Wesley Johnson News

Wesley Johnson—AKA WesdaRuler—knows the highs of artistic and personal fulfillment and the deep lows of struggle and burden. Which is to say, he's like most folks. Ocean Drive is more than likely the first exposure the world at large will have to Johnson and, coincidently, it's no small matter that it's on Ocean Drive that we find him most exposed. The Athens, GA beatsmith has spent years making his distinctly idiosyncratic music which has included time spent making headphone heavy boom bap to collectively conscious psychedelia. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that his voice was ever heard on his recordings and it surprised so many longtime listeners that he was asked more than once who the MC was. Once he unleashed his lyrics, though, there really was no turning back. Although deftly skilled in the lab and a solid producer for multiple collaborations –neither of which have slowed down or show any signs of receding from his heavily scheduled calendar—WesDaRuler is a man, paradoxically, transitioning while arriving.  

Wesley Johnson—AKA WesdaRuler—knows the highs of artistic and personal fulfillment and the deep lows of struggle and burden. Which is to say, he's like most folks. Ocean Drive is more than likely the first exposure the world at large will have to Johnson and, coincidently, it's no small matter that it's on Ocean Drive that we find him most exposed. The Athens, GA beatsmith has spent years making his distinctly idiosyncratic music which has included time spent making headphone heavy boom bap to collectively conscious psychedelia. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that his voice was ever heard on his recordings and it surprised so many longtime listeners that he was asked more than once who the MC was. Once he unleashed his lyrics, though, there really was no turning back. Although deftly skilled in the lab and a solid producer for multiple collaborations –neither of which have slowed down or show any signs of receding from his heavily scheduled calendar—WesDaRuler is a man, paradoxically, transitioning while arriving.  

John Haworth, despite innate shyness, has floated upward in a comfortable home environment under the influence of much older sisters and their friends. After he begins a new school in the early fifties, the seven-year old is looking lost when a classmate, Martin Holford, decides to take him under his wing. And so begins a long friendship.

Actress and writer Evelyn Lorena will host a fundraiser for her new webseries, entitled Crash Dance, to be held at Room 5 Lounge; 143 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif., tonight, May 8, 2013 starting at 8:00 p.m.