Book: Deborah Eisenberg
Ben Bush10.02.09
Last week Deborah Eisenberg was given one of this year’s famed MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants. I’m a big fan of her short stories,…
Music: The Antlers – Hospice
Casey McKinney10.01.09
Now in Atlanta, trying to use my Shazam app on the iPhone to tag every bomb hip hop drop heard while driving with knees. Prob is, most of the mixes…
Art: JESSE BRANSFORD: IV = 369 (Luna) & JULIET JACOBSON: Earnest Corpse
The Fanzine09.12.09
Art blossomed Saturday night up and down, EST. In New York with the Seven in One! Seven in One-Third!! opening of Karsten Krejcarek and others at…
Art: Vincent Fecteau at Matthew Marks
Casey McKinney09.12.09
This month on Fanzine author Derek McCormack writes about a show of Vincent Fecteau’s sculptures he saw at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008,…
Book: Awkward Press
Ben Bush09.12.09
Jeffrey Dinsmore’s novels begin as page-turning genre fiction satires but in their oddness and literary invention quickly veer into something else….
DJ/rupture: Mudd Up! WFMU
Ben Bush08.25.09
When I first heard DJ/rupture’s Minesweeper Suite with its brutal combination of club hip-hop, breakcore and obscure international gems, it opened a…
Music: Dead Weather
Casey McKinney08.21.09
Been a lot of bad 70’s rip off bands since Lenny Kravitz first picked up a guitar and pillaged John Lennon* (I am thinking currently of one of those…
Music: The Fiery Furnaces: I’m Going Away
Casey McKinney08.21.09
One of this year’s surprise faves, Memphis based Jay Reatard, may have famously (okay famously if you are a music geek) dissed the Brooklyn…
Music: Psychic TV: Mr. Alien Brain vs The Skin Walkers
Casey McKinney08.21.09
While most of this year’s Genesis P-Orridge attention has been given to his reunion tours with an earlier band, the legendary noise pioneers…
Art: Greg Dalton
Casey McKinney08.07.09
Wanted to recommend someone I’ve long known, who is as true an artist as they come, Greg Dalton. He has a banner (the one with flora and a…