Fueled by heritage, hustle, and punk rock, Mirrored Vision is carving a disciplined path through LA’s music scene

San Pedro Today, 26 June 2025

The three members of Mirrored Vision sit side by side on an old sofa at Lockout Music Studios in San Pedro when the band’s lead singer, Mitchel Wilson, notices the huge photo of Black Flag high on the wall above them.

He asks the other two if they’ve ever heard that story about the time in 1981 when the student council at San Pedro High School booked the legendary Hermosa Beach band—fronted by its new lead singer, Henry Rollins—to play the school, without bothering to inform the administration what was coming.

“Yeah,” says Wilson, laughing, “the principal pulled that plug pretty quickly.”

Such stories are more than mere trivia for this trio: Wilson and his bandmates John Alanouf and Mateo Toro are fully aware of their place in the musical tradition of Los Angeles’ South Bay. Stories like that of a young Black Flag playing the home of the Pirates, says Wilson, “just make me proud of being from San Pedro. We have that lineage..

Read the rest at San Pedro Today