Extra Golden will be playing one of the first shows of their U.S. tour with Audrey Chen, Matthew Papich (of Ecstatic Sunshine) and Ami Dang. Alongside Extra Golden’s Kenyan sunshine pop, be prepared for some throat singing, warbling, wailing, psychedelic sitar/electronics and blissed out washes of guitar…
Date & Time: Friday, April 10th, 8:30pm
Venue: Floristree
Location: 405 W. Franklin / Baltimore, MD 21201
Price: $5 before 9:30, $10 after (Get there early!)
April 9 — CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
“Be drunk always, on wine, virtue, poetry, whatever! But drunk!”
APRIL 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Name Yourself Day.
*All is ours Day
ALSO ON APRIL 9 IN HISTORY…
1553 — Writer François Rabelais dies, Paris, France.
1821 — Decadent poet Charles Baudelaire born, Paris, France
1839 — Eadweard Muybridge born, Kingston upon Thames, England
1866 — Congress grants all born in U.S. Citizenship… except Native Indians.
1898 — Renaissance man, radical, Paul Robeson born, Princeton, New Jersey.
1932 — Realist editor Paul Krassner born, Brooklyn, New York.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
We’re pleased to share a new comic Pete Toms created specifically for the website. Pete sent me some notes for a script he was working on:
Just wanted to let you know I’m working out the script for the Arthur blog. It’s essentially going to be about the relationship between two people that get fed up with popular furry culture and realize they like to dress up like Spiegelman’s maus characters and have sex with each other. But that’s just on the surface. Obviously it’s really about the death of corporate culture.
Not really. Though after typing that it doesn’t seem like a bad idea.
Pete, I wanna read that comic! Fortunately the idea he went with is just as cool and the execution is gorgeous. PINK TOMBS OF YOUTH is about a cartoonist with memory problems that’s having trouble distinguishing between his comics and reality. Here’s the first 6 pages…
Pim & Francie (THE GOLDEN BEAR DAYS) by Al Columbia. Coming soon from Fantagraphics Books.
April 8 — JACQUES BREL
Belgian-born wry, sardonic folksinger, composer.
APRIL 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Thailand & Japan: BUDDHA’S BIRTHDAY. Children’s holiday; dancing & the release of captive animals.
* DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN DAY.
ALSO ON APRIL 8 IN HISTORY…
1341 — Petrarch crowned poet laureate, steps of Capitol in Rome
1864 — Thirteenth Amendment passes, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
1898 — Yip Harburg, American lyricist born.
1929 — Ironic Belgian folksinger Jacques Brel born.
1973 — Spanish painter and communist Pablo Picasso dies, Mougins, France
1978 — French anarchist combatant, historian Gaston Leval dies.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
For a little magic like this:
Daniel Higgs, live at Verve (Somerville, New Jersey), April 1st, 2009
And this:
Bill Nace, live at That’s Not Class (Cleveland, OH), April 3rd, 2009
Remaining Dates:
April 8 – Salt Lake City, UT – Ken Sanders Rare Books – with Eagle Twin & Andy Cvar
April 10 – Portland, OR – The Artistery – with Naked Future & Powernap
April 11 – Olympia, WA – The Eagles Hall – with Arrington de Dionyso
April 14 – Hayfork, CA – TBA
April 15 – Oakland, CA – TBA
April 16 – San Francisco, CA – TBA
April 19 – Los Angeles, CA – TBA
April 22 – Albuquerque, NM – Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice – with William Fowler Collins
April 24 – Kansas City, MO – TBA
It’s Tuesday so that means time for another installment of Pop Gun War: Chain Letter by Farel Dalrymple. Click on the image below to read pages 6-10…
“Olivia the sea turtle finds herself trapped in a art gallery and is searching for a way home to the ocean.”
“A peak into the lives of ducks. It’s more dramatic than you might think.”
“The future of the universe depends on an elite group of dogs in outter space. Created at Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY March 2009”
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