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A Tuesday trawl round the internet
From Arthur’s Twitter feed today:
“Dungeons & Dragons Prison Ban Upheld”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html
New Joanna Newsom song from forthcoming triple-album via Drag City of Chicago
Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/joannanewsom-81.mp3%5D
Download: Joanna Newsom —’81 (mp3)
LA City Council votes to put 80% of cannabis dispensaries out of bizness
http://bit.ly/aBIKTt
First ish of JOE THE BARBARIAN, new comic book miniseries writ by Arthur No. 12 cover star GRANT MORRISON, is now out. $1 at your local comix hut.
Via machineproject: “how come nobody told us you could make emergency glasses out of a leaf?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5on1id-0m4Y
Via ecstaticpeace: “MV & EE “Barn Nova” OUT ON REAL VINYL WAX NOW”:
http://alturl.com/qsei
“Tune in to Erik Bluhm’s “West Coast Fog” this Tuesday [tonite] from 7-9 PM PST
Expect Canyon people fort music, Millbrae mysto-rock, and East Side proto-garage! Only the best mid-to-late 60s Kalifornia kounterculture and teen-time vibes! Pretty much mostly vinyl originals! Romancers! Kim Fowley! Vejtables! Plebs! Kensington Forest! Love-Ins!”
http://www.luxuriamusic.com/lux_listen.html
All West Coast Fog shows are now archived as podcasts at
http://www.luxuriamusic.com/station/podcasts
Weekly Fog playlists posted at
http://greatgodpan.com/
Song Circle for Haiti Benefit Tonight!
Los Angeles! Just added to the Largo Lovin’ Haiti series Arthur 26 cover star Becky Stark performs along with Jenny Lewis, Azure Ray, Johnathan Rice, Jason Boesel and Morgan Nagler…snap up your spot they’re going fast!
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Show starts at 8pm to benefit Habitat for Humanity and Save the Children > GO
Floating World Animation Fest v.3 – Show Cave Gallery (LA) Jan. 30th
Floating World Animation Fest 2009 Trailer from Floating World Comics on Vimeo.
Floating World Animation Fest makes its first Los Angeles appearance at Show Cave gallery on Saturday, Jan. 30th! Local and lo-fi, international and extrasensory, hand drawn, stop motion, cgi and puppetry, electricity and torches. This will be a brand new mix featuring the best of the past 3 shows, plus… you guessed it: some new shit you haven’t seen before!
Jan. 30th 9pm, $7
Show Cave Gallery
3501 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Artists include Bruno Dicola, Robert Seidel, Dan Deacon, Jimmy Joe Roche, Peter Glantz, Zane Kozak, Vince Collins, Carolina Melis, Bruno 9li, Dearraindrop, Will Sweeney, Tasha Brotherton, Jen Stark, Vivian Wong, Mato Atom, Christophe Blanc, Superbrothers, Yoshi Sodeoka, Lung, David O’Reilly and Throne Boogie.
Bull's Eye
papers on my desk* * *
Recommended reissue: FAR EAST FAMILY BAND "Parallel World"
Far East Family Band
Parallel World
Phoenix Records ASHCD-3013
UK vendor Volcanic Tongue sez:
“CD issue of what’s regarded as the most perfectly realised of the collaborations between the post-Far Out Far East Family Band and visionary Kraut cosmonaut Klaus Schulze. Recorded in 1976 on the back of Schulze’s classic Black Dance LP, Parallel World is a beautiful trip on hand drums and percussion through wiggy keyboards that leave sagging after-images across the jet black backdrop, droning vocal chants, outta space grooves and the kind of gorgeous choral synth levitations of the greatest devotional Krautrock, all cut up with long passages of semi-silence, sunrise tones and hallucinatory folk melody. One of the holiest of Japanese Kosmische sides, this one sits comfortably next to Popol Vuh’s In Den Garten Pharaos and Sergius Golowin’s Krishna Von Goloka as a truly epic trip. Listen to this one on headphones and feel the silence. Numbered edition of 1000 copies. Highly recommended.”
Available now from UK vendor Volcanic Tongue
Hard times come again no more
Friday party music: SMITH WESTERNS "Be My Girl"
Off debut album “Smith Westerns” by band Smith Westerns from fantastic label Hozac Records of Chicago (also home of Arthur faves Wizzard Sleeve).
Not in the mood for a middleman? Buy it direct here.
Smith Westerns West Coast tour starts TONITE. Dates: Smith Westerns
Brand new new age music: Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar — "Fantomoj de la Vitro Domo"
Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Robert_Rose-Fantomoj_de_la_Vitro_Domo.mp3%5D
Download: Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar — “Fantomoj de la Vitro Domo” (mp3)
This lovely piece of still-time new age is off “Eclipses,” a new album by Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar, courtesy the good folk of Thrill Jockey Records. Available on LP with 12” x 36” full color double sided poster (!), which, they say, is “included to properly voice the images, which end up as a sort of storyboard to the music…”
You may recognize Rob from his work as Lichens, or as a member of 90 Day Men and Singer…or the mighty Om, who he played with on their recent North American tour. (He’s about to leave for Europe for more dates with Om.)
Intrigued parties might also enjoy the tones of Enumclaw, previously featured in this space…
It's an awesome feeling…
courtesy Chris G.!
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