Audio Podcast: Indy Music Profile: Gerardo Ruiz-Tovar by MarcoVGL You can hear the the sound of Gerardo’s fingers sliding up and down the Ukulele as he sits down with me for the interview. He is nervous, and strums it every once in a while. Gerardo Ruiz-Tovar is a musician residing in...

It was in a small bedroom of a high school student where Jesus Galaviz recorded his EP, “Desempleado” in 2010. Jesus had been recently fired from his job as a welder for an agricultural company on the Eastern Coachella Valley. He had been working there for five years, after moving...