French artists...

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