Photos by Dylan Nguyen It’s a Tuesday night at the Cornerstone in Berkeley, California. First in line is a 14 year old kid who brought his mom as a chaperone. The line behind him goes almost to the end of the block. This past Sunday, ezcodylee made his Rolling Loud debut in front of thousands. Two days later, the ceiling is low and the stage is close enough to touch. Max Vukovic, 23, came with his ezcodylee shirt on, listening to the artist long enough to have an opinion about what it means...

buffetboyjohn had never touched a basketball in his life until his mom forced him to try out for the freshman team at West Orange High School. The experience can be defined by one word: “Embarrassing, I deadass embarrassed myself. Basketball was not for me.” West Orange, New Jersey is home to Thomas Edison’s laboratory where he perfected the phonograph in 1887, revolutionizing the way people consumed the wavelengths of sound and creating the commercial music industry we know today. What the...

Before Bianca Espino revealed herself as an artist to the public eye, she had a living room full of instruments that had no business being there. Her dad immigrated from the Philippines to Canada with little to his name. When he landed on new soil, the first thing he purchased was not an apartment – it was a guitar and a piano. Not long after that, a church he frequently attended was throwing out their drum kit. He pulled it from the dumpster and hauled it back as a welcomed addition to his...