COMMAND PERFORMANCE – FRIDAY AUGUST 13, 2004

THE ARTHUR MAILING LIST BULLETIN No. 0007

“Text beyond the presses.”

(((1))) FROM THE “MAKE OF THIS WHAT YOU WILL” DEPT: ROLLING STONE NAMES ARTHUR “HOT MAGAZINE.”

From a writeup by Peter Relic in Rolling Stone (Aug 19, 2004, the “Hot” issue, Lindsay Lohan cover), page 76:

“HOT MAGAZINE

“Maybe the best things in life really are free. Take ARTHUR, a new magazine printed on high-quality color newsprint, chock-full of interviews with the likes of Iggy Pop and folk phenom Devendra Banhart, features on ‘When Good Pranksters Go Christian’ and ‘Young Would-Be Terrorists in Love,’ and inspired cartooning by America’s best young artists. Forty thousand copies of Arthur are distributed in coffee shops and record stores by a nationwide guerilla network. ‘Arthur breeds intellectual positivity,’ says Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Arthur’s reviews columnist. ‘Plus, it’s an affront to Bush’s dumbed-down myopia because it’s free and because it rocks without catering to any corporate payoff.'”

(((2))) NEW ISSUE OF ARTHUR STREETS AUGUST 31.

Grant Morrison, the 21st century’s Philip K. Dick, is the cover subject of Arthur’s biggest issue yet. Plus: why Johnny Cash went to Folsom Prison, Jennifer Herrema in her post-Royal Trux world of rock, Paul Cullum finds Bush’s brain, T-Model Ford reveals the secret of the sugar titty, acid-folker Josephine Foster and her new project the Supposed, Wayne Coyne on the virtues of decaf, Daniel Pinchbeck on why crop circles have something to teach us, illustrations by Arik Moonhawk Roper and Plastic Crimewave, James Parker on a new documentary about battling bands, reviews by Byron Coley & Thurston Moore and C & D, and lots of new comics.

With a stunning double-bird cover by Cameron Stewart!

64 pages! Still free! Hot damn!

(((3)))) DEVENDRA BANHART-COMPILED “GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN” AVAILABLE AGAIN, DONCHA KNOW.

“The Golden Apples of the Sun,” Devendra Banhart’s critically saluted 20-artist compilation of contemporary underground folk music released through Arthur’s Bastet label, is now available again in a second printing of 1,000 copies. (The first edition is currently fetching $99.77 on eBay?!? Jesus christ, who are these people???)

The second printing will start shipping on September 1; you can reserve a copy for $12USA/$14 Can/$17 world postpaid now via PayPal at

http://www.arthurmag.com/store/bastet_cds.php

(((4))) 1,000 COPIES OF MILLION TONGUES: GOING… GOING…. GONG.

Now available — the limited edition, 1,000-copy 20-track “Million Tongues Festival” commemorative CD, curated and hand-lettered/drawn by cosmic superfreek PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE. What you get is 75 minutes of previously unreleased garage bubblegum, Japanese rip roarers. psych-out jams to the center of Venus, darknight acid folk and psycho-spiritual sung rants and instrumentalia for only $12. The lineup? It’s Michael Yonkers and the Mumbles, P.G. Six, Espers, LSD March, Fur Saxa, Josephine Foster and the Supposed, Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple) with Kinski, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder Medicine Show, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Inner Throne, The Civilized Age, Simon Finn, Jutok Kaneko/Shimura Koji/ Takuya Nishimura, Nisennenmondai, Frankie Delmane, Nick Castro, Taurpis Tula, M.V. Carbon and Panicsville.

Available now for $12USA/$14 Can/$17 world postpaid  from

http://www.arthurmag.com/store/bastet_cds.php

(((5))) GOOD NEWS IN AUTUMN.

Ghost is touring America with White Magic. An issue of Arthur out in late October, just before our fabulous elections (vote Bush, vote Kerry –> You get war in Iraq either way!), and a new album from Sunburned Hand of the Man, released ONLY through Bastet!

So long, we really like you,

The Arthur Interns

August 13, 2004