Created for Disquiet Junto Project 0249: 80 Phases Wishing the minimalist composer Steve Reich a happy birthday.
Read moreThe Stupid Pages Spit Brothers Special 2
From the sketchbook of young Brigham Martin. Art by Marc Arsenault.
Read moreThe Stupid Pages Spit Brothers Special 1
From the sketchbook of young Brigham Martin. By Jason Martin, no relation.
Read moreSoy Sauce Control
I was walking in Campbell California on Sunday night and was happy to see this mysterious local band Soy Sauce Control playing on the sidewalk. Check them out. Soy Sauce Control [EP] by Soy Sauce Control
Read moreAphex Twin Cheetah EP out in one week
It’s been a pretty good year for new music. Here’s the latest. But it is stranger than you think. Mister Richard D. James is about to drop a new record in all the popular formats (including a limited cassette – 2000 copies). It’s called Cheetah. It’s an Aphex Twin...
Read moreHelping Caspian See
Zack Soto has been a friend to Wow Cool and Alternative Comics for longer than I am even sure of. He was a Wow Cool mail-order customer back in our golden days during the zine explosion of the 90s. He sent me and Jeff Mason comics at various times. His comics were published by Alternative
Read moreHelp Us Share The Safety This July 4th
Wow Cool wants you to join us in supporting the Share the Safety initiative this Independence Day. BUY A GUN, GIVE A GUN TO AN AMERICAN IN AN AT-RISK NEIGHBORHOOD. The National Rifle Association and corporate ally Smith & Wesson have partnered to level the safety playing field in our...
Read moreI Won’t Shut Up About Jerry Goldsmith
Presented without much further comment or help are “New Identity” from Jerry Goldsmith’s 1968 Planet of the Apes soundtrack and “Echohce” by FM Einheit, Jamie Lidell, David Link & Co, 2007. Both use the same bass pattern for a little bit. I’ve listened to...
Read moreLee Is Free – Sonic Youth Spinhead Sessions Out This Week
Sonic Youth have a new record out on Friday. That’s far out man. It’s the 30 year old never before released rehearsal sessions for the Made in USA soundtrack they did. Sounds pretty good so far. Craziness. Brooklyn Vegan has the scoop.
Read moreMaking Music to Quit Drugs To
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Read moreThe Magic Whistle – Douchebags
After a little hiatus, new Magic Whistle comics every Monday and Thursday has returned. More info at MagicWhistle.com. Magic Whistle 3.2 will be in stores later this month.
Read moreThe Magic Whistle – Oh, You Again
After a little hiatus, new Magic Whistle comics every Monday and Thursday has returned. More info at MagicWhistle.com. Magic Whistle 3.2 will be in stores later this month.
Read moreMemorial Weekend Music All At Once
This little music recommendation project for the long weekend grew out of hand. Here are the four additional picks – each of which should have had their own posts, but sometimes you have to move on. Tom Ravenscroft has been sitting in on another show on BBC 6 Music this week and he played...
Read morenickname: Rebel Is Making A New Album
After a few years break. After three members of the band left the greater San Francisco bay area. After Marc got Alternative Comics somewhat set up and Mike got the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in San Fransisco somewhat set up. We finally got back together and re-started the band we started 15 years...
Read moreMemorial Weekend Music 2 – Girls Against Boys The Ghost List EP
Second in a series of highlights of music that has been released in recent months that you probably missed. The Ghost List – EP by Girls Against Boys I have some seriously strong feelings about GVSB… like I do with SPBT and not a whole lot else. Much love to these guys. This recent...
Read moreMemorial Weekend Music 1 – Unwound Peel Sessions EP
First in a series of highlights of music that has been released in recent months that you probably missed. Unwound Peel Session. yeah, I’d listen to that. YouTube bootleg version above. The official release on Numero Group is easily findable at most streaming or download places...
Read moreEddie Constantine in Hail Mafia
It’s the real panic. With Jack Klugman & Henry Silva. More info than you need.
Read moreDon DeLillo Should get every damn literary prize
Someone (whom I could not find again) posted something to the effect of “I’m voting for the presidential candidate who nominates Don DeLillo for the Nobel Prize” on thee face books. I’m not quite sure it works that way, but I echo the sentiment. Don DeLillo is surely on...
Read moreJoin the King-Cat Comix Fan Club
I got some exciting mail from John Porcellino today — an official King-Cat Comix Fan Club membership card. Hand inscribed by John P himself to me. You too can get yours by supporting John’s work on King-Cat Comics and Stories and the Spit and a Half publishing imprint and distro on...
Read moreManifold Garden – Beautiful Puzzle Explorer Game Coming Soon
This is some crazy lovely (possibly seizure inducing) eye candy. I don’t exactly have a folder on my hard drive containing only non-Euclidean Portal and HL2 mods… but near enough. I’m excited for this game. Check out this update on the game in progress from Rock Paper...
Read moreThe Beach Boys – Mt. Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale)
Whatever with Pet Sounds. Have you listened to Surf’s Up? That one will change you.
Read moreSeth Kushner October 30, 1973 to May 17, 2015
Seth Kushner left us one year ago today. Some four months before his book Schmuck would finally be released to the world through Alternative Comics. An event that was to have taken place many months earlier, but was delayed due to his illness. I just found this piece on The New York Observer...
Read moreMy computer died on Monday
and The New Intern Starts on Tuesday We are so not ready And I get on a plane Thursday morning to go to Portland, Oregon to work at Linework NW and move Sparkplug Books down here. But that’s OK We’ll make it through somehow What is not OK Is that we are based in Cupertino,
Read moreScenes From Half Moon Bay
After a heavy duty couple of weeks that included Free Comic Book Day and two comic book artist signings at the Wow Cool Alternative Comics shop, it was time to take a day off and head to the beach. The high winds and barely 60º temperatures cut into the beach time as it cut into
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