It might be going too far to say that none of this (Wow Cool, Brown Cuts Neighbors, etc….) wouldn’t be here without Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band… but it wouldn’t be going very far from the truth. I tend to spend...
Read moreMusic Monday: Nuisance – Attractive Nuisance demo
It’s not a big secret that I am a huge fan of Nuisance. I booked them twice for shows in Western Massachusetts. Once at a spectacularly disastrous warehouse show in Florence (at the Arts & Industry building, now home to Ecstatic...
Read moreMusic Monday: Kill Your Pet Puppy
So… you’ve read Rip It Up and Start Again, and Simon Reynolds follow-up Totally Wired, and are ass-deep in post-punk lore and legend and spend your days wandering the record stalls humming “She Is Beyond Good and Evil” by...
Read moreR.I.P. Peter Christopherson
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Read moreA Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs
One Last Beer With Don Donahue
Don Donahue and Adam Alexander at San Diego Comic-Con 1989 Apparently you’re dead, Don. It’s been a long time. I miss seeing you around the old neighborhood. God, we used to talk and talk. You always had something going on. Usually...
Read moreI Wrote A Thing
I set out to write a simple, optimistic, pushy, promo hype-even, cover letter for this calendar we just did (seen at left). Instead I ended up pouring my heart out (lies and half-truths mostly) about the history of this here Wow Cool (and that...
Read moreAfter Stanley Kubrick
“Christiane Kubrick had 42 wonderful years with her husband. But in the decade since his death, she has been beset by tragedy. For the first time, she talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology”, and much more...
Read moreI Wanted to Say Something About Al Williamson…
Rest in Peace Frank Sidebottom
When I first saw a tweet of the news that Frank Sidebottom had left us today, I was pretty sure it could not mean that Chris Sievey, the man behind the enormous head, was actually dead. Maybe just taking a break or retiring the character...
Read moreR.I.P. Joseph Strick
One of the most memorable scenes in all of cinema for me is that in Joseph Strick’s version of James Joyce’s Ulysses of the tower and the famous breakfast scene. This maverick of independent cinema has left us aged 86.
Read moreR.I.P. Sigmar Polke
One of the true greats has left us. Sigmar Polke, known here – at least in the 80’s – as one of the ‘new German painters’ – has died at 69. A serious inspiration to myself. I love his circles and colors and...
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