Yowza! At last, after 3 years, it's here, another huge, totally hand-lettered, profusely comix-illustrated, utterly enthused fanzine for all you psych rock and acid folk freeks!! You can see right away why it takes so long between issues. This ish, editor Plastic Crimewave and a host of like minded contributors bring us the dope on every cool thing they can think of... the Lollipop Shoppe, The Daily Flash, White Witch, The Moody Blues, John Berberian, John DuCann (RIP), Curtis Knight, Status Quo, Kak, and tons more. There's stuff on "Psychedelic Canada", on Texas acid punk (Red Crayola, The Golden Dawn...), country funk, and lotsa prog too (East Of Eden, Egg...).
And along with PCW & the GZD crew's ravings on such subjects, there's also interviews, including chats with Arthur Brown, Rodriguez, Black Widow, Mark Fry, and the Poppy Family, wow. In non-musical (but equally psychedelic) coverage, they examine a lot of freaky '60s comic book artwork too, from Mad Magazine to Marvel...
It all adds up to 112 action-packed pages that will keep you entertained for a long time. Plus, this comes with the usual thick sheaf of way-cool TRADING CARDS (Damaged Guitar Gods set #5, Astral Folk Goddesses set #3!), AND a free cd sampler of "unearthed expansive sounds 1968 - present", many unreleased garage rock obscurities, 23 tracks total, including a live jam from Japan's Mainliner!
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Chicago-based 'zine Galactic Zoo Dossier proclaims itself "America's Leading Journal Of The Psychedelic Underground". Could be. The 'zine obviously has fans at Drag City, 'cause they've just issued this massive "Compendium" compiling the first four out-of-print issues of GZD along with bonus stuff. It's a full sized, perfect-bound, 144 page tome chock a block with articles, art and interviews. You can read about Silver Apples, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Electric Prunes, Funkadelic, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simply Saucer, Ash Ra Temple and much much more... Done by fans with the aim of enlightening others about the music they love, it's really very educational. There's history lessons here about everything from "pedal steel and fuzz guitar" to "early drone-rock" and even "psychedelic jerk-offs". Be aware, ALL the text is hand written, with comic book style art. Kinda looks like a cross between Cometbus and a psychedelic coloring book. Pretty cool, tho for me personally, my advice for future issues would be to get a computer or typewriter or something. The handwriting is totally legible but it still makes me tired reading it just 'cause I can't help thinking of how hard it would be to write all that stuff out!
AND there's a cd with tracks collected off of the magazine's Galactic Zoo cassettes, containing tracks by a crazed collection of psychonauts, among them Fursaxa, Plastic Crimewave, Magnog, Un, and...uh...well we haven't heard of many of these, though I think quite a few are related to the magazine's editor and friends. 25 tracks in all.
From the man behind two of our favorite labels, the now defunct Starlight Temple Society, and post STS label Khrysanthoney, comes this hefty metal tome. We're discovering GOTG on issue 5, perhaps the final issue, for now at least, we're a little late to the party, not sure how we missed the first four, cuz this definitely has tons of awesome stuff in it, and seems like anyone who has been digging Oaken Throne (R.I.P.), Rape & Honey, The Convivial Hermit, Forgotten Path, not to mention the recently compiled / reissued Slayer mag as well as all the other recent (and not so recent) kick ass underground metal mags, would definitely dig this too.
Nicely laid out, the whole thing printed white on black paper (very metal), with lots of pix, and band logos, and drawings, a handful of record reviews, with reviews often separated into different categories, with different reviews for production, music and vocals, and he even reviews a bunch of his own releases. But the crux of the mag is interviews, this time around with Destruktor, Black Witchery, Nyogthaeblisz, Yosuke from Nuclear War Now!, Forgotten Woods / Joyless, Velvet Cacoon, Jon from Full Moon Productions, Nightbringer, Perversor, Ignivomous, Dead Congregation, Deiphago, John Mincemoyer, who is 1/2 of the team that produced all time aQ beloved metal zine Oaken Throne, Black Majesty, Ares Kingdom, Crimson Moon, Goatlord, Maledicere, Profanatica, Roba El-Khaliyeh, Wolfhetan, the Ajna Offensive, and finally an interview with black metal illustrator Kramer (who also plays in Grand Belial's Key and runs the musically cool but otherwise highly problematic Satanic Skinhead Propaganda label), plus probably most strangely of all, an interview with, and a bit of brutal erotica / S&M fiction from, the writer Maija, whose story is accompanied by some high school binder style pencil drawings of a woman being tied up and hung from hooks. Well the magazine IS called Gallery Of The Grotesque, after all.
For the most part, essential metal reading for sure. And it has us definitely hoping for an issue six...
Comes with a cd sampler of releases on the Hell's Headbangers label...
Maybe even more anticipated that the recent Nah Und Fern box set from Gas, compiling all of the previously released Gas records, is this, a book of art from the man behind gas Wolfgang Voigt, which beside being beautiful and packed with variations on the foresty images that graced all the Gas records, also comes with a 5 track disc featuring rare, old, unreleased Gas tracks, which have the Gas faithful in a frenzy. More on the music in a second.
The book itself is quite striking. A slightly blurred shot of a forest, tinted deep red, it could be the cover of a lost Gas album (which in some ways it is), the band name embossed in a deep red metallic ink, Voigt's name on the back. Inside is a selection of photos, which seem to be from the same shots that produced the record covers, all shot of trees and branches and leaves, close up, from afar, they would look amazing all blown up on a gallery wall, but manage to be pretty dang striking here too.
Even sans cd, this would make a pretty excellent coffee table art book. But there is a cd, and as we mentioned before, it does in fact include nearly an hour of unreleased Gas, so�
Five tracks, all ten minutes or longer, each a deep dark gritty drift, almost completely eschewing the beats that would find their way into later Gas albums, these tracks explore deep billowy black ambience. A few have some glitch and crackle, but never does it evolve into that murky thump Gas does so well, instead, it sounds like water dripping, or ice melting, while the leaves and branches sway in the background, one track is super lo-fi and raw, with an industrial machinelike loop beneath the glistening musical mumble, underpinned by deep string swells, and haunting melodies, but that track is quickly followed by something much darker and elegiac, a brooding longform shimmer, like a string quartet slowed waaaaaay down, and blurred into soft shifting shapes. The closer is the most pastoral of the bunch, almost like it could be the music for some sort of nature show, slow panning shots of glaciers glistening in the sun, leaves falling in slow motion, time lapse films of wildflowers blooming then withering, clouds drifting across a deep blue sky, the only thing keeping it from going to far in that direction, is the soft patina of fuzz, the buried buzz, the looped mesmer, the barely audible glitch, all the things that make it distinctly GAS.
Our foreign language skills have always sucked; and as such, the bulk of this book from the exemplary (if bafflingly under documented) sound artist Michael Gendreau is completely lost on us. Gendreau is an acoustician by day and architectural rumbler by night; but this San Francisco denizen has long been an avid practitioner of the obscure literary form known as parataxis. Defined as the juxtaposition of various (often short and possibly disparate) clauses without any conjunctions or subordinating forms, the more obtuse forms of this type of literature became well developed first through Ezra Pound and expounded upon by Samuel Beckett. For many years now, Gendreau has been penning his thoughts in parataxis; and now the Swiss publishing house Rip On/Off has released a collection of his writings... but they've translated all his texts into French, meaning that we have no idea what this book is all about. Rip On/Off has also published writings from GX Jupitter-Larsen and Zbigniew Karkowski (also translated into French!), to give you an idea of what brilliantly daft ideas are abound in Switzerland.
BUT!!! There is a CD that accompanies the book, documenting a handful of unreleased recordings, some of which were culled from live presentations and others manipulated field recordings. Throughout these recordings, Gendreau is drawing heavily upon the tools of his trade as an acoustician, as he uses incredibly sensitive microphones and accelerometers to pick up the smallest of vibrations and textures. Unlike contact microphones which abstract and compress the sounds in a totally amazing way, Gendreau's gear is eerily clean... so that the rumble of truck against a huge metal door that he's recording would pick up all of the vibrations of the springs, the subtle creaking, and the deep deep deep resonant thrum of the metal itself.
Compositionally, Gendreau is one to lull the listener into sense of stasis (not really calm, as many of his rumbling drones are really heavy on the subharmonics) before rupturing that with elements of tactile noise and dissonant blasts. One can think more to the subaquatic ruminations of G*Park, the psychoactive landscapes of Luc Ferrari, and the classic collage techniques of The Hafler Trio. Many composers use raw field recordings, but few have the tools to really capture something as powerful as Gendreau... and even fewer have the savvy to make everything this brilliant. It's a very physical, architectural sound that Gendreau produces, even as those sounds speak to the molecular vibrations that could cause huge buildings to crack and crumble through forces unbeknownst to the original designer and to inhabitants within. Even if we can't grasp the weight of Gendreau's paratactic writings now translated into French, the sounds that Gendreau produces are certainly worth the price of admission alone!
Another killer new issue of Giant Robot, the magazine of "Asian pop culture and beyond!" Always an amazing read, jam packed with killer stories and eye popping photos. And tons of far out shit you can't or wouldn't read about anywhere else. This month they've got: a sampling of Martin Giant Robot's Asian themed t-shirt collection, the Know1edge clothing line, a whole bunch of kick ass toys and jewelry and clothing, Cassandra Nguyen and her giant plush squids, book and comic book reviews, SoCal surfer Kio Inagaki and his Yellow Rat clothing line, poet Beau Sia, flammable household items as improvised weapons, Una Kim and her Keep line of sneakers, Linda Linda Linda: the saga of an all girl garage band, Mountain Mountain collectable toys, The Host director Joon-Ho Bong, the Nice Rainbow Film production studio, tennis pro Paradorn Srichaphan, the Suicide Bomb Button!, tons of record reviews, modern new wave noise rockers VHS or Beta, post Versus rock combo +/-, artist Long Nguyen, Journey From The Fall director Ham Tran, a Vietnam film diary, Installation artists Pattara Chanruechachai and Pratchaya Phinthong, anime reviews, Japanese TV reviews, comics and somehow even more!!!
Margaret Cho on the cover, a ramen taste test, a big interview with mainland Chinese film director Chen Kaige (who made Farewell My Concubine), ska/rocksteady/reggae legend Byron Lee (I never knew he was half Chinese!), Dave Pajo of Tortoise, Slint, and Papa M, Jeff Chinn and the Bruce Lee museum, street food in Vietnam, lactose intolerance in Asians, and so much more. Glossy, substantial.
Issue 18 of one of the most fun reads around. Ron Rege, the artist behind the "Boys" comic that old pal Michael Drivas sold me from his killer store in Minneapolis, captures the specialness of GR best in this letter to the editor: "The whole 'here's what we like' tone, combined with the fact that the focus is on Asian stuff, makes it accessible to everyone. You may be into video games, or comics, or punk or techno or... but chances you like, or are curious about, some Asian stuff. You guys plow right into what could be a whole serious mess of race issues head on... fearlessly, with a smile, without hardly ever mentioning it."
In this issue, 100% Japanese American 'Optic Nerve' comics artist Adrian Tomine, J Church guitarist/Lost Weekend video slinger/Valencia regular Lance Hahn, comics artist/AQ-fave J. Otto, Martin goes to Mexico, Chinese filmmkaer Zhang Yimou, Lois, Looper, Arling & Cameron, Kid Koala, Sara Tanaka from Rushmore, the Asian girl Power Ranger, and lots more. As always, highly recommended.
Almost to the fortieth issue mark, and those Giant Robot Mag folks are showing no signs of slowin' down. Not a grey hair in sight, from what we can see (mind you they're in L.A. while we're here in SF, and admittedly our eyesight isn't bionic). In recent years they've increasingly drawn their subject matter from the latter half of their subtitle (it's 'Asian Pop Culture And Beyond', by the way), but that hasn't deterred the GR devotees. Head honchos Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong like cool stuff, and like to share their latest faves and interests with their readers. Issue #39 features their Giant Robot Awards for 2005, artist Souther Salazar, fimmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, king cobra fights (yes, that means the actual snakes, not the beer or its drinkers), skateboarder Daewon Song, and their usual plethora of reviews covering all sorts of music, books and other neat treats. Psst, will someone please get us one of those Domokun photo holders? Sooo rad! FYI: As of next year, the mag will be going bi-monthly... that means six issues instead of twelve.
Congratulations and bestest wishes to Giant Robot co-captain Martin Wong on his recent nuptual-ization! Whoo hoo! But the extracurricular excitement hasn't slowed down the production of his and Eric Nakamura's great Asian pop culture mag (nor that of their stores nor their restaurant)! This month we have heaping helpings of killer toys, comix, drawings as well as book reviews, record reviews, a trip to the South Pole, the paintings of Rachell Sumpter (one of which adorns the cover), a look at killer NY based Reed Space design and boutique, Asian American film fests, SooYoung Park of Seam and Bitch Magnet, boy bands in Hong Kong, the cool and creepy artwork of Louie Cordero, an interview with legendary tattoo artist Ed Hardy, Japanese toy auctions and more and more and more!!!!
Newest issue of one of our favorite magazines around. Music and toys and food and shows and records and clothes all with a distinctly and uniquely Asian American bent. This time around: a guided tour of modern Manilla, how to start your own boy band, Ugly Dolls!, an interview with director Ronny Yu, an interview with LOUDNESS!!! and tones of reviews and fiction and comics and cool little bits of trivia, and sidebars about random edibles and buyables and oh my, just one of the most fun to read magazines EVER!
The lucky few who managed to snag a copy of Canadian metal mag Morbid Tales #6, also got a glimpse of something pretty spectacular, strange and unexpected: a heavy metal cookbook, recipes from famous rockers, their own peculiar and particular metal food faves, compiled by Morbid Tales editrix Annick "Morbid Chef" Giroux, who has now taken her love of metal, and food, and that little cookbook supplement, and expanded it to a full on, honest to goodness cookbook.
And it's awesome. We really can't imagine a metalhead who wouldn't want this, even if they never planned on actually making all the recipes. Pretty much the perfect gift for the metaller in your life, and who knows, maybe this cookbook will be the catalyst for some homemade meals. Although some of these recipes might have you thinking twice. Some sound delicious for sure, and the pictures are appropriately appealing, but others maybe not so much, and some seem to be purposefully disgusting, something only a very drunk metalhead would eat. But that's part of the fun of the book. We wanted to make a bunch of these before we reviewed it but ran out of time. We will though, already have a few bookmarked.
For all her troo metal cred, editor Giroux is just too cute, on the cover in her metal patch-ed apron and huge knife, or on the dust cover chowing down on a sausage, heck the book is even dedicated to her grandmother, but let's get to the meat of this here cookbook. Every recipe features a full color photo (which at first glance seem like standard cookbook photos, until you begin to notice various metal items in the background, leather jackets, spikes, album covers, beer cans, wine bottles, etc.), the band logo and bio, the ingredients and instructions from the chef, as well as a little note from the Morbid Chef, her own take on each recipe. Some highlights include: Mummified Jalapeno Bacon Bombs from Chris Reifert of Autopsy/Abcess, Candied Sweetbreads On A Bed Of Sacred Heart from Balsac The Jaws Of Death from Gwar, Fried Egg Rigor Mortis Cure from Ustumallagam Of Denial Of God, Devil's Porridge from Montalo of Witchfynde, Welfare Nachos from Jason Decay of Cauldron/Goathorn, Bull Testicle Surprise from Tomas 'Necrocock' Kohout of Master's Hammer (and while many of the recipes have funny metal names and in fact are something else entirely, this one is in fact bull testicles!), The Stew Of True Doom from Karl Simon of Gates Of Slumber, Thundering Beef Brisket from Lips of Anvil, Doro's Black Forest Cake from Doro of Warlock, Beer Pizza Crust from Olaf Zissel of Tankard, New Orleans Blood Red Beans And Rice from Mike IX Williams of Eyehategod, Shellfish Crossfire from King Ov Hell of God Seed/Gorgoroth, and we could go on and on...
More than 100 recipes from more than 30 countries, other bands contributing their favorite delectables include: Abigail, Accept, Amebix, Anthrax, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Uriah Heep, Thin Lizzy, Trouble, Electric Wizard, Destruction, Mayhem, Melechesh, Death SS, Judas Priest, Budgie, Impaler, Brutal Truth, Mutiilation, Lord Vicar, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Piledriver, Pentagram, Rigor Mortis, The Rods, S.O.D, Stiny Plamenu, Warpig, Kreator and more more more.
Separated into sections for: appetizers and side dishes, beef, pork, lamb, poultry, seafood, vegetarian, desserts, even drinks (of course - and many of the food recipes include instructions to drink beer WHILE MAKING the food, not just when eating it), with lots of awesome illustrations, photographs, record covers, it's pretty epic, and totally metal, and we really can't recommend this enough. As Giroux says in her intro, making a meal is a great excuse for drinking and listening to metal! INDEED!!!
We only just started reading this but holy crap is it awesome. An in depth exploration of the UK anarcho punk scene. Which means, for those of you unclear on the concept, groups like Crass, Poison Girls, Flux Of Pink Indians, Rudimentary Peni, Icons Of Filth, Dirt, Subhumans, Conflict, Citizen Fish, Amebix, Chumbawamba (before they sold out!!), Zounds, The Mob, Kukl, Lack Of Knowledge, Disrupters, Flowers In The Dustbin, Antisect, Epileptics, Faction and more more more.
It's a little difficult for us to read this personally, as aQ pal Lance Hahn from J-Church was working on his own Anarcho-crust book when he passed away, but besides that, there's really no reason to not buy this, read up on all these amazing bands, and then buy all their records.
Covering the scene during the years 1980-1984, The Day The Country Died is packed with tons of photos, exclusive interviews, scene histories, discographies, we were 30 pages in when we got to Flux Of Pink Indians, maybe one of our favorite bands from that scene, and we had our Flux records out, reading and listening. And it's not just about the bands, and the records, it's the movement, the politics, pretty inspiring for sure.
Like we said, we only just started it, but we're digging this book BIG TIME, and apparently it's a companion to Glasper's other book, Burning Britain, so we'll probably have to track that one down too!
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You know in cartoons, when you get excited or scared, and your head spins around, your eyes pop out on big long springs, smoke shoots out of your ears, the top of your head pops up like a little geyser, your mouth opens and out comes that car horn AHOOOOOOGUH!!! AHOOOOOOGUH!!! That's exactly what will happen when you have a gander at this here book of freakish Finnish art. That's right, you heard us, FINNISH. Which means, a bunch of your favorite Finnish forest folkies are present, indulging their visual side, which is as tripped out and psychedelic as their musical sides. A gorgeously massive, Technicolor, mind blowing pen and ink freakout. If you close your eyes when you listen to Avarus or Uton or Paavoharju or Islaja this is probably the sort of stuff you see. 232 pages, perfect bound, FULL color, 21 Finnish artists, including Piirustuskerho (which includes pretty much all Avarus and Kemialliset Ystavat people), Roope Eronen, Reijo Karkkainen (Le Dernier Cri), Kasper Stromman (Napa) and loads more. From creepy simple squiggles to dizzying abstract magic marker scapes to haunting water colors to amazingly strange illustrations, all of them, brief little glimpses into some beautifully mysterious and beautiful otherworld. Ghostlike little girls, bizarre creatures, crazy characters, weird warped landscapes. Wow. No, seriously we're talking WOW WOW WOW! A lot of the text is in Finnish but is translated in footnotes! It almost doesn't matter anyway, the pictures are so head spinningly beautiful they tell the stories just fine on their own.
These books had a bit of a rough trip from Finland, so the spine and the edges show some slight wear, but not so much that it really matters at all. Once inside, you'll get swallowed whole by all the pretty colors and lost forever in a swirling world of wonderful weirdness.
We're so immersed in Finnish underground music all the time, that we sometimes forget there's probably a whole lot of other amazing underground stuff going on over there as well. Like say, ART ferinstance. Well last year we got a crash course in Finnish underground art with a hefty eye popping tome called Glomp. And it happened to be the eighth Glomp, but the first one we had ever set eyes on and we were smitten, BIG TIME. So were all of you as we couldn't keep it in stock, and it ended up going out of print pretty dang fast.
Thankfully, it's time for another hair raising, eye popping, head spinning, other-body-part-doing-something-else-that-body-part-doesn't-normally-do installment of crazy, gorgeous, funny, sad, poignant, confusing, fantastical and fucked up Finnish underground art in the form of Glomp #9! And just like the first one it's amazing. And even though much of the text is in Finnish, it doesn't detract from the loveliness or far-out-ness or just plain old simple beauty of this amazing artwork. And for all you Finnish music freaks (like us), tons of the artwork here is by folks who do time in bands like Avarus, Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystavat and loads more. Just like #8, the stuff inside is all over the map, from gorgeous and bizarre photographs, to gorgeous super detailed Renee French like pencil drawings, to super abstract paintings, to garish sculptures, confusing collages, tons of comic strips, most you don't even have to understand Finnish to get (although most of the text is subtitled with English footnotes!). Our favorite is probably the recurring strip by Tommi Musturi, the trials and tribulations of a strange doughy white pill shaped being with pink lips and a tubular nose, who wanders Frank-like through strange and dangerous worlds. But all of it is just so amazing. Finnish freaks will definitely want this, but anyone into cool weird hard to find art books will definitely go crazy for this too. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES WORLDWIDE. Of that thousand we have a super limited amount, and if people go as crazy for this one as they did for the last one, they won't be around for long...
Another special Record Store Day release, and another one we were truly excited about, two 12"s of remixes from former aQ Record Of The Weekers Goat, whose ROTW, World Music, was a dizzying collection of twisted and mysterious Swedish psychedelic space rock, heavy on the twisted grooviness, rhythmic and propulsive, and laced with cool double-dutch style vocals, wild percussion, we weren't the only ones who flipped for these guys (and gal).
So Rocket Recordings picked what seems to be most folks favorite track, and got some like minded sonic saboteurs to take a stab and remixing it and making it their own. A bunch of remixers we knew: High Wolf, Teeth Of The Sea, Gnod, Cherrystones, Hookworms and Tom Furse (of UK goth rockers the Horrors), but a bunch we didn't: Raikes Parade, Thought Forms, Redg Weeks, Cage & Aviary. While a lot of the remixers only slightly tweaked the originals, some went all out and pulled the song apart and reassembled the pieces into something entirely different.
The first volume starts off with Thought Forms, who are one of the groups who don't mix it up too much, and instead just does some looping and layering and rearranging, adding some sound effects here and there, dubbing out certain bits, and stripping away a lot of the guitar, letting the drums drive the proceedings. High Wolf also does some looping and layering, but the resulting sound is a lot different, much more tripped out, sounding a bit like Muslimgauze at 45rpm, rhythmic, groovy, the vocals relegated to the background, lots of buzzing sitar like sound, the whole thing dense and druggy, swirly and shimmery.
Redg Weeks gives the original a serious dub overhaul, the bass CRANKED, the drums heavily reverbed, the snare hits sent careening into the ether, the whole thing dirgey and hypnotic, dark and droney, some seriously mesmeric loping dub psych minimalism for sure. Tom Furse from the Horrors, hews a bit closer to the original, adding subtle synth swirls, and tonal colorations, adding textures and layers, the overall effect making the song a whole lot more spacey and trippy.
SUPER LIMITED!! Like most of the Record Store Day releases, while we have a bunch, it's very likely, we won't be able to get (many/any) more. Comes housed in an old school style big hole 12" sleep, decorated with the same sort of fractal design as the cover of the full length.
Another special Record Store Day release, and another one we were truly excited about, two 12"s of remixes from former aQ Record Of The Weekers Goat, whose ROTW, World Music, was a dizzying collection of twisted and mysterious Swedish psychedelic space rock, heavy on the twisted grooviness, rhythmic and propulsive, and laced with cool double-dutch style vocals, wild percussion, we weren't the only ones who flipped for these guys (and gal).
So Rocket Recordings picked what seems to be most folks favorite track, and got some like minded sonic saboteurs to take a stab and remixing it and making it their own. A bunch of remixers we knew: High Wolf, Teeth Of The Sea, Gnod, Cherrystones, Hookworms and Tom Furse (of UK goth rockers the Horrors), but a bunch we didn't: Raikes Parade, Thought Forms, Redg Weeks, Cage & Aviary. While a lot of the remixers only slightly tweaked the originals, some went all out and pulled the song apart and reassembled the pieces into something entirely different.
The second volume starts off with Gnod, who team up with the previously unknown to us Raikes Parade, for something a whole lot more minimal, that main riff, suspended in a haze of disembodied vox, tinkling chimes, fractured music box melodies and ominous synth squelch. Soon a stuttery beat surfaces, giving the song an almost dubstep vibe, the original elements of the song blurred into thick swirling clouds of atmospheric background sound. Cherrystones version transforms the more rocking original into a lurching creep, a hiccuping beat and some blorping synths, draped over the washed out remnants of the original, woozy melodies all tangled up in the proceedings, the feel very Eastern and exotic, this track too, dubbed out and a little bit Muslimgauze-y.
UK space rockers Hookworms, whose full length we'll be reviewing hopefully soon, turn the original into something way more laid back and washed out, employing mostly the drums and the bassline from the original, smearing all the other sounds into a druggy swirl, the perfect backdrop for some slowburn guitar, and spaced out psychedelic shimmer. Finally, Cage & Aviary strip Goat's sound WAY down, and craft some woozy, warbly, electro-house groovery, pulsing and loping, warped melodies draped over sheets of crumbling guitars, all faded into the background, the vox too, chopped up into weird little melodic blurts, all beneath woozy basslines, warped FX and that hypnotic relentless rhythm.
SUPER LIMITED!! Like most of the Record Store Day releases, while we have a bunch, it's very likely, we won't be able to get (many/any) more. Comes housed in an old school style big hole 12" sleep, decorated with the same sort of fractal design as the cover of the full length.
A look behind the scenes at the making of Radiohead's epochal OK Computer album. As with all the books in the 33 1/3 Series, it's a completely fascinating read. Sort of like the way MOJO articles are always totally awesome and readable even if you -think- you don't care about the artist. But if you DO love OK Computer, this is obviously essential.
Read about Amon Tobin, Christian Fennesz, Mum, Negativland, Suicide, Rosy Parlane, Wobbly, Ikue Mori, Goodiepal, and lots more in this ninth issue of the ever thicker and slicker "experimental electronic music magazine" Grooves. Music *and* gear reviews fill out the pages, making this good reading for both electronica consumers and producers.
"Experimental electronic music magazine." Their fourth issue, and now they've got a fancy color cover and use Pantone coated inks, a fact mentioned on the cover for some reason and repeated here for no reason. Lots of info on your fave cutting edge electronica artists, from IDM stuff to turntablism. DJ Krush, DJ Shortee/DJ Faust, Chessie, Tarwater, Third Eye Foundation, Kit Clayton, Plone, Stewart Walker all get features, among others. Plus a zillion reviews, ads from all the hip labels/stores/mailorder places, and photos of said fave electronica artists (often a short haired white guy sitting on the ground, as in the three photos found on three successive pages depicting Accelera Deck, TEF, and Kit Clayton). Looks great, lots of info, getting better and better all the time.
All kinds of electronic music get covered between the covers of Grooves magazine, a which is up to number 12 now and just getting bigger and better each issue. This time, Plastikman, Meat Beat Manifesto, Electric Birds, AGF, Mice Parade, Sami Kovikko, Diverse, Randy Yau, Tod Dockstader, Aelters, Christopher Willits, Dean Roberts and many more get written about or interviewed. Music consumers and gearheads both should be sated by the reviews and the ads found here.
Oh boy! This is another one of those releases that pushes all of our overwhelming music obsessive buttons, like the Conet Project, The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000 box, the Yahowa 13cd box, the 50 cd Merzbox, the Ayler Holy Ghost box...
Compiled and produced by Gert-Jan Blom of the Beau Hunks, Harmonic Development brings to light the long lost harmonium performances of the fascinating Georg Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866-1949) whom some of you will know much better as a thinker and philosopher than a musician. This release consists of a beautifully designed 140 page softbound book filled with tons of photos and historical and personal minutae, accompanied by two compact discs of music in a digipack AND an additional disc of mp3's (that brings the total amount of music to over 19 hours!!) as well as a cool MPEG video of Gurdjieff home movies. Holy crap! So first, who was G.I. Gurdjieff? Well, the simple version is that Gurdjieff was an early twentieth century Russian mystic (and retired hypnotist), who drew inspiration from Sufism, and was fascinated with music. Gurdjieff had composed for piano for some years, but late in life he acquired first a wire recorder, and then a tape recorder, to document his improvisations (his "moosic") on the harmonium, a sort of pump organ, that produces a sound that is rich and full, a sort of lush, wheezing melodious moan, haunting and otherworldly. This collection gathers up recordings from the forties, from the last few years of Gurdjieff's life, and feature loads of intimate performances, several talks, and lots of ambient chit chat. It seems that Gurdjieff would perform a piece, slow and sad and gorgeously dreamy, enveloping all of his listeners in the mood, and when he was finished, he would then crack jokes and make small talk. Many of these performances feature this strange juxtaposition of almost religious intensity, and breezy lighthearted banter, which was somehow another part of his unique world view. We've yet to delve completely into the book, but even on their own, the discs are wonderful and completely mesmerizing, offering up hours of droney, mysterious harmonium music, but all sorts of ambient sounds and snippets of conversations as well, giving these recordings almost the same sort of vibe as the Conet Project, a distant dark mystery, as if these sounds were pulled from the ether, captured from another world and another time. At once recognizable, but at the same time totally alien.
And as you enjoy the hours of recordings, you can peruse the book which contains a preface by Robert Fripp, information on the unearthing and restoration of the recordings, track notes, transcriptions of the talks, as well as recollections of Gurdjieff's final year from a host of friends and students, among them the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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There's always room in the world for a new music magazine, especially one obviously undertaken with a passion for the music covered inside, well written and interestingly laid out. And we're always in need of a new metal magazine for sure. Considering Terrorizer is so hard to get, Decibel can be a bit too snarky and ironic sometimes, and Metal Maniacs is a good read, but ultimately really light weight. So we're pleased as punch that there's a new metal mag on the block. The appropriately titled Hails & Horns. This is issue number one, so we can assume they're still feeling their way around, but even so, this is a pretty great magazine heavy on the metalcore for sure, but plenty of death/black/thrash/doom as well, and jam packed with tons of articles. It feels really thin, but open it up and it's a bit hard to believe how many bands are covered. There's only a few pages of reviews in this first issue, instead the focus is on metal news and articles and interviews with band after band after band. On the cover, Underoath. Inside, an interview with Tom Araya of Slayer, a look at the Finnish metal / black metal scene, a history of the West Memphis Three (three kids imprisoned for supposedly murdering three local children, but more realistically imprisoned for being goth rock weirdos / individual thinkers) and an update on recent developments in the case, columns from Bill Ward of Black Sabbath and Kurt Ballou from Converge, in the studio with Norma Jean, Misery Signals and more, as well as articles about / interviews with Poison The Well, Ministry, Summoning, Rammstein, In Flames, Amorphis, Children Of Bodom, Behemoth, Cathedral, Atreyu, Sepultura, Fall Of Troy, Arch Enemy and a whole lot more.
Plus every issue will come with a cd featuring new and unreleased songs. This time around: Goatwhore, Satyricon, Misery Index, Torche, Shadows Fall, Underoath, Arch Enemy, Cattle Decapitation, Unearth, Eighteen Visions, Artimus Pyledriver and lots more.
Not bad for five bucks!
Latest issue from this up and coming metal mag, doing its best to give Terrorizer and Decibel and Revolver a run for their money.
On the cover: Shadows Fall. In the studio with Hopesfall, Zonaria, Ruiner, Throwdown and Nora. Bill Ward of Black Sabbath's monthly column on drums metal and whatever the heck he feels like rambling on about, plus articles about and interviews with Machinehead, Zao, From Autumn To Ashes, Fu Manchu, Rob Halford, Deftones, Christ Illusion song by song with Slayer's Kerry King and Tom Araya, Cannibal Corpse, Boys Night Out, Firewind, Masters Of Horror mastermind Mick Garris, Novembers Doom, Hot Cross, Gilby Clarke of Supernova (oh yeah, and Guns And Roses...), Heaven Shall Burn, Anberlin, Detonation, The Almost, Megadeth's Gigantour and charity softball game, Otep, Slipknot, Poison The Well, Unholy, Sevendust, The Human Abstract, Tyr, Chimaira, Emmure, Kiss, Fairyland, In This Moment, Opiate For The Masses, Thy Will Be Done, metalheads talk about other discs that are kicking their asses, the Bridge Nine and Deathwish labels, rock and metal and the New Orleans Recovery and of course TONS of record reviews.
And as if that weren't enough, included is a cd with new and unreleased tracks from As Blood Runs Black, Chimaira, xDEATHSTARx, Six Feet Under, With Passion and more.
Maybe a tad heavy on the nu-metal, but there's always some cool stuff...
And only five bucks!
Considering how quick Grouper stuff blows out of here, this one most likely doesn't need too much of a description. Divide is the first book of original artwork from Liz Harris (aka Grouper), black and white, and super striking, intricate branch like patterns, washed out water colors, tangled knots, mysterious patterned mandalas, crystalline arrangements of lines and space, a style most aQ-ers will recognize from various Grouper releases. The softcover book measures 7" by 7", and has beautiful full color front and back covers, and includes a dvd, featuring an original video by Harris, accompanied by a gorgeous Grouper soundtrack (featuring Rob Fisk from Common Eider, King Eider on viola), and as you might expect, it's another fantastic dreamlike sonic drift, all warm whirling otherworldly haze and gauzy ethereal shimmer. So nice.
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, we have less than 10, and most likely will NOT be able to get more...
Ever had a bad trip? And no, not just an "oh I'm freaking out man" sort of trip, we're talking the sort of trip that sticks with you forever. The first time, the worst time, the best worst time, sex, death, injury, mayhem and misery, well our very own Scott Hewicker and his partner Cliff Hengst have been collecting tales of these bad trips from a who's who of artists and musicians, friends and family, even AQ employees and have finally compiled them all into one volume, this here gorgeous hardcover book entitled Good Times: Bad Trips, and not only packed with stories, but with all sorts of original and found artwork to accompany these far our freaked out tales of drugs and debauchery.�
The contributors include�Devendra Banhart, local luminary John Dwyer, our very own Irwin Swirnoff and our very own Lauren Robertson,�Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel from Matmos, John Koch from Troll, Ezra Feinberg�from Citay,�Alexis Georgopoulos from Arp,�Wayne Smith from Aero-Mic'd,�Nathan Burazer from Tussle, Jack Hanley (of Jack Hanley Galleries) as well as�loads of artists and writers like Chris Johanson, Shaun O'Dell, Keegan McHargue, Leslie Shows, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy... the list goes on and on and on.�
The thing is, it almost doesn't matter who wrote which story, so much so that the credits are tucked away, way in the back of the book, so the stories are just that, stories, removed from their authors, not overly writerly, instead conversational, like hanging out drinking and telling tales, where most bad trip stories actually get told. And these are some seriously demented stories. Some are super funny, some are really intense and brutal, some are so ridiculous they sound made up, others are more mundane, but resonate as experiences most of us have shared. It's an amazing read. A killer collection of short stories, all of them fascinating, tales of�stolen jet skis,�yellow food banquets,�secret upper crust sex societies,�deflowered virgins,�brain loops, dead body mannequins, emergency room freakouts, smoking out with Lee Scratch Perry, football player rapists, midnight calls to Mom, industrial strength lasers, heart murmurs, talking crows, living nude books, grey music, naked hippies, sex with surrealists, skin rashes, mouths full of dough, Cher costumes, stolen Harry Potters, boom box kicking, fake pistols, guitar masturbating, mother meltdowns, Tesla coils and so so so much more.�
Gorgeously designed and laid out, plus the book is jam packed with eye popping art,�paintings, drawings, collages, photographs and ephemera, all suitably warped and trippy, beautiful and bizarre, collected, found or created by Hewicker and Hengst. And all housed in a super swank, full color 136 page hard cover book. Each one signed by the artists!! Absolutely recommended. And a limited run of only 1000 copies, so buy now or be prepared to sell a kidney or take out a second mortgage on your house to pick one up on eBay later...
The return of everybody's favorite imaginary rock couple, Henry & Glenn, as in Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig, and more tales of the forbidden love that dare not speak it's name. Yep, just like the first issue, Henry & Glenn imagines a better world, where the forbidden gay love these two don't actually share (or do they?) is real, and they live together in a house with a partially finished sacrificial altar in the front yard, their next door neighbors the Satan worshipping duo Hall & Oates, and we are given a glimpse into H&G's daily lives, where we observe Henry as the responsible one, the one who does the housework and pays the bills, and worries what the city thinks about the above mentioned unfinished altar in the yard, while Glenn is the dreamer, the one always full of crazy ideas, oblivious to poor Henry and his desire for more. It's all pretty irreverent, and pretty gosh dang hilarious. And this time around, original artists Igloo Tornado (which includes aQ pal Tom Neely) bring in some guests, most notably, Ed Luce, who longtime readers of the aQ list will no doubt know as the man behind the awesome Wuvable Oaf comic, who here imagines H&G in couples therapy, which of course includes guest cameos from Kerry King of Slayer, Ian Mackaye of Fugazi and of course a demon kitty.
Neel does a cool back cover color comic, which features a striking likeness J Bennett of Decibel (and Ides Of Gemini), who bums out Glenn by showing him the original H&G - which is apparently (maybe) a true story? Benjamin Marra pit our couple against Leta Fjord and Hall And Oates get in on the demonic action. And the opening comic is mostly just a hilarious build up for a distinctly Danzig punchline, and of course there's more more more.
One of our favorite comics for sure, and as always, leaves us wanting to know what could happen next in the lives of our heroes, Henry & Glenn...
First there was Henry & Glenn Forever, then the sequel Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever, and now the saga continues! Comix about these two muscular manly man punk rock icons, as a loving gay couple - brilliant, hilarious concept! Some of the major contributors this issue include Tom Neely, Mark Rudolph, and Josh Bayer, their Henry & Glenn strips all getting pretty fantastical - and funny - in illustrating the titular duo's hypothetical romantic dynamic, with probably more of the laughs at Glenn's expense 'cause, y'know, of course - and the real-life Henry has stated that he thinks Glenn "would not be amused", as for Henry, well, we saw an interview where he said he's autographed copies of the comic for people but has never actually looked inside, which seems kinda weird too, doesn't it?
Neely's strip continues exploring Glenn's "Mother" issues, Rudolph's shows how Glenn does the household chores (and includes a cameo from Hall & Oates, H&G's uber friendly, Satan worshipping neighbors!!), Bayer's delves into bromantic existential angst in an epic way - and besides being funny, these comix end up being surprisingly sweet and heartwarming, too. Gotta love it!!
Color cover, b&w interior, 32 pages.
Everybody's favorite same-sex couple, Henry (Rollins) and Glenn (Danzig) are back, in the latest issue of the cult comic book all about their fantastical adventures. In an alternate reality (also known as real life) it may be that punk rock icons Henry and Glenn are NOT in fact gay, and perhaps not even that close of buddies, who knows. But we prefer the comic book version, they're so cute together!! And so manly.
In this issue, there's some record shopping (yay!), Henry hangs out with Gaahl from Gorgoroth (or we think that's what's going on), they take a trip into the depths of "Gaydes", and more. Totally bent and hilarious as usual.
There's two alternate covers for this ish, the one pictured here, by Tom Neely, the other a retro Kirby-ish looking one by Shaky Kane.
Now for the final installment (or is it?) in the Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever saga. Tom Neely & Co's hilarious cartoon love story, casting punk icons Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig as a devoted gay couple (having surreal adventures) wraps up, for now, long before jumping the shark. As always, this issue is super cute and clever and funny and bizarre. That other couple, Daryl Hall and John Oates, also appear, and the back cover features a Johnny Ryan cartoon called Mark & Gary Forever... that'd be Mark Mothersbaugh and Gary Numan. Funny stuff.
32 b&w pages, with two alternate full color covers - one Egyptian themed (?), the other, a parody of the first issue of Love & Rockets.
And never fear, Henry & Glenn fans, 'cause though this mini-series is over, Neely promises more H&G action in the future.
Last list we reviewed an amazing art book, featuring a selection of made up and imagined 7" sleeves from Boredoms leader Yamantaka Eye, from the awesome Soundscreen Design publishing house. This time around, we have another book in the same series, this one from Daniel Higgs, who most folks might know as the frontman for Baltimore hypnorockers Lungfish, or for any of is amazing solo records, or for his guest spot on the new record from Swedish outfit Skull Defekts (one of this week's Records Of The Week), but in addition to all his musical endeavors, Higgs is also an incredible artists, paintings, drawings collages, much of his artwork adorns the various records he's made, but he was also a legendary tattoo artist, until giving it up a few years back, and his artwork, both tattoos and otherwise are super distinct, while being incredibly varied. This book is a small sampling of Higgs work from the last decade, and it features gorgeous reproductions of various paintings, drawings and collages, many of which will be immediately recognizable to fans of his artwork (or even his music, what with the various aforementioned album covers).
The cover features a typical Higgs piece, that is equal parts, drawing, diagram, diary page, with strange words, mysterious drawings, not to mention some credits for the book mixed in, while the back cover features a super striking ballpoint pen self portrait on a rich colored background.
Inside it's all over the place, from simple shapes, lots of words, and designs incorporating letters, references to God and Satan and the Bible, simple sketches, gorgeous full color paintings, striking drawings, strange shapes, all very psychedelic and abstract, culminating in a piece of lined paper on the final page, just a list of words, from vulva to cosmos, fountain to aether, temporal to blossom, headdress to phallus, aura to flux, crag to spider, cistern to torpedo, throng to crater, sphinx to echo, luminous to spectral and on and on and on. So simple, but so strangely mysterious and alluring and impossible to decipher, like all of Higgs' work. What mysterious messages lurk in the shapes and the colors and the arrangements of words, part of the magic. Needless to say, fantastic stuff. And like the Eye book, comes packaged in a 10" style record sleeve.
Okay fans of Hella and their musical buddies, here's something a little different for y'all! Zach Hill (the drummer for that Sacramento math rock band as well as Nervous Cop and Team Sleep among others), has corralled the likes of Pinback's Rob Crow and the Flying Luttenbachers' Jonathon Hischke for his Zach Hill & The Holy Smokes album Masculine Drugs, on which much dissonant noise fuckery ensues. One of its highlights is certainly the fifth song "Getting In The Head Of Your Galaxy" which offers some trademark Crow vocals and melodicism amid the cacaphony. But Hill didn't stop there! He also wrote and illustrated a paperback book called Destroying Yourself Is Too Accessible: Old Children's Ramblings For The New And Improved Child And Hypocritically Desterous Hippy to accompany the cd. Each page (of which there are 138) features an abstract pen'n'ink drawing along with a brief (1-3 sentences) entry. The cd lives in a plastic pocket at the back of the book.
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AQ-pal Sasha Frere Jones on A Certain Ratio, !!!, El-P, Sightings, Cex, DAT Politics, Radio 4, lotsa reviews. Chris Ryan (smart smart smart) on hip hop.
The long awaited return of the sweetly snotty super opinionated rock mag Hit It Or Quit It, helmed by booker / scribe / rocker / indie mainstay Jessica Hopper. This issue features The Hold Steady on the cover, inside: Thursday, Mountain Goats, Dinosaur Jr., Pelican, Spoon, Miranda July, M.O.P., Stones Throw Records, comics, bunches of record reviews and loads more. Two different covers too!
Back in stock! This amazing series of books seems like just what we (and all you fellow music geeks) have been waiting for. A whole mess of amazing records, Love's Forever Changes, the Smiths' Meat Is Murder, Neil Young's Harvest, Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and loads more. All written about by folks who love them, or whose lives were changed by said records. An unlike most music writing, these novella length tomes are not about the artist so much as specifically about the records, the making of, the thinking behind, and all the stuff surrounding the creation of these essential albums.
Unlike Joe Pernice's fictional approach to the Smith's Meat Is Murder reviewed last list, Andrew Hulktrans dives factually deep into Forever Changes, Love's masterpiece from 1967. Very deep. Hulktrans is the former editor of Bookforum and it shows. This reads a lot like a book review, dense, insightful, rife with psychology, philosophy and musicology. No Rolling Stone style pop journalism here. The Watts Riots, The Sunset Strip Riots, Vietnam are all examined as crucial pieces of the curious puzzle that is Arthur Lee, a paranoid outcast convinced that his death was imminent. And driven to make Forever Changes before it was too late.
Zines not dead! Here's the third ish of this excellent underground music fanzine in the grand old tradition. Covering proto-punk, power pop, glam rock, and other good stuff in that vein and/or of that vintage, Human Being Lawnmower (named after the MC5 song) comes across like a cross between Galactic Zoo Dossier and Savage Damage Digest. It's in the same format as the latter, 7" x 8 1/2", and features contributions from both SDD's Cory Lindstrum and GZD's Plastic Crimewave in fact. Graphically, Human Being Lawnmower is a treat. There's lotsa cool comix in here - several drawn by this zine's editor, Avi Spivak. But plenty of text too. Bands, some pretty darn obscure, covered here include: all-female rock pioneers Fanny, bubblegum punk Laurice, aQ fave fuzzsters Index, the Equals, The Troggs, The Sidewinders, The Hurriganes, Plod, Iron Virgin, Cock Sparrer, and more. Plus, a couple pages of reviews of current releases and reissues, mostly in the garage rock idiom. And, there's a hilarious "buyer's guide" to a bunch of iffy Lou Reed albums, mostly from the '70s and '80s, though last year's ill-conceived collaboration with Metallica, Lulu, gets an entry - you can tell where the writer is coming from when he says "This record stinks, there is nothing good on it� However this is still the best Lou Reed album in 30 years and the best Metallica album of all time". Can't agree, but ha!
HBL#3 is not all fun and games and music though - one piece, illustrated by Spivak, tells the harrowing true-life tale of David Millstein's visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in 2004.
All in all, 76 pages of pure fanzine goodness for anyone hip to it.
Back in stock!
A synopsis of this self-titled debut by The Huxtables themselves: "In the beginning, there were two sweaters, a drum sweater and a guitar sweater. We attempted to win but lost a battle of the bands at our high school. At that point, we finally became a real family. Of course the guitar and drums are the parents and the drawings, video, bass and keyboards are the kids, uncles and aunts. On this recording, half of its songs are from a small concrete closet in Washington DC. At one point the closet was storage space for an up-right bass. We finished the album in a kitchen in Boston while in a tussle with the police. What they did to us in that kitchen forced us to become a collective notion and stop being a band. New songs are being worked out and the collective's future album will be called The Mere Pressure Of My Hand." The Huxtables are two 17 year old boys from New York who make art and music that's noisy, naive, raw and a little bit silly. But awesome and fun!
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These limited edition posters were designed by IAS (imaginatively illustrated by Cup!) for their 2nd North American tour, 2003. 'Hair Is Real', indeed. Very few copies remain. 11"x17" heavy paperstock.
New I Am Spoonbender stickers are now here! Striking Egyptian motif. Bright orange, black and white weather-proof vinyl. 2" wide by 6" high.
'You have been suggested': This is the 1st of 3 in a series of what I Am Spoonbender call 'Hypnotic Trance Pamphlets' -- sort of an 'Oblique Strategies' for the memetic engineering mindset. Ten 2" by 3" cards unique to each series, imprinted with an array of provocative IAS word/image concepts, thoughts and musings enclosed in a hand-numbered red vellum envelope. Tres sublime. Each edition will be limited to 333 copies. When I snap my fingers, you will not snooze on this...
This is the 2nd series of 'Hypnotic Trance Pamphlets' by the Spoonbender Sleep Research Team (the printed-word annex of I Am Spoonbender). Enclosed in each metallic anthracite-hued paper, die-cut envelope are ten 2" by 3" cards (unique to each series), imprinted with an array of provocative IAS word/image concepts, thoughts and musings. Think a sort of 'Oblique Strategies' for the memetic-engineering mindset, although this set has some sociomagico narrative-generating possibilities... mix 'em up! Tres sublime! As with the 1st (and forthcoming 3rd edition), these are limited to 333 hand-numbered copies. Hypnotico! Arouseo! Awakeup!
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The original IAS sticker design! 8"long by 1.5"wide vinyl sticker with silver band name and shiny black antique fork design on matte black background.
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2" high by 5"wide vinyl sticker with white band name and silver logo on matte black background.
These limited edition posters were designed by IAS for their first ever headlining show at SF's Great American Music Hall. Very few copies remain. 11"x17" cardstock.
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These limited edition posters were designed for IAS by Spacebase (aka Justin Wright, the man behind those recent Expo 70 cdrs!) for the Noise Pop 2000 show at the Great American Music Hall. Very few copies remain. 11"x17" cardstock.
These limited edition posters were designed by IAS to commemmorate their first U.S. tour back in the spring of 2001. Very few copies remain. We've heard reports that some clever folks have laminated theirs for use as table placemats! 11"x17" cardstock. Planchette not included.
One of the bigger and better 'underground' metal mags in the US. This issue: cover boys Emperor, plus Iron Maiden, Neurosis, Gehenna, Meshuggah, Enslaved, and many others, including even Helix! Pages and pages of reviews too.
