Having grown up in LA, I didn’t need a big article in Billboard to remind me that practically every single record record store in town, save for Amoeba has gone out of business over the past five years. One by one, the music stores of my adolescence have shut their doors. From the old Rhino […]

Today is my last day at Sea Level. Sylvia and Todd finally fired me for a series of illicit acts including thievery, illegal sale of narcotics and pummeling of yuppies. They used the word “pumelling” not me. I thought of it as more of a minor fracas, or perhaps a small brouhaha.Anyhow, I’m lying of […]

No, the above photo is not an actual photo of me at work at Sea Level. Sadly, I don’t have fins, nor a garrulous lobster pal named Sebastian, nor a coral bra. Well, maybe I’m lying a little. I can’t deny my penchant for a good coral bra. Please keep this a secret between you […]

Two days ago this was the scene at Sea Level. Shattered glass sprayed across the store, as a drunken driver plowed through the front door in his battered red pick-up. And it’s very strange to type these words as I look at the plywood boads nailed into the wall directly to the right of me. […]

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