Metro Art Presents

Deep Routes

Project Description

Deep Routes is created in partnership with local community driven radio and arts foundation dublab. Deep Routes explores the rich musical histories embedded in the Los Angeles landscape. Each episode features a spectrum of voices and multimedia that dives into the intersecting roots and routes found within the streets, buildings, and neighborhoods of Los Angeles corresponding with Metro Bus, Rail and Bike Share.

Season 2

A new season of episodes offer new perspectives shared through oral histories with local artists, business owners and community leaders. Episodes traverse sounds from the LA Filipino/a/x Diaspora to the Cumbia Sonidera scene on Broadway to the rave scene in the San Gabriel Valley, and beyond.

Mon, 4/3/2023: Live at Union Station – May 7, 2022
Mon, 4/24/2023: LA’s Filipinx Diaspora – It’s Not A Genre, It’s People
Mon, 5/8/2023: Cumbia Sonidera on Broadway
Mon, 5/22/2023: Groovin’ in the SGV, with Latin house music
Mon, 6/12/2023: Instrumental City
Mon, 7/10/2023: Quetzal: One Band, Many Movements
Mon, TBD 2023: Stories and Sounds of the Tongva

🔊 Listen live every 2nd and 4th Monday at 7pm

🔊 Listen to past episodes here

Season 1

Click titles below to listen and learn more

: Deep Routes, Ep. 1: Downtown L.A., Punk’s Edge

: Deep Routes, Ep. 2: Wilshire Blvd, LA’s Equator

: Deep Routes, Ep. 3: The Crenshaw Continuum

: Deep Routes, Ep. 4: Riot on Sunset Strip, 1966

: Deep Routes, Ep. 5: Silver Lake, Industrial Strength Queer

: Deep Routes, Ep. 6: Frogtown, Music at the River’s Edge