“This is my version of the new AC/DC song played and sung at the video shoot in London which I attended. Its been a tiring few days but wouldnt change it for the world – what an experience, as such this isnt exactly like the song, in fact I think the riff im doing is Love Bomb or one of the in-riffs from Hard As A Rock not sure what one haha but the main bit Runaway Train, Runniiing Riiiiight Off The Traaaack is correct and the riff im sure is to the tune I sing RUNNING RIGHT OFF THE TRACK. No rules were broken in the making of this video. This is just to let people have a wee idea of how the chorus goes – it isnt a serious attempt at singing the song.”
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KUPPERMAN to thrizzle this Friday, Aug 22 at Desert Island in Brooklyn
“Tales Designed to Thrizzle” creator Michael Kupperman
Friday, August 22, 6-9 p.m.
DESERT ISLAND
comic + artist’s book store
540 Metropolitan Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11211
(718)388-5087
“We’re very excited to host Michael Kuperman in celebration of his brand-new comic booklet [cover pictured below]. As you may know, Mr. Kupperman makes hilarious comics which look like old-timey woodcuts and don’t make any damn sense. To mark the occasion, we have also created an amazing silkscreen print in the form of an advertisement for ‘Long John Silver’s Sex Party Blimps [pictured above].'”
This saturday night at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn…
From BRENDAN MURRAY…
Saturday August 23 8pm
asher thal-nir + brendan murray + richard garet
Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
$10
“Please join us for an evening of sound and video at Issue Project Room.
“Asher, Richard and I will all play short solo sets with video and then play as a trio for the first time.
“This event will consist of a collaborative aural and visual live performance between Boston artists Asher Thal-Nir and Brendan Murray, and NYC artist Richard Garet. The sound presence will focus on exploring different parameters affecting the listening experience by ranging from quadraphonic to the full spectrum of the ISSUE Project Room’s 15 channel speaker system. The sound can be expected to range from computer processing, micro-tonal, minimal drone, phonography, phenomena found by live-room-sampling, and self-generated sounds. The live moving image will vary from an optical-sensory-overload color field exploring light phenomena, to static and minimal recorded footage.
“Asher Thal-Nir is an artist living and working in Somerville, Massachusetts. His sound work is composed using recordings of acoustic and electronic instruments, location recordings and found recordings which are combined and processed in various ways. His work has been published online and on disk by Con-V, Leerraum [ ], Mystery Sea, The Land Of, Laboratoire Moderne, Winds Measure, Transparent Radiation, Term. And Homophoni, with upcoming solo and collaborative releases on Einzeleinheit, Leerraum [ ], and/OAR, Gears of Sand, Room40, and Sourdine. myspace.com/asherthalnir
“Brendan Murray is a self-taught musician living in Somerville, MA. He has actively recorded and performed with electronics since 1999. He regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound. He has recorded four full-length CDs, four cdrs and two cassettes for various record labels in the United States and Europe. brendanmurray.com
“Richard Garet is a sound and video artist. He is interested in the phenomena found and produced in aural and visual time-based media, in nature’s processes, and human beings’ relationship with both artificial and natural environments. Garet explores the it-referential, communicational, and sensory characteristics of the various media he utilizes. Additionally, he focuses on the investigation of aural and visual spatial-contexts, relational structures, process, materiality, and form. Even though Garet’s work suits the standard gallery setting, many of his other activities as an artist explore the various practices of experimental sound and video performance. All of these modes are additional ways in which Garet’s work exposes the audience to visual and physical acoustic sensory perception. richardgaret.com
Joe Carducci's UPLAND BREAKDOWN in Centennial Wyoming this Saturday
From Carducci: “The mountain view’s webcam caught a double strike thurs night in some kind of unreal synchronization. the storm left some snow up above town the last two nights, but the forecast for next saturday’s upland breakdown is for early indian summer. you can take that to the bank, if it’s still open for business….”
Arthur Magazine & Library Brewery present
The 9th Annual Upland Breakdown
organized by Joe Carducci
Sat. Aug 23
Free! * All ages! * Weather permitting
Beer-sipping allowed * Smoking too, for that matter.
PRECIOUS BLOOD, 7:30pm
MICHAEL HURLEY, 6pm
STOP & LISTEN BOYS, 5pm
AL RIVERS, 4pm
THE ALLTUNATORS, 3pm
Beartree Tavern
Centennial, Wyoming, 307.742 2410
http://beartreetavernandcafe.com/
Breakdown radio streams likely:
Friday Aug. 22
Grady’s show 9-noon MST
David Lightbourne
Al Rivers
John Martz
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/wpr/wpr.m3u
Also Friday Aug. 22
Beth’s show 1-3pm MST
Michael Hurley
Amy Annelle
Ralph White playing and DJing
http://krfcfm.org/listen.php
New Maya Hayuk video profile by Tara Young
“Muralist, photographer, painter, music video creator… Maya Hayuk prefers to simply call herself an artist, because under that moniker she has the freedom to work in whatever medium she wants at any given time. Maya has painted murals around the world, and her work has been featured in magazines, album covers and ad campaigns. Her improvised style and bright colors seem to be part of a new resurgence in psych-folk art that is pinned to a higher consciousness. Etsian Tara Young met with Maya first in her Brooklyn studio and then in Braddock, PA to talk about Ukrainian crafts, drippy paintings and working to revitalize depressed communities.”
Maya Hayuk’s Arthur Magazine t-shirt design
Paul Krassner on shrooming
Forest meme popping up above-ground …
To those of you who vomit in yr mouths a little whenever you read the MSM, you may wish to turn yr attention elsewhere for a spell … There’s a story in today’s online version of the NYTimes that uncannily echoes an Arthur post from last week in which we called yr attention to the importance of old growth forests.
The article focuses on Irish-Canadian scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger, who is quoted as saying: “In a walk through old growth forest, there are thousands if not millions of chemicals and their synergistic effects with one another. What trees do chemically in the environment is something we’re only beginning to understand.”
Beresford-Kroeger goes on to advocate “what she terms a bioplan, reforesting cities and rural areas with trees according to the medicinal, environmental, nutritional, pesticidal and herbicidal properties she claims for them, which she calls ecofunctions.”
Now check this out: The Magpie post, plucked from terrain.org and written by Joan Maloof, raised a nearly identical point six days prior.
“So what could be in the forest air that makes us feel better?” Maloof asks. “In a study done in the Sierra Nevadas of California, researchers found 120 different chemical compounds—but they could only identify seventy of them! We are literally breathing things we don’t understand; which also means, of course, that when we lose these forests, we don’t know what we are losing.”
What gives? Is the New York Times assigning science stories based on Magpie postings? Is The Man so bereft of original ideas that he has to plunder the underground for copy?
Based on my brutal and intimate experience with the world of print journalism, I’d say no. The panel of judges would likely rule this a happy coincidence.
But it’s encouraging to see stuff like this poking its head up where millions can see it.
Not to mention an ironic use of dead trees.
By the way, Maloof, who teaches biology and environmental studies at Salibury University in Maryland, has written a book on the topic, bits of which you can read here.
RIP Isaac Hayes
This note came in just now from Don Fleming, whose Velvet Monkeys paid tribute way back in 1986, right about the time Mr. Hot Buttered Soul was guest-starring on “The A-Team.”
Please enjoy.
“Velvet Monkeys 1986 perform Shaft
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3571007907170924588&hl=en
yes, it’s the sammy davis jr version
and no, i’m not sure what he hell we thought we were doing.”
P.S. The dude in the pic above, in case you haven’t seen “Wattstax,” is the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
-Chris Grier
TONIGHT: NO MORE BUSH TOUR 2008, organized by Byron Coley, concludes in NYC
NO MORE BUSH TOUR 2008
Curated by BYRON COLEY (Arthur Magazine “Bull Tongue” columnist)
Presented by Ecstatic Peace and Arthur Magazine
Five years ago, in a time of woe for the underground, the country and the world, the members of the Ecstatic Yod Collective organized a tour called More Hair Less Bush. Including a variety of musicians and writers, the tour brought the flame of hope to cities cast into darkness by the hideous secretions of the Bush Twins.
Now, in 2008, as we prepare to enjoy the long-promised fruits of regime change, we felt it was time to bring our show on the road again. But this time, rather than offering balm and apologies to the psychically wounded, we would like to celebrate the pre-dawn of a new day — a day when the word “cheney” is once more an empty phrase we use to terrify youngsters.
To this end, we have assembled a revolving cast of musicians and writers, all of whom honk the horn of freedom with both hands. We trust it will be a gas.
Trinkets will be available.
MONDAY AUG 11, 8:00 PM sharp
Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, NYC 212-219-3132
50 FOOT WOMEN is a San Francisco-based duo with Jessi Leigh Swenson and Elaine Barry Kahn. Swenson is known for her trance-forming work with the Believers and Duck, Kahn is a wild card. Combined, they create and destroy small forms with the ease of kettle fish. They promise to have several secret weapons up their sleeves.
AXOLOTL is the ghost-wolf of New Jersey and all points west. Currently resident in the head of Karl Bauer, this ghost takes many forms, and uses many tools to do its jobs. On this tour, there is a functional involvement with several things. Psychedelic? You bet!
BYRON COLEY is a writer from Western Massachusetts. His organizational abilities are dwarfed by his capacity for letting a participle hang. He is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
LOREN CONNORS is one of the great string inventors of our age. Precision stellar blues, played in the Martian style, for the pleasure of all. A veteran of More Hair.
MV+EE will be a stripped-down duo this go-round. Matt, Erika and Zuma, caterwauling into the dark jug of night. As only veterans of the More Hair tour can.
GARY PANTER is best known as a visual artist, but his additions to the shelves of writage and music-making are not insubstantial. Not sure tonight if he’ll be whistling or playing or reading or what. He is no timorous bloke. He is a vet of the More Hair events.
CHARLES PLYMELL is a one of the great writers of our age, and a ferociously talented/opinionated editor, publisher and reader as well. Based for the last few decades in Cherry Valley, NY, Plymell’s evil eye and exquisite grasp of language and image are a deadly combination. It’s always an extreme pleasure to hear him read. A veteran of More Hair.
JACK ROSE is one of the pre-eminent geniuses of acoustic guitar creation and dissemblage. In the years since he left Pelt, Jack has toured and recorded incessantly, inventing moves that would make past masters blush. His fingers are magic fever generators.
ZAIKA is a duo comprised of Marcia Bassett and Tom Carter. Both are long-time and very active members of the American underground scene: Marcia with Uns, Double Leopards, Shackamaxon, Hototogisu, GHQ and others; Tom with The Mike Gunn, Charalambides, Badgerlore, Friday Group, Kyrgyz, Spiderwebs, etc. Together, they create very special kinds of silver cloud eruptions.
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