We are now officially in that future world where you gladly pay for the 3D animated corpses of rock stars to dance on your face forever. Today was a sad day for me. Today was the last we would hear Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 1. I imagine there is just a week to listen again on the iPlayer as...
Read moreAn further installment in the series of clearing out thee interesting tabs from thee browser before thee coming several weeks of much excitements and announcements of profound import. Missed it Dept.: Bryan Young at Huffington Post has an exclusive eight-page preview of Mat Johnson and Simon...
Read moreWe interrupt our regular scheduled programming to share with you this awesome new video from Underworld for the track ‘Always Loved A Film’ from their upcoming Barking release. Barking will arrive in the US on Vinyl and CD on September 14, 2010. Seriously, this is the best video...
Read moreWhile checking in at Wow Cool East in Brooklyn this week I’ve managed to catch a taste of Blonde Redhead‘s upcoming 4AD Session. It was recorded and is being mixed by our resident multi-track wrangler Mr. Andrew Gerhan. Andy has done some nice work on upcoming releases from nickname...
Read moreJosef Woodard, AKA Culture Monster had this to say in today’s Los Angeles Times about last night’s show at the Royal/T in Culver City with Evidence and Vibration Institute Orchestra. Their hour in the spotlight was more cerebral, an evocative canvas of sounds at once abstract in...
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Stephan Moore has spent the last several years touring with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as a core member of their live band, alongside such notables as Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, John King, and William Winant. At the same time, he has been collaborating with a number...
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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...
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If you’re going to be in Los Angeles during the next few days, you should be sure to check out the exhibit of Eric Joyner‘s latest paintings at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City. The show runs through September first. You will have the perfect chance to see the show this...
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Time for a little fashion break. I just wanted to share these shots, as I’m very happy with how they came out. The model and designer of this Jack Kirby-posed Tom Ford-esque explosion is Dylan Syrett who created it for a promotion at Campbell, California’s Psycho Donuts to celebrate...
Read moreTwo days. Two continents. Two concerts. Two deaths by extreme stagedive. On Friday August 20, 2010, Charles Haddon, singer for British electro-pop band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, leapt to his death from a telecommunications tower behind the main stage at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium [full...
Read moreJack Horkheimer, beloved late night television astronomy spot host, has died aged 72. As reported in Friday’s Miami Herald he was done in by a long-term respiratory ailment. From sometime in the very early eighties until the late-early 90s I watched almost no TV. The only shows I...
Read more“Christiane Kubrick had 42 wonderful years with her husband. But in the decade since his death, she has been beset by tragedy. For the first time, she talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology”, and much more. This is a must read article in the Guardian, from...
Read moreDark Rain: A New Orleans Story, written by Mat Johnson and Illustrated by Simon Gane is previewed on Simon’s blog. It is due for release in just a few days. Go get that number!
Read moreMichael Wilson at Art Forum covers The Bruce High Quality Foundation Field of Dreams Event, including a fine photo of Jason in full wolfman garb. ArtObserved.com checks in with several photos of the event and much talk with Mister Martin. Jason Martin, who gave his interview dressed as a wolf...
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Eight years… Jame Kopta was a dear friend and brilliant artist and musician who I was very lucky to work with on numerous projects over the course of nearly 13 years. He is still very much missed. Eight years ago today he died in a drowning accident. This morning I received the (hopefully)...
Read moreLive! July 24, 2010 at 51 3rd Street. Troy, New York. Many more clips available from Conglomco. We still have a couple copies of the D&D CD from Bloodlink Records available. Go get yours.
Read moreI 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...
Read moreThe long awaited new Vertigo graphic novel Dark Rain by Mat Johnson (Incognegro) illustrated by Simon Gane has been announced for an August 24 release in bookstores and from Amazon and August 18th in Comic Book stores. Cover by Nessim Higson Dark Rain is a graphic novel thriller set in the days...
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