When I picked him up for our interview, Jonwayne was wearing a soccer shirt, athletic shorts, and flip-flops. And he was wearing that same getup when he performed an excellent set to a mix of stoned teenagers and OG Jonwayniacs that same night at Echo Park Rising. That’s not entirely true, I guess: he’d judiciously […]

If you want to assess the evolution of the Wayniac contrast his newest “900” with the beats on his formal debut, Bowser.  The latter was recorded when he was still a teen and rode the wave of 8-bit flips and Mario Bros. slaps. It hit hard but there was little dynamics. What the descendent of […]