May 14, 2004
COMMAND PERFORMANCE – MAY 14, 2004
THE ARTHUR MAILING LIST BULLETIN No. 0003
“Text beyond the presses.”
(((1))) T-MODEL FORD ON TOUR RIGHT DAMN NOW!
Senior bluesperson and Arthur advice-giver T-Model Ford is right now touring the urban markets of North America (plus Santa Fe, New Mexico) with his trusty drummer Spam as part of the Fat Possum Juke Joint Caravan of troublemakers and evildoers. Incredibly, some Arthur readers think that T-Model Ford is a figment of the magazine’s imagination. Come now. Go see (and hear) T-Model for yourself at
5/14 Salt Lake City, UT at Club Halo
5/15 Victor, ID at Knotty Pine
5/16 Missoula, MT at Other Side
5/18 Calgary Alberta at Night Gallery Cabaret
5/19 Edmonton Alberta at New City Likwid Lounge
5/21 Vancouver BC at Richard’s on Richard’s
5/22 Seattle, WA at Hideaway/WA
5/23 Portland, OR at Aladdin Theather
5/25 San Francisco, CA at Slim’s
5/26 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp
5/27 Pacific Beach,CA at Blind Melon’s
5/29 Los Angeles, CA at the Echo
5/30 Tucson, AZ at Club Congress
5/31 Santa Fe, NM at Paramount
More information on this tour at
(((2))) ARTHUR DISCUSSION FORUM NOW FULLY FUNCTIONAL.
Have you ever wanted to discuss an article you read in Arthur with someone you don’t know, perhaps even the person who wrote, edited, drew or photographed the very item you want to discuss? Well: the new Arthur Discussion Forum is now online and is fully functional and is just basically wide-open and barely moderated. Come on in and share. Various Arthur staff and contributors stop in regularly, if you must know.
(((3))) BASTET!
The first two Bastet CDs are now in house and have been shipping during the last week. FOUR exciting new Bastet CDs are in the works–more news soon!
If you don’t know what we’re talking about, let’s revisit some text from the last email bulletin, shall we?:
Sometimes people ask us, What are you listening to right now? And then we answer with a long list of artists they don’t recognize. That makes us feel like snobs, which is a terrible thing to feel like, cuz we want to share. The music we like, we think everyone would like, *if they only got a chance to hear it.* In the pages of Arthur we rap about music all the time in ways that we hope will turn on the curious listener and cause them to get up and seek out the stuff. With Bastet, Arthur’s new imprint, we’re trying to shorten that process by making directly available to you some of the music we are digging that we think you might dig too.
The first Bastet CD is “The Golden Apples of the Sun,” a veritable “who’s who of underground folk” compilation curated by Devendra Banhart, who really knows his way around that place. He selected the tracks, drew the cover, solicited testimonials from all the artists about all the other artists and then HANDLETTERED the sleeve, decorating everything with his wonderful pen-and-ink art. You may buy this for the artwork, you may buy this cuz we’re only making 1,000 and it’ll be worth something on Ebay someday soon, you may buy this cuz you love us…but you will keep it near you because of the fantastic music on the CD. Which is as follows:
1. Vetiver (with Hope Sandoval) – “Angel’s Share” (from the “Vetiver” LP)
2. Joanna Newsom – “Bridges and Balloons” (from “The Milk-Eyed Mender” LP)
3. Six Organs of Admittance – “Hazy SF” (previously unreleased)
4. Viking Moses – “Crosses” (from “Crosses”)
5. Josephine Foster (of Born Heller) – “Little Life” (prev. unreleased home recording)
6. ESPers – “Byss & Abyss” (from “ESPers” LP)
7. Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart – “Rejoicing in the Hands” (from the forthcoming “Rejoicing in the Hands of the Golden Empress” LP)
8. Jana Hunter – “Farm, CA” (prev. unreleased)
9. Currituck Co. – “The Tropics of Cancer” (from “Ghost Man on First”)
10. White Magic – “Don’t Need” (from forthcoming EP)
11. Iron and Wine – “Fever Dream” (from “Our Endless Numbered Days” LP)
12. Diane Cluck – ” Heat From Every Corner” (from “Macy’s Day Bird”)
13. Matt Valentine – “Mountains of Yaffa” (prev. unreleased)
14. Entrance – “You Must Turn” (prev. unreleased home recording)
15. Jack Rose – “White Mule” (from “Red Horse, White Mule” originally released thru Eclipse, now on CD on VHF)
16. Little Wings – “Look at What the Light Did Now” (from “Light Green Leaves”)
17. Scout Niblett – “Wet Road” (from “Sweet Heart Fever”)
18. Troll – “Mexicana” (from “Pathless Lord”)
19. CocoRosie – “Good Friday” (from “La Maison de Mon Reve”)
20. Antony – “The Lake” (from “Live at Saint Olaye’s With Current 93”)
You cannot buy it at a store or from that guy down the street. You have to buy it directly from us. It’s $12 postpaid US, $14 Canada, $17 world, or, get this, FREE if you buy a new subscription. Go here to order one, or just to see the pretty artwork:
http://www.arthurmag.com/bastet.html
The second Bastet CD is, as they say, completely different. “The Libations of Samhain: SUNN 0))) live at London’s Subcamden Underground, Hallo’ween 2003” is a single live power-drone ambient metal track by the mighty SUNN 0))) measuring just under 49 minutes. It’s loud and wonderful and all-enveloping and gives your speakers and your inner organs a fine meditative workout. Plus, you get a bonus interview with the SUNN O))) principals by Edwin Pouncey and Sharon Gal, originally broadcast on London’s Resonance FM 104. Would you believe this CD features cover artwork by the legendrary Savage Pencil, and letterpress printing by Thumbprint Press? Oh yes. Edition of 500, and they’re going VERY fast.
Satisfied customers are lining up to testify at:
http://forums.southernlord.com/viewtopic.php?t=2416
Again, if you want it, you gotta buy it directly from us. It’s $12 postpaid US, $14 Canada, $17 world, or, get this, FREE if you buy a new subscription. Go here to order one, or just to see the brilliant SP artwork:
http://www.arthurmag.com/bastet.html
(((4))) NEW ISSUE OF ARTHUR OUT NOW.
It’s Arthur with rising weirdbeard folkstar Devendra Banhart on the cover, as photographed by Melanie Pullen. It’s Arthur featuring interviews with the saddest filmmaker in the world, Guy Maddin, and Godzilla, the aging “King of Monsters.” It’s Arthur with a two-page spread of Marc Bell’s neuron-damaging comics. It’s… It’s… It’s.. Well see it for yourself. If yoiu can’t find one, order a copy direct from us for 5 bucks cheap. Just go to
(((5))) CAN’T FIND ARTHUR? PERHAPS SIR/MADAM/OTHER WOULD CONSIDER A SUBSCRIPTION.
ARTHUR comes out, and then it’s gone. You snooze, you lose. But no one should be
punished for being unlucky, which is why ARTHUR offers SUBSCRIPTIONS. Now, you
need never fear the empty stack again. Do you live in the USA? We are sorry.
But, you can get six issues of Arthur for $30, plus (while supplies last) a free
BASTET CD or ARTHUR t-shirt of your choosing. Do you live in Canada? Right on.
That’ll cost you $39. Do you live somewhere else on the big blue cloudy marble?
Wow, that’s awesome. That’ll be $60. Order via PayPal at
http://www.arthurmag.com/backissues.html
((6))) PLEASE HELP US.
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So long, it’s good to know ya,
The Arthur Gang
May 14, 2004
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