Les Disquaires de Paris: Whyd’s First Podcast [EN FRANCAIS]
PHOTO COURTESY: NADEGE SOQUET
In early December we met with the dudes from Les Disquaires de Paris, a new association that represents record stores from around Paris. Their mission: have record shops curate playlists and give listeners the details for where to buy physical records from their local record stores. It’s an awesome idea, a virtuous cycle, and a mission that we hope will continue.
Listen to their interesting story, how it works, Tony’s horrible French, and what their plans are for the future in Whyd’s very first podcast!
How Did Maxime Guedj Get 1.6 MILLION Fans? Passionate Hard Work, And A True Love Of Music
1. Can you introduce yourself? When did the music bug infect you?
Hi! I’m Maxime. Two things I love: solving problems and music. I believe music is essential to us, has always been around and will always be. Given that, I try to improve people’s lives by building web products focused on music. Passion, creativity, focus, and harmony are my four cardinal directions.
I’ve been listening to music since forever, I couldn’t sleep without it when I was a kid. It really infected me when I had the chance to be the art director at Radio Everyone. I then interviewed many artists, discovered what was going on behind the scenes and decided I wanted to be part of this world. When you see the joy you can bring to people thanks to the universal language of music, everything else looks quite boring in comparison :)
2. You founded the huge music community on Facebook “Je Ne Peux Pas Vivre Sans La Musique (La Musique)" how much time did you spend choosing its name, and how can you explain its incredible success?
It was in 2009. At that time I remember I understood the power of communities and that it should be the base of any project online. Seeing the rapid growth of Facebook, that’s where I wanted to bet and I started a group there with this name. It attracted a few people and in a few weeks we were a few thousand exchanging music there. Then Facebook released their famous “Pages.” Seeing the huge potential of a page compared to a group, I converted it (you could do that at this time). The magic of viral buzz started instantly, it was really crazy. Hundreds of people were liking it every second! I couldn’t stop refreshing my browser and for a week I couldn’t go to class because I couldn’t focus on anything other that that! In a couple of months, more than 300,000 people liked it and today we’re reaching more than 1,640,000 fans!
It would be pretentious and untrue to say that I’ve got a clear explanation of all of that it was all planned. But I can say this is the result of a few things: luck, passionate hard work, and perfect timing. One of the many things I’ve learned is you’ve got to stay creative and true to yourself along the road if you want to keep making something people truly enjoy and are willing to spread around them. I try to always remember that behind data, analytics, likes, comments, and clicks there are real people behind their screen using what I create so I’d better make something that is honest and has a positive impact.
3. How does your love for discovering new music translated into your new project Mailtape?
Mailtape is an idea I had during a trip to San Francisco. We help people discover new music in a very natural way by offering Sunday morning listening sessions. We’re trying here to create a very intimate moment where the listener can really let herself go with the music and open her ears to new sounds never heard before, without judgement.
Our home is open and inspiring artists are collaborating with us on every session, giving that way their unique touch to it. Nicolas Jaar, Connan Mockasin, Kid Koala, HVOB, Fat Freddy’s Drop and many other have already been featured.
We’re two working on it with Ludovic. We’re thinking about opening new positions in order to spread this experience to more and more people around the world.
4. Who should sign up and how can we support it?
Well, everybody course! You just need to love music and be curious. Signing up is as easy as ABC, put your email, and…that’s all! We’ll make sure to wake you up gently every Sunday morning.
If you love it and want to support us, spread the word and don’t hesitate to make donations directly through our website.
Thanks Maxime! You can subscribe to him on Whyd to keep up with some of his latest personal discoveries!
Broadcaster at Radio Campus Paris, Community Manager at JNPPVSM, Jonathan Melgar Cannot Live Without Music
IMAGE: COURTESY RADIO CAMPUS PARIS
1. Can you introduce yourself? Where are you from?
I’m Jonathan Melgar, I’m the Community Manager of JNPPVSM, a great community of music lovers on Facebook. I’m also a music broadcaster at Radio Campus Paris (93.9 FM). Everyday I dig finding the best new albums and bands. These bands just need a little push to start their careers and as far as I can, I try to give them this visibility on the radio.
I grew up in the northern suburbs of Paris, way too close to CDG airport. I now live in Paris at Menilmontant.
IMAGE: COURTESY JONATHAN’S WHYD PROFILE
2. What is Radio Campus Paris, what do you do there, and who should listen to your broadcasts?
Radio Campus Paris is an associative radio based in Paris. Its role is to give a voice to the student community in Paris. You’ll hear all kinds of radio shows on it: cinema, news, art, history, sciences, but mostly MUSIC! 200 people are working hard everyday to give the best experience possible to our audience.
It’s original, with no advertisements, fresh music, and lovely people. If you are looking for a new way to discover music, just turn on your radio to 93.9 FM in Paris.
IMAGE: COURTESY JNPPVSM
3. You just started a new adventure as the Community guy at “Je Ne Peux Pas Vivre Sans La Musique” (I can’t live without music) which could be the motto of every music lover on Whyd. What attracted you to the project and what are your goals there?
I was attracted to JNPPVSM because I’ve always had this will to share music as widely as possible. I love to ask people randomly what is the artist or song they love RIGHT NOW and I start digging in my head to find out what could be their next crush in music. Sharing is caring!
The originality of this community: they post dozens of YouTube videos everyday in order to share them with the rest of the community!
4. Time to get personal, what type of music makes you move? When did you realize that music would occupy such a large part of your life?
I think I realized that music was going to be important in my life around 20. It’s kind of late but some people will just never realize what they’re good at, ever! I had first experience in the music industry at this time and I knew I was made to dig and share music. I have to say I’m lucky, working as a music broadcaster on Radio Campus Paris and managing JNPPVSM is so cool and it’s so me! Wouah!
I just made this playlist for Whyd and its community! Hope you’ll like it.
Thanks Jonathan! Make sure you follow him on Whyd for his latest favorite tracks!
Breaking the Barrier Between Physical/Digital & Visual/Sound: The Missing Channel Interview
1. How long has The Missing Channel been around? How did it start?
The Missing Channel is a multi-shaped label that started as a experimental project in Amsterdam in 2010. It started after four years of playing gigs and creating visuals for music in various places around France and The Netherlands. We have always been interested in linking images with sound, but were quite frustrated by the conventional format of the VJing: it always consists of a screen behind a musician and is always there to somehow complete the music. But practically, it mostly acts on the same level as stage lights. How can we change that? how can both of these media really communicate? The Missing Channel was then created on this motto: always trying to approach music like we approach visuals and the other way around.
Since 2010, The Missing Channel has been creating events and connecting numerous artists together on the internet first, and then during real gigs or exhibitions. The Missing Channel is more about bringing people together rather than patronizing them like any conventional label would.
2. What is unique about The Missing Channel?
The Missing Channel is unique only by its plurality, it is fed by the different actors that all brings their own cultural and artistic background. This joyful mess, somewhere along the creative process, creates a real experimental atmosphere that brings all the actors of the label together in a single movement.
The Missing Channel is a label for a movement. Especially in a literal sense: it aims at studying music and visuals by experimenting with the moving media that carries and expresses themselves and/or a message. The Missing Channel could be described as a net-label. It was born on the digital medium, the internet, but should not remain intangible, that is why we always try to materialize all the work on a physical level: gigs, exhibitions, books, posters… But those media are not treated as merchandising and especially carriers the work of the Label, each object released carries the concept of The Missing Channel: Why can’t a poster be a song? Why can’t we store an image inside a song? Why can’t a gig be played over internet to cross the physical distances?
3. Who should listen to your music?
It is always hard to describe an audience especially when you try to think about music and visuals outside the conventional “trend tribes” that characterize external visual outlook along with a specific music genre. Let’s say we like to cross borders, so on the same level we always love when people that usually listen to one specific type of music, who belong to one specific music tribe, end up in one of your gigs listening to our music. And whether they like it or not, there is always an interesting talk that emerges from our confrontation.
But of course we do electronic music, which means that we do compose music with analog and electronic devices, but that’s all. We are inspired by lots of genres of music and we try to play with composition dogma that exists in electronic music as well as in metal, rap music, etc….
So everybody should listen to our music, everybody with an open mind who wants to expand their usual listening habits. We would not say that people who like “electro” should listen to our music (they can of course) but actually this word was invented at the end of the 80s by major labels in order to embody all the electronic genres and this decision ended up normalizing and narrowing electronic music down until what we know today as “electro music.”
4. In your opinion, how are you changing the dynamic between music and images?
You can only change something when you propose something different and do it in a generous way. What we do are proposals for a new way of seeing the relationship between images and sound. We try to experiment during events, but also when we release new songs, in the digital or physical world. For an example, for the first physical release on The Missing Channel, PaulusP’s Pagus EP, we tried to question how labels usually distribute music: we decided to store the whole EP on mediafire and make is available for free, but the physical version had to add something to that. So we gave away a pack with three visual cards and one CD, the visuals printed on the cards were actually the song directly translated into image form, using a transformation process and the CD was empty, with the URL to download the EP. The whole idea was to question the CD as a medium that carries music and create a real communication between the digital and physical version. And this communication continues with the user as he is able to burn the EP as well as other songs he would judge interesting to juxtapose.
When we talk about the relationship between music and visuals, we can not avoid the question of the representation of the artist and his music on state. Each live event is for us an opportunity to try to understand the role of the DJ as part of a musical show. This always raises some questions like: does the DJ/Musician have to stage himself, stage his own music? Does this mean that he has to exacerbate his movements? Show his instruments in some sort of attept to prove that he is indeed “making” and not only “playing” (like pressing play on a device) music? That is why every artist on the label have a kind of amateurism in common in their way of crafting music. We all try to make things and not only play them well, and just like an amateur does, when we make things, we experiment, we try, make mistakes but end up most of the time surprising ourselves.
Thanks for this very innovative look at the music world! Subscribe to The Missing Channel on Whyd for all of their latest tracks!
Music Business Entrepreneur, Artist, Journalist, Former Footballer, and Quentin Lechemia is still only 23 years old
1. Can you introduce yourself? Where are you from and when did you realize that music was going to play a big part in your life?
My name is Quentin Lechémia, so there’s that. All jokes about my last name are definitely welcome. I am 23 years old and I follow a rather atypical path. After completing an intensive sporting effort (five years playing on l’AS St-Etienne, and golfing championships after), I quickly started an Electro-pop due called Destronics, that kicked off and has since seriously encouraged me to throw myself into music. I am also oriented towards studying accounting in Lyon. My DSCG Masters convinced me of one thing: don’t be an accountant, but put my imagination (and my developer skills that I picked up in high school) towards being an entrepreneur. So I created my first sites and my start up MyBandMarket that hosts most notably the news outlet MyBandNews that unifies about thirty other editors.
2. Tell us about MyBandMarket. What is its objective and who is it for?
MyBandMarket is part of a simple proposition: artists have a hard time finding dates for shows, and booking agents - professionals as well as amateurs - often have difficulty finding artists to play at their events. Why not create a platform that brings the two together? Thus MyBandMarket was born, giving each booker the ability to search for an artist based on criteria like budget, style of music, place, and find the gem in the rough for their event. It’s an artistic database like we’ve never seen in the music sector.
3. You are also a music and business journalist for Presse-Citron. How do you see your role as a journalist, and what are the types of stories that attract you the most?
You must know that I was a big fan of Presse Citron from the start, and I had a connection to Eric Dupin, its founder. I wanted to check in with him and see if a column about digital music would be interesting. He is also a music lover, and loved the idea immediately. Each week, I like to share the cool things I find, and ridiculous things too about the industry that is in the middle of a total transformation. And I always love finding new concepts that pull the music industry up! Whyd, like a lot of other start ups, deserves a certain visibility. And it’s my job at Presse Citron to put them forward.
Concerning the news that fascinates me the most, they are still mostly business or technology related. But I also can’t write about everything I love, it would take up way too much time!
4. What should we look forward to in 2014?
To commemorate the new version 2.0 of MyBandMarket, we are going to launch a big European contest called EuroMusic Contest 2014: a Eurovision 2.0. Our primary goal: break the barriers of Eurovision today, creating a contest that is driven by innovative technologies and open to all European artists.
We already did one edition of EuroMusic Contest in a partnership with Soundcloud in 2011 when I was in London. It generated more than 110,000 votes and 2,200 sign ups. We’re doing it again with some awesome partners like the TV Channel and VOD platform iConcerts; Swarmplanet - a new streaming platform that works like a peer to peer network and allows us to get an HD quality image through a 3G connection with just three seconds of delay; and Jamendo. A great adventure is waiting for us!
If you Whyd fans want to support the project, don’t hesitate to participate in our crowd funding campaign on KissKissBankBank. http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/euromusic-contest-2014
Sounds awesome! Make sure to subscribe to Quentin on Whyd!
The Ambitious Mind behind Whitezine, Sayfat & FraisFrais: Meet Joseph Ayoub
1. Can you introduce yourself? What are the different sides to your personality and how do they show up in your projects?
My name is Joseph, I grew up in Lebanon and I’ve been living for 10 years in France. I’m an entrepreneur doing all kinds of things and sort of a creative person. I don’t have any particular talent but when I am passionate by a subject, I put all the energy driving people, ideas, and work into it, so that it becomes what I want it to be. It fails very often, and succeeds from time to time.
2. What is the concept for FraisFrais? What about its music side?
FraisFrais was born about six months ago in my mind. I used to read a web magazine that was clearly directed towards women. I knew a couple of friends around me who used to read it too. So I told myself “we should do this but for men.” It evolved to become what it is, a place where my friends and I drop some posts about culture, lifestyle, food, buzz, and what makes our own world go round. And of course, music is a big part of our world. All the people who worked with us on the project love music. I personally cannot stand a day without music. It was more than obvious that we were going to talk about music on it.
3. What about Whitezine? When did you start that project and who should check out the site?
Whitezine started about five years ago now. I used to have another smaller blog with a cool editorial line. When I sold tha tblog, I knew I wanted to do something more, something maybe bigger or that could talk to more people. So I created Whitezine, a place for trends when it comes to digital art and fashion. It has been in French and English since day one, gathering dozens of writers and millions of readers since it was created.
4. What should we look forward to from you in 2014?
I love creating stuff. In 2009 I created Whitezine and in 2013 I created a T-shirt brand called Sayfat. But for 2014 I’ll probably be focusing on being sustainable in the company I just launched (an agency for online brand communication). Whitezine, FraisFrais & Sayfat are now part of this company, hopefully by 2014 I’ll still be alive and have some people working with me on cool projects.
Make sure to subscribe to Joseph on Whyd to keep up with his latest musical discoveries!
The man, the myth, the legend: JIESS from Point Ephemere
It is a very big day for us here at Whyd today, as we present the interview with one of the guys who has helped to catapult Whyd to where we are today. We’re talking about the man with the glasses: JIESS. We’re very happy to finally get his personal story, so please, enjoy and share!
1. Can you introduce yourself? What do you do in your professional life?
My name is JIESS (Jean-Sebastien Nicolet) I am a musical activist who has worn multiple hats for many year now. I create line ups and manage concert venues, festivals, handle managing, booking, etc. I have held pretty much every position possible in the domain of live music.
And I will continue to go all in as long as I can still afford to live, as long as my passion is renewed, and as long as there are cool people to share it with.
2. Tell us all how you do your research for selection groups to come and play at Paris’s Point Éphémère (Point FMR).
This is a difficult question.
The reconnaissance from my own point of view is an important starting point for the work of creating line ups: understanding that which I like, that which other people will like, what is artistically important, what is commercially viable, etc.
It is also tied to a particular course (I come from the association and world of radio) therefore I have always been involved in the sharing, a vision of a music lover. I try to stay faithful to what I’ve always built.
Then, it’s also a question of network: we build a line up with professionals (agents, tour managers, labels, media, and of course the public) and it is the character of Point FMR to defend young artists, discoveries in the large field of independent music (if that even means anything anymore!) whatever their musical style, without a question of clique, and to give our tool of a concert venue to producers, associations, festivals, etc.
Finally, Point FMR is a small venue (300 places) that cultivated its identity across esthetics and musical colors: mostly indie pop, rock, electronic, post punk, etc. Point FMR is above all a team, a global project that is not just musical (we have the residences, associative activities, dances, plastic art exhibits, a bar, etc).
I would conclude that my job is to filter the best music out of a very, very large amount of propositions that inundate our ears, our media, and our social networks; to choose with all of my subjectivity that which seems to make sense not only in the short term; and the most simple point is to not wait for things to come to me but to go out and find that curious little beast that tiptoes somewhere along the tapestry of the world, in a studio, in a concert hall…
3. What is your favorite style of music personally?
Difficult to say without falling into the perennial “I like everything.” My musical terrain is somewhere between noisy pop/math rock/post punk/new wave from my adolescence and contemporary music, classic, baroque….
The playing field is large and it leaves only a few esthetic styles of music by the wayside, among which there is potentially electro pure and hard (like gabber), and reggae and ska, which I’m not a huge fan of.
4. What are your other projects? Do you have ambitions for 2014?
I am always running after 10 rabbits at the same time!
On the professional side, I have a great festival MO’FO (festival at Mains d’Oeuvres/St. Ouen) strapping in during January; tours to organize for the artists I’m with at Imperial (Cheveu, Frustration, Wall of Death, Mein Sohn William, and many others); lots of surprises, projects that are still secret that I will bring to life as the calendar advances. On the human side, I hope that 2014 will be a little bit more relaxed, with more time for my family too.
Meet Spanish Electro Music Blogging Pioneers: Neonized
1. Can you tell us about yourself? When did you first start to love music?
Well, I’m a psychologist with a postgraduate on HR so my studies are not very related to music. I started loving music when I was a child. I did not have a big music background (my forefathers were not big music collectors or musicians), but they introduced me to Spanish commercial music.
When I was 11/12 I discovered Blur, and since then, I started focusing on some kind of pop-indie and especially British music.
Then when I was about 17 I had a friend who always loved trance music, but I kind of hated electronic stuff. After a couple of years I started to go out to a club in my town (Sala Golfus) where they mixed electronic and some indie stuff, and since then I love electronic music.
2. Give us the backstory of Neonized. When did you start it and what was the music blogging landscape like then?
NNZD was born in May of 2007, when Fer and Uga decided to found a blog in Spanish, since there were no electronic music blogs in Spanish, so we were “pioneers.” It was the Discodust, Discobelle, Palmsout and that kind of blogs time, so they were our influences in some way. I started writing in June and started taking the reins of Neonized between 2008-09.
3. What type of music do you feature? Who should come check out your site?
We used to feature electronic music. In most of its shapes (we try to avoid EDM). We like music, in general, so if we think it’s great, we will feature it in a post or by sharing it on our social networks, no matter if it’s electro, house, juke, old school, or seapunk.
People who want to be updated on electronic music, can visit us. Also we have a weekly chart (which we moved to Whyd a couple of weeks ago thats to the EASY way to make it on this platform!) where we add the songs we have listened the most during the week. And I have to say they’re fucking great! They’re done by a few contributors, so it’s a nice mix of styles.
4. Are you working on anything specific that we should look forward to in the near future?
We’re working on something that should definitely make people love Neonized. We’re planning a change on the web. Redesigning it, new sections, different content (working on more exclusive stuff) and working a lot on Neonized Records. Because, if some of you don’t know, we have a record label!
We want to be a reference label in Spain, we want to show new artists and new stuff from people who are looking for a friendly label to show their work.
Subscribe to Neonized on Whyd to check out their latest favorites!
Reggaelizing Romania and the world: Interview with Reggaelize It!
1. When did you start Reggaelize It! and what was your goal originally?
Well, we started our reggae journey in 2007 under another name (Giarmaica) which we changed in 2011 to “Reggaelize It!.”
The passion for reggae music was our driving force, and we wanted to spread it to the Romanian massive as well, to make a movement, to make a change.
We started as an online reggae magazine written in Romanian, having as a main goal the promotion of reggae music in Romania, and also trying to take part int he growth of the Romanian reggae movement by making reggae parties and live events with foreign artists from time to time.
Between 2007 and 2013 the community that we built around this project grew quite a lot, and it is so diverse, that the Romanians are no longer a majority, fact that made us think about starting to write in English, which we did.
“Reggaelize It!" original purpose was and still is to promote reggae music and culture, always bringing the top reggae related news closer to the music lovers. The only thing that has changed from the beginning is that now we are writing for an international audience.
2. What’s the reggae scene like in Romania?
Unfortunately, reggae music is still an underground genre here. The good thing is that there was obviously a growth in the past two years, regarding the reggae events which increased a lot, and also regarding the artists. You can easily notice the influence of reggae/ragga/dancehall music on the mainstream artists latest releases, who aren’t usually into reggae music.
The reggae scene in Romania is not very big compared to other countries in Eastern Europe, but it’s growing and that makes us happy. For now we wish for more Romanian artists to come onto the scene, and also for more people to attend at the events that are happening the country. And of course, we also wish for a major reggae festival, like many other countries have in the area!
3. Who are some of the artists that you are listening to the most right now?
There are quite a lot of great artists that we enjoy out there, and we could fill up some pages but here are a few preferences from the “Reggaelize It!" team members:
Filip: (Founder of “Reggaelize It!”) Well, I’m listening to a wide range of artists, from classic reggae like Bob Marley, The Skatalites or Peter Tosh, to the new wave of reggae artists like Kabaka Pyramid. Also I really enjoy French artists like Admiral T, MIssie Bamboo, Kalash or Tairo.
Vlad: (Event Manager at “Reggaelize It!”) Peter Tosh, Jacob Miller, Dennis Brown, Omar Perry, Gentleman, Chronixx.
Georgiana: (PR at “Reggaelize It!”) Personally, I pay a close attention to the new wave of reggae, the ongoing reggae revival movement and its promising talented youths who are bringing back the positivity and the original reggae flavor, such as Protoje, Chronixx, Kabaka Pyramid, Dubtonic Kru, Roots Underground.) I enjoy a large variety of artists from Dancehall representative figures like Beenie Man, Buju Banton, Busy Signal, Damian Marley, to young reggae voices such as Lion D, Jah Sun, Naama, Patrice.
4. Do you see reggae as being on the rise globally? How is it being integrated into other genres of music?
Yes, it definitely is on the rise. From the middle 90’s, the music has known a great development with a return to its original values from the golden era of reggae. Despite the new artists who are coming with the new wave of reggae, you can see international big artists from a wide range of genres of music “adopting” a little reggae/dancehall flavor. Rihanna, Beyonce, Snoop Dogg turning into Snoop Lion, Eddie Murphy singing along with him, a lot of things are happening. And I think it’s good, it helps in a way or another to bring Reggae music closer to those who didn’t get in touch with it before.
Make sure you Subscribe to Reggaelize It! on Whyd to keep up with their latest discoveries!
Interview with Lets Live Fast: Music, Fashion & Inspiration
1. Tell us about yourselves. How did you start collaborating?
Hey! My name is Nicole “MJ” and I co-founded and blog for Lets Live Fast. I actually started, ran and relaunched this blog with my former college roommate, Chel. We have been best friends and roommates for as long as I can remember, and seeing that we have overlapping tastes in style, music, and lifestyle in general, it seemed only natural for us to enter the blogosphere and share what we like and appreciate with the online world (or at least those who cared to visit our site :)
2. When did you start Lets Live Fast? What is your primary goal for the project?
Lets Live Fast was something Chel and I started in sophomore year of college: it started off as a casual style and inspiration boards depending on what we were currently obsessed with in the fashion world. This, however, evolved into the creation of the LLF Monthly spotlight features, where we got up close and personal with our favorite up-and-coming bloggers, some of whom are actually super successful now (re: Aimee Song & Zanita Whittington, to name a few).
Anyway, soon after, life got in the way so Chel and I took a break from blogging. It wasn’t only until several months ago that we decided to relaunch and rebrand Lets Live Fast as LLF Interview, as we decided to build on the “discovery” and social aspects of “meeting” new and inspiring people throughout the world wide web from the old Lets Live Fast.
3. What topics do you cover, and what perspective do you bring to the table?
Our main pages are Style and Sound, in other words, we primarily focus on fashion and music. What we try to bring to the table is this: build taste, at least our version of it, by helping people discover new, talented, and inspiring people. We want LLF to be the primary “launching” platform of some sorts for young creative go-getters to be discovered by the LLF audience and eventually, the rest of the world. For example, I curate a Soundcloud (and of course Whyd) profile that I hope to use as an A&R tool to help me find the artists that are worth getting to know. Admittedly, LLF is still very much a work-in-progress, but it is definitely a space to watch!
4. What can we look forward to from LLF in the near future?
More music, more style, and more interviews! We love meeting new people, albeit virtually… everyone always has an interesting story to tell. And although we spotlight those delving into fashion and/or music, I think we will eventually extend our focus and feature people who we find inspiring, in general no matter which field. But for now, keep up on our Soundcloud and Whyd pages, it’ll definitely give you a taste of who we are and what LLF strives to be.
Don’t forget to follow LLF on Twitter and Like their Facebook page too!