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Simon Grigg Shines Light on AK79

Simon Grigg Shines Light on AK79

Designed by Terence Hogan using an image of The Terrorways’ Dean Martelli, the front cover of AK79 has become one of the best known images of New Zealand rock and roll over the years The defining release of the thriving Auckland punk scene of the late 70s, AK79, compiled by Auckland...

KKKYLIE + KKKenneth

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KKKYLIE + KKKenneth

Hey, she's stroking that car like it's a dick! OMG she has a feather duster, HOW HOT. Is it a car commercial? A commercial for some new type of sexy energy drink for automatons that makes you work out to achieve this level of 'greatness?'

Nocturnal Digressions: Musings on Peter Laughner

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Nocturnal Digressions: Musings on Peter Laughner

Been on a pretty serious Peter Laughner kick in the store lately. After a bootleg CD emerged at the store recently called Nocturnal Digressions, that no one seemed to know where it came from, I have not been able to stop listening to it over and over again. Each listen...

Xway Vision

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Xway Vision

In honor of our forthcoming Sandra Bell reissue, take a look at this sickkk video compilation of Xpressway artists from 1992. Originally released as a VHS tape, and then later co-released in the states, this thang has been so out of print, it’s not even funny! A certain someone *cough,...

Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store's Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

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Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store’s Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

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New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

Auckland’s Powertool Records, the same label to thank for releasing new works by Sandra Bell, The Puddle, Robert Scott, Bill Direen, ( I could go on) and generally speaking– the label that actively releases a diverse range of ex-Corpus Hermeticum, Xpressway, and Flying Nun artist’s material; has a new compilation...

HOLY BALM...(holy shit!)

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HOLY BALM…(holy shit!)

Holy Balm is Anna John, Emma Ramsay and Yoni Hochman. I was stoked to read on their Tumblr that they will be coming to the states this fall. Their live sets sound and look super fun. CTI meets Wax Trax vibes renders their post-house post-synth party jam haze. Holy...

Times New Old Friendship Video

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Times New Old Friendship Video

New Video for an old song, with re-purposed footage

HENNE$$EY YOUNGMAN UP IN HERE

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HENNE$$EY YOUNGMAN UP IN HERE

HELLO WWW, THIS YA BOY HENROCK ALLAH AND IT’S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. WE ALWAYS SEEM TO MEET IN PLACES LIKE THIS. ANYWAYS, THIS PARTICULAR ART THOUGHTZ IS MORE OF LIKE A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT OFFERING A PAID SERVICE TO YOU AND YOURS. BUT IMA LET MY VIDEO DO...

Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

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Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

Dirty Looks: On Location is a month-long series of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, Dirty Looks, a roaming series– which typically hosts screenings on the last Wednesday of the month–will install film and video work in queer social spaces and former sites of...

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7" Pre-Order + Interview

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7″ Pre-Order + Interview

I can’t say enough how great Street Chant are– as a band, as people, as artists. I, for one have been waiting for these two songs to be released since hearing them live months ago. And now these two videos (comprising a double A-side 7″ available via Arch Hill soon)...

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus 4/18/2012 @ Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn 8PM A screening program of live performance footage, music videos, and cable access appearances with bands from the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. Featuring bands/artists such as: V̶-̶3̶, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, True Believers, Mike...

ESAD Production's History of Bloomington Music

ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music

Somewhere between video diary and music nerd tribute jerked on video–like Bill Nye, but cool– this gem of a CATV special maps out and documents the somewhat subjective, vastly complicated network of musicians and bands in the Bloomington Music Scene from 1977 through 1993. ESAD Production’s History of...

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute will cease activities due to lack of funding at the end of 2012. A result of the Ministry of Culture’s decision to terminate funding, an announcement was made yesterday that the Institute will receive no further financial support, and will vacate its present premises on the...

Moron Movies and Len Cella

Moron Movies and Len Cella

Initially aired on Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ in 1968, Len Cella’s Moron Movies became a regular feature between 1983 and 1985, then eventually surfaced on ‘TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes’ as Len Cella’s Silly Cinema a title which he allegedly despised. Curiously available in every video store in North America...

Bruce Russell on 'Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86'

Bruce Russell on ‘Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86’

Really can’t say how stoked I was to stumble 15 minutes late into work today, coffee spilt, phone forgot in bed, and log onto the interwebs to find that Bruce Russell contributed the following piece to Volcanic Tongue on the genesis of the NZ Underground on the occasion of the...

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

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Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith Team gallery 83 Grand Street March 29th – April 28th 2012 Reception on Thursday March 29th at 6:00PM Team presents a collaborative installation by New York-based artists Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith, featuring their rarely shown public access show which ran between 1994 and 1997....

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

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Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

bitforms gallery presents an exhibition on video artist Beryl Korot. Featuring her landmark video installation “Text and Commentary” (1977), the show also includes two of Korot’s more recent investigations into the medium,“Florence” (2008) and “Yellow Water Taxi” (2003). Recognized since the early 1970s as a pioneer of video art and...

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

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Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Jud Yalkut is easily one of my favorite video pioneers. In conjunction with many other events around NYC celebrating John Cage’s centennial, Anthology will screen Yalkut’s 1973 video 26’1.1499” FOR A STRING PLAYER; a recorded video manipulation of Cage’s composition of the same title. Performed in 1973, the video features...

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Music / Performance

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Beloved Brits Throwing Up are coming back to the States to play some shows. In NYC, it is a rare treat to see the London-based three piece rip it up live, but I can say that I was blown away after seeing them play at Bruar Falls with Blood Orange...

Screaming Urge in the New Age

Screaming Urge in the New Age

On the occasion of Sing-Sing Records’ reissue of Screaming Urge’s 1980 “Homework” single earlier this year, I touched base with Myke Rock and Michael Ravage about the Screaming Urge days and the beginnings of Columbus Punk. Since I spent a decent chunk of my 20’s in the Columbus music scene,...

TV Party Documentary

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TV Party Documentary

In true democratic spirit of cable access TV and DIY ethics so associated with the revolutionary NYC show TV Party, some excellent person has shared the recent documentary of the show on Youtube. Much has been written on the now iconic show, so we’ll leave that at bay for now–but...

Purple Pilgrims Video and Spring Tour Info

Purple Pilgrims Video and Spring Tour Info

Purple Pilgrims.- s/t 8″ It has been said that ex-Christchurch now Hong Kong based sister duo of Clementine and Valentine Nixon is really a live act, with their haunting, heartfelt, carefully layered drone; pure enough to summon goosebumps. This outsider marble-fuzz project has reproduced the same wide eyed simple magic...

Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

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Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

Ministry live at Exit in Chicago, IL on December 20, 1984 By: Scott Kiernan Setlist: Intro All Day Do You Even Like It? Cold Life The Nature of Love It is a tasty herb that can cheap viagra from india be added to your previous knowledge? There is a great...

Dispatch from Aoteara #1

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Dispatch from Aoteara #1

Joe Stumble ran my favorite blog, Last Days of Man on Earth for five years, before moving to NZ from the [American] Midwest in 2010 to pursue his Masters degree at Auckland University. He will be writing regularly for Straight To Video about life in New Zealand, primarily with...

Graham Lambkin's new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

Graham Lambkin’s new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

For nearly two decades, Graham Lambkin has been redefining our concept of domestic disturbance. From his time in The Shadow Ring to his solo ventures (2003’s Poem for Voice and Tape and Salomon Run, from 2007) to his collaboration with Jason Lescalleet (2008’s The Breadwinner), he has continually transformed everyday...

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Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

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Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

by R. Kellie on 05/15/12

Dirty Looks: On Location is a month-long series of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, Dirty Looks, a roaming series– which typically hosts screenings on the last Wednesday of the month–will install film and video work in queer social spaces and former sites of queer sociality (like shuttered bars,... [ Read More → ]

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7" Pre-Order + Interview

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7″ Pre-Order + Interview

by R. Kellie on 05/14/12

I can’t say enough how great Street Chant are– as a band, as people, as artists. I, for one have been waiting for these two songs to be released since hearing them live months ago. And now these two videos (comprising a double A-side 7″ available via Arch Hill soon) enhance the potency of the... [ Read More → ]

Notes from MoMA and Frieze

Criticism / Exhibitions

Notes from MoMA and Frieze

by R. Kellie on 05/4/12

A turbulent 72 hours, making the rounds at three NYC art events Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Personally, I try to keep my phone at bay for the most part in an attempt to socialize with old friends, and meet new ones. But I would be lying if I said that the urge to rip... [ Read More → ]

Harry Dodge's Recent Videos and Solo-Exhibition

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Harry Dodge’s Recent Videos and Solo-Exhibition

by R. Kellie on 05/1/12

Made with urgency over the course of a six-month period, the video trilogy of Ipse Dixit (2011), Unkillable (2011), and Fred Can Never Be Called Bald (2011) explores the space in between language and image, as well as the inexorability of narrative progress or momentum itself in different tonal and formal registers. [ Read More → ]

Carmelo Bene Retrospective at Anthology

Carmelo Bene Retrospective at Anthology

by R. Kellie on 04/26/12

By Troy Swain THE FILMS OF CARMELO BENE Beginning this weekend, Anthology will present this retrospective encompassing all five feature films (as well as a couple shorts) directed by the vanguard filmmaker, actor, and playwright Carmelo Bene, one of the greatest figures in Italian avant-garde culture. Renowned for his work in the theater, Bene turned... [ Read More → ]

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

by R. Kellie on 04/16/12

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus 4/18/2012 @ Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn 8PM A screening program of live performance footage, music videos, and cable access appearances with bands from the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. Featuring bands/artists such as: V̶-̶3̶, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, True Believers, Mike Rep+the Quotas, J̶i̶m̶ ̶S̶h̶e̶p̶a̶r̶d̶, Tommy... [ Read More → ]

ESAD Production's History of Bloomington Music

ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music

by R. Kellie on 04/16/12

Somewhere between video diary and music nerd tribute jerked on video–like Bill Nye, but cool– this gem of a CATV special maps out and documents the somewhat subjective, vastly complicated network of musicians and bands in the Bloomington Music Scene from 1977 through 1993. ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music was hosted, taped,... [ Read More → ]

NZ's Real Groovy Records will release a Toy Love: Live at the Gluepot 2XLP for Record Store Day

NZ’s Real Groovy Records will release a Toy Love: Live at the Gluepot 2XLP for Record Store Day

by R. Kellie on 04/10/12

Epic Auckland record store Real Groovy Records announced they will be releasing a double LP by NZ favorites, Toy Love in honor of Record Store Day 2012. The recording captures the band’s legendary –and one of last live sets at the famous Gluepot in Auckland, September 12, 1980. Transferred and prepared for vinyl mastering from... [ Read More → ]

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

by R. Kellie on 04/4/12

Netherlands Media Art Institute will cease activities due to lack of funding at the end of 2012. A result of the Ministry of Culture’s decision to terminate funding, an announcement was made yesterday that the Institute will receive no further financial support, and will vacate its present premises on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam in the... [ Read More → ]

Moron Movies and Len Cella

Moron Movies and Len Cella

by R. Kellie on 04/2/12

Initially aired on Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ in 1968, Len Cella’s Moron Movies became a regular feature between 1983 and 1985, then eventually surfaced on ‘TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes’ as Len Cella’s Silly Cinema a title which he allegedly despised. Curiously available in every video store in North America in the mid 90s, even... [ Read More → ]

Bruce Russell on 'Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86'

Bruce Russell on ‘Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86’

by R. Kellie on 03/27/12

Really can’t say how stoked I was to stumble 15 minutes late into work today, coffee spilt, phone forgot in bed, and log onto the interwebs to find that Bruce Russell contributed the following piece to Volcanic Tongue on the genesis of the NZ Underground on the occasion of the latest FN comp he organized.... [ Read More → ]

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Exhibitions / Performance / Pop Culture / Video

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

by R. Kellie on 03/27/12

Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith Team gallery 83 Grand Street March 29th – April 28th 2012 Reception on Thursday March 29th at 6:00PM Team presents a collaborative installation by New York-based artists Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith, featuring their rarely shown public access show which ran between 1994 and 1997. The weekly cablecasts were twenty-nine-minute... [ Read More → ]

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

Exhibitions / Video

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

by R. Kellie on 03/22/12

bitforms gallery presents an exhibition on video artist Beryl Korot. Featuring her landmark video installation “Text and Commentary” (1977), the show also includes two of Korot’s more recent investigations into the medium,“Florence” (2008) and “Yellow Water Taxi” (2003). Recognized since the early 1970s as a pioneer of video art and of multiple channel work in... [ Read More → ]

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Performance / Video

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

by R. Kellie on 03/20/12

Jud Yalkut is easily one of my favorite video pioneers. In conjunction with many other events around NYC celebrating John Cage’s centennial, Anthology will screen Yalkut’s 1973 video 26’1.1499” FOR A STRING PLAYER; a recorded video manipulation of Cage’s composition of the same title. Performed in 1973, the video features Charlotte Moorman and Nam June... [ Read More → ]

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Music / Performance

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

by R. Kellie on 03/7/12

Beloved Brits Throwing Up are coming back to the States to play some shows. In NYC, it is a rare treat to see the London-based three piece rip it up live, but I can say that I was blown away after seeing them play at Bruar Falls with Blood Orange a year ago. Tantrums, riffs,... [ Read More → ]

Carter Tutti Void premiere video

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Carter Tutti Void premiere video

by R. Kellie on 03/7/12

Transverse, the exclusive collaboration project between Factory Floor’s Nik Void and Chris and Cosey will be out on Mute Records March 27, 2012. Earlier post on Transverse here. This is mandatory because the medicine needs some time to really giving sildenafil order secretworldchronicle.com this some thought. For those who fall into the riskier categories, making... [ Read More → ]

First David Lynch solo show in NYC since 1989

First David Lynch solo show in NYC since 1989

by R. Kellie on 03/6/12

…and it looks pretty good! The show opens today, but the reception for Lynch is on March 16th–and he’ll be there. No events planned, sadly- but you never know what impromptu shenanigans the maven might craft between then and now, time and schedule permitting. Most Lynch fans already know that he began his career as... [ Read More → ]

Sand, Skin, Water, Light-- Woman in the Dunes, 1964

Sand, Skin, Water, Light– Woman in the Dunes, 1964

by R. Kellie on 03/6/12

Celebrated Japanese avant-garde filmmaker, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 film Woman in the Dunes is available in it’s entirety on youtube. With its psycho-sexual undercurrent from the beginning, the film presents a seamless unity between reality and metaphor in terms of its subject, style, and concept. Suna no Onna‘s literal translation– “Sand Lady” registers much more as... [ Read More → ]

Exhibitions / Video

Moving Image: Contemporary Video Art Fair 3/8-3/11

by R. Kellie on 03/5/12

Moving Image, Contemporary Video Art Fair 3/8-3/11 Thursday– Saturday, 3/8–3/10, (11–8 PM) Sunday, 3/11, (11-4 PM). Opening: Thursday, March 8, 6–8 PM. Located in the Waterfront Tunnel event space between 27th and 28th Streets with an entrance on 11th Avenue in Chelsea. In its second year, Moving Image presents a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions... [ Read More → ]

Lo-fi/Sci-fi: Midnight Screening and Video Party at Spectacle Theater

Lo-fi/Sci-fi: Midnight Screening and Video Party at Spectacle Theater

by R. Kellie on 02/29/12

Transport over to Spectacle Theater in the Williamsburg sector of Brooklyn on March 10th for a special midnight screening of Sci-Fi video shorts presented by Straighttovideo.org. In this not-to-be missed assemblage of lo-fi/sci-fi video art, music videos, and cable access oddities, we will be presenting shorts from as far back as the 70s to some... [ Read More → ]

Brakhage + Godard @ MoMA

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Brakhage + Godard @ MoMA

by R. Kellie on 02/26/12

As part of MoMA’s current exhibition Contemporary Galleries: 1980 – Now, films by Stan Brakhage are being screened daily at 3pm in the Time Warner Screening Room on the 2nd floor of the Museum’s Lewis B and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building. The program changes once a week, on Wednesday. Meantime, in another black-box... [ Read More → ]

TNV touring with The Clean

TNV touring with The Clean

by R. Kellie on 02/22/12

The Clean begin their first American tour in over two years on May 30th at The Echo in LA and continue eastward, finishing up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on June 8th. Times New Viking will be along for approximately 71% of the dates. I heard the infoz on the phone a few weeks ago–... [ Read More → ]

Screaming Urge in the New Age

Screaming Urge in the New Age

by R. Kellie on 02/22/12

On the occasion of Sing-Sing Records’ reissue of Screaming Urge’s 1980 “Homework” single earlier this year, I touched base with Myke Rock and Michael Ravage about the Screaming Urge days and the beginnings of Columbus Punk. Since I spent a decent chunk of my 20’s in the Columbus music scene, I wanted to hear their... [ Read More → ]

Recent NZ Gems Uploaded in Youtube-Land

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Recent NZ Gems Uploaded in Youtube-Land

by R. Kellie on 02/21/12

‘Slammerworm’ has been uploading more NZ gems and segments from the Onset-Offset VHS compilation. Hopefully he will be uploading the rest of the tape soon. (Yes, I asked.) The Policy in their practice room, 1984. Original video filmed and edited by Campbell McLay and Ritchie Venus for the Onset-Offset video compilatiion ‘Get Up and Go’.... [ Read More → ]

Artprojx Cinema presents Luke Fowler and "Mystery Show" at SVA Theatre NYC

Artprojx Cinema presents Luke Fowler and “Mystery Show” at SVA Theatre NYC

by R. Kellie on 02/21/12

In association with The Modern Institute, David Gryn’s London-based ArtProjx Cinema will present recent works by Luke Fowler and “Mystery Show,” a selection of work by four Finnish artists. (Liisa Lounila, Erkka Nissinen, Pilvi Takala, Timo Vaittinen) at SVA Theatre in New York. Each program will be screened twice: Friday March 9, 2012 at... [ Read More → ]

Velvet Underground: Under Review and Recently Released Super 8 films

Music / Performance

Velvet Underground: Under Review and Recently Released Super 8 films

by R. Kellie on 02/16/12

The Velvet Underground Under Review is a documentary reviewing the influential collective, a band that Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features performances as well as “obscure footage,” interviews and photographs of and with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale. I keep falling asleep watching it, personally–but maybe someone out... [ Read More → ]

Fugazi: Instrument

Fugazi: Instrument

by R. Kellie on 02/15/12

Someone recently recommended I revisit Jem Cohen’s documentary on FugaziInstrument. Released by Dischord Records on VHS in 1999, the film documents the band, its followers and also traces Cohen’s personal relationship with Ian MacKaye back to the 1970s DC, where the two met in high school. Shot between 1987 through 1998 on super 8, 16mm... [ Read More → ]

TV Party Documentary

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TV Party Documentary

by R. Kellie on 02/15/12

In true democratic spirit of cable access TV and DIY ethics so associated with the revolutionary NYC show TV Party, some excellent person has shared the recent documentary of the show on Youtube. Much has been written on the now iconic show, so we’ll leave that at bay for now–but check this well-executed documentary out!... [ Read More → ]

Pre-Order Eric Erlandson's book, "Letters to Kurt"

Pre-Order Eric Erlandson’s book, “Letters to Kurt”

by R. Kellie on 02/11/12

There are a lot of paths the narrative in this book could potentially go. Comprised of 52 prose poems, each a mini elegy for Kurt Cobain, the book will most likely be an explaination/apology to a friend who’s demise was largely caused by Erlandson’s long term bandmate combined with a general assessment of that whole... [ Read More → ]

FG.Ft: Three Part Project Series, A Tribute to Fad Gadget and Frank Tovey

Cinema / Exhibitions / Music / Performance / Pop Culture

FG.Ft: Three Part Project Series, A Tribute to Fad Gadget and Frank Tovey

by R. Kellie on 02/7/12

FGFt March 1st - April 8th FGFt commemorates the late Frank Tovey's musical and artistic endeavours with a multi-part exhibition including an art exhibition, a screening of Morgan Tovey-Frost's 'Fad Gadget By Frank Tovey' and musical performances by Xeno and Oaklander and Ike Yard(amongst others). [ Read More → ]

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