Interview with Jim Tremayne of DJ Times

Give a Beat is an LA-based nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of America’s mass incarceration problem via the electronic music community. I freelance for them, interviewing artists and activists they work with, producing audio pieces for Give a Beat’s blog space. As snail mail grows more antiquated with each iPhone update, receiving a physical letter …

Dancefloor Thunderstorm: the beginnings of rave culture

(An interview I did for LA-based non-profit, Give a Beat) Dancefloor Thunderstorm: Land of the Free, Home of the Rave captures the soul and self-sufficiency at the dawn of the rave. Through colorful, candid photography, music and celebrity photojournalist Michael Tullberg illustrates the story of the SoCal rave scene, the story history never recorded. A …