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José G. Anguiano is an Assistant Professor in Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and The Honors College at California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Anguiano is a cultural studies scholar with a primary focus in listeners and audiences of popular music. His primary focus is on sound cultures of Southern California. Dr. Anguiano’s research documents how popular music links communities of listeners across time and space, and how listening can be an active and creative form of claiming space, citizenship and respect.

Nicolette Rohr is a graduate student in history at the University of California, Riverside. She studies U.S. history and public history.

Marissa Gluck is a writer, speaker, and consultant covering the marketing and media industries. Marissa became interested in Los Angeles' architecture as she was completing her master's thesis for the London School of Economics and USC. Thus began a love affair with L.A.'s buildings, sushi and sun. In her spare time, Marissa writes about L.A. real estate, architecture and urban planning for the L.A. Times, the Atlantic Cities, and LAmag, volunteers as a docent for the Schindler House in West Hollywood, and chases after late night taco trucks. Follow her at @marissagluck.

San Francisco transplant to Los Angeles, Bryan spent his twenties on the road with his band while managing to hold down his job at the legendary independent punk record label Slash. He started publishing company "Kill Your Idols" in 1999 and won the 2000 Firecracker Award for his debut book, "Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Movement." "Post No Bills: Shepard Fairey," "Punk Is Dead: Punk Is Everything," "Metro," "Ask The Angels," "Seven Years with Rhymesayers," "101 Essential Rock LPs," and "Message Sage Vaughn" would follow. He co-owns Beta Petrol, an award winning music supervision and production company, and has produced music for some of the largest brands in the world as well as many acclaimed independent films. Beta Petrol celebrated the success of "Logorama," winning the 2010 Academy Award Oscar for best short animated film and earning a Cannes Bronze Lion Award for their Music on Nike's "?Run To You' Campaign for 2012.

Tess Wilson is a floral designer, embroiderer, and regular contributor to Apartment Therapy, and has been known to make cakes on occasion. She lives in a little house with a big garden.

is a Research and Engagement Intern for the Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront Collaborative.

Research and Engagement Intern for the Northeast Los Angeles Riverfront Collaborative.

Born in the Midwest to a world-class shopaholic and her barrister husband, my formative years illustrate a life destined to end up as a "fair yet critical" fashionista, artist & lover of life. Hours of sorting at Loehmann's, unafraid of communal dressing rooms even in my teen years, my life changed radically with the installation of cable television at my parents mid-century suburban Denver home, and the subsequent obsession with M-TV began. The impact on the cotillion-going "Symphony Debutante" was a sudden transformation into a pink-haired "New Romantic" desperate to know everything there was to know about music, fashion & pop culture (or imported from England). Only my soda-jerk job at Baskin-Robbins seemed to hold me back from my fated life as artist, costumer, image consultant, writer and designer.