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~thanks for visiting! come back soon once I've cleaned up!~
last updated: 08-10-2022
pardon our dust... Leah is currently rennovating!
in the meantime, here's about all you need to know:
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eah is a writer, musician, and poet living in Altadena, CA. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Tone Glow, Bandcamp Daily, Tiny Mix Tapes, and Post-Trash as well as her own newsletter Happiness Journal and Soap Ear, a publication she has co-edited since 2018. She has been writing about music formally and consistently since she first published a review in Tiny Mix Tapes in 2016.
Selected writings of Leah's are available near the bottom of this page.
A photo of Leah (taken by Roddy Jones) can be found below...
Leah also writes, records, and performs surrealist bedroom pop as Cali Bellow and plays bass and screams in the ecstatic black metal band Agriculture.
Lastly, here is a small selection of Leah’s writings:
✿ PERSONAL ESSAY: I Love You, Oh No: On Stereo Total ✿
(Bandcamp Daily) (2022)
✿ ESSAY: Queerness & Kabbalah in Fanny and Alexander ✿
(Poise & Resignation Zine) (2022)
✿ PERSONAL ESSAY: On SOPHIE ✿
(Happiness Journal) (2021)
✿ FEATURE: A Map of Fire-Toolz’s Influences on Eternal Home ✿
(Bandcamp Daily) (2022)
✿ PERSONAL ESSAY: 2021 End of Year Reflections ✿
(Tone Glow) (2021)
✿ INTERVIEW: Kurt Wagner of Lambchop ✿
(Tone Glow) (2021)
✿ PERSONAL ESSAY: Fire-Toolz’s Rainbow Bridge ✿
(Happiness Journal) (2020)
✿ ESSAY: On Powerviolence & Cuteness ✿
(Soap Ear) & (en español) (2019)
✿ ESSAY/REVIEW: Kero Kero Bonito’s Bonito Generation ✿
(Tiny Mix Tapes) (2016)
✿ FILM REVIEW: Rukus (2019, Brett Hanover) ✿
(Tone Glow) (2019)
✿ FEATURE: Chronophage’s Sophisticated Approach to DIY ✿
(Bandcamp Daily) (2022)
✿ PERSONAL ESSAY/REVIEW: Very Good’s Adulthood ✿
(Tiny Mix Tapes) (2019)
✿ INTERVIEW: Wizard Apprentice ✿
(Tiny Mix Tapes) (2019)
✿ REVIEW: Matt Robidoux’s Brief Candles ✿
(Post-Trash) (2020)
✿ INTERVIEW: Félicia Atkinson ✿
(Tiny Mix Tapes) (2019)
~thanks for visiting! come back soon once I've cleaned up!~
last updated: 08-10-2022