Estelle, Kar3n and I are invading The IrRegular Show on Contagious Radio tonight at 8:00 p.m. PST. You can listen anywhere in the world through the wonders of the Internet. Below is the bio I wrote for us and pictures. See if you can guess who is who.
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Once upon a time, when Estelle Wall and Liz Ohanesian were college roommates, they dreamt of starting a band. Then they realized that they couldn't sing. Nor could they play anything more than "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the telephone.
Musical ineptitude aside, Estelle and Liz have dedicated a good chunk of their lives in pursuit of the perfect song. While students at Loyola Marymount University in the late-1990s, they DJed at Los Angeles' renowned college station, KXLU 88.9 F.M. During that time, they championed Bis' should-have-been hit single "Eurodisco" and just about everything recorded by Belle and Sebastian, interviewed more bands than they can count and even offended one Dutch duo by serving cold beer.
Since graduating, Estelle went on to research cures for various diseases. Liz became a club DJ and music writer whose work can be found in such publications as Outburn and Razorcake. Both blather about music at The People's Dance Party, a blog/webzine created by Liz and fellow LMU alum Kar3n that will show you how to dismantle your hipster facade one day at a time.
Kar3n, who lived shouting distance (literally) from Estelle and Liz in college, spent her formative years stomping around various LA clubs of a dark persuasion in really big boots. During that time, she developed a knack for accurately portraying the Los Angeles club scene through a series of gaunt cartoon figures drawn on cocktail napkins, which you will no doubt find on Ebay someday. Her finely tuned observation skills and obsession with angry beatniks resulted in the animated feature you really should have seen, The Caffiend. When not busy working in the film industry as something other than an assistant, Kar3n puts her left hand to the test as a graphic designer.