Yes, Captain Beefheart himself is 69 today. It’s no secret that he’s popular in the house of Wow Cool. Just released from Proper Records is the long-awaited biography by long-time Magic Band member and arranger John (Drumbo) French...
Read moreI couldn’t find any clips on YouTube that really fit with what I would have liked to have shown in memory of the great Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, so I picked this video of Lightning Bolt’s 13 Monsters by Paper...
Read moreMore previews and info on Fantagraphics site. Get yours today! Newave!: The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s.
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This is the one book about sound you must read this year. I’ve been waiting for something like this for years and for this book since July. Steve Goodman, better known to the world as Kode9 of Hyperdub Records, delves into how sound has...
Read moreThe Sci-fi grind classic, 1995’s cassette debut by James Kopta’s Exploding Corpse Action, has been made available to you, at no charge, by the delightful True Punk & Metal blog. It is the most devastating 10 minutes of metal ever...
Read morePlan to go see Wow Cool’s and about about a bazillion other publisher’s zines at Anno Domini‘s 2009 Art of Zines exhibit. It opens on Friday, February 5, 2010. Reception begins at 8pm. There will be live music and Marc Arsenault...
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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...
Read moreThat’s pretty self-explanatory. Details follow. For those that don’t know, Anno Domini is the best gallery in San Jose. They’ve been written about here before. We at Anno Domini are resurrecting our Art of Zines exhibition (a...
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There is one band from upstate (Albany) New York that shows up again and again in the post punk MP3 blogs… The Verge. I tracked down a member of the band at his day job at some point in the late ’90’s about some sort of release...
Read moreBrand new on the Interwebs, in just the last few days, are the three following, vaguely Wow Cool connected sites that are worth your while to check out. Relevancy and mileage may vary based on your personal preferences and life experience. 1...
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