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...
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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 moreWhatever with Pet Sounds. Have you listened to Surf’s Up? That one will change you.
Read moreArmored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We are featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. This is the last one. There are only five days in a week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently...
Read moreArmored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by Mark is the publication Vanishing Points of...
Read moreArmored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by Mark is the publication Vanishing Points of...
Read moreArmored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by Mark is the publication Vanishing Points of...
Read moreArmored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by Mark is the publication Vanishing Points of...
Read moreIt has been an interesting weekend full of literary, cartoon and musical mysteries. Your recommended soundtrack is this collection of instrumental tracks from the Lick My Decals Off recording sessions by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. Brooklyn Magazine presents this look “Inside 11...
Read moreDrive Like Jehu played in San Jose. I took some distorto-loud video of most of the encore. Enjoy.
Read moreLost for many years… the official video for The Pop Group’s We Are All Prostitutes has been discovered and re-released
Read more“theme for counting events” by Steven Cerio /Magnificent Pigtail Shadow original film soundtrack (wow cool) from Steven Cerio on Vimeo. A video filmed/edited by artsist/filmmaker Steven Cerio to promote WOWCOOL.com’s upcoming cd and download release of the soundtrack he...
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Recorded nearly 20 years ago and finally released today is the track Electric Lounge by nickname: Rebel. Guest vocals are by Cindy of Doris zine. This was originally done for a Texas-themed compilation CD that came with zine Cool Beans. The editor liked the instrumental and then rejected it when...
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The mighty Teen-Beat Records celebrates its 30 year anniversary. Wow Cool’s house band nickname: Rebel has paid tribute to their releases twice in the past; first on the 20th anniversary covers comp Relax Brother, Relax – with a version of a Sexual Milkshake song, and, slightly more...
Read moreTheory of Obscurity – Teaser Trailer #1 from Don Hardy on Vimeo. Theory of Obscurity, the definitive film documentary of San Fransisco-based art/music/performance group The Residents is debuting at South By Southwest in March, and is already making peoples top five lists, like here in...
Read morefumbling about for something to have on in the background while messing around with such esoteric concerns as GS1-128 barcodes and the west coast trucking crisis I stumbled across a pair of what I think were German TV documentaries on punk from the 70s on thee Hulu. It’s always nice to see...
Read moreI posted a few clips from a first draft of a Brown Cuts Neighbors video compilation from a few years ago on YouTube. There is a sizable segment featuring some of my drawings and comic strips. I also did most of the titles and animation parts. It is what it is. More info in the
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International comic art practitioners tour America and get served about what you might expect when they land in Oakland, California. No extreme violence actually occurred, but it seemed imminent on a couple occasions. I was not witness to all of the idiocy involved, so cannot report accurately...
Read moreA new video Steven Cerio directed, filmed and edited for Jim Gibson’s WICKED KING WICKER song “Faith through Fear”. The album is available on iTunes.
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Capitol Contingency: Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-1999 by Brandon Gentry is the sort of book about the D.C. indie scene(s) I’ve long wanted to read. My needs were pretty simple on this, something along the lines of ‘a book that covers Shudder To...
Read moreDavid Godlis very generously provided his 1977 portrait of Ramones designer Arturo Vega for the print and digital memorials in Maximum RocknRoll that I produced with John Holmstrom last year. I am very grateful for that and would like you to take a look at and support this CBGB photo book he is...
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Holy Moses. It’s the long delayed return of the link round down. All you need to know that is on the interwebs for the last millennium is right here. I get sick all over on 90s noise rock/post rock what the hell you want to call it. One of my top half dozen in that
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Follow the red dot… enter new worlds. With surprisingly less fanfare than usual, Radiohead has released something new into the world. PolyFauna is a mobile and tablet app that takes audio elements from the King of Limbs sessions and visuals from Stanley Donwood’s jagged tree-limb...
Read moreIt’s not gone yet, but the writing is on the walls. My old friend Howard Glassman’s long running music hall and beer joint Valentine’s in Albany, New York, is due to be bulldozed soon to make way for some sort of hospital expansion plan. This has been a long and drawn out death...
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