The 808 Scene Zine is a printed and online magazine that covers Hawaii's alternative music, art, and tattoo scenes. On this site you will find interviews with and features about Hawaii's musicians, stories about shows, CD reviews, upcoming events, and interviews about tattoos. Check us out on Myspace and Facebook, too. Do you have something to say? Click on Scene Tweets to the left and tweet whatever you like. Your first tweet will have to be approved, but after that, you can post as much as you like.
Just off Ala Moana Boulevard, in the Hokua building, which houses a variety of other businesses across from Ward Center, a small hair salon stares out through glass walls at the Pacific Ocean, beyond a sidewalk, a boulevard, and a beach.
The salon is a metal-and-glass machine; a slick urban stop that fuses the unique with the industrial, the creative... Read this article »
I caught up with local musician Sabrina before her Kaleidoscope show at Thirtynine Hotel in Chinatown. Joining her in performance that evening was her sister doing backup vocals for a few songs, as well as Mike Pooley, the guitar player/vocalist from Pink Mist and Painted Highways.
So as the daughter of a mariachi and a hula dancer, who is Sabrina and what is her music all... Read this article »
Honolulu is a city in transition. History and future are colliding constantly on her streets like atoms. The epicenter of that collision is the Chinatown Arts District where live music venues, art galleries, new eateries and shops coexist with long time residents, neighborhood watering holes and veteran businesses. All of this mixes in a gritty urban landscape... Read this article »
