fognozzle is one of 35-odd noise acts doing 15 minute sets each at the International Noise Conference in San Francisco, California on April 11, 2008. I haven’t been in the band in nearly 15 years, and won’t be at this show, but it...
Read moreIan Lynam’s Parallel Strokes – The Graffiti book you always dreamed of
Long time Wow Cool Compañero Ian Lynam’s awesome new book, Parallel Strokes, just came out and is available now via the book website: http://parallelstrokes.com/ Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary...
Read moreA Coney Island of the Mind
Karen Ulrich, originally uploaded by Marc Arsenault – Wow Cool. It’s starting to look like the more exciting Coney Island exhibit that the Brooklyn Museum is hosting right now is the one in the blog by curator Patrick Amsellem. And...
Read morenickname: Rebel – R is for Riot album is done – RPM Challenge Success
OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now...
Read moreWorking on the new record
I’ll post every few entries on my RPM Blog here as they build up during this long desperate month of recording… Just 17 days left. Obscure Functions of the RPM Challenge I pretty quickly realized that this would be where I finally cut...
Read moreMartial Arts Photo Explosion
This has been a pretty big month for me for newsstand exposure. I’ve got photos of Cary, NC’s White Tiger Martial Arts in the latest TKD-TaeKwonDo Times and many of the shots of the Tiger Claw Elite Champions’ performance at...
Read moreUpcoming Jason Martin solo show 2/28 in Albany
Yes folks, its all about me. But heck, I don’t do these around town too often anymore… so dig this: Two sets: one set electric guitar freakout improv, and the other solo acoustic guitar and voice (that means singing a bunch of new...
Read moreI’m Burnin’ Up
Just a half-hour to go and then album frenzy kicks in. Stay tuned for updates.
Read moreJohnny Flatline Gets it Together
Johnny Flatline returns, in a typical adventure… all fantasies, lies, imagination, backstory and wasted rationalizations. Realized here in an adult form not seen before. He returns in 2009 in Quarter a tale of Pinball, deceit and Lust. This...
Read moreI took the RPM Challenge
My band, nickname: Rebel, will have a new album for 2008. OK, it’s really going to be a solo joint, but I’m feeling the Rebel vibe. The basic pitch is, you have 29 days in February to record an album of new music… at least 10...
Read moreThe Comics Reporter interviews Simon Gane
Simon is the subject in the third in this years series of holiday interview by Tom Spurgeon at his Excellent The Comics Reporter site. Tom talks to Simon about everything from his early anarcho-minicomics to his current success with Paris and...
Read moreIn Troy, NY, December 21 – Trojan Implosion!
5 years till the end of days party FRIDAY DEC. 21ST at 51 3rd st. TROY, NEW YORK SCIENTIFIC MAPSROSS GOLDSTEINJASON MARTINWith special guest: DJ JESSE STILES 9pm b.y.o.b. December 21st, 2007 marks the beginning of the 5 year countdown to a 2012...
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