Get on up (or down) to Oakland this Friday, January 8, 2010 from 6:00pm – 9:30pm to drink some free wine and enjoy some art by old pal Richie Bucher. It’s an art show with “things that are burnt, in one way or another…” at Down at Lulu’s, 6603 Telegraph Ave. @ 66th (near Alcatraz), [...] [...]
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Is a porno comic. Yes, Brandon Graham’s 56 page smut comic from 2003 Perverts of the Unknown is that most rarest and sought after of things. Impossible to find in a reasonable condition for less than One Thousand US Dollars! As the sole reviewer on Amazon attests (in box, below), it is not the most [...] [...]
I’m assuming that’s some new multitouch interface that she’s working on the brick wall. Crazy party. Half-pipe, Metal, Public Enemy, Zombies, the usual. Good stuff. I like this video. Lady Starlight’s Rock N Roll High School is still the best blog in existence. Get on the Starlight MySpaceship. Blood, Guts and Glory, This party had it [...] [...]
Gary Panter may have been Punk Rock Art’s Father, but Shawn Kerri was definitely it’s mother. The style was already familiar from dog-eared copies of CARtoons. We weren’t sure what was going on, but we knew it was punk, and we liked it. A tribute by Paul Grushkin with lots of art. Commissioned art and a story [...] [...]
The latest book in the popular Gym Shorts series by Betty Hicks is illustrated by Mr. Simon Gane. It’s a bit of a departure from what we’re used to, but it’s all classic Simon. Go get Track Attack on Amazon. Simon has been teasing drawings from the book for the last few weeks on his [...] [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tim Yohannan and late-80′s Gilman Street crew, originally uploaded by acrofish. He was the general contractor on that which we did that was secret. He was a good friend and inspiration and is still greatly missed. [...] [...]
We don’t really need much of an excuse to post pictures of Serge Gainsbourg, but this is a pretty good one. Simon Gane, artist of Paris (SLG) and Vinyl Underground (Vertigo) and creator of Arnie has resumed updating his drawing blog. It is, as always, wonderful stuff. Go Look! [...]
Once upon a time in the magical land of Amsterdam, New York Jason and Colleen Martin – aged 6 and 4 respectively – started the band and television show Brown Cuts Neighbors. In between then and now things happened. Just recently they have completed some new videos. The first appears to be an homage to [...] [...]
Described as Cindy and her sister and Miguel and his sister. From Athens, OH. Cindy is the creator of Doris zine. More info will be added to this later in the week. Busy busy here at Wow Cool. [...]
A unique opportunity to witness improvised sound structuring from two reunited veterans of D.I.Y. and underground music movements. Joshua Baker’s Offset Needle Radius from Kittery Maine, will perform with Marc Arsenault from Nickname: Rebel of San Jose. California in a four city tour of the American Northeast. The Offset Needle Radius Vs. nickname Rebel LP will [...] [...]
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Ron Ashton invented punk rock. Ron was very close to the Brown Cuts Neighbors’ family, and he is greatly missed. I hosted the web site for one of his later bands a few years ago… I’ve tried for a few weeks now to think of something to say about his passing, but I am at a [...] [...]
Bow Wow Wow | C30 C60 C90 Go! | EMI 1980 This is the first in a series of what will hopefully be regular Friday posts of possibly forgotten items from the past that had a huge influence on the rise of punk/DIY culture, Wow Cool and me personally. This started out from noticing I was [...] [...]
Wow Cool is pleased to announce it’s affiliation with Kittery, Maine sound machine Offset Needle Radius (ONR MySpace). ONR is the sound system of Joshua Baker – late of Portland, Oregon punk and doom legends God Hates Computers, Chased and Smashed, Kilauea and a few more. Joshua has followed a vaguely logical progression from Kilauea’s [...] [...]
At the Loft in Sacramento, California. Some visitors here may have seen GHC at Albany, New York’s Loft… a venue much missed. More on this later… [...]
If you’ve ever self-published… from the old xerox and staple to things like Blurb and Lulu… then there’s a chance that you’ve done the classic method of non-standard distribution of your product: The old ‘reverse-shoplift’ yourself onto the shelf of a local store that otherwise wouldn’t deal with you (I think I only ever did [...] [...]
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Two weeks until Heroes Con! I am so not ready. But there is some great stuff starting to pile up for the show. There will be debuts of new T-Shirts by me (Marc Arsenault) and Simon Gane (Arnie, Paris, Vinyl Underground), Joshua Baker of Notes from the Lighthouse zine and God Hates Computers and many [...] [...]
George Tabb Benefit, Thursday March 13 at 10pm with Mike Watt + the Missingmen at Safari Sam’s, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, (323) 666-7267. Visit MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb. I have to admit to being way clueless. My apartment in Brooklyn is a scant 4 3/4 miles away from the World Trade Center, in a neighborhood heavily populated [...] [...]
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