When she moved to San Francisco for college, she dove deep into the scene there, becoming a regular at SF’s seminal bloghouse party BLOW UP, writing for the blog GrooveEffect, ultimately becoming such a fixture that Steve Aoki‘s label Dim Mak hosted her 21st birthday party at its San Francisco event, Obey the Kitty. “I woke up, had to take the SAT, and immediately after mobbed to a two-stage festival called DeTour in Downtown LA in 2007 with headliners Justice and Bloc Party. “I’ll never forget the day of my 17th birthday,” Abascal tells Billboard. The Los Angeles-born writer first dipped her toes in the scene by digging for new music on MySpace, with the dance-oriented indie rock she was into leading her to music by key bloghouse artists like Chromeo, The Bloody Beetroots and Justice.
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