On the 22nd of October, 2011 Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore staged “An English Journey Re-imagined” at the Barbican in London. They were joined by musicians Susan Stenger and F. M. Einheit and artist Graham Dolphin. The English Journey...
Read moreJason Martin’s Power Animal Systems Joins Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball
Our own Jason Martin and his Power Animal Systems will be teaming up with fellow Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder Lady Starlight to open for Lady Gaga on eight East Coast dates on this leg of the Born This Way Ball Tour. Jason will also be staging...
Read moreSteven Cerio on Earth’s Mightiest Bastards Part 2
Steven Cerio is the special guest (Still! Again, even!) in part two of two on the latest installment of the popular comics and related business podcast Earth’s Mightiest Bastards. Steven talks about his art for The Residents and combining...
Read moreGo Listen: Steven Cerio on Earth’s Mightiest Bastards
Steven Cerio is the special guest in part one of two on the latest installment of the popular comics and related business podcast Earth’s Mightiest Bastards. He talks up his various projects for Wow Cool and his upcoming book for our...
Read moreLove Without Sound – The Death of Recorded Music
This has been an interesting new year… hell, an interesting week – for me, certainly – but also for the music industry. It’s possible some other things and people were affected by various other events as well. You...
Read moreWow Cool @25 The First Mail Order Catalog 1989
This is the first item in our nostalgic look back that has a serious cringe element for me. The first couple of posts were not really my work. This one is another story. The very first Wow Cool mailorder catalog is a spectacular mess on the...
Read moreR.I.P. Gerry Anderson
The creator of the Thunderbirds has left the planet. All you need to know about the worlds Gerry and his wife Sylvia created can be found on the Fanderson site.
Read moreJoe Strummer Left Us Ten Years Ago Today
Joe Strummer passed away ten years ago today. He died suddenly, the victim of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He would have been sixty years old now had he skipped that one. Hellcat Records recently reissued the three classic releases he...
Read moreBlack Pus – The Wise Toad
Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale has been sneakily posting videos for his other musical project Black Pus on the YouTube for the last year or so. Other goodies are to be found on his channel as well. This track is from the 2008 CD...
Read moreSteven Cerio’s Magnificent Pigtail Shadow plays Portland Tonight
Steven Cerio’s The Magnificent Pigtail Shadow will be showing in Portland, Oregon tonight as part of Experimental Mini-Fest Day Two at the Clinton Street Theater. Go see that. The Big Takeover recently had very nice things to say about the...
Read moreJeffrey Lewis – The Space Alien’s Bright Idea
This recent August we had a little shindig at Wow Cool’s Brooklyn office to celebrate the relaunch of Alternative Comics… Jeffrey Lewis and Matthew Thurber performed short sets of music. It was pretty awesome. My main computer died...
Read moreMark Mulcahy Launches YouTube Channel
The great Mark Mulcahy of Miracle Legion and Pete and Pete’s Polaris has just launched a new YouTube channel which he promises to fill with many goodies over the coming months. Appropriately enough it debuts with the Pete and Pete theme...
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