Muffy

I want.

Dub Echoes

I'm totally ordering this!

Psch Fest 2

I may try and go to one night of Psych Fest 2 this weekend. I'm torn between going to see Dead Meadow and Indian Jewelry on Saturday or A Place to Bury Strangers and The Warlocks on Sunday! I haven't seen The Black Angels in a while either. Hell, maybe I'll have to go all three days. This should be GREAT!

Official press release:

Friends, Austinites, countrymen, lend us your ears: THE BLACK ANGELS and LIVE MUSIC CAPITOL present PSYCH FEST 2 Friday March 13th through Sunday March 15th, in Austin, Texas, spiritual birthplace and global epicenter of psychedelia. What better way to honor the cradle of consciousness than a festival of hallucinogenic sights and sounds celebrating the town’s musical heritage and spotlighting the best new vanguards of the most mind-bending music ever played? Your three-day key to the doors of perception is a scant $45 (or one day doses for $15 ) available online on www.livemusiccapitol.com and Austin record stores beginning Friday the 13th, 2.13.09. With a lineup featuring such acclaimed acts as Austin’s own THE BLACK ANGELS, joined by A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, DEAD MEADOW, THE WARLOCKS, Sky Sunlight Saxon of legendary garage rock innovators THE SEEDS and a constellation of rising underground stars from Austin and around the world including THE WOODEN SHJIPS, INDIAN JEWELRY, THE STRANGE BOYS, THE GOLDEN ANIMALS and many more, those doors will be rocked off their hinges. This year’s Fest also features Austin’s psych cult heroes, THE GOLDEN DAWN performing their 1968 album ‘Power Plant’ from start to finish. Prepare your earthly vessel for lift-off.

A thousand people showed up to last year’s Psych Fest, and it became a word-of-mouth phenomenon:

“The daylong happening elicited the high baptismal glow of the bygone Vulcan Gas Company.”
-Austin Powell, The Austin Chronicle

“The Black Angels are making history come alive…[Psych Fest is] ground zero for Austin’s post-millennial psychedelia.”
-Sean O’Neal, The Onion

Psych Fest 2 resurrects the free-thinking spirit of the sane-minded individual through the universality of great music, honoring The Vulcan Gas Company and the innovators that played there. Non-conformists and seekers are welcome, and the uninitiated are invited to come explore outer and inner space and in an atmosphere of psychotropic bliss, because blowing minds is our business.

With liquid light projections by Adam Demetri and Scott Conn, artwork by Christian Bland and The Vulcan Gas Company (1967-70), and classic trip sequences by I Luv Video and Austin Underground Film.

Event Hours: FRI 8:30pm-close, SAT noon-close, SUN noon-close

Psych Fest 2 will be held at the future home of Radio Room, located at 508 E. 6th St., Austin, TX, 78701

“Tune in, turn on, drone out.”

Psch Fest 2

URGH!

Klaus Nomi was a strange fellow.

Who the hell is Klaus Nomi? You may be asking yourself this as I was asking myself the same question during the introduction of URGH! A Music War at the Alamo Ritz this past Monday night. I was excited to see this movie because, for whatever reason, I've recently become an increasingly bigger fan of Post-punk and the lineup looked amazing. I mean, just check out the awesome punk/new wave/post-punk set list.

1. Opening credits
2. The Police – "Driven to Tears"
3. Wall of Voodoo – "Back in Flesh"
4. Toyah Willcox – "Dance"
5. John Cooper Clarke – "Health Fanatic"
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – "Enola Gay"
7. Chelsea – "I’m on Fire"
8. Oingo Boingo – "Ain’t This the Life"
9. Echo & the Bunnymen – "The Puppet"
10. Jools Holland – "Foolish I Know"
11. XTC – "Respectable Street"
12. Klaus Nomi – "Total Eclipse"
13. Athletico Spizz 80 – "Where’s Captain Kirk?"
14. The Go-Go's – "We Got the Beat"
15. Dead Kennedys – "Bleed for Me"
16. Steel Pulse – "Ku Klux Klan"
17. Gary Numan – "Down in the Park"
18. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – "Bad Reputation"
19. Magazine – "Model Worker"
20. Surf Punks – "My Beach"
21. The Members – "Offshore Banking Business"
22. Au Pairs – "Come Again"
23. The Cramps – "Tear It Up"
24. Invisible Sex – "Valium"
25. Pere Ubu – "Birdies"
26. Devo – "Uncontrollable Urge"
27. The Alley Cats – "Nothing Means Nothing Anymore"
28. John Otway – "Cheryl’s Going Home"
29. Gang of Four – "He’d Send in the Army"
30. 999 – "Homicide"
31. The Fleshtones – "Shadowline"
32. X – "Beyond and Back"
33. Skafish – "Sign of the Cross"
34. Splodgenessabounds – "Two Little Boys"
35. UB40 – "Madame Medusa"
36. The Police – "Roxanne"
37. The Police – "So Lonely"

This 1981 phunk fest cannot be released on DVD due to legal complications and is apparently only available if you can find the very rare and very expensive VHS version. Although, it looks like a high quality boot can be purchased here. Man, I'm thinking about ordering a copy. It was just so good.

Oh, and check out Klaus Nomi. Son was crazy.

B&R

So I was lying in bed around midnight a few days ago when I decided to sketch Batman & Robin for my friend's birthday coming up. He's been wanting me to paint Robin for ages now. These aren't paintings but maybe he'll like them anyway. Click'em for a close up.

Curb Your Enthusiasm!!!

So apparently Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards will all be guesting on one of my absolute favorite Television series, Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm! That's pretty cool news right there but the mere fact that season seven is currently in production is reason enough to get me excited. Larry David is comedic genius! If you have never watched Curb, well then, you my friend are a fool.

Curb