There's bargains galore at the Arthur Store

Our very popular “Tuff Wizard” T-SHIRT (pictured above) by Arik Moonhawk Roper is back in stock in all sizes, forest green on cactus green, $18.95 postpaid.

VINTAGE BACK ISSUES of Arthur Magazine’s 2002-2008 run have been repriced—some as low as $3.50 postpaid. Hot dawg!

Two CDs we thought we’d run out of are back in stock—extremely limited quantities of artfully curated and sequenced mix CDs by Plastic Crimewave (“2 Million Tongues”) and Comets on Fire/Howlin Rain’s Ethan Miller (“Bread, Beard and Bear’s Prayers”) are now available. Very happy to be able to offer these again, for $10 postpaid, natch.

A few of our CDs have been re-priced to $10 postpaid! When they’re gone, they’re gone daddy.

Have a browse at the Arthur Store. Order with PayPal, credit card and debit card—or you send (well concealed) cash, money order or check by mail.

A poem from Eric Amling

Singed foliage from a time machine in the Ozarks.
The rain tarp over an experimental anniversary gift.
The ventriloquist’s hand, in the dressing room, after
An intense set.

A porcelain bowl of discarded hearing aids.
Haunted guano by an Irish bat on historic rubble.
An open cold-cream jar on the midday windowsill at the K-spa
Reminded me of ox red quartz in the showy plaza of a blood cell.

A Gene Clark cassette sandwiched in the Mazda seats.
The X-ray of a complicated handshake.
Wrestling trading cards drizzled with King Cobra.
A piñata of a corncob pipe filled with baby corncob pipes.

Much later, stink lines from a bog within meters of a crayon
Factory, its consistency like that of a child’s brain.

QOTSA/EODM benefit to pay for Brian "Big Hands" O'Connor's cancer treatment

Eagles of Death Metal bassist Brian O’Connor has been diagnosed with cancer, and is undergoing treatment in Los Angeles. More info on how you can help: brianeodm.org

Queens of the Stone Age & Eagles of Death Metal

A Benefit for Brian O’Connor

Thursday, August 12th

Club Nokia

Los Angeles, CA

PRE-SALE begins Thursday, July 15th 10 am PST

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/090044E7E1D46680?brand=clubnokia

password: bighands

tickets on sale to the public Friday, July 16th @ 10:00 am

Arthur Radio Transmission #23 w/ Prince Rama of Ayodhya

At the center of a wind tunnel, we find ourselves stuck between perspectives. Is the world moving at a million miles around us, or are we the ones who are flying? This week, join hands with Hairy Painter and Ivy Meadows as they plunge into the unknown, fortified by Prince Rama of Ayodhya‘s ancient primordial howls, growling synthesizer moans and consciousness-melting pulsations, which swirl like electrified streams of sonic debris in the positively charged atmosphere… “Give yourself. Lose yourself.“

DOWNLOAD: Arthur Radio Transmission #23 w/ Prince Rama of Ayodhya 6-27-2010

playlistum lyeth beneathio…

[HAIRY PAINTER + IVY MEADOWS DJ SET]
keiji haino – look, darkness and light both begin to copy
clara rockmore – the swan
conrad schnitzler – electric garden
s.d. batish – raga tilang alaap
far east family band – live in l.a. 1978
seltaeb – nug mraw a si ssenippah
alejandro jodorowsky – tarot will teach you/burn your money
arthur russell – the name of the next song
robert johnson (on speed? <—–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_musician Playback_issues_in_extant_recordings) – – hold my body down
rusty santos – feel radio signals (botanical mix)
pocahaunted – time fist
julian lynch – topi garden 2
mawan te dhiyan – surinder kaur & parkash kaur
sun ra – celestial road
albert ayler – the wizard
sonny sharock – black woman
nagane aki – the wind that flows through the trees
paul metzger – the uses of infinity (side a)

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New rock n roll music: THEE OH SEES

Download: “I Was Denied”—Thee Oh Sees (mp3)

Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/The-Oh-Sees-I-Was-Denied.mp3%5D

Properly rambunctious Fall homage from Thee Oh Sees, featuring everyone’s favorite ex-Coachwhip/Pink and Brown-er, John Dwyer. Off their tasty new grinder, Warm Slime, available from In the Red Records of Los Angeles, California. Spiffy cover too.