ARTHUR NO. 34 / APRIL 2013 Twenty-four 15″ x 22.75″ pages (16 color, 8 b/w) Streets: March 5, 2013 CLICK HERE FOR THE PRE-ORDER INFO Now with 50% more pages, Arthur continues its comeback in the bold new broadsheet newspaper format that’s turning heads and drawing critical acclaim. In this issue… After 20-plus years navigating strange, inspiring trips across myriad underground psychedelic terrains with a host of fellow free folk, righteous musician/head MATT VALENTINE (MV&EE, Tower Recordings, etc) finally spills all possible beans in an unprecedented, career-summarizing, ridiculously footnoted epic interview by BYRON COLEY. Plus: Deep archival photo finds from the MV vaults, a sidebar wander through some important MV listening experiences with your guide Dan Ireton, and a gorgeous cover painting by ARIK ROPER of MV & EE at peace in the cosmic wild. Delicious! Also in this issue: Psychedelic scholars Christian Ratsch and Claudia Muller-Ebeling lay down a rap about this planet’s AROMATIC APHRODISIACS, with art by Kira Mardikes… Gabe Soria chats with author AUSTIN GROSSMAN (Soon I Will Be Invincible) about the basic weirdness of playing (and making) VIDEO GAMES, with art by Ron Rege, Jr. LA Record’s Chris Ziegler encounters young Southern California psych-rock band FEEDING PEOPLE, with photography by Ward Robinson… All-new full-color comics by Lale Westvind, Will Sweeney, Vanessa Davis and Jonny Negron… A lengthy interview with the remarkable ecstatic cartographer DAVID CHAIM SMITH by Jay Babcock, with massive reproductions of his out-of-time artwork Stewart Voegtlin on what (or: who) made MELVINS’ 1992 beercrusher “Lysol” the most unlikely religious record ever built, with art by Stewart’s Chips N Beer mag compatriot Beaver… Columns by the ever-provocative “Weedeater” Nance Klehm and The Center for Tactical Magic… Byron Coley and Thurston Moore’s essential underground review column, Bull Tongue, now expanded to two giant pages… And more stuff too hot to divulge online! Please keep in mind… Arthur is no longer distributed for free anywhere. Those days are (sadly) long gone. Now you gotta buy Arthur or you won’t see it. Our price: Five bucks—not so bad!

ARTHUR NO. 34 / APRIL 2013
Twenty-four 15″ x 22.75″ pages (16 color, 8 b/w)
Streets: March 5, 2013

CLICK HERE FOR THE PRE-ORDER INFO

Now with 50% more pages, Arthur continues its comeback in the bold new broadsheet newspaper format that’s turning heads and drawing critical acclaim.

In this issue…

After 20-plus years navigating strange, inspiring trips across myriad underground psychedelic terrains with a host of fellow free folk, righteous musician/head MATT VALENTINE (MV&EE, Tower Recordings, etc) finally spills all possible beans in an unprecedented, career-summarizing, ridiculously footnoted epic interview by BYRON COLEY. Plus: Deep archival photo finds from the MV vaults, a sidebar wander through some important MV listening experiences with your guide Dan Ireton, and a gorgeous cover painting by ARIK ROPER of MV & EE at peace in the cosmic wild. Delicious!

Also in this issue:

Psychedelic scholars Christian Ratsch and Claudia Muller-Ebeling lay down a rap about this planet’s AROMATIC APHRODISIACS, with art by Kira Mardikes…

Gabe Soria chats with author AUSTIN GROSSMAN (Soon I Will Be Invincible) about the basic weirdness of playing (and making) VIDEO GAMES, with art by Ron Rege, Jr.

LA Record’s Chris Ziegler encounters young Southern California psych-rock band FEEDING PEOPLE, with photography by Ward Robinson…

All-new full-color comics by Lale Westvind, Will Sweeney, Vanessa Davis and Jonny Negron…

A lengthy interview with the remarkable ecstatic cartographer DAVID CHAIM SMITH by Jay Babcock, with massive reproductions of his out-of-time artwork

Stewart Voegtlin on what (or: who) made MELVINS’ 1992 beercrusher “Lysol” the most unlikely religious record ever built, with art by Stewart’s Chips N Beer mag compatriot Beaver…

Columns by the ever-provocative “Weedeater” Nance Klehm and The Center for Tactical Magic…

Byron Coley and Thurston Moore’s essential underground review column, Bull Tongue, now expanded to two giant pages…

And more stuff too hot to divulge online!

Please keep in mind… Arthur is no longer distributed for free anywhere. Those days are (sadly) long gone. Now you gotta buy Arthur or you won’t see it. Our price: Five bucks—not so bad!

doomandgloomfromthetomb: Fuck Radio Ethiopia, This Is Radio Brooklyn My Valentine’s gift to you, dear reader. Seriously, this is a treat — Lou Reed as guest disc jockey on WPIX-FM in New York, sometime in early 1979. And yes, his old broseph John Cale drops in, too. Reed, of course, is no stranger to the radio, having hosted his own show — Excursions On A Wobbly Rail — on Syracuse University’s station during his college days. And these days, he hosts that satellite radio show with Hal Willner. He’s a pro! And he’s in fine, fighting form here, peppering his commentary with scathing diatribes against Christgau, Rolling Stone magazine, Jimmy Carter and NYC taxi drivers. He even takes some calls — witness the hilarious, surreal moment when Lou “Take No Prisoners” Reed admonishes a caller for using foul language. The music is fab, too, with some classic doo wop, tracks from the then-unreleased The Bells LP, and a truly bizarro segue from Al Green to Nico. There’s also a trio of pretty killer live recordings (otherwise unreleased?) from Cale with the Blue Oyster Cult’s Allen Lanier! What an embarrassment of riches. This is the way radio was meant to be. Download [NEW LINK — let me know if this works]

doomandgloomfromthetomb:

Fuck Radio Ethiopia, This Is Radio Brooklyn

My Valentine’s gift to you, dear reader. Seriously, this is a treat — Lou Reed as guest disc jockey on WPIX-FM in New York, sometime in early 1979. And yes, his old broseph John Cale drops in, too. Reed, of course, is no stranger to the radio, having hosted his own show — Excursions On A Wobbly Rail — on Syracuse University’s station during his college days. And these days, he hosts that satellite radio show with Hal Willner. He’s a pro! And he’s in fine, fighting form here, peppering his commentary with scathing diatribes against Christgau, Rolling Stone magazine, Jimmy Carter and NYC taxi drivers. He even takes some calls — witness the hilarious, surreal moment when Lou “Take No Prisoners” Reed admonishes a caller for using foul language. The music is fab, too, with some classic doo wop, tracks from the then-unreleased The Bells LP, and a truly bizarro segue from Al Green to Nico. There’s also a trio of pretty killer live recordings (otherwise unreleased?) from Cale with the Blue Oyster Cult’s Allen Lanier! What an embarrassment of riches. This is the way radio was meant to be.

Download [NEW LINK — let me know if this works]

Via Brooklyn’s wonderful Desert Island, who have this item for sale NOW: “A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond: Captain Beefheart Interviews and Texts 1966 – 2001″ A treasure trove of archival articles and interviews with the great one. Hard to find.

Via Brooklyn’s wonderful Desert Island, who have this item for sale NOW:

“A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond: Captain Beefheart Interviews and Texts 1966 – 2001″

A treasure trove of archival articles and interviews with the great one. Hard to find.