Girl Underground Music is an online platform driven around the goal to provide underground artists a platform, and viewers a place to discover new music. Primarily serving new and local artists in the long lost art of interviews and reviews, G.U.M. considers all genres and form of arts as submissions, and dives further to find the music stories that matter.

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Authors

Janette Ayub   

Janette is a former KSPC disc jockey that created Girl Underground in a panic during sound check when she didn’t have a name for her show and stumbled across a Girl in a Coma CD, while her lazy eye spotted the word “underground.” Some might also note she is a connoisseur of wings who collects cats in her spare time.

She is also a recovering carnivore.

 Rachel Schroeder

Rachel is a freelance boom operator and full-time music lover. When she’s not holding her arms above her head for hours, she’s digging around for new music and buying ALL the concert tickets.

Mariana Martinez

Mariana Martinez is a music enthusiast, writer, and dancer currently studying at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Mariana has channelled her love of music through writing musician interviews and hosting a weekly show with KOXY Radio. When she is not DJing as Funky Mar, you can find her front row at any show.

Aria Silva-Espinosa 

Likes: Lecturing on social inequalities, cats, gay bars, grilled cheese, hokey crystal stores and binge watching Forensic Files. Dislikes: Racism, hot sauce that isn’t hot enough, parking tickets. Aria lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles with her two cats and two roommates who actually own and care for the cats. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Southeastern Louisiana University and the degree itself now sits in the back of her closet gathering dust. She can usually be found haunting the Echoplex or Charles Bukowski’s old hangout, the Smog Cutter. She isn’t very friendly but would give you the shirt off her back if you asked, depending on which shirt it is.

Illsamar

Illsamar is a creative of the music realm who raps, assists in photography, and now lends her knowledge in the written form.

Toni Wisner

Toni Wisner is a manager at Smart Post Sound during the day and a Cupcake Goddess in between. Favorite artists of all time is David Bowie, and her current bands that she loves are: MuteMath, Twenty-One Pilots, Dirty Loops, Collective Soul, Foo Fighters, Tori Kelly, and all of Quincy Jones’ artists, i.e., Alfredo Rodriguez, Jacob Collier, Jonah Nilsson, and anything that has to do with Robert Plant/Led Zeppelin, Steve Lukather/Toto and Paul Mc Cartney.

Contributing Photographers

Martin Santacruz Jr.

Martin Santacruz Jr. is a freelance photographer/videographer always ready to capture the next great gig in the sky… metaphorically speaking.

* This picture was taken inside Danny Elfman’s mother’s house. The two Emmy’s are hers.*

Amalia Sepulveda

Amalia is freelance photographer and videographer. She has an eye for design and is currently finishing up her Bachelor’s in Production at the Los Angeles Film School (makes sense).

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Cover photo: Amalia Sepulveda