Here it is, at last. The long rumored ART BOOK from Michel Langevin, aka Away, the drummer and visual conceptualist for pioneering Quebecois avant-thrash-metal geniuses Voivod. Away's artwork, the ultimate in sci-fi school binder imagery, helped define his band's unique appeal. Heck, although the music was amazing, one of the other big reasons to buy a Voivod album was to get all that cool artwork, it got to the point that their cds had a piece of Away-art in the booklet for each song, one per page...
We first heard he was putting a book together a few years ago, it was supposed to be published by the Troubleman label, or at least that's what we'd thought, but nothing ever materialized, and then suddenly out of the blue a few weeks ago we got an email from Martin Popoff, the Canadian metal scribe responsible for the three massive Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal volumes we've reviewed in the past, saying that HE was doing a book with Away, and now here it is!
A hefty, hardback, 12"x9" coffee table tome, 184 pages, in full color when appropriate, Worlds Away is what we've been waiting for. TONS of his artwork, of course. Stuff you'll remember from the albums of course, but also sketchbook pages, flyers, demo tape covers, logos, picture discs, as well as art he's done on commission for other bands... Eye candy for Voivod fans oh yeah. And then there's the text, Away interviewed by Popoff, chapter after chapter delving into the world of Voivod, the music, the art and their connection. The early years stuff is surprising but not surprising as we learn about his artistic inspirations as a kid in the '70s (Magma album covers, Gene Simmons' boots...). The history of the band is traced, their evolution from raw thrashers to spaced-out art rockers, along with the evolution in Away's creative / technical process. Turns out the cool monochrome, sorta low res images from the Nothingface album look like that 'cause of the memory limitations of the computer he was using, for instance. Also we get the story behind the 3-D art for The Outer Limits album (which almost didn't happen). We probably don't need to go on, those of you who want this book probably already know it.
FYI, since these aren't cheap, and we're not a bookstore, and it's pretty much for fans only, we only got a few. So if and when we run out it will remain to be seen if we can get more.
VOIVOD!!!!
I really cannot express the extreme jubilation-then-plummeting-bummerness I felt when I saw that we'd received a "new" issue of Archer Prewitt's brutally hilarious comic. But alas, it wasn't new at all! No, it's a special reprint of the first (and only) two issues together. Well at least for everyone who missed them the first time around, here's your second chance. Of course you may be thinking "isn't she over-reacting just a wee bit?" And well, all I can say is "see for yourself." Oh my, hee hee... Okay!
A new issue -- the second ever -- of one of our favorite local magazines, the eclectic and unusual Proof, published and edited by dapper AQ-customer Neil Martinson. Proof #1 came out a few years ago, and we've been waiting patiently since then, never faltering in our belief that one day we'd be seeing more proof of Proof's unique perspective in the world of 'zinedom.
Proof is a journal of arts and culture -- sometimes quite obscure, but always interesting. I'd pretty much guarantee you'll learn something from reading an issue. You get your $5.95 worth, this sure isn't a throw-away zine. Yes, there's "pop-culture" content, stuff about movies and music. But even that's got quite an obscure slant -- a Caroliner interview, a piece on Plastikville Records, an autobiographical piece by editor Martinson deaing with Disney movies made by Patrick "The Prisoner" MacGoohan in the masked avenger role of Dr. Syn, the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh -- but also some deep philosophical discussions with the likes of Goethean scholar Dennis Klocek, deep thoughts about sheep and goats, an essay about the dadists' girlfriends, and much much more (including additional info about scarecrows as a sidebar to the Disney movie piece). Plus cartoons by Archer Prewitt and Bradley Johnson. It's a lot to take in, requiring a bit of an intellectual curiosity or at least a poetic spirit -- certainly qualities present in most, if not all Aquarius customers!
Doomheads! Hungary's Psychedelic Fanzine is probably the best, most consistent 'zine publication devoted to the doom metal underground worldwide, covering the whole spectrum from doom-death-grind to psychedelic space rock to stoner/desert bands to cultish '80 trad heavy metal. It's a good place to delve into doom history while also finding out about new stuff (Andee
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The latest issue of England's finest journal of psychedelic rock. This time with Windy and Carl, Nikki Sudden, Hawkwind, Eyeless in Gaza, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and more. Comes with a cd featuring Doldrums, Sandra Bell, Nikki Sudden, Barbara Manning, Abunai, Lucky Bishops and more! If any of our UK customers are planning to attend Terrastock London at the end of this month, look for a cigarette-smoking Chinese American girl and that'll be our very own Windy. Please say hello!
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Finally, a new issue of the Terrascope. A cool irridescent silver cover and articles about the Kinks, the Pins, Capt. Beefheart, Six Organs of Admittance, and more. Plus a free cd with: Wellwater Conspiracy, Deviants, Pins, Donovan's Brain, Help Yourself, and more.
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Phil McMullen's famed Ptolemaic Terrascope is back with another big, shiny A4-sized issue, just in time for next week's Terrastock 5 shindig in Boston USA. Here at AQ, we were most excited about this issue 'cause it's got a six page interview with early '70s UK folk-psych geniuses Forest (done by Camera Obscura's Tony Dale)!! Wow. Maybe you remember Allan's review of the Forest double cd reissue we listed a few months back? What a neat surprise to get to read about this amazing, obscure band in the pages of PT. AND, just to crank our excitement level up to 11, the compact disc compilation that accompanies this issue of the Terrascope includes not one but two previously unreleased Forest songs, stuff that hasn't been heard by anyone for about thirty years!!! And they're great. Thank you Phil, thank you Tony, thank you Forest.
Elsewhere in this issue, you'll find features on the lofi Texas bedroom psych of Charalambides, former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki, Northwestern cosmic fuzz merchants Kinski, Elephant 6 popsters Apples In Stereo, indie-drone act Landing, too-twee-for-me folk psych of The Iditarod, '60s Bosstown psych band Ultimate Spinach, and more. And many of those acts and others also appear on the cd comp. And, like all good 'zines, after the interviews you get the reviews, of course. So, twelve bucks well spent I think.
Newest issue of the esteemed Ptolemaic Terrascope. Destroy All Monsters, The Golden Dawn, The Magic Band, Cerberus Shoal, Piano Magic, Mountain Goats, etc. Enclosed cd has Green Pajamas, Sharron Kraus, Comets on Fire, Davis Redford Triad.
Ah, happy day. Time to kick back with the thirty fourth fine issue of the Ptolemaic Terrascope. As always, lots between these covers, many narrow columns of text pertaining to psychedelic, folky, spacey sorts both old and new: United States Of America, Jennifer Gentle, Electric Prunes, Steven Wray Lobdell, Clive Palmer, Verdure, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Eleventh Dream Day, Comets On Fire, Kaleidoscope (US), and much more. Reviews galore, interestin' ads even, and lets not forget the bonus cd compilation, this time, with Bevis Frond, In Gowan Ring, Davis Redford Triad, amongst others.
Ah, happy day. Time to kick back with the thirty FIFTH fine issue of the Ptolemaic Terrascope. As always, lots between these covers, many narrow columns of text pertaining to psychedelic, folky, spacey sorts both old and new: Movietone, SF boys Tarentel, Jack Rose, Steve MacKay, In Gowan Ring, Sharon Kraus, Nick Nicely and much more. Plus reviews galore, interestin' ads even, and let's not forget the bonus cd compilation, this time, with several of the aforementioned plus Bevis Frond (natch), Green Pajamas, The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden, and others!
Yay! Ptolemaic Terrascope is back! The newest incarnation of this venerable fanzine (or "illustrated occasional") devoted to the underground folk, psych, and otherwise acid-laced, pagan, pastoral musics of the past and present is published right here in the Bay Area, and thus there's a bit more of a San Fran bent to this issue, with a cover pic featuring quite a few faces we recognize both as musicians and as customers here at Aquarius.
Taking over the reigns from the UK crew (Phil McMullen et. al.) who originated the Ptolemaic Terrascope institution back in the '80s (more than a 'zine, PT has spawned a series of "Terrastock" festivals and helped nurture a whole scene of Terrastockian bands and fans, y'know), is new editor/publisher Pat Thomas, a longtime PT writer, reissue record label guy, and musician himself.
Yes, we'd say Pat's off to a good start with this issue, just look at it: it's got a glossy, full-color cover and perfect binding, a first for the PT. More importantly, what's inside lives up to the PT tradition: interviews with the likes of Shirley Collins, Davey Graham, Vashti Bunyan, Colleen, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), and Ron Ashton (The Stooges), amongst much else. Also Devendra Banhart is subjected to a blindfold test on British Folk Rock, a la The Wire's "Invisible Jukebox" feature. And there's lots of reviews of course too. Former editor Phil McMullen also makes an appearance, with a column offering his blessings to Pat and talking about what he's up to now himself (including preparing for the upcoming Terrastock 7, to be held in Louisville, KY in 2008).
Oh, and that's not all, you also get a free 20 song cd compilation with rare and/or unreleased material from the likes of Six Organs, Barbara Manning, Shirley Collins, Davey Graham, Kendra Smith, Doug Yule, Fern Knight, Steve Wynn, Ruthann Friedmann, Sean Smith, Colossal Yes, Pat Thomas, and more!
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J-Church's and Valencia Street regular Lance Hahn, several features on aspects of Crime & Justice in the year 2000, postcard designer Stella Mars, DIY winemaking, Sonny from Bottlenekk Distribution. As usual, an essential, finger-on-the-pulse read.
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J. Lesser, Boys Sets Fire, Unwound, Les Savy Fav, Hydrahead Records, Joe Preston of the Thrones, Soft Skull Press (publisher of Bomb the Suburbs), lots of stuff on the upsurge of politics and protest by the left in America (with usual suspects Noam Chomsky and Jello Biafra putting their two cents in), exactly why WalMart is super evil, and how to make yr own paper. You cannot go wrong with Punk Planet. This magazine cares about how you live your life.
The Chicago issue. Mekons, underground hip hop crew Molemen, Homocore Chicago, Venus magazine, deathrow inmate Aaron Patterson, Tortoise, punk rock hot dog merchant Doug Sohn, low-income neighborhood organizer James Mumm, Bloodshot Records, The Dishes, DIY book your own big show.
We haven't really been consistent about listing this magazine on our website (it's more of an in-store purchase thing anyways) but thought we'd mention this one just to remind y'all that we carry it. And this ish might be of special interest 'cause it's Punk Planet's third ever special Art & Design issue, so in addition to the usual band interviews and music reviews and columns and ads and political stuff, you'll find features on a bunch of underground artists in the fields of fine arts, graphic design, fashion, tattoos, and even cartography. If you've ever wondered about, for instance, who did the cool art for Converge's Jane Doe album (that'd be band member Jacob Bannon), he's in here...along with others whose names you also might not recognize but whose art and design work chances are you've seen gracing some of your favorite punk/indie releases. Some names, nonetheless: Cat Chow, Andy Mueller, Tara McPherson, Crista Donner, Paul Booth, Joe Rush, and others. 160 artsy, attractive pages.
"Literature and Rock & Roll" is this spiffy digest's tagline. A good looking 179 pages, with all the production quality of a McSweeney's or Believer. Poetry, fiction, art, essays, interviews, criticism, this is indeed very "lit" but also music-culture oriented, with a crazy impressive lineup of contributors, including Greil Marcus, Rick Moody, Carrie Brownstein, Daniel Handler, Lucinda Williams, Patrick and Tobias Wolff, and Ian MacKaye.
It being that time of year, this could be a great stocking-stuffer for the more bookish music nerds on your list.
Issue number 4 of this unique metal zine, or should we even call it a zine? It's more of a microzine, or a broadsheet, each short issue devoted to just one band and one band only. Written, edited, and published by John Mincemoyer, one half of the team behind the late great underground metal mag Oaken Throne, the idea behind Rape & Honey is to celebrate/investigate one crucial (and sometimes obscure) band, in DEPTH. Previously R&H has covered Weapon, Funeral Mist, and Razor Of Occam. Now for #4, they've turned their attentions to a particular AQ fave, up and coming sci-fi thrashers VEKTOR!!! Just read our rave reviews of Vektor's two (temporarily out of print, soon to be resurrected by Vektor's new label, Earache, we have on good authority) albums elsewhere on our site if you need to know why Mincemoyer might be so into this band. Or read this! Ideal either for Vektor fans who want to learn more about 'em, or for those who trust R&H to point 'em to cool bands they should check out (and trust US, you should check out Vektor).
So, you a lengthy interview with a very voluble David DiSanto, guitarist/vocalist of Vektor. Also there's a half-page acetate insert with Mincemoyer's review of Vektor's Outer Isolation album (why on acetate, we don't know, maybe for people who have an overhead projector). The interview is pretty thorough, informative, and (like Vektor) entertaining. It concludes with some interesting insight into what Vektor think about all the Voivod comparisons (unavoidable, considering their logo). And it's presented with a nice layout job by the guy from Gnaw Their Tongues, featuring lots of colorful vintage artwork from science fiction pulps, in keeping with Vektor's sci-fi obsession. 12 pages, packaged in a resealable plastic sleeve, accentuating the concept that R&H is for collectors, fans who value both music and the written word.
How much do we love Oaken Throne magazine? It is easily one of, if not THE, best metal magazines going. Considering how many we sell, you all must agree. But what's a writer to do when the magazine he writes for comes out so infrequently? Well start a new magazine of course. But if you're John Mincemoyer, one half of the team that produces Oaken Throne, you don't just start any old magazine, you come up with something weird, and cool, ad gorgeously designed, and pretty much unlike any other magazine you've ever seen, thus we have the first issue of Rape & Honey, and besides being named after one of the best Ministry records ever, it also just so happens to have a pretty odd concept. First off, it's a microzine, and is all of three (3) pages. Second of all, the entire thing is about ONE band. Just one. And it consists of ONE review, and ONE interview with said band. Cool. For the first issue, Mincemoyer focuses on blackened thrashers Razor Of Occam and their record Homage To Martyrs. We had never heard of Razor Of Occam, but it hardly matters, the review is great, the interview is super interesting, as much about philosophy and lyrical content as it is about music and metal, even more so, and of course, gorgeously laid out, an oversized cardstock gatefold, with a full color cover, inside there's a vellum envelope, with a letter and introduction from Mincemoyer, also a review of the RoO record, printed in full color on a mini transparency, all sealed up in a plastic bag. Cool stuff for sure. Definitely might hold you over until the next Oaken Throne, or at least the next Rape & Honey which will feature Funeral Mist!
Finally, a new issue of Rape & Honey, the miniature metal magazine, that has taken the place of the now deceased Oaken Throne, easily one of the best metal periodicals ever. But when OT was retired, John Mincemoyer, one half of the Oaken Throne editorial team, decided he still wanted to do printed zine, but with a twist, that twist being that each issue is focused on a single band. Lovingly laid out, gorgeously designed and printed, well written and extremely interesting, Rape & Honey is almost like lengthy articles pulled from a magazine and transformed into their own slime volume, and like many of our favorite mags, it almost doesn't matter who it's about, it's great reading, and more often than not, you'll be dying to hear the band after reading all about their history, their beliefs, and most importantly their music.
The first issue focused on the relatively obscure black thrash outfit Razor Of Occam, issue two was all about aQ faves Funeral Mist, and now along comes #3, this time it's all about Weapon, whose Drakonian Paradigm record we raved about not too long back. Bangladesh via Canada, a killer mix of grim blackness and classic metal, with wild solos, loads of harmony guitars, actual melodies, weird production, extreme stereo panning, you can read our review on the aQ site, but you should also grab one of these and dig in. Besides all the interesting stuff in the article, the presentation is superb, this time it's up to 12 pages (not long before it becomes a proper magazine perhaps?), full color, with a super nice center spread, and as always, there are some inserts, a Rape & Honey postcard, and Ajna Offensive ad/insert, and a small printed transparency with Mincemoyer's review of Drakonian Paradigm!
If you read Terrorizer, and Decibel, and used to read Oaken Throne, then there's no reason you shouldn't be reading Rape & Honey!
Oaken Throne is dead. Sad but true, that beloved magazine chronicling all things black and grim, dark and sonically adventurous, has been laid to rest, a labor of love for sure, but it got to the point where no amount of love could sustain the amount of labor that went into producing each issue. So sad. We still have copies of the last few issues, so do grab them while you can, and while OT is gone, one half of the team behind OT, John Mincemoyer, is forging ahead with his own idiosyncratic magazine, Rape & Honey. Not so much a magazine as a broadsheet, it's a handful of pages, each issue focused on a single band, we still have a few copies of issue one, which was all about Razor Of Occam, but this second issue, expanded to nearly twice the size of number 1, might be of even more interest to most of the aQ faithful, being as its focus is on longtime aQ favs, the mighty Funeral Mist.
You can read our rants and ravings about Funeral Mist elsewhere on the aQ site, we gushed about pretty much every FM release, even going so far as to make Maranatha our Record Of The Week a while back. But Rape & Honey Takes you even deeper, incorporating interviews, background, history, reviews, musings, plus Mincemoyer is an excellent writer, and Funderal Mist are indeed fascinating subjects. 8 pages, 8 1/2" by 11", full color, plenty of illustrations, with two printed full color inserts, as well as a Mincemoyer penned Funeral Mist review printed on a cool colored transparency. A great read, and a killer object de' metal art, WAY recommended, to fans of the band of course, but also folks who read Terrorizer and Oakan Throne and Decibel and the like, plus it's super cheap! Skip a cup of coffee and read all about one of our favorite bands...
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'Taking the pulse of the world's musics' is this issue's theme, and there are some fascinating articles about cultural responsibility (sadly in very short supply) along with articles about Marta Sebestyen/Muzsikas, Robin Williamson, and Reg Hall. Also, writings by Tim Hodgkinson, John Zorn, Evan Parker, David Toop, Steve Beresford, etc.
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From the makers of Giant Robot, who had a surplus of items left over that didn't make it into Giant Robot #17. It's basically another issue of GR (call it issue #17.5), lower-fi with fewer ads and a design that's easier on the eyes. Byron Lee, the Chinese bass player from Rod Stewart's band, the girl who sat in a tub full of ramen, Kento from IQU, Margaret Cho, Dishwasher Pete, Ian Svenonius of Make Up. Thanks for metnioning AQ, Martin!
Another killer issue of this UK modern music mag, with a seriously heavy bent, and a focus that is right in line with AQ's! On the cover, AGAIN, are doomlords SUNNO))), inside, features on Mike Patton and his Tomahawk, KTL, Pelican, Neurot recordings, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and an ever expanding record review section, featuring tons of reviews by Kevin McCaighy, the man behind kick ass magazine Salt (where's the new issue?!?!), a whole bunch of live show reviews, news, and on the back page, the One Minute Interview with The Liars!
Once again, it's the heavier more subversive and definitely more metal upstart little brother of the mighty Wire Magazine. Rock-A-Rolla is all the way to issue 11 and still going strong. This month it's the Festival Issue, featuring Odd Nosdam, Qui, High On Fire, Michael Gira, Chrome Hoof, Les Savy Fav, Supersonic Festival, Input Festival, the Green Man Festival, Orthodox, Walter & Sabrina, Load Records, plus the usual assortment of record reviews, show reviews and a one minute interview with Eyvind Kang.
New issue of the always kick ass Rock-A-Rolla magazine. Even with the brutal exchange rate and the shipping costs, RaR is still a steal at $11. Wire readers that aren't also reading Rock-A-Rolla are missing out, some overlap, but much more of an emphasis on the heavy stuff.
This time, on the cover, Dillinger Escape Plan, and inside: the Rock-A-Rolla top 30 records of 2007, a Q+A with Sunburned Hand Of The Man, the Magik Markers, Italian instrumental post rockers Lento, studio soundscapers turned real rock band Fog, hypno-riff doom duo Om, Jenny Hoyston from Erase Errata, darkdoomdrone outfit Tenhornedbeast, Vibracathedral Orchestra, modern day proggers Miasma, a label spotlight on John Olson's (from Wolf Eyes) American Tapes, tons and tons of reviews, cds, lps lathe cuts and everything in between, live reviews of The Boredoms + Michael Gira, Animal Collective, Unsane, High On Fire, Kling Klang, Liars, White Hills (!), Voice Of The Seven Woods and more, and finally on the back page, a one minute interview with Maninkari.
The layout keeps getting better and better, the writing is great (lots by Kevin, the mastermind behind our favorite music zine Salt), and the bands covered couldn't be more AQ!!
This is issue 6 of this relatively new UK music magazine, and we always sort of balked at carrying it, mostly because of the price. What with shipping overseas and everything, it ends up costing twelve bucks. But you know what? It's pretty much worth it. So we decided to order a bunch, and if everyone digs it, we'll continue to carry it. And we can't imagine why people wouldn't be more than willing to shell out twelve bucks for this killer mag. Boris and SUNNO))) on the cover, robed and in the corn field, inside: Isis, Comets On Fire, Converge, Shit And Shine, the Melvins, James Plotkin, the Dub Trio, Bloody Panda, the Paper Chase, plus RaR's top 30 records of 2006, a classic label profile of John Zorn's Tzadik label with micro reviews of some of Tzadik's best releases, a Sonic Youth primer, with reviews of all of their records, of course loads of record reviews, DVD reviews, live reviews and lots of underground rock news. Pretty dang great.
We blew through the last issue of this upstart UK music mag, so we grabbed a few extra copies this time around but we imagine these still won't be around for long. Giving UK's mighty Wire magazine a run for their money, Rock-A-Rolla cover the same sort of underground weirdness but with a definite slant toward the noisy and heavy, which of course we're all for!
This time, we've got Wolf Eyes on the cover. Inside there are plenty of familiar faces, Jazzkammer, Yellow Swans, KK Null, Burning Star Core, Aethenor, Made Out Of Babies, an awesome Sub Pop label feature highlighting some of our favorite all time records, TONS of album reviews, DVD reviews, live show reviews and on the back page, a one minute interview with Makoto Kawabata from Acid Mothers Temple. Another killer issue. We're already anxiously awaiting the next one!
Brand new issue from one of our new favorite far out music mags. A bastard offspring of the Wire and Terrorizer, lots of metal and heaviness, but plenty of weirdness too, covering pretty much everything experi/metal under the sun...
On the cover this time, ultra dark hip hop outsiders Dalek. Inside, Q & A with Coady Willis from Big Business, avant grinders The Locust, Wino and The Hidden Hand, brutal noise technician Prurient, Swedish black ambient guru Nordvargr, art doom outfit Black Sun, the Residents, classic label highlight on Earache, a whole mess of news, album reviews, DVD reviews, live reviews, and the back page is a one minute interview with Spencer Seim from Hella. Awesome!
Plus there's now another reason to love Rock-a-Rolla, even more, as Kevin McCaighy, the man behind killer, kick ass, AQ beloved zine Salt, is now an RaR contributor as well, so in addition to all the other usual good stuff, there are tons of Salt-y reviews to hold us over until the next proper issue!!
From the UK, Rock-A-Rolla magazine is like if The Wire were all about, well, rock. Heavy weird fucked up rock that is. This issue's cover stars are Warp-label mathrockers Battles (whose great new album we wanted to review this week but all our distros were sold out, drat). Also in this ish: Neurosis, Faust, Oxbow, Jesu, Melt-Banana, Unsane, Hydra Head Records... wow it's like the editors called us up and asked us what a good portion of AQ customers might want to read about! In addition to those features, there's a hefty section of record reviews (26 pages), everything from Middian to Moljebka Pvlse, Wold to Axolotl, including a few interesting items we hadn't known about yet (they get stuff earlier over there in England, eh).
Best pull quote of the issue: "Were we inspired by The Stooges? Iggy has a 12 inch cock so the short answer is: no." -- Eugene Robinson of Oxbow.
With the first track on this anthology being a recording of wind from a 1935 sound effects record, AQ beloved sound artist Steve Roden makes a very literal introduction to I Listen To The Wind That Obliterates My Traces. Released by Dust-To-Digital, this beautifully constructed hardback book filled with images both from and ephemeral to Roden's collection of 78s, as well as two discs worth of sounds from that antique vinyl. Yeah, the idea is pretty much the same as what the Climax Golden Twins presented via Dust-To-Digital on their also-awesome Victrola Favorites anthology a few years back; but Roden's collection trends more to the mid-part of the 20th Century and is focused on Americana (including a couple of Hawaiian tracks made before the islands were granted statehood). Following that crackled recording of the wailing wind from that sound effects record, is the unmistakable voice of John Jacob Niles, the 'mountain tenor' whose spooky falsetto and maudlin melodic wanderings predated Devendra Banhart by a good 60 years... Afterwards, there's plenty of bluesmen, blueswomen, gospel belters, Appalachian balladeers, and barbershop crooners, many of which seem quite world-weary in singing their tales of lust, money, and liquor (or the lack thereof). Some of the names are familiar to us (e.g. Clara Smith, Roy Smeck, Sol Hoopii), but there are plenty of anonymous recordings from home-cut discs as well. The arrangements for many of the songs tend to be very sparse, just voice and guitar is pretty much all you get on every track; and the album is dotted with tracks from antique sound effects records of birds, ice, and even "night noises!" For those of you aware of Roden's own compositions of understated field recordings, quiet ruminations on found objects, and soft looping techniques, this shouldn't be a big surprise.
The vintage photos inside this 184 page book are completely lovely, with all of their rumpled edges, ruddy patinas, and cracked surfaces, with some far more poignant - such as the shot of a bunch of violas suspended outside in the sun perhaps to allow a coat of shellac to dry. There's the silhouette of G.J. Jessup decked out in his one-man drum and bugle corps regalia, and the glum looking fellow with the unkempt mustache leaning against his Funnygraph contraption (sadly, there's no corresponding recording for either photograph). Pages and pages of interesting images to provoke curiosity and evoke reverie. Altogether, Roden has compiled over 150 photos and 51 tracks for this stunning document of sonic obsession from Dust-To-Digital! Hard to imagine NOT wanting this.
We don't carry a whole lot of books, so when we do, it has to be because there's something really special about it. Those of you who made it to the recent book signing here at aQ already know what's so special about this here book, but for those of you who didn't, we'll give you a little background.
Mr. Zak Sally spent a good portion of his life playing the bass guitar in slowcore outfit Low, he recently left the band to focus on his real love, art, drawing and self publishing. He began a series of graphic novels entitled Recidivist and started his own publishing house called La Mana and began to publish gorgeous and lovingly hand crafted books, graphic novels, posters and monographs.
One of which just so happens to be this, the latest and perhaps final installment in Sally's Recidivist series. The first of the series to be an actual book, amazingly bound with an off white textured cover and a black spine, featuring the striking image of an arrow piercing a very realistic heart on the front, a severed hand with a paint brush on the back, a beautiful old fashioned hard cover, the sort that creaks when you open it, the pages inside printed on nice thick paper. Almost worth buying just for that stuff. But lucky for us, the artwork and storytelling inside is just as compelling. Very reminiscent visually of Chester Brown (Ed The Happy Clown, Yummy Fur, I Never Liked You, Underwater, etc.), the artwork is precise but still loose and hand drawn looking switching often from white pages with black lines, to all black pages with white art, the effect is really fantastic. The story is obtuse, a little confusing, but in that way great graphic novels can be. Monkeys, a roadtrip, dark forests, humans with the heads of pigs, nudity, school girls, surgeries, cupid, wristwatches, canyons, gas stations, all woven together into a mysterious and fascinating narrative. Gorgeous to look at and riveting to read. SO highly recommended!
Another blast of AQ style rock (you know exactly what we mean) with a healthy side dish of professional wrestling from AQ pal Kevin and his master-of-all-other-zines magazine Salt. Issue five features tUMULt's own 7000 Dying Rats, the hyper-literate metallic grind of Bloodhag, an amazing interview with one of Andee's favorite comic book artists Renee French, label feature on iDEAL Recordings, a review of Kawabata Makoto and Jojo Hiroshige live in Japan, former Man's Ruin rockers Croatan, the relatively little know Japanese band Syogana, some reflections on the ECW, reviews of underground wrestling videos, some comics, and even some record reviews. A great read. Send this guy some money so he can turn this thing into a regular magazine and knock the Wire and Spin and Magnet and Terrorizer on their asses!
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Finally, after a whole year, another issue of one of our favorite magazines around. As we've said in the past, someone give this man a million dollars so he can make Salt an actual monthly magazine that would invariably replace the Wire, Terrorizer and any other relevent rags in one fell swoop. Super well informed, well written and with a very wide scope of music (and culture). This time around there are interviews with the mighty Antiseen, black metal underlord Wrest from Leviathan, local no-wavers Erase Errata, underground doom sludgeniks Southern Gun Culture, AMT pals Floating Flower, the cute and dorky Gravy Train!!!!, a ton or reviews (Boris, tUMULt, Load and more), a Boris UK tour diary written by AQ pal Daniel, drummer for the soon-to-be-huge doomsters Like A Kind Of Matador, and of course lots of wrestling: interviews with Hugh Rogue, Shark Boy and an indepth review of the IWA Mid-South King Of The Death Matches! Wow. Check it out.
Finally, after more than a year, Salt #7 sees the light of day!!! What's the big deal you ask? Well, if you'd been paying attention to the AQ list, you'd know that Salt and its one man staff Kevin somehow manages to kick the asses of all other alternative music mags around with just a beat up old borrowed PC and a photo copier. There's a serious dearth of killer underground music zines, especially ones that cover the sort of music we love, and especially ones that does it with such passion and humor, AND especially ones that are also obsessed with pro wrestling and are not afraid to stick a review of some big match right there between an article about Xasthur and an interview with Boris! As far as we know, there's only one magazine that fits the bill... SALT! So there, music snobs. This is easily our favorite magazine going now, and we still wish someone would just give Kevin a big ol' stack of money so he could start a real glossy magazine, it would totally destroy, equal parts Terrorizer, the Wire, Option, Buttrag, and whatever other weirdness he'd see fit to pack in there. This time around we've got an interview with Swedish metallic grind outfit Burst, unknown to us Ohio three piece rocking juggernaut Driver, an interview with Andy who runs the Riot Season label, a brief history of "Descent", a night of alternative metallic music and art in Leeds, that sounds so cool it makes us wish San Francisco was just a -little- bit closer to the UK, also a bunch of fliers from Descent, one man's alcohol fueled quest to travel across Europe to see SUNNO))), Boris, Circle and more, an interview with Bay Area black metal horde Draugar, an interview with the mighty Malefic of Xasthur, tons of record reviews, and of course a lengthy wrestling review of recent IWA events (as well as an interview with IWA rising star Josh Abercrombie) and finally an interview with Brody's Militia, a wicked thrashcore outfit from Ohio named for legendary wrestler Bruiser Brody. Phew. All hand assembled and photocopied. Lots of photos, and lots of illustrations courtesy of Kevin Salt himself. Here's hoping we don't have to wait a whole year for #8!!
Another year, another Salt. In fact it's been way more than a year, maybe almost two, but it's always well worth the wait. No one does zines any more, which is a huge same, loosed from the binds of relying on advertising, and someone else's money, a zine can cover anything, explore music, art, even wrestling, can opt for any layout, but the problem is, that without that monetary support, sometimes you are forced to wait years between issues, which is criminal. Especially with zines like Salt. Every time we review a Salt, we always end up sending out a request for somebody, ANYBODY, to get in touch with Sal mastermind Kevin, give him a bunch of money and set him up with a real magazine. All the other mags out there can breathe easy since that is probably unlikely to happen any time soon. But if it did. Decibel, Terrorizer, the Wire, Signal To Noise, your days would be numbered�
So issue 8, as is the pattern, is even better than 7, which was already kick ass. On the cover, a super striking drawing of Diamanda Galas, done by Kevin Salt himself, and inside, well hell, it's like a zine custom made for aQ. A Pharoah Sanders live review, a Suishou No Fune / RKF South By Southwest tour diary, an interview with comedy grind masters 7000 Dying Rats, an interview with aQ beloved dronescapers Hywl Nofio, Finland's masters of hypnorock and kings of the NWOFHM, Circle, a handful of record reviews, an interview with Malefic from Xasthur, an interview with the Clientele, and since Kevin is strangely fascinated with Professional Wrestling, there is an elegy for the now defunct ECW, including an interview with author, journalist and ECW expert John Lister, and finally, an interview with our very own Andee about tUMULt, a follow up of an original label spotlight in one of the earlier issues.
The mind boggles what this guy could do with a real magazine. Not that we really want anything to change with Salt. But we sure wouldn't mind if it came out every month. Heck, every week!
And for the first time, this issue comes bundled with a super limited, exclusive 3" cd-r from Hwyl Nofio. A fourteen minute track called "Christ Distort", another gorgeously sprawling expanse of metallic shimmer and blissed out buzz. Exclusive to this issue of Salt.
LIMITED TO 50 COPIES. Each mag/cd hand numbered.
It's hard to believe it's been two years since the last issue of Salt, but we're willing to be patient, after all it is possibly our favorite zine going, and as in our reviews of every issue of Salt, we really can't heap enough praise on this kick ass DIY zine, and as always, lament the fact that it somehow remains a zine, it seems like by now, Salt should be up there with Terrorizer and Rock A Rolla and Decibel. But you know what, fuck it, we love Salt just the way it is, virtually unchanged since issue #1, still black and white, a little oversized, same style layout, most of the illustrations done by Kevin, the guy who pretty much IS Salt, and the stuff he chooses to focus on, as always is weird and wonderful, varied and unlikely. Always something we're super into, always something else we've never even heard of, and even the stuff that seems like it would be of little interest, ends up being a fantastic read, always the sign of a great magazine.
This issue is especially exciting as it contains perhaps the first interview EVER with aQ fave and tUMULt recording artist, the mysterious Korean teenage black metaller Pyha, talking about life in Korea, black metal, mandatory conscription, protest music and more.
There's also a killer interview with Alicia from legendary crust doom outfit 13 (which also featured Liz Buckingham, now in Electric Wizard). There's a feature on doomdrone juggernaut Korperschwache, an extensive and WAY in depth review of the Some Bizarre Album, an extensive guide to getting drunk on cheap vodkas, a feature on indie poppers Grandaddy, and a guide to their best B-sides, a lengthy interview with comic artist Carla Speed McNeil, and an interview with the man behind new label The Great Pop Supplement (he also once upon a time ran both Enraptured and Earworm!). All that for five bucks! This time around there are no record reviews, and less pieces, but as Kevin explains in the intro, that's so the interviews and features could be longer and more extensive. Which they absolutely are.
What more do you need to know? You love music. You love reading about music. You love underground music, and underground zines, if you haven't been reading Salt, you've been missing out big time...
Finally another issue of one of our favorite zines. SALT seems to be the zine version of Aquairus, sharing the same taste in music as well as a similar sense of humor, and a similar joy in discovering new and exciting music. Kind of wish someone would give Kevin SALT a big pile of money so he could do a real magazine and knock the Wire and Terrorizer and Spin and whoever else on their collective asses. This time around an interview with The Summer In Between, an article on Texas' Monotremata Records, an extensive review of the Acid Mothers Temple UK tour, show by show, by Kevin and a handful of friends spread out around England, as well as an interview with AMT mainman Makoto Kawabata where he talks quite a bit about his love of professional wrestling. Also in this SALT, an interview with bay area noise monsters Burmese, an interview with Aufgehoben No Process, an interview with guitarist Gary Smith, an interview with cartoonist Chris Yambar, an article about Rock And Role Play Records, home of the mighty Teen Chtulu, Blood Hag, and perhapst the best named band in the world: The Powersofdarknessshallrainblooduponthiscityfor500years, and an interview with AQ faves BORIS! As with every issue, lots of stuff you already dig, but a bunch of stuff you probably don't yet but undoubtedly will. Buy SALT or at least send this guy all your money. PUNK PLANET #49 May/June 2002 3.95 Totally fascinating story on the tumultuous history of Vagrant Records. Interviews with label owner Rich Egan and all the Vagrant bands. Also interviews with Mike Watt, Richard Hell, Hot Water Music, Electrelane and more. As well as stories on the INS crack down on immigrants/terrorists, the newly heightened security on the US/Canada border, Slavadorean activists in Chicago along with the ususal music reviews and columns. THE WIRE #219 May 2002 7.50 Cover article on Mr. plunderphonics John Oswald, Shirley Collins, The Fall, Mission Of Burma Patti Smith. A rather unimpressive Invisible Jukebox with El-P, and an article written by our own Jim Haynes on the Jewelled Antler Collective (Thuja, The Birdtree, Mirza, the Knit Sepearates and more.) Plus reviews and a funny Savage Pencil strip that seems to be poking fun at our buddies at Amoeba. ----* ----* In Stock, No Chance to Review : ----* 20 MILES "Keep It Coming" (Epitaph) cd 14.98 ALIAS "Other Side Of The Looking Glass" (Anticon) cd/lp 13.98/14.98 BLECHDOM, KEVIN "And The Temple Of Doom" (Unbearable) 7" 5.98 CALLA "Custom" (Quatermass) cd 15.98 CLINIC "Come Into Our Room" (Domino) cd ep/7" 6.98/6.98 DARK FUNERAL / INFERNAL "Under Wings Of Hell" (Hammerheart) cd 13.98 DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD "Mystical Path Of The Number 86" (Holy Mountain) cd 13.98 ELECTRIC PRUNES, THE "Stockholm 67" (Birdman) cd 13.98 FLOOR / DOVE "split" (Berserker / Crucial Blast) 7" 3.98 FONTAINE, BRIGITTE "13 Chansons Decadentes et Fantasmagonigues" (Polydor) cd 17.98 GOBLIN "Amo Non Amo" (Cinevox) cd 16.98 GOBLIN "Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark" (Cinevox) cd 16.98 GOLD SPARKLE BAND "Fugues & Flowers" (Squealer) cd 14.98 GRUBBS, DAVID "Rickets & Scurvy" (Drag City) cd/lp 13.98/9.98 GUILTY CONNECTOR "First Noise Attack" (MSBR) cd 9.98 HIDALGO, JUAN "Tamaran (Gocce Di Sperma Per Dodici Pianoforti)" (Get Back) lp 15.98 HIGELIN, JACQUES & BRIGITTE FONTAINE "15 Chansons D'avant Le Delinge" (Polydor) cd 17.98 HIROSHIGE, JOJO "The Very Best Of Jojo Hiroshige" (Alchemy) cd 19.98 HOOD "You Show No Emotion At All" (Domino) cd ep 6.98 KIRALY, ERNO "Spectrum" (Trace Label) 2cd 17.98 LAST OF THE JUANITAS "Time's Up" (Wantage USA) cd 14.98 LLOOP "Bulbbs" (theAgriculture) cd 14.98 MAN IS THE BASTARD / GERRIT "split" (Misanthropic Agenda) 7" 3.50 MARCHETTI, WALTER "In Terra Utopicam" (Get Back) lp 15.98 MOBY "18" (V2) cd 16.98 MORRICONE, ENNIO "Ecce Homo" (Dagored) cd 15.98 NEBULA "Dos EPs" (Meteor City) cd 13.98 NOTWIST "Neon Golden" (City Slang) cd 18.98 ONENESS OF JUJU "Space Jungle Luv" (Strut) cd 18.98 OPERA IX "Maleventum" (Avantgarde Music) cd 14.98 OXES "Oxxes" (Monitor) cd 14.98 PHEROMONE "Disparlure" (Corpus Hermeticum) cd 16.98 PIRANHAS "s/t" (On/On Switch) cd 10.98 RADULESCU, HORATIU "Streichquartett nr. 4 opus 33" (Edition RZ) cd 16.98 SPOON / SWEARING AT MOTORISTS "split" (Super Asbestos) 7" 3.98 STRAPPING FIELDHANDS "Third Kingdom" (Omphalos) cd 15.98 TAAKE "Bjoergvin" (Wounded Love) cd 14.98 TROLLHEIM'S GROTT "Bizarre Troll Technology" (Woodcut) cd 14.98 TSUNODA, TOSHIYA "Pieces Of Air" (Lucky Kitchen) cd 14.98 TWINE "Recorder" (Bip-Hop) cd 15.98 V/A "Populare Judische Kunstler: Berlin / Hamburg / Munchen" (Trikont) 2cd 21.00 V/A "Populare Judische Kunstler: Wien" (Trikont) cd 14.98 V/A "Rough Guide To Afro-Peru" (Rough Guides) cd 13.98 V/A "Silk Road, The: A Musical Caravan" (Smithsonian Folkways) 2cd 21.00 VENOM "At War With Satan" (Castle / Sanctuary) cd 16.98 VENOM "Black Metal" (Castle / Sanctuary) cd 16.98 VENOM "Welcome To Hell" (Castle / Sanctuary) cd 16.98 WALKMEN, THE "s/t" (Troubleman) lp 10.98 WEEZER "Maladroit" (Geffen) cd 16.98 WIESE, JOHN "Live At Mon Ton Son: August 28, 2000 Sapporo Japan TT 17:19" (Helicopter) cd 4.98 WORLD STANDARD "Jump For Joy" (Daisyworld) cd 32.00 _______________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ART EXHIBIT and OPENING : JIM HAYNES
There's always a long wait between issues, but as longtime readers of the aQ list know, it's always worth the wait. And we know lots of longtime aQ-ers, are also longtime fans of Salt, which is the way it should be. A very occasionally published zine, produced by our pal Kevin, a contributor to Rock-A-Rolla magazine, but with Salt, he gets to focus on his true passions, whether that means some obscure band, or some obscure wrestler, all part of the charm. And as we mention in pretty much every review, we keep hoping Salt will either become a proper mag, or in some way become a more regular thing, cuz every issue is a huge treat, and before we know it, we've burned through it and are already hankering for a new one.
This time around, things start off with a feature on another obscure zine, this one called German Bite, a fanzine focused on German art, film and theater, and a mag that we've never read, but from reading ABOUT it here, definitely has us curious to track down some copies. There's also an introduction to aQ faves Maher Shalal Hash Baz, originally intended for Salt #3 (and written in 2001!), as well as a lengthy piece enumerating the various ways that the author loves the late great Royal Trux. Then there's a great piece on the long lost late great seventies post punk / new wave combo Neu Electrikk (which featured one member who would go on to record/perform as Hwyl Nofio, a name familiar to most longtime readers of the aQ list), and an interview with the guy behind LTM Recordings, and finally an interview with Elephant Six psych poppers The Minders.
There are some comics, some editorial content, a tribute to the late great British abstract painter John Hoyland and more, and all for $5. Salt always comes highly recommended, especially in an age of blogs and webzines, we should treasure the folks out there who still make proper zines, especially when they're as good as Salt!
The first book from world wanderin' gal Sara Sandberg! Prior to this 95-page fictional work, she's penned a number of zines including The American Girl and Double Ears. An SF punk-pop girl at heart, Sara writes of "the history of one car". That's right, the life and times of one Ford Fairlane! Four decades riddled with encounters involving punks, car thieves, farmers, and much much
Wow. This new 'zine is not only full of awesome readin', looks great, and comes with a button, but also is dirt cheap! Just $4. Real goddamn fanzines are few and far between these days, kudos to editor Cory Linstrum and friends for putting this one out, and making it so killer too. It shows those blogs a thing or two. Savage Damage Digest is all about music that you don't really read about all that often, and all in one place, thought the artists covered all make total sense together here, you'll see: Link Wray, Teenage Head, Jean-Pierre Massiera, Dave Kilgour & The Clean, Hanoi Rocks, Tank's Algy Ward, Nick Lowe & Brinsley Schwarz! And this debut ish features the only article we've ever come across about the uniquely Australian youth sub-culture of "Sharpies", outside of the liner notes to those Coloured Balls cd reissues, fascinating stuff. 70 pages, lots of vintage photos and magazine ads, nice use of spot color inside, and rounded corners, it's a handsome 'zine all right. Totally recommended to anyone interested in semi-obscure music from the '60s 'til now that ROCKS. Or is weird. Or both.
The cover story on Link is all about his "lost years" in the early-to-mid '70s, albums that tend to get ignored but, having read about 'em here, we want to hear! It's super in-depth, enthused and informative, like all the other articles here. This is sort of 'zine that will definitely turn you on to stuff you need to know about, and we can only hope that issue #2 isn't that far off. This has a lot of potential to be a favorite new regular read... For those who miss the likes of Black To Comm, or Motorbooty, or Fuzz (not to mention Bomp! or Creem)... check this out!!
Whoo-hoo! SDD #2!! Well, in "zine time" getting 2 issues done in as many years isn't that bad. At least, at last, it's here: the 2nd issue of Savage Damage Digest, a 'zine that with but one issue became one of our faves in the realm of enthusiastic dead-tree rock n' roll writin'. As good as the first issue was, this one's maybe even better, it's got great stuff about a wide variety of long-lost legends... '60s UK popsyke geniuses July, '60 NZ garage gods Chants R&B, '70s pub rockers Ducks Deluxe, and more... The cover story, especially interesting for those of us located in the Bay Area, is about '70s San Francisco proto-punks La Rue. No, never heard 'em, but boy do we want to now.
What we love about SDD is that it's the sort of thing that really puts the FAN in fanzine. We mean, they even devote two pages to some non-musical fandom - about the special San Francisco ice cream sandwich known as an It's It! And, most amazingly, there's pages and pages about guitarist Ross The Boss and his various bands over the years: The Dictators, Shakin' Street, Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, and... Manowar!! The Manowar stuff, especially, makes this issue required reading. We just tend to think that a lot of "typical" SDD readers and AQ customers might not already be Manowar fans, but this is the sort of thing that just might covert 'em (you?).
And, this issue comes with a free button, bearing the Vertigo records label swirl design! With accompanying label appreciation essay for anyone not already aware of just how cool UK '70s prog imprint Vertigo was.
Hopefully it won't be another 2 years before issue 3 of Savage Damage Digest comes out, though we won't be holding our breath. But we will be looking forward to it. And, let's say, the highest form of praise we can give a 'zine like SDD is that it makes us want to get to work on our own 'zines, like some of us used to do back in the day.
This is a good week for those, like us, who love old school print fanzines! Up above, you'll see we've got the new Chips & Beer, and then there's this, issue #3 of rock n' roll 'zine Savage Damage Digest, from East Bay based editor Cory Lindstrum, who, along with a helpful contingent of likeminded contributors, brings us the dope on a whole bunch of obscure and/or cult music-makers and drug-takers from way cooler times than now. As Cory is the first to admit, it's been far too long since the last issue but at last it's here, and plus he pledges that "as long as I'm still listening to, reading up on, watching, living, breathing, and eating Rock 'n' Roll - I will share with you my opinions and observations of this subject on a printed page" so we the likelihood is that we will have an issue #4 to look forward to, eventually! In any event, #3 is here, let's dig in and dig it.
Interview subjects include, among others, seminal '70s San Francisco punkers The Avengers, teenage '70s New York power poppers The Speedies, frontman Peter Daltrey of '60s psychedelic favorites Kaleidoscope (UK), and veteran power pop punk icons Redd Kross. And boy do the interviewers know their stuff.
Speaking of knowing stuff, not an interview, but an extremely in-depth eleven-page write-up, is devoted to guitarist Larry Wallis of Shagrat, Pink Fairies and Motorhead fame (the latest in Savage Damage's trademark "Triple Threat" series).
Then, there's the "skimpy" reviews section (not so skimpy, really) which among other things, reveals Cory's love for old school death/doom metallers Hellhammer.
You will be cooler than you are now after you're done reading this, trust us.
80 digest (duh) sized pages, some in full color. Plus, this issue comes with a free Stiff Records button!
That's right, we've got a handful of these cool posters we commissioned to promote/commemorate this year's aQuarius recOrds and WFMU sponsored South By Southwest showcase. They were for sale at the show, and the remaining copies we've got we're now making available to our local and mailorder customers (who, if you weren't lucky enough to be in Austin, hopefully listened to the show via WFMU's live feed).
EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION! Only 90 copies printed. Of which we only got half, a few of those went to the bands, which means not many of these left. Handscreened. Two color (one is dark green on light green, the other is blood red on grey). Featuring original art by one of our favorite underground artists, Savage Pencil! It's a crazy tangled squiggly mass of angry bird heads and strange intricate tendrils, it's super striking, and of course also features all the bands who played the show, as well as all the other show info. They're super sharp, and as they say, suitable for framing, so get one while you can. If you order one with other stuff, it will have to ship separately in its own tube, and so will require an extra separate shipping charge, just so you know.
For bigger better pictures, go here:
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That's right, we've got a handful of these cool posters we commissioned to promote/commemorate this year's aQuarius recOrds and WFMU sponsored South By Southwest showcase. They were for sale at the show, and the remaining copies we've got we're now making available to our local and mailorder customers (who, if you weren't lucky enough to be in Austin, hopefully listened to the show via WFMU's live feed).
EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION! Only 90 copies printed. Of which we only got half, a few of those went to the bands, which means not many of these left. Handscreened. Two color (one is dark green on light green, the other is blood red on grey). Featuring original art by one of our favorite underground artists, Savage Pencil! It's a crazy tangled squiggly mass of angry bird heads and strange intricate tendrils, it's super striking, and of course also features all the bands who played the show, as well as all the other show info. They're super sharp, and as they say, suitable for framing, so get one while you can. If you order one with other stuff, it will have to ship separately in its own tube, and so will require an extra separate shipping charge, just so you know.
For bigger better pictures, go here:
http://twitpic.com/1b719b
and here:
http://twitpic.com/1b71df ----* ----* Selected New Arrivals : ----*
This is the most recent issue of this NYC zine, the first one we've carried, but it's a great one to start with. This issue is entirely about the making of the very first proper Black Flag full length album, 1981's Damaged. And while it may be in zine form, all photocopied, hand written, cut and pasted old school style, the writing is fantastic, super smart, and the research extensive, with interviews with all the key players, there's even footnotes, that are expanded upon in the back. It's as much about the band and the record, as the scene at the time, and the political and social climate that contributed to the energy and anger of that record, that band, and that scene - including a lot about chief of the LAPD at the time Daryl Gates, the Rodney King riots, and the polcie versus punks mentality that was prevalent at the time. In many ways the mag reads like an excerpt from a bigger, more comprehensive book, and yeah, we know there's been much written about Black Flag and this era, but Scam mainman Erick Lyle does a fantastic job of condensing it all down to a very readable, 50 or so pages. Lots of photos and flyers, as well as a cool introduction by Lyle about why this record means so much to him. All in all an awesome read, and definitely has us wanting to check out the other eight issues we missed...
