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Charlemagne Palestine – Sacred Bordello
Sacred Bordello is one of my all-time favorite books about one of my all-time favorite artists. In an explosion of color and stark black and white, it chronicles the whole life and insanely…
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Daniel A.I.U. Higgs – Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
Named after the Higgs boson, a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model in particle physics, Daniel Higgs made his first appearance in the musical universe via the 1980s…
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Norbert Moslang + Andy Guhl – Sound Shifting
Voice Crack was a Swiss noise duo consisting of musicians Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang. They formed in 1972 as a free jazz outfit, but abandoned that format in the early ’80s to…
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Margaret Kilgallen – In the Sweet Bye and Bye
Margaret Kilgallen (1967-2001) was a San Francisco-based artist from the Mission School who, throughout the 1990s, produced a significant body of work influenced by American and Indian folk art, hand-painted signs and hobo…
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Rich Jacobs + Billy Sprague – The Clouds Caught on Fire
The Clouds Caught on Fire is a sumptuous, self-published art book by Rich Jacobs and Billy Sprague, two visual arsonists who currently claim the San Francisco Bay Area as their accelerant. Spanning the…
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Nancy N. Schiffer + Val O. Bertoia – The World of Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was an Italian-born American artist who was active from the 1930s through the 1970s. Although he worked in many different mediums, he is best known for a series of metal…
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Paula Court – New York Noise
Do you drink coffee? Do you own a table? If you answered yes to both questions, the time is nigh to buy a copy of New York Noise, a coffee table book filled…
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Thurston Moore + Byron Coley – No Wave
Time: The mid-1970s. Place: The Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. On the downside, it was a scum and grit-encrusted, crime-splattered no-man’s land full of bums, drug dealers, petty thieves,…
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Black Dice + Wolf Eyes + Sir Richard Bishop + Earthless at the Escarpment
Huntington Park, California Saturday, May 30, 2009 Sir Richard Bishop & His Freak of Araby Ensemble.
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Partch at the REDCAT 2009
Los Angeles, California May 29, 2009 Harry Partch (1901-1974) merely succeeded in realizing the most perfectly constructed, personal musical universe of the 20th Century. Shunning 12-tone equal temperament—which has dominated Western music for…
