From Blaise Larmee: Hall Hassi made a minicomic version of Kramer’s Ergot 7, which she calls her ‘ke7 zine.’ The new size is only 5.5 x 8.5 inches. It’s 96 xeroxed pages, really pushing the limit of the saddlestich binding but still holding together, and exactly like the original with some minor (I...

In THE SPIRIT OF LOUIS, 2009, not long ago,���I posted three video performances where the Scandinavian Rhythm Boys were joined by one of the remaining Elders, clarinetist Joe Muranyi.��� (http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-spirit-of-louis-2009/) If those videos eluded you, or the SRB are...

About ten days ago, the Beloved and I took a day trip to Lambertville, New Jersey — a town known to some for its proximity to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. But the Beloved and I like flea markets, and although we have never made it to Lambertville’s flea market at the right just-after-sunrise time to...

Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano, and Richard Bishop live at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle (photo by Joe Mabel)

In the December 14, 2009���issue of THE NEW YORKER,���the book review is���given over to Terry Teachout’s Louis Armstrong biography, POPS, which has received unprecedented media coverage.��� The review is titled “THE ENTERTAINER,” which gave me pause.��� Its author is���John McWhorter, “a Senior Fellow of Public Policy at the Manhattan Institute and a lecturer at Columbia University.”��� [...]

Floating World Comics is proud to offer original artwork by Al Columbia.��� Every week or so we plan on making a new piece available for sale.��� We’re down to the last dozen copies of the limited edition ‘TOYLAND’ giclee print.��� Be sure to order one before they’re all gone!��� Also we want to remind you [...]

“one for jack” jack rose was one of those guys with whom one feels an immediate bond he wasn’t a physical giant or anything but he had an immense presence something, perhaps, more spectral than tangible which filled a room easily enveloping you in a kind of bear hug that could seem either threatening or comforting depending on the look in jack’s eyes and on [...]

The Smashing Pumpkins have released the first track from the band’s upcoming “album,” Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, which will span 44 songs over the course of 11 (!) discs. “A Song for a Son” finds front man Billy Corgan crooning and snarling over piano, guitars, and 19 year-old Mike Byrne’s...

Time Magazine article: http://bit.ly/7JckOv