Alex Dwyer

For commentary on its historic collaboration with Adidas for the LAFC Samba, the Club reached out to writer and supporter Alex Dwyer who co-hosts both the FCFC and Season Pass podcasts. He has written about LAFC for Howler, MLS, and Los Angeles Magazine.
Growing up, I doodled.
I loved sports, but when I wasn’t on the playground I dreamed of being an artist.
Unfortunately, my drawings were terrible. I lacked natural talent. All the practice in the world wasn’t going to save me.
My school noteb...

L.A. Football Club’s charismatic captain has been able to lay low in the City of Angels, but not for much longer
Opponents fear it from Carson to Vancouver, Washington D.C. to San Jose. It’s a dance that begins with the goal in the distance, defenders scrambling across an open field in pursuit.
Then, at the perfect moment, a stroke of the left foot. The ball whips out, up, and away, looking sure to sail wide of the net. The ball swings, magnetically, violently, back—unexpectedly, impossibly i...

The club night Low End Theory was a rip in the city’s overdeveloped musical matrix. It did for underground music in Los Angeles what Jonathan Gold did for its food. It had the same impact and lifespan as Sandy Koufax for the Dodgers and Wayne Gretzky for the Kings. It was here about as long as Magic was a Laker.
If you went just once, it was hard to quit.
In the immortal words of Q-Tip on “Excursions,” the opening track of A Tribe Called Quest’s 1991 album The Low End Theory, the event was wh...

Must music festival tickets be so expensive? Do free festivals invariably disappoint? Are the decent free festivals merely marketing ploys organizers will parlay for brand grown to eventually charge fans abhorrent fees for passes?
If the seemingly endless stream of summer concerts has shot a hole through your wallet, punctured your soul, or inflicted other irreparable damage on your ability to identify what good free music might look like, be advised that Detroit is here for you — and not jus...

A weekly club night in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, made famous by artists using computers as their chief instrument, is an unlikely place for a jazz revival. Low End Theory—named after a Tribe Called Quest album title referencing the frequency the human ear detects bass rhythms—charges $10 a head for admission, allows teenagers to enter, and has drawn huge crowds every Wednesday night since 2006.
It’s cofounder, Kevin Moo, known to most as Daddy Kev, is an equal...

In the United States, there are exactly 10 cities with over 1 million inhabitants. In China, there are more than 100. If your job involves guiding potential listeners through a door to enjoy live music, the latter location seems to provide a greater opportunity to succeed. That, however, is before accounting for variables.
Factoring the added challenge of adhering to vague bureaucratic processes for obtaining permits, placating a government cagey on self-expression, and appealing to a populac...

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