[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/14202928″] As mentioned here recently, Pete Von Petrin just did a little West Coast Tour with his noise making springs and such. To close things off he made an appearance on...
Read more(Un) Pleasant Over Drones at Resound Falmouth 2011
Resound Falmouth 2011 was a three day festival of sound art, contemporary audio performance and installations that happened in Falmouth/Penryn in Cornwall UK March 25-27, 2011. The event was centered around the local community radio station...
Read morePete Von Petrin West Coast Tour
I’m writing this right after getting home from the second show on Pete Von Petrin’s West Coast Spring Tour, where I joined him for a special fognozzle reunion. Thank you so much to the super enthusiastic (and freaking huge) West...
Read moreRATSKIN EXPLSTICAL #17 – lewcid joosebox – Oakland, CA – 04/15/11
See fognozzle Reunited in Oakland Friday
Mid-1990s noise project fognozzle – a collaboration between Pete Von Petrin and Marc Arsenault (me) – is getting back together for a show on Friday night in our old home base of Oakland, California. fognozzle never really got out of...
Read moreOffset Needle Radius Filtered Through The Holga
It’s rare that we get handed a gem like this. Flickr user Dead Air has posted an astounding series of double exposure Holga photos of Joshua Baker‘s Offset Needle Radius performance on KPSU’s What’s This Called program on...
Read moreMary Anne Hobbs Returns to Radio and Tours US
It has been announced quite recently that Mary Anne Hobbs is going to host a primetime Saturday night slot on Xfm starting this summer on Saturdays from July 9th 2011. Mary Anne had been on BBC Radio One for many years, and was very much the...
Read moreLast Gasp Celebrates 41 Years at 111 Minna Gallery SF
It’s Last Gasp’s 41st birthday, and to celebrate four decades of publishing the art of the underground, 111 Minna Gallery will host the 2nd annual Last-Gasp-curated art show. It’s the perfect after-party for the first day of Wondercon. Last...
Read moreKFJC Presents Silver Blood Transmissions: The Music of Neurosis and Tribes of Neurot
On our local low-end of the dial FM radio sex machine KFJC 89.7 I totally by act of random chance heard a demo version of the song “Souls at Zero” by Neurosis today that was all crisply mastered and such and blew my freaking mind...
Read moreBrian Gibson of Lighting Bolt gets Up Close and Personal
This video is almost a year old but is new to me (and hopefully to you too). It’s been sitting in my browser tabs for a month, so it is long past time time to finally watch and share. Brian Gibson is the sonic bass monster in Lightning Bolt...
Read moreCreative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Just announced on Tuesday by The Future of Music Coalition is the release through Duke University Press of the long-in-the-works book “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling“. The book seems to be a bit the textbook...
Read moreComics Comics Takes Over TCJ.com & Arthur Magazine Closes
Fantagraphics Books’ long running magazine of comics news, criticism and whatnot, The Comics Journal, officially handed over the curation of it’s interwebs iteration TCJ.com to the motley band at Comics Comics. Re-launched on Sunday...
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