Razorcake 2020 Donation Drive

Razorcake 2020 Donation Drive

It’s Fund Drive Season at Razorcake. There is no tote bag, but there are t-shirts!  Razorcake provides consistent coverage of do-it-yourself punk culture that you won’t find anywhere else. They believe in positive, progressive, community-friendly DIY punk. DIY punk culture is often...

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Suburban Dance Radio 8 – Vern Is Gone

Suburban Dance Radio 8 – Vern Is Gone

Episode 8 of the Suburban Dance Radio show on 92.5 KOWS FM. My show airs every other Tuesday at 8pm Pacific time in Santa Rosa, California in Sonoma County and also streams online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. I’m a little behind right now… This...

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Suburban Dance Radio for June 2, 2020

Suburban Dance Radio for June 2, 2020

Suburban Dance Radio is on every even Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. Shows will also appear for up to a month on my SoundCloud page. The soundtrack to your...

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Suburban Dance Radio for May 12, 2020

Suburban Dance Radio for May 12, 2020

All vinyl special! Suburban Dance Radio is on every even Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. Shows will also appear for up to a month on my SoundCloud page...

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Suburban Dance Radio for April 28, 2020

Suburban Dance Radio for April 28, 2020

I have returned to the airwaves. Suburban Dance Radio is on every even Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. Shows will also appear for up to a month on my SoundCloud...

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Suburban Dance Radio is on KOWS 92.5FM

Suburban Dance Radio is on KOWS 92.5FM

I started doing a regular radio show again, since club DJ gigs are hard to come by… Massive thanks to Don Campau and the folks at KOWS Community Radio in Santa Rosa, CA for letting me do my thing. I’m on every even Tuesday on 92.5 FM at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming

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Cometbus 59 is Here

Cometbus 59 is Here

It’s new. It is here. There hasn’t been a new issue in a bit over two years. This one is novel-length. We also finally listed 58 online. When we got it there was a zine show in a couple days, then we just held it for the shop. Or maybe we were just lazy. Many

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2019 Year In Review

2019 Year In Review

It has certainly been a tumultuous year here at Wow Cool. Not least of all because the physical “here” has changed. Sadly the Wow Cool Alternative Comics physical shop in Cupertino, California closed its doors after six great years. We also left the offices that we had been in for...

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New nickname: Rebel Live Set and T-Shirt Out Now

New nickname: Rebel Live Set and T-Shirt Out Now

On Sunday August 18, Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel—in the form of founding members Marc Arsenault and Michael Keegan—played their first show in eight years. We can’t believe it’s been that long either. California’s Capital City welcomed us back for an early afternoon set...

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Liz Suburbia’s Egg Cream #1 – Review

Liz Suburbia’s Egg Cream #1 – Review

Note: This review contains major spoilers for Egg Cream and for the proceeding work Sacred Heart.  Egg Cream #1 is Liz Suburbia’s compromise between working non-stop on a new book and doing a one-woman anthology on the side. This series will anthologize the follow-up to her book Sacred...

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Maximum RockNRoll #363 August 2013

Maximum RockNRoll #363 August 2013

The latest issue of Maximum RockNRoll will be on newsstands any day now. It contains the expanded print version of the memoriam of Ramones creative director Arturo Vega that I put together with Punk Magazine guy John Holmstrom and photographer Godlis. You should go get that. There is a short...

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