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Anthology Recordings
Anthology Recordings is the reissue imprint of the independent record label, Mexican Summer. The label was originally founded by Mexican Summer A&R man, Keith Abrahamsson, in 2004, and has reissued records from artists such as Trad Gras Och Stenar, Linda Perhacs, and Rüdiger Lorenz, among others. In 2016, Anthology Recordings expanded its repertoire, and began publishing books under the imprint, Anthology Editions. The books of Anthology Editions typically center on music-related or counter-cultural subject matter, and feature contributions by Lou Reed, Joan E. Biren, Jonas Mekas, Jerry Hsu, Dennis Stock and more. Reissues by Anthology Recordings * Bernard Fèvre — ''Suspense'' (2012) * Morning of the Earth — ''Morning of the Earth OST'' (2014) * Crystal Voyager — ''Crystal Voyager OST'' (2014) * Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers — ''Threat to Creation'' (2014) * Robert Lester Folsom — ''Ode to a Rainy Day: Archives 1972–1975'' (2014) * Robert Lester Folsom — '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Summer
Mexican Summer is an independent record label founded in 2009 by Keith Abrahamsson and Andres Santo Domingo. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the label has released recordings from artists including Best Coast, Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink, Allah-Las, Weyes Blood, Connan Mockasin, Jessica Pratt, and Cate Le Bon. The label is named after the song "Mexican Summer" by Marissa Nadler. In 2013, '' T: The New York Times Style Magazine'' described the label as "a bastion for experimental pop, not to mention a model for successful music publishing in the 21st century." History Mexican Summer began in fall 2008 as a subscription service for limited edition, ornately packaged vinyl pieces. On September 2, 2008, they released their first 12" vinyl single ''Sätt Att Se'', from the Swedish rock band, Dungen. “I think the whole idea of Mexican Summer really just came because I wanted to try to develop artists in a different way,” said Abrahamsson. The label continued to add bands to its roster, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Womack
Jack Womack (born January 8, 1956) is an American author of fiction and speculative fiction. Womack was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. "Yeah, I was in Kentucky. Lived there till I was 21, moved up here, and I've lived in my present apartment for 32 years in April." Bibliography "Dryco" series, in order of the series timeline: * ''Random Acts of Senseless Violence'' (1995) * '' Heathern'' (1990) * '' Ambient'' (1987) * ''Terraplane'' (1988) * ''Elvissey'' (1993) (Philip K. Dick Award, 1993) * '' Going, Going, Gone'' (2000) Other novels: * '' Let's Put the Future Behind Us'' (1996) Short stories: *" That Old School Tie" (1994) in '' Little Deaths'' (ed. Ellen Datlow) *"Audience" (1997) in ''The Horns of Elfland'' (ed. Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, and Donald G. Keller) Nonfiction: *''Flying Saucers Are Real!'' (2016) References External links * . Paul McAuley and Jack Womack: A Double Interview interview with C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blacklips
The Blacklips Performance Cult was an avant-garde drag performance group based in New York City's Lower East Side, at the Pyramid Club. The collective was active from summer 1992 to spring 1995. Blacklips was founded in the summer of 1992 by ANOHNI with Johanna Constantine and Psychotic Eve. In a short time, the group had grown to consist of 13 to 20 downtown artists and performers. Blacklips performance Cult started doing shows in the Crow Bar but soon moved to the Pyramid Club, where it would set up different plays each Monday night. The first play was ''The Scarlet Letter'' by ANOHNI, shown for the first and last time 12 October 1992. The last play was ''13 WAYS TO DIE'', which was shown for the first and last time 13 March 1995. ANOHNI directed two plays "The Birth of Anne Frank" and "Miracle Now" which were performed with many of the Blacklips members at PS122. The troupe quickly became famous in the underground club culture of the Lower East Side - especially know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films including '' Stranger Than Paradise'' (1984), '' Down by Law'' (1986), ''Mystery Train'' (1989), ''Dead Man'' (1995), '' Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'' (1999), ''Coffee and Cigarettes'' (2003), '' Broken Flowers'' (2005), ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' (2013), '' Paterson'' (2016), and '' The Dead Don't Die'' (2019). ''Stranger Than Paradise'' was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released three albums with Jozef van Wissem. Early life Jarmusch was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the middle of three children of middle-class suburbanites. His mother, of German and Irish descent, had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the ''Akron Beacon Journal'' before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Presley
Tim Presley is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Presley began his career playing with the hardcore punk bands Model American and The Nerve Agents. In 2004, Presley founded the psychedelic rock band Darker My Love. In 2006 he joined The Fall, playing on the LP '' Reformation Post TLC'', and was an occasional guest musician on the band's later albums. Since 2010, Presley has released music under the name White Fence. As of January 2019, he has released seven studio albums, two live albums, and two collaborative albums with Ty Segall under that name, as well as two albums with Cate Le Bon under the name DRINKS, an experimental solo album under the name W-X, and a solo album, ''THE WiNK,'' under his own name. White Fence Presley began recording music in his apartment using primitive and low cost equipment, while still a member of Darker My Love. Presley's debut White Fence album, self-titled ''White Fence'', was recorded between 2008 and 2009. The album was released in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators was an American rock band from Austin, Texas, United States, formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland. The band was together from 1965 to 1969, and during that period released four albums and seven singles for the International Artists record label. The Elevators were the first band to refer to their music as psychedelic rock, with the first-known use of the term appearing on their business card in January 1966. The 2005 documentary ''You're Gonna Miss Me'' specifically credits Tommy Hall with coining the term "psychedelic rock." Their contemporary influence has been acknowledged by 1960s musicians such as Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Chris Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks. The 13th Floor Elevators debut single "You're Gonna Miss Me", a national ''Billboard'' No. 55 hit in 1966, was featured on the 1972 compilation '' Nuggets: Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Emshwiller
Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (February 16, 1925 – July 27, 1990) was an American visual artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustrations as Emsh but sometimes used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer and others. Background and early career Born in Lansing, Michigan of Germanic descent, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947, and then studied at École des Beaux Arts (1949–50) in Paris with his wife, novelist Carol Emshwiller (née Fries), whom he married on August 30, 1949. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York (1950–51)."Ed Emshwiller, 65; Made Experimental Movies and Videos" Eleanor Blau. ''The New York Times''. August 2, 1990. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Roberts (artist)
Joseph Fidel Roberts (born 1976), also known under the moniker LSDworldpeace, is an American artist. Roberts was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Milwaukee. He was introduced to art through his grandfather, who was a printmaker, and through his father, a librarian and comic book collector, who would show him the books of Ram Dass, Jack Kirby, and R. Crumb. In the late 1990s, Roberts moved to San Francisco, where he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Despite this, Roberts maintains he mainly learned about art through psychedelics rather than through formal training. His work often features motifs like Mickey Mouse, the Grateful Dead stealie, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He takes inspiration from Mike Kelley, impressionists like Van Gogh, as well as from graffiti culture, and artists like Barry McGee and Chris Johansen. Roberts has gained attention for his collaborations with skate brands like Supreme, GX1000, and Civilist. His art has been displaye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson (born May 18, 1952) is an American painter. She lives and works in New York City. (New York). Biography Dickson received her B.A. at Harvard University (1976) and a Studio Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1976). Artwork Dickson is known for her dark iconic images that examine "the constructed world, and its psychological freight, the social structuring of desire and its disruption by the uncanny". Deploying unusual materials such as AstroTurf, vinyl, sandpaper, felt and carpet, which resonate with their particular subject, Dickson's paintings express her "fascination with the power of artificial light, as well as...surreal and sexually transgressive environment . Often depicting the spectacle in her work, her subjects include Times Square (where she lived and/or worked from 1978 to 2008, participating in the Colab organized ''The Times Square Show''), demolition derbies, carnivals, suburban homes, and highways, among others. In ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonh Ingham
Jonh Ingham (born 1951) is an English entrepreneur who has worked in music journalism, pop band and nightclub management, advertising, internet application development and management consultancy. In the mid-1970s he worked for the British pop music newspaper ''Sounds'', and was a key journalist in the development of the punk rock pop and fashion music movement in the United Kingdom when he published the first press interview with the Sex Pistols. Early life Ingham was born in Australia to English parents, and grew up in Australia, Canada, and the USA. He received his formal education at South Eugene High School, Eugene, Oregon, and at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, where he took a course in pop music criticism from Robert Christgau of ''The Village Voice''; Christgau helped him get his first work as a journalist. Ingham's articles appeared in ''Rolling Stone'', ''Creem'', and other contemporary magazines whilst he was still in college. With Greg Shaw he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coffin (artist)
Peter Coffin (born 1972, Berkeley, California, United States) is an artist based in New York City. Coffin's work is exhibited internationally and featured in several prominent collections. Peter Coffin is currently collaborating with Al Jaffee inspired by his undergraduate personal encounter with the modern dance choreographer Twyla Tharp. In 2010, Coffin developed a library cataloguing system for the Library of the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City utilizing the colors cast on the library's shelves by the natural light passing through the library's Tiffany Stained Glass windows. Education Coffin received a BS and BA from the University of California, Davis in 1995 and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. Select exhibitions Coffin has showed in over 25 solo exhibitions both internationally and domestically. Installations include: *''Here and There'' (2013)Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington D.C., U.S. *''Peter Coffin'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
