Before I left San Diego, I drove around town in the car I’d borrowed and bought 10 burritos to put in my suitcase. I stayed up all night in the bedroom of the house I grew up in. I DM’d and sent texts to friends. “Great to see you.” “Hoping to come back in December.” MORE…
Questions to ask yourself: 1) How much good would you do if someone cut you in half? 2) How long does half a boat float before it goes down like a stone? 3) You’re still hungry after half a meal, right? No matter your answers, on this 7” half of the Locust does just fine. MORE…
It’s been five years since the release of Silent’s debut record on Three One G, A Century of Abuse, and what a fucking shitshow it has been. Just a week after the record dropped, Donald J. Trump won the election to become the 45th President of the United States. Then the new global rise of MORE…
I don’t believe in superstitions, but I do all the superstitious shit. I wish on trucks carrying loads of hay and I don’t walk under ladders or chance breaking mirrors. When I see a penny sitting tails-up, I toss it a few feet away. (If I find it again, and it’s heads-up, then it’s fine MORE…
“Don’t Forget to Live” is a single off of Deaf Club’s upcoming debut LP Productive Disruption, which will be released on limited vinyl, “persecutor color” limited to 700 and “pyrolysis color” limited to 300, as well as a limited 100 cassettes, via Three One G Records on January 6th, 2022. Preorder, here. Video directed and MORE…
My first day back in California we save a dying bird, and it feels like a good omen—a proper start to a long-awaited homecoming. That day (today, earlier today; it’s nearly dusk now) begins at the Santa Cruz harbor. My father and my uncle Lenn and I take Lenn’s boat out to sea in the MORE…
The concept of Cult and Culture began as a short segment created by Justin Pearson, an internationally known musician, record label owner (Three One G Records), author, and actor. He is best known as bassist/vocalist for bands such as Dead Cross, The Locust, and Retox. Justin has come to know and work with a broad MORE…
“Don’t you start me talking/I’ll tell you everything I know,” –the New York Dolls “Feels like fall in the air.” I’ve been saying that for weeks, but it was wishful thinking. “Feels like fall in the air”? Today, yesterday, the day before, yes. But these past few weeks? No. It has been hot as hell MORE…
When I really miss home, I listen to Antioch Arrow. I play their records in a row—The Lady is a Cat (1993), In Love With Jetts (1994), and Gems of Masochism (1995). To listen to these albums in the order they were released is to watch a dark flower blooming, a sky going from light MORE…