"I don't really think that history repeats itself perfectly," says The Selecter front woman Pauline Black on a call from Monterrey, Mexico, where the band was on tour. Instead, she notes, "history rhymes," adding, "I think that we're definitely very much in a kind of rhyming situation right now." In May of 1979, the same [...]
A collection of ticket stubs are often more reliable than memories. Photo courtesty of Liz Ohanesian. ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Liz Ohanesian wonders what it means when her musical memories start to blur together. My first [...]
that dog. circa 1994 - photo provided by band Anna Waronker wanted to take us back to the early years of that dog., back to a place where, she said on stage Saturday night, we would be "sweating together and smelling really bad together." In the early 1990s, that might have been Jabberjaw, [...]
The author blisses out on the decks: Dolce Vita at The Lash in Los Angeles, 2018. Photo courtesy Liz Ohanesian ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Liz Ohanesian struggles to focus and live in the moment - until she [...]
ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Liz Ohanesian hits replay on the unlikely track that gave her strength on dance floors and in traffic alike. Stuck in the perennial gridlock that crisscrosses Los Angeles, blasting the same oldie over and over [...]
