The Los Angeles-based experimental rock band Gardens & Villa recorded much of its new album, “Music for Dogs,” in a live-in artists’ collective in Glassell Park.
Then its two primary members, Chris Lynch and Adam Rasmussen, and everyone else got evicted because they weren’t actually supposed to be living there. Some stayed and are still squatting while a lawsuit works its way through the courts. Other artists fled to equally ramshackle spaces.
For a while Lynch and Rasmussen were closer to gardens than to villas: They were sleeping in tents near the Los Angeles River. They’ve since moved their creative operations to a blank-slate warehouse space they’ve dubbed Space Command.