TOPS 2010

MUSIC
 
1. Grass Widow - Past Time
2. Big Eyes - Big Eyes
3. Big Soda - Paper Rte.
4. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
5. Zombie Dogs - LP
6. Marvin Berry & the New Sound - 7" (because it's my blog, and I can!)

ART

1. Andrew Hurst solo show at STOREFRONT
2. Raymond Pettibon, "Hard in the Paint" at David Zwirner
3. Austin Thomas, "Drawing on the Utopic" at STOREFRONT
4. Tamara Waite-Santibanez... always
5. Aimee Lusty, new works in drawing & collage

NEW YEAR

"My Grandpa always said, 'New Year's is a holiday for amateurs.' I think he's right." - Neil P. Callaghan

BRAIN WAVES POSTPONED

ATTN: FRIENDS, BRAIN WAVES WILL NOT BE DEBUTING AT TONIGHT'S PARTY. Unfortunately the unruly blizzard of 2K10 ruined any chance of getting the zines up tonight. Hopefully, they'll be up for STOREFRONT's New Year's brunch opening on the 1st, but alas, I will be in Georgia. Any updates I have will be announced from there!

ANNOUNCING: BRAIN WAVES

BRAIN WAVES: STOREFRONT's Zine & Print collection will debut at our beloved gallery's holiday party this December 28th. BRAIN WAVES is a collection of zines, artist books, prints, and other ephemera at Bushwick’s STOREFRONT gallery, curated by Kate Wadkins. Maintaining STOREFRONT’s mission, BRAIN WAVES includes work by emerging local artists and writers. The party is a benefit for Norte Maar and should be a great time. If you can't make it, please check out the NEW YEAR, NEW WORK, NEW FACES show opening January 1st at the gallery.

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BRAIN WAVES debut

featuring work by:

Lauren Denitzio

Aimee Lusty

Kathleen McIntyre

Pen 15 Press

Jess Poplawski & Matt Sidella

Jason Roy

Cynthia Schemmer

Bob Thompson

Tamara Waite-Santibanez

at

*HOLIDAY PARTY*

to benefit NORTE MAAR

Tuesday, December 28

7-9PM

BEER + PIZZA + PREVIEW

$20

Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown cordially invite you to celebrate the holidays in style with a party benefiting the collaborative projects of Norte Maar. Join us for beer and pizza and private preview of the upcoming show of our new season featuring new work of over thirty rising artists.

NEW YEAR, NEW WORK, NEW FACES:

Ali Aschman * John Avelluto * Gregg Baker * Yevgeniya Baras * Myles Bennett * Jim Butler * Maria Calandra * Paul Campbell * Ceclie Chong * Henry Chung * Amanda Church * Elisabeth Condon * Mila Dau * Blane De St. Croix * Kylie Heidenheimer * Cooper Holoweski * Leslie Kerby * Wendy Klemperer * Lars Kremer * Matthew Langley * Mary Kate Maher * Karen Marston * Loren Munk * Carol Salmanson * Rob Servo * Julie Torres * Rhonda Tymeson * Don Voisine * Robert Walden * Chuck Webster * Josh Willis * Mark Weathers * and others.

MUSIC MONDAYS at IF YOU MAKE IT

I contributed to Dave's new section, "Music Mondays," at If You Make It. Katie Crutchfield (P.S. Eliot) is up next week, and we are in good company with a calendar of contributors that includes many of our great friends and colleagues.

I also made that sweet little stereo icon!

MIX TAPE #4: FULL CIRCLE

or IF I AIN'T DEAD ALREADY...

The Beatles - Yer Blues

Grass Widow - Shadow

Jay Reatard - No Time

Toots & the Maytals - Louie Louie

Far - I Like It

The Movielife - Sailor Tattoos

Reigning Sound - I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys

The Thermals - I Hold the Sound

I named this mix FULL CIRCLE because it marks one year of mix tape-making on this blog. Do you guys realize how long a year is? It's pretty long. I'm getting outta dodge for New Year's, so this is my holiday card, farewell card, and Happy 2011 card to you all. 11 is a lucky number, so let's hope next year is like, better than this one.

P.S. 8tracks should be paying me for this shiz!

RAH RAH REPLICA

Kim Gordon reads the riot grrrl manifesta.

World premiere of THE JULIE RUIN.

click the photos to enlarge

LOVECRAFT LOGO

Over the summer, I met my friend Dragana's dog, Sid. I drew him a little badge that said "el sid," and handed it it over to Drag for safe-keeping. Dragana has since started a printing press called "lovecraft" and asked me to tweak el sid's banner to read lovecraft instead. I was sent this glorious photo of Sid, but maintained the original sketch drawn from the life of Sid himself. Dragana will be selling her zines at this weekends' Ergs & Hunchback reunion shows to benefit Jackie Nixon, so be sure to pick up some copies!

WATCH OUT! PUNK IS COMING!

Every now and then while I'm working on my thesis, I find a really great quote. Here's today's:

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really all about corrupting every form--it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was okay to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage."

-- Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, 334.

RE/VISIONIST HAPPENINGS

We just launched the December issue of RE/VISIONIST, featuring a review of Made in Dagenham by Roz and I. Over the holiday weekend, Elevate Difference posted an interview we did with Lizzy Shramko this summer. If you ever had a question for us R/V-ers, it's probably answered here.