The Mr. Move!

The Mr. Move rocking our Depraved tee at his most recent show at Southpaw, The Future Is Frank CMJ Showcase w/ Wiz Khalifa, Stalley & U-God. Pic courtesy of Mishka Bloglin.

¡APESHIT! @ Shea Stadium Tonight!

Like I said, been slacking on the posts. Tonight with a killer lineup of These Arms Are Snakes, Violent Bullshit, dd/mm/yy, and of course ¡APESHIT! at Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow St. btwn Waterbury and Bogart, L at Graham, 8pm, all ages, $8. This is gonna be a fucking rad show! ¡Apeshit! opens so get there earl or you'll miss the magic!

Genesis P-Orridge!

30 yrs of art making by a real character! Got turned on to Psychick TV and Throbbing Gristle years ago, made a huge, weird, and lasting impression on me. S/he is a weirdo in the best sense of the word. Go see this at Invisible-Exports.

¡APESHIT!

Tomorrow fools!

Cinders Gallery Presesents...

Local Flavor
Octavius Neveaux with Blues Control
Opening reception Tuesday July 28th 7-10pm
Closing reception Saturday August 1st 7-11pm
with performances by Blues Control, SSPS, and Budy Blues

Artwork inspired by Queens Pysch Duo Blues Control that explores the effect music can have on one's artwork as well as the ever-evolving intersection between music and visual art. A record-release closing party features specially curated performances by Blues Control and friends.

Torche/Harvey Milk/Pollution @ Music Hall of WBurg!

TORCHE

HARVEY MILK

POLLUTION

Sunday @ Music Hall of Williamsburg!

MBV

10 days till My Bloody Valentine in Virginia



They haven't aged!

Pool Parties Return!

This Sunday...Mission of Burma, Fucked Up, Ponytail and Jemina Pearl. More here.

Black Anvil @ RockStar Bar

Lichen Opens @ Factory Fresh!

Straight from São Paulo
Factory Fresh presents
LORO VERZ,
APOLO TORRES & MUNDANO

Friday, July 10th 7-10pm
Show runs till July 26th, 2009

Paul Green's School Of Rock!

Metalocalypse rules! But I do wish they'd bring back Korgoth Of Barbaria!

And another...

This opened last Thursday and is running until July 26th!

from Cinders Gallery...

Cinders Gallery is proud to present a 2 person show with Philadelphia artists Isaac Lin and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, who are old friends, collaborators, and founding members of the Space 1026 Collective. With a joyful color palate, a side-splitting humorous side, and an endearing sincerity, these seemingly lackadaisical yet awesomely prolific artists perfectly represent the attitude and nonchalance of Space 1026's decade-plus history of serious art-making.

There are multiple elements of Arabic calligraphy, musical notation, graffiti, and geometry in Isaac Lin's drawings, prints, and paintings. A repetitive rhythmic flow takes your eyes up, down, and across the page with colors, shapes, spray paint bursts, iconic faces, monsters, and cartoon dog heads. Using screen-printing techniques, gouache, markers, and collage, there is a depth to the layers of textures and colors, a visual hypnosis of patterns that seem to spread like a positive plague across walls inside and out, on found pieces of paper or even on top of photographs.

Andrew Jeffrey Wright also uses hypnotic patterning in his prints and paintings-checkerboards bend and weave, bursts of colors explode, and deconstructed lines form new patterns from old ones. Wright also paints and draws in a naïve yet efficiently done style that uses a large library of hilarious imagery, from invented characters like his series of Labrador dogs with ab muscles to nostalgic pop culture references such as an E.T. - Mr.T hybrid, Furbies, and Rainbow Brite. His potty humor can be silly but is able to retain a poignancy that is both thought-provoking and sincere.

Days Late, Dollas Short...

Can't always stay on top of everything...Ben Frost @ Brooklynite Gallery. Go before it closes!

Golden Bones July Residency!

The fine gentlemen of Golden Bones are making the magic happen again. Starting tonight they begin their every Friday in July residency at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg! Don't miss this if you're a fan of indie country rock, sweet tunes, and mega talent! Also playing tonight is Little Gold. Sounds like a shiny show! Free!!! So now you have no excuse.

Basil Wolverton @ Gladstone Gallery!

Hell yeah! Influential to say the least. Don't sleep on this opportunity to see this man's work!

From Gladstone Gallery...
Basil Wolverton
Curated by Cameron Jamie
515 West 24th Street, New York
June 20 to August 14, 2009
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by American graphic artist and cartoonist Basil Wolverton curated by Cameron Jamie. Basil Wolverton submitted his first cartoon for publication in 1925 when he was only sixteen and remained an active cartoonist from the 1940s through to the 1970s. His unique and humorously grotesque drawings reveal both his fantastic wit and inventive technique, once famously described in LIFE Magazine as the “spaghetti and meatball school of design.” Wolverton had no formal training as an artist, creating his own style that distinguished him from the other cartoonists of his generation. As he said, “I know I draw things that look like all kinds of organs and glands, it is like the monkey which, if he pounded away for a million years, might accidentally type out the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ lyrics.” Generations of artists including Peter Saul, Ed Ruscha, Robert Williams, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, and Cameron Jamie have been influenced by his meticulous technique and pictorial freedom, in addition to its undeniable impact on numerous cartoonists from R. Crumb to Drew Friedman.

This exhibition includes a wide spectrum of Wolverton’s work from his earliest drawings published in numerous comic books, including “Spacehawk” and “Powerhouse Pepper,” to his very detailed caricatures, with sculpted and exaggerated features. Perhaps the most famous body of work in the exhibition are his drawings for Harvey Kurtzman’s comic-book version of MAD Magazine from the 1950s. Also included are portraits made for Topps Chewing Gum in the 1960s, which appeared on bubble gum posters and stickers. Wolverton turned to illustrating Biblical themes and events in his later years, represented here by thirteen drawings from the Apocalypse series based on the Book of Revelation. These drawings are regarded among his finest and many of these illustrations were reproduced in Plain Truth magazine.

Born in 1909 in Central Point, Oregon, Basil Wolverton resided for most of his life in the Pacific Northwest until his death in 1978. His work has been published in a variety of magazines and comic books, from MAD Magazine, America’s Humor Magazine, The Portland News, Plop! and Hollywood Today. His work has been featured in Timely Comics, Circus Comicsand Target Comics. He also contributed to the Li’l Abner Comic Strip and LIFE Magazine. In 2006, his work was exhibited at The Portland Art Center in Oregon and in 2007 the CSUF Grand Art Center in Santa Ana, California presented a solo exhibition of Wolverton’s oeuvre from the collection of Glenn Bray. The works selected and presented in this exhibition are also from Bray’s private archive/collection.

APESHIT TONIGHT @ THE CHARLESTON!

¡APESHIT! 8:00 PM at The Charleston
Bedford ave between N 7th and N 8th, Brooklyn,
Cost: $6 w/ Haunted castle, Full of Hell, Rats in the Walls

Bruce LaBruce Zombies!

Holy shit this is graphic! Some of you may be a little too homophobic to wanna check out famed and infamous photographer Bruce LaBruce's work but this shit is sick! And he has no problem showing naked chicks either. Def NSFW, unless you work in a morgue! If you are in LA check out his exhibit of new works at Peres Projects. From Slamxhype, thanks. Blood, blood, and more blood. Crank up the black metal and enjoy. Hail Satan!

Arik Roper!

So I meant to post this last Friday but I forgot in my excitement of going to see the Melvins, which if you went count yourself lucky cuz it was 2 hrs of pure radness! Speaking of radness, Arik Roper's show at Gavin Brown Enterprise, is not to be missed. The small watercolors done in Arik's distinct style of pen and watercolor are amazing. The pictures of magick mushrooms make up his book on the same subject. The book itself is just as beautiful. I got a chance to meet and speak with Arik, which in and of itself was awesome as I'm a huge fan of his work and of a lot of the bands/clients he works with, and not surprisingly he's a really down to earth guy. Go check it out! 620 Geenwich St, upstairs!

MELVINS 25TH ANNIVERSARY TONIGHT!

Playing Houdini in it's entirety at Webster Hall tonight! Oh yeah.

Apeshit Show!

One of our favorite bands Apeshit is playing tomorrow (too bad we'll be at the Melvins!) with Antilles, who are on tour from Ohio. Also with South Reach, on tour with Antilles, and The BDH. 

Friday May 15th
Tommy's Tavern
1041 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn, NY (Greenpoint)
8pm $5

So if you're not going to the Melvins...GO SEE APESHIT!

Golden Bones Tonight!

Our friends, Golden Bones are playing a couple shows this week with a great southern rock band from Atlanta called Ponderosa ...Wednesday night on Bowery @ Crash Mansion, Friday night in Williamsburg @ Matchless, and Saturday afternoon (acoustic set) in Ditmas Park @ The Sycamore...

These guys are all extremely talented "rock" musicians who play some serious country rock as Golden Bones. Not to be missed!

GOJIRA TONIGHT!

Oh hellz yeah...Gojira! At Blender Theatre tonight! With The Chariot and Car Bomb. DO IT!

¡APESHIT! @ Santos Party House Tonight!

¡APESHIT! first, Child Abuse last....with DJ sets by Bjorn Copeland from Black Dice...should be a rad night...a late one as well!!
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette St
doors @ 11pm
21+
$10/$5 if you RSVP to : sessions@santospartyhouse.com

Andy Wilhelm @ Cooper Union!

Many apologies Andy! First, I missed your opening. Second, I forgot to post this before your opening. Damn. Better late than never? It's still up so go check out this group show of Cooper Union faculty and be a better friend than me. 7 East 7th St in the heart of the East Village. Closing on the 28th so get on it! Check out some of his work here.

Morning Breath and Cycle at Ad Hoc Tomorrow

7-10 pm, 49 Bogart St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Here.  More Morning Breath and Cycle. It's gonna be an awesome show!

¡APESHIT! SHOW THIS FRIDAY!

The boys are at it again! Don't miss this! Check out some tracks: Dessert Storm and Hail Hydra. At the Charleston at 174 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn!

Partay!

So our friend Alex's new band is playing this Saturday. Supposedly they don't have a name yet but feat. ex-members of Atake and Cuddle Machines, among others. Should be good! Come the fuck out! Click on the flyer for details, foo!

Meshuggah!

Tomorrow night at The Fillmore! Oh fuck yeah! Been around for awhile but if you don't know these guys, I feel sorry for you. Go here to figure it out.

KYLESA!

So I guess it's no longer "secret" that Kylesa is going to be playing The Charleston tonight along with Tombs, Tournament, Black Anvil, and The Brass. It's gonna be SICK!!!

there is xerox on the insides of your eyelids

Skate Zines from the 80's! If you're in NYC check out this rad exhibition at Printed Matter.

195 Tenth Ave. btwn 21st and 22nd St. Thru Nov 22nd, get on it!