SVA Comic Jams no. 2

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Comic story in overlapping panels. SVA Jam from 1987 featuring the usual suspects Contributions by: Paul Komoda, Tom Hart, the late Burt Schlatter, Susan Cotter, Sam Henderson, Amantha Tsaros, Ben Jackson, Seth W. Rosenfeld, ion, Mikko Meronen, Edward Gorey (rubber stamp) and myself, Marc Arsenault. This was not completed in one place but passed around for [...] [...]

Jason Martin Live at TIDE POOL – Sara Meltzer Gallery Tonight

Tonight, January 5, 7PM. Jason Martin will be doing a live music performance for TIDE POOL art show @ Sara Meltzer Gallery – ongoing installation, performances, and a shop curated by Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt, of the Apartment Show. Sara Melzter Gallery is located at 525–531 W 26th St, phone: (212) 727-9330. Performers: [...] [...]

Music Monday: DUSTdevils

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DUSTdevils made some amazing sounds. I first became aware of them from hearing their version of the Fall’s Hip Priest on the radio. A couple of their releases trickled into my collection over the next couple of years. I eventually heard much more about them from Steven Cerio, who provided the cover art for their [...] [...]

Your 2010 CMJ Schwag Report

OK. I’m in New York, at the CMJ2010 Music Marathon & Film Festival. Attending panel discussions, checking out the Exhibitors’ Loft & Registrants’ Lounge, grilling colleagues on this and that, hopefully checking out some of the approximately eight thousand bands playing this week. First up, I have one question… This is the CMJ Festival. Where [...] [...]

EVIDENCE (Scott Smallwood & Stephan Moore) West Coast Shows

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Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore’s electronic duo EVIDENCE will be celebrating the release of their new 12″ vinyl release from Wow Cool with a series of west coast shows this month. They will be performing with Vibration Institute Orchestra at the Royal/T in Culver City on Wednesday, August 25th. Next they move on up to [...] [...]

Lady Starlight Eats Your Children

I could have picked worse clips, I probably could have picked better clips. Lady Starlight may be best remembered for spreading the Schenectady accent around the globe. For those that missed it, Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder Lady Starlight is opening for Lady Gaga on this leg of the Monster Ball Tour, spinning a devastating array [...] [...]

Jesse Stiles Drops The Target Museum

Music video for Autoautomatic from “The Target Museum.” Directed/produced/edited by Olivia Robinson & Jesse Stiles. Music by Jesse Stiles, lyrics by Jesse Ball & Jesse Stiles. Filmed in New Delhi, India. NEW! From Jesse Stiles on Wow Cool’s sister label Specific Recordings is the sizzling, much anticipated release the Target Museum as a [...] [...]

The Jamboyz “Men Don’t Change” Free Download

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Yes. Albany, New York’s Jamboyz have released a new Album, their tenth (10th). ‘Men Don’t Change’ contains 14 tracks, including the hit song ‘Mindy’ (or ‘Mindie’). Mike and Nick from nickname: Rebel might have played on some of this. Mike says, “I played the guitars on Mindy and Nick sang some of it. I think [...] [...]

AVOID pi & Infinity ‘Babel Code’ at Mighty Tanaka Gallery

Babel Code

Old Wow Cool friend Ion (aka Infinity) and AVOID launch the Babel Code show this Friday, May 21 from 6 to 9 pm at Mighty Tanaka Studio in D.U.M.B.O. The show runs through Jun 11th, 2010. More about the show on Brooklyn Street Art Thought provoking Street Artists AVOID pi & infinity team up for their first [...] [...]

Jason Martin – French Poodle

New video from Jason Martin. Jason will be performing live and exhibiting at the NYU MFA Thesis Exhibition 2010. The opening reception is Tuesday, March 6, 2010 Jason’s artist page on the exhibit site. Coverage of the show in the New Yorker. Word has it that France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy just adored it. CORRECTION: The show is [...] [...]

Lady Starlight-order of magnitude

The Mystery Deepens. Second in the series from Lady Starlight, starring BREEDLOVE and DARIAN DARLING. [...]

Lady Starlight New Video – Interlude 1

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Jason Martin – Two Times!

The esteemed Mister Jason Martin of Brown Cuts Neighbors and Evolution Revolution fame – the wolfman hisself – is making two rare public appearances in the next few days. Be sure to visit him at the NYU MFA Open Studios on Friday at the Barney Building and DO NOT MISS the big event! Jason will [...] [...]

Infinity creates Spool at Chashama Space

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We got this communique from Infinity ——————————————– SPOOL: drawing in space ——————————————– Movements: 1:00-1:30pm 1. Pollack. (overture) 1:30-2:45pm 2. Zorn. 3:15-4:30pm 3. Barney. 4:30-5:30pm 4. Celso. 5:30-6:00pm 5. Ellis. (epilogue). ——————————————– August 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 2009. Special guest duo performances [...] [...]

Ciao My Shining Star: Mark Mulcahy Benefit

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mark Mulcahy, originally uploaded by taswan. Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy On September 29th Shout! Factory will release Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, a tribute to former Miracle Legion [...] [...]

Why We Do This 2: My Side of The Mountain

My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, 1959 My Side of the Mountain book on Amazon My Side of the Mountain DVD of 1969 film on Amazon This one’s for Cindy of Doris Zine & Blog. [...]

nickname: Rebel fader gladiator in Time Out New York

Andrew Gerhan in Time Out

Andrew Gerhan is front and center in Time Out New York’s ‘I, New York’ feature in this week’s issue. Andrew twiddled knobs, arranged mics, rode the faders like Hopalong Cassidy, and even played a few odd parts for nickname: Rebel a few months back in sessions for the nearly completed New Rock Church of Fire [...] [...]

Infinity SOLILOQUY – Procedural Art Performance Video

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Go check out this video by old Wow Cool/Tuna Casserole chief designer Infinity. Performance of solo game piece for the visual arts, utilizing dice, cue cards and a clock to create an environment of improvisation and inspiration. More Infinity art here: http://www.infinityequations.com/ [...]

Go look: Chris Capuozzo’s Intergalactico!

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Intergalactico is the creative/multidisciplinary studio founded by designer, artist and illustrator, Chris Capuozzo; and the website received its official launch today. You may know his stuff from his work with Funny Garbage or the last Paper Rodeo, or even some moldy old issues of Wow Cool’s Tuna Casserole anthology. Anyway. He’s a great artist [...] [...]

James Kopta – Gone Six Years

His massive body of work in music, video and art continues to trickle out to the world like he never stopped. The Frank Budgen record has been available from Specific Recordings for a few months now. The Exploding Corpse Action LP should be out soon from Armageddon Records. Many other projects are bubbling towards release… I [...] [...]

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