Drew Tewksbury
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Drew Tewksbury is Managing Editor and Producer of Artbound. He has come from a diverse media background, having worked as a producer for NPR show News and Notes, a regular music columnist for L.A. Weekly’s West Coast Sound, and Senior Writer/ Contributing Editor for Flaunt Magazine.
He has produced bi-weekly, on-air music review pieces for KPCC’s Madeleine Brand Show, and he has curated Los Angeles Magazine’s Guide section. As a freelance arts and culture journalist/critic, he has written and produced pieces for NPR’s ‘All Things Considered,’ Los Angeles Times, BoxOffice Magazine, NME, Art News, Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage Magazine, Swindle Magazine, Style in Progress (Austria), People Magazine, and more.
Drew is a graduate from USC’s Annenberg School for Journalism Graduate program and in his free time, he runs Echo Park Jazz, a non-profit performance series housed at Lot 1 Café in Los Angeles.
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Filmmaker Sharon Lockhart intently interprets the world under her watchful lens.
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Artbound sat down with artist/musician Llyn Foulkes to discuss the psychology behind his works, how music soothes his soul, and what he really thinks about the art establishment.
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Alyse Emdur explores the hand-crafted murals produced by prison inmates, which show whimsical worlds conjured from the inmates' imaginations.
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Polyglot rockers Chicano/Son visited the KCET Studios for a lively session of their son jarocho flavored songs from East L.A.
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Artbound caught up with Taylor Brode of Brooklyn label Sacred Bones to discuss their five year anniversary show in Pioneertown and what role Joshua Tree plays in their imaginations.
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The Milk Carton Kids play the Luckman Auditorium December 1. Artbound caught up with the duo to explore the craft behind their bittersweet brand of Americana.
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Artbound was presented with the 1st Place Award for "Documentary or Special Program, Short" at the 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards for our story, Date Farmers: Desert Detritus Becomes Chicano Pop Art.
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LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences debut the first U.S. retrospective of Kubrick's work on November 1. Artbound caught up with Christiane Harlan, Kubrick's wife of over four decades.
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LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences debut the first U.S. retrospective of Kubrick's work on November 1. Artbound caught up with Jan Harlan, Kubrick's producer of all his films after "Barry Lyndon" (1975) to talk about the work of the legendary director.
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Visual artist Charlie White collaborates with avant electronic musician Boom Bip aka Brian Hollon, on a new endeavor, Music For Sleeping Children, which pairs interviews with adolescent girls with club-rocking beats.
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Tijuana-born, L.A.-based artist Tanya Aguiñiga is known for her furniture that is covered with felt. For her "performance crafting" collaboration with Artbound, she trades place with her objects, and invites a group of workers to cover her from head-to-toe in felt.
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Posted A Conversation On Sound With Isis' Aaron Turner, William Fowler Collins, Artist Steve Roden, and Curator Robert Crouch
in ArtboundAt the recent performance of A Slow Unraveling, the nature of sound and music was given a stress test as musicians and artists pushed the artform to its limits, and beyond. -
An image doesn't always tell the whole story. To find out what really happens in front of -- and behind -- the lens, Artbound asked a few of the Dirty Lights Exhibit photographers to select one of their photos from the exhibit, and give us a story to go with it.
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Artbound caught up with Sean Carlson, the festival's founder to learn about where FYF came from and where it's going.
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As the World Trade Center burned, William Basinski scored the soundtrack to Armageddon and rebirth. Ten years later, his Disintegration Loops strike a haunting and beautiful chord.
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The airy, minimalist sounds of Venice Beach-raised Groundislava, aka Jasper Patterson are laptop jams at their best.
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Artbound's music series Hear and Now, where we explore songs with a sense of place. The idea is simple: put Southern California musicians in the locations that inspired a song, and document a performance of the song in that place. For this session, DJ Cut Chemist makes a mix for Los Angeles, performing five songs in five locations from downtown to the beach. All in one day.
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Artist Alex Schaefer paints banks on fire and gets arrested for chalk drawings. He's a multimedia artist whose medium is the media; confronting representation in the age of surveillance.
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Artbound and photographer Catherine Opie discuss how photography and music interface with nostalgia and rundown the list of songs on her mixtape for the SASSAS listening party.
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For his new project "YELLOW LINE," French filmmaker Simon Rouby tagged along with hulking freeway striping machines, placing canvases underneath these snail-paced trucks, creating art from the yellow paint meant for the road.
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Artbound's music series Hear and Now, where we explore songs with a sense of place. The idea is simple: put Southern California musicians in the locations that inspired a song, and document a performance of the song in that place. In this installment, the multicultural Angeleno band Quetzal performs in a downtown bus station where migrant workers and international travelers first experience the sprawling city.
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Posted MURS, Dumbfoundead, & Medusa Discuss Freestyling Mecca Project Blowed and Why Hip Hop Lacks Female MC's
in ArtboundThree generations of L.A. hip hop stars discuss the state of rap today. -
Jeans Wilder makes hazy, swaying rock, soaked in shadows and sunshine. Listen to his warped "Wall of Sound" style on his new album "Totally," streaming in its entirety on Artbound.
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Fishbone was the South L.A.'s, and quite possibly the world's, only ska-punk-metal-funk freakazoids. Bassist John "Norwood" Fisher tells the story behind the spazzy band.
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The ethereal beats of Artbound's drone art video were made by Anenon, the cerebral music project by Brian Simon.
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This Friday, L.A.'s music collective Dublab and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles will present "Krautrock Classics, An Evening of Cosmic German Music." The first showcase of the minimalist electronic music of Germany will offer some original sounds alongside well-regarded musicians covering...
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Artist Alexandra Grant shares her personal playlist from her SASSAS performance at the house of Pae White and Tom Marble.
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Americana musician Robert Francis makes heart-clutching, uplifting anthems. Artbound has your first listen of his new album "Strangers in the First Place." Check it out!
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Your votes will help determine which Artbound article from last week will become a video.
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LACMA chose L.A. rapper MURS to curate the first ever hip hop series at the museum. Now he heads up the Through the Mic series at the museum that he used to visit while ditching high school.
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Filmmaker Sharon Lockhart intently interprets the world under her watchful lens.
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Artbound sat down with artist/musician Llyn Foulkes to discuss the psychology behind his works, how music soothes his soul, and what he really thinks about the art establishment.
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Alyse Emdur explores the hand-crafted murals produced by prison inmates, which show whimsical worlds conjured from the inmates' imaginations.
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Polyglot rockers Chicano/Son visited the KCET Studios for a lively session of their son jarocho flavored songs from East L.A.
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Artbound caught up with Taylor Brode of Brooklyn label Sacred Bones to discuss their five year anniversary show in Pioneertown and what role Joshua Tree plays in their imaginations.
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The Milk Carton Kids play the Luckman Auditorium December 1. Artbound caught up with the duo to explore the craft behind their bittersweet brand of Americana.
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Artbound was presented with the 1st Place Award for "Documentary or Special Program, Short" at the 5th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards for our story, Date Farmers: Desert Detritus Becomes Chicano Pop Art.
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LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences debut the first U.S. retrospective of Kubrick's work on November 1. Artbound caught up with Christiane Harlan, Kubrick's wife of over four decades.
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LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences debut the first U.S. retrospective of Kubrick's work on November 1. Artbound caught up with Jan Harlan, Kubrick's producer of all his films after "Barry Lyndon" (1975) to talk about the work of the legendary director.
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Visual artist Charlie White collaborates with avant electronic musician Boom Bip aka Brian Hollon, on a new endeavor, Music For Sleeping Children, which pairs interviews with adolescent girls with club-rocking beats.
