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 moreKickstart This: CBGB Punk Photos by GODLIS 1976-1979 The BOOK
David 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...
Read moreYou want to know how I feel today. I feel OK.
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
Read moreRadiohead release PolyFauna Tablet App
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 moreWe’ll miss you Valentine’s
It’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...
Read moreThe Wow Cool Alternative Comics Bookstore is now open
The Wow Cool | Alternative Comics Bookstore & Newsstand is now open! Shop online or visit our retail shop in Cupertino, California Wow Cool is now open for business at our new brick-and-mortar shop in the historic Monta Vista neighborhood. We are at 21607B Stevens Creek Blvd.; Cupertino...
Read moreCall For Entries – Ink on Pixels at Wow Cool
This is an open call for entries for an ongoing public exhibition of a curated group showing of video art to run from January 11, 2014 until a date as yet to be determined. The videos will play at a dedicated opening screening in January and will then run in a continuous loop at the
Read moreViktoriya Yermolyeva Tickles The Ivories (In Black)
As pointed out by my bandmate in Fognozzle and Girls of Slender Means (and former partner in Wow Cool), Mr. Pete Von Petrin, the brilliant piano renditions transcribed and performed by Vika Yermolyeva have had too much play in viral reblogs from elsewhere towards certain works and maybe not...
Read moreThe Radiophonic Workshop Reunion on BBC 6Music
The seemingly comprehensive coverage here a few weeks ago on the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was woefully incomplete… because the story is still being told. Original BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Dick Mills, Paddy Kingsland, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, and Mark Ayres have...
Read more50 Years in Time and Space – The Music of Doctor Who
Now that the dust has settled a little from Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary celebrations this past Saturday, November 23, I want to point you toward some coverage of the many types of music and sounds that were featured on the show during its long history. First up is “50 Years in Time...
Read moreSteven Cerio Talks About The Residents
Steve Cerio-Theory of Obscurity from Don Hardy on Vimeo. An excerpt from Theory of Obscurity – A Film About The Residents featuring their long-time art collaborator Steven Cerio. Release date not yet announced. Expect it in early 2014. The teaser trailer is below. Residents official site...
Read moreLou Reed and Ren GuangYi Chen Tai Chi
As you have probably heard by now, writer and musician Lou Reed has passed away at age 71. I’d listened to his music for years, but there was a side to him I had not heard about that I became very familiar with through my work for Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine. Lou was a committed practitioner...
Read moreAlan Moore – the Low-Budget Biopic
Jeffrey Lewis tells you all you need to know about Alan Moore. We have just added about 40 of Alan Moore’s America’s Best Comics titles to the Wow Cool store, most at discounted prices. Go get yours.
Read moreGo Listen: Eight Hour Four Tet Mix on Rinse FM
The soundtrack for your day. On Sunday, the 6th of October 2013, Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, took over the Rinse FM airwaves for a very special one-off extended 8 hour show featuring guest mixes from Caribou, Floating Points, Anthony Naples & Pearson Sound, which ran all night...
Read moreLiverpool FC – Anfield Rap
For those who did not get the full effect, and were left needing more from our last post, here is the entire Anfield rap. You will never walk alone, brother.
Read moreRight Place, Wrong Speed – John Peel Day +1
Yes, we are a day late. Friday, October 11 (or possibly Sunday, the thirteenth, or maybe some other day… we acknowledge the eleventh) was John Peel Day. Digging around this week, nearly nine years after John Peel passed, a number of things were discovered on the interwebs that are worth...
Read moreOperation Ivy – Live 4/25/1988 – The Boilermaker in St. Louis, MO
I never got to see Operation Ivy play live either. Saw them lots of other times tho… Running from cops, drinking coffee, watching Sesame Street. Lint really did cruise around El Cerrito on a lo-rider bicycle… I think that is in a rock video somewhere. Didn’t know there was...
Read moreWhat Makes A Man Start Fires?
Average and boring humans can talk about double nickels, ballot results and mersh projects until the spiel comes home… but I want to know this..
Read moreAl Columbia Relaunches Orange Sunshine House Site
Al Columbia has properly relaunched his website at a new address (www.orangesunshinehouse.com), and it is well populated with new work. Along with several songs, a couple music videos and a few pieces of Pim & Francie art, there is the tease of a new comic story called “The Heart of...
Read moreMassive Attack v Adam Curtis
I’m afraid you’ve already missed it. It happened. The Journalist Adam Curtis and Robert Del Naja and his band Massive Attack — with vocalists Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and Horace Andy — staged a show over some nine days at an abandoned railway station as part of...
Read moreKickstart this: Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows
My good friend and bandmate Nick Carpenter is associate producing this documentary. It launched its Kickstarter a few hours ago. Have a look. Help out. Watch until the end as you will have a laugh. Syl is a super interesting subject, a major part of soul music history, and a volatile person and...
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors Screening Tonight in New York
Channel 16 – a program of Brown Cuts Neighbors video shorts – is being presented by Jason Martin tonight, Friday June 28 at Harvestworks in New York City at part of the 2013 New York Electronic Art Festival.
Read moreBrown Cuts Neighbors – Harvestworks – New York, NY – 06/28/13
Help Complete Alan Moore’s Jimmy’s End Film Cycle
Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins have turned to Kickstarter to fund the final chapter of five in their film cycle Jimmy’s End. “His Heavy Heart” is in need of £45,000 to complete filming. £30 (currently about $47) appears to me to be the sweet spot with the inclusion of a DVD and...
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