“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”

THE ARTHUR MAILING LIST BULLETIN No. 0009

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2004

(((1))) ARTHUR 13 OUT OCTOBER 26.

It’s done, it’s a doozy, it’s at the printer, it’ll be hitting streets and subscribers’ mailboxes on or around October 26. This one almost did us in. The cover feature is a mega oral history of the 1967 exorcism/levitation of the Pentagon and the birth of Yippie!. This piece was painstakingly compiled from old and new interviews with Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Kenneth Anger, Paul Krassner, Bob Fass, Norman Mailer, Tuli Kupferberg, Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and many many others. Also: stunning photographs, Ed Sanders’ original magical rite program, a page from The Oracle (San Fransciso’s mid-’60s pyschedelic newspaper), event buttons and more — plus cover artwork by John Coulthart that may render you mindless. You have been forewarned. And you can fore-order a copy  of the mag at:

http://www.arthurmag.com/news/

(((2))) ARTHUR PRESENTS TWO SHOWS AROUND THIS CMJ THING HAPPENING IN NEW YORK CITY.

A.

Date: Saturday, October 16

Event:  ARTHUR/NARNACK PARTY

Location: Asterisk

Address:  258 Johnson St. Between Bushwick and White  (Montrose “L” train stop)

Price: $10-12 @ the door

Time: Doors at 7:30

**FREE BEER COURTESY OF PABST BLUE RIBBON (from 8-9PM)

Performing:

1:00 am  The Fall

12:00 am The Coachwhips

11:00 pm Intelligence

10:00 pm Langhorne Slim

9:40 pm Aa

8:30 pm The Bunnybrains

8:00 pm Fast Fourier

B. 

Sunday, October 17

Event:  a CMJ COME DOWN

ARTHUR MAGAZINE, in association with the KORK AGENCY

Location: Mercury Lounge

225 E. Houston St. New York, NY 10009

Price: $8 Advance/$10 Door (no badges)

Time: Doors at 7 PM

Performing:

11:30PM Growing

10:45PM PG Six

10: 00PM Double Leopards

9:15PM Dan Friel

8:30PM Tyondai Braxton

7:30PM  DJ’s TEETH & CAVEMAN SKULL (Stephen O’Malley of SUNNO))))

(((3)))  MAGPIE, THE ARTHUR SORT-OF BLOG.

Magpie, part of Arthur’s continuing mission to keep Earth weird, is updated daily by Arthur editor Jay Babcock. Like a scrapbook of interesting found stuff, made public. Dig it daily at

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/

(((4))) SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN PREPARE THEIR BASTET RELEASE.

“No Magic Man” will be released by Arthur’s BASTET imprint later this year. The band descibes it thusly:

“A collection of all new, all-weather nighttime sounds from one of the greatest tellin’ it like it is, Apocalypse Later! bands around right now! ‘No Magic Man’ is specificly designed for those with chronic cases of peek-a-boo, long eye, and post-election stress disorder. 12 reports from the never-ending ritual running just under an hour, this is the next page in the Book of Sunburned, and its yours!”

We will have ordering info on the website shortly. This CD will be issued in time for you to order it for all of your friends (and some of your especially needy enemies too) during this winter’s gift-giving seasons. 

(((5)))) THE DEVENDRA BANHART-COMPILED “GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN” IS AVAILABLE AGAIN.

“8.6 (out of 10): [Its] sprawling landscape presents a persuasive case for the depth of a scene that seemingly sprung up (like mushrooms) overnight.” — Pitchfork, July 8, 2004

“Essential.” — Mojo, September 2004

“Sparkling.” — The Wire, July 2004

“The Golden Apples of the Sun,” Devendra Banhart’s 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. You can purchase a copy for $12USA/$14 Can/$17 world postpaid now via PayPal at

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

(((6)))  ONE THOUSAND “MILLION TONGUES” FOR YOU

Now available — the limited edition, 1,000-copy 20-track “Million Tongues Festival” commemorative CD, curated and hand-lettered/drawn by coosmic superfreek PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE. 

75 minutes of previously unreleased garage bubblegum, Japanese mind-off rip-roarers. urban psych-out treks to the center of your aural sweet spot, darknight acid-folk for the comedown and psycho-spiritual sung rants for morning risings.  

The lineup: Michael Yonkers and the Mumbles (unreleased track!), P.G. Six, Espers, LSD March, Fur Saxa, Josephine Foster and the Supposed (live!), 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

(((7)))  ARTHUR: THE MAGAZINE OTHER MAGAZINES LIKE TO WRITE ABOUT.

a. From Print Magazine’s Sept/Oct 2004 issue:

MAGAZINE WATCH: Up the Zeitgeist! Arthur remembers the old Rolling Stone, even if Rolling Stone doesn’t. By Steve Dollar…

b. From LAWeekly’s “Best of LA” issue: 

When the first ish of Arthur crossed my radar two annums back, envy devolved into self-pity. Why do these scribes get to be dangerously edgy? Why doesn’t the text show any evidence of hack editors hacking freespeak? Why is there nary a sign of yuppie lifestyle? Why them, not me?

The answer is that a crew of writers and artists, tired of fewer outlets for cutting-edge cultural reporting sans the stink of corporate commerce, got off their asses and started their own bimonthly national freebie newspaper. Many are Angelenos, including chief editor Jay Babcock, art director W.T. Nelson and regulars Kristine McKenna, Paul Cullum, Trinie Dalton and Oliver Hall (some of whom you may recognize as Weekly contributors). Columnists include Thurston Moore and Byron Coley, who review outre books, zines and music; Daniel Pinchbeck, who theorizes on drugs and consciousness; and elderly bluesman T-Model Ford, who dispenses dating advice. Arthur has a baroque, multicolored, psychedelic look with comics in the margins and everywhere else. In short, it doesn’t belong to that increasingly bottom-lined and bantamweight category called “alternative,” it’s full-blown contrarian.

Refreshingly, the Arthurians refuse to engage in the hoariest of countercultural arguments: hippie vs. punk. In fact, like Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, the paper exists in an anti-temporal warp where the past, present and future of mavericks coexist, creating a cohesive community in an increasingly fragmented society of subcultures. Features on Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer live happily next to ones on young acid-folk king Devendra Banhart and gonzo comics writer Grant Morrison (known as “the Philip K. Dick of the 21st century”), as well as secret histories of obscure art car races in Humboldt County, and the Cacophony Society. Babcock allows writers to riff in extended pieces, unencumbered by word counts, giving them the space to work in detail. It’s a more picturesque New Yorker, created by and for freaks, produced from inside the avant mondo as opposed to merely chronicling it.–Michael Simmons

Thanks, Michael.

Over to you,

Arthur Angry Dove Squad

Wednesday the 13th of October, 2004