Simon Gane returns to Paris! Out now on DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint is issue 37 of Brian Wood’s popular Northlanders comic book, the first of a three-parter called The Siege of Paris, with art by Simon Gane. There is a color preview up on Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel site. Preview...
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Just back in town for a few hours now and still catching up, and the first thing that caught my attention as worth giving a listen to is this new interview with Al Columbia on Inkstuds. As is noted in the comments, you will need to crank up your system to hear it properly. Inkstuds
Read moreSneaky, Sneaky, Mr. Jason Martin has splattered his SoundCloudness with many the songs over the last couple of weeks. A stranger spread of sound would be hard to assemble, too. We stretch right back to the earliest days of his work with his sister Colleen (AKA Lady Starlight) in the original...
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Joshua Baker is taking the Offset Needle Radius on the road in the Pacific Northwest starting tomorrow, Tuesday, February 1, with an appearance on Olympia’s Radio KAOS FM. The eighth installment of the Sun Worship series has also been announced for March 19 at the Buoy Gallery in Kittery...
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Yes, Daniel Johnston is walking the cow straight to a spinner rack near you with a full length comic book and accompanying set of songs, and he is financing it with Kickstarter. As of this writing it has already passed its’ funding goal of $10,000 by nearly $7,000 more, and there is over a...
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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...
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Straight from 23rd Street from over 20 years ago, we present the first in an irregular series of vintage School of Visual Arts cartoon art jams. These will mainly be from the late-80’s crew of people that were affiliated with the popular off-campus publications of the time, Funny Garbage...
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I’ve been accumulating these for about a year. Various books that were picked up at garage sales and library sales because the cover art was just so great. On all but a couple of them I have to admit that the initial thrill faded over time… Here’s some hoping that the initial...
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Found in an old book at my neighbor’s moving sale.
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Today I got to shoot some new costumes designed by Nurse Dylan aka Psycho Shango (of Psycho Nurse Calendar fame) that are for the brilliant Breedlove and my fellow Brown Cuts Neighbor Lady Starlight. In the photo studio at Wow Cool we strictly rock the vinyl, and sticking with the general theme...
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Once upon a time in the early 1990s I got together with a young Hampshire college student and punk rock juggernaut named Jesse Kimball and Western Connecticut ne’er do well Steve Dore (late of Maude, more recently of Casual Dots & Deep Lust) to form what we conceived as the perfect...
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Please Excuse the mess. Due to some rash clicking and updating, Wow Cool dot com has become even uglier than is usual. All content and functionality should be the same, but the highly refined aesthetics of the site that have been developed over several months and with much market research and...
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Joshua Baker has released a Bonus track from the upcoming Offset Needle Radius release Fiona’s Week (2011, Offset Sounds Vs. Wow Cool). Give a listen below. More info on the ONR Blog. Whatever T.W.T.D by OffsetSound FIONAS WEEK TRACK LISTING 1. Fionas Week 2. Floor Puzzles 3. The Point of...
Read moreMike Nobody has uploaded some vintage 1990s Brown Cuts Neighbors video to his YouTube Channel. First up is the video for X Simple X (above), from 1995’s Squeeze Out Another Twinkle EP on Nose Hair Records. It takes a few seconds for the show to get going, but it is worth it. Mike also...
Read moreFor years NASA has used optical corner reflectors to measure the distance of the moon from the earth. Brown Cuts Neighbors’ photo documentarian and spring chamber manipulator LookSeeSeen uses them to take pictures of himself. MAKE Zine posted the evidence to their site.
Read moreTonight, 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...
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First, Look at this: Gabba Gabba Hey. OK, hopefully you have now visited your happy place and we can continue with this brief survey of recently-sprung documentation of the 20th century’s monuments in collapse. First up, the Guardian presents: Detroit in ruins – Yves Marchand and...
Read moreFormer Magic Band drummer Robert Williams posted this to his MySpace blog this morning. It is an astounding performance. If you can wrap your head around it, then you might get a bit why people can get so crazy about the music of Captain Beefheart. I love how chunky the bass is in this.
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