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A Wall of Sound Inside a Knapsack

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Internet disc jockey, or IJ, Leslie Napoles has the noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday slot on SpikeRadio.com (https://www.spikeradio.com), a 24-hour Internet radio station. Napoles, who also is a guitarist in the local band Burgundy, carries a black Agnes B drawstring knapsack with white writing that says “Lolita.” What’s inside:

Music stuff: A CD by the Makeup (a band), a cassette of ‘70s band the Records, a demo tape of her own band and a guitar pick.

Beauty stuff: Altoids, Clear Eyes, blotting paper powders from Japan, Bag Balm, Clinique lipstick (the name of the color is rubbed off), Lanco^me Matte Fresco lipstick, Your Name Cosmetics Mauve Lip Liner, a rubber band for her hair, a headband and PC generic Sun Block 45. “I just lost a friend to skin cancer. I’m a sun block fanatic.”

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Essentials: Her address book, wallet, car keys, a SpikeRadio.com badge and “a little rubber frog. I don’t know what that’s doing in there.”

What else she carries: “An olive drab canvas backpack thing. It’s not a traditional DJ bag.” In it, she carries music from home that she wants to play on the radio. The selection changes from day to day, but you can find “old Stones, old Jam, old Who, not the kind of stuff you can find on the radio. . . . Pavement, Flaming Lips, Sebadoh, Mercury Rev, Los Cincos,” as well as a lot of unsigned demo tapes. Napoles has an entire wall of music in her Echo Park home.

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