Category: music

  • Weekly Top 10 and an Attempt to Play A Portion of All Four Discs of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka at Once

    A children’s book made #1 this week?! That’s crazy. But true.

    Also! Here’s footage from an event here at Quimby’s for the Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about albums of the past 40 years. This event on 9/17/11 featured NIU prof Joe Bonomo who did a book about AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork Media Scott Plagenhoef who did a book about Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister, and managing editor of Pitchfork Mark Richardson who did a book about the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka. The footage below is of Mark Richardson reading from his book and then attempt to sequence the four CDs of the album to play simultaneously. Click on the image below and go watch it on YouTube.

    Mark Richardson reads from his book The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka
    Click on the picture to watch Mark Richardson discuss and play part of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka

     

    1. Counting In The Studio by Cecilia Pinto and Megan Williamson  $10.00 – This attempt to show the process of creative expression to young readers. A dog lives with an artist who has also depicted her own studio in the book. Inside the studio it is possible to stare out windows just like those in the book. The studio, at the back of the artist’s home, is nestled on a side street in a Chicago neighborhood. The artist and the writer met at the studio to talk about the project before and after making their own separate work. The dog was always present and lent his inestimable support even when napping on the comfy, pillow-strewn chaise lounge which is up against a wall with drawings on it, just like in the book.

    2. Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00

    3. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95

    4. Gentlewoman #3 Spr Sum 11 $10.95

    5. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.

    6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00

    7. OP Original Plumbing #6 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The theme this round is “Schooled”, highlighting a twin commitment to both the “It Gets Better” and the “Make It Better” campaigns targeted at queer youth.

    8. Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

    9. Hi Fructose #19 $6.95

    10. Hot Teen Slut by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody) $15.00

  • Sean Yseult from White Zombie Reads From I’m In The Band 4/4

    Art rock? Noise rock? Punk-metal? Alternative? White Zombie may have been unclassifiable, but it didn’t stop them from carving out a place for themselves in music history. The band became a multi-platinum, two-time Grammy nominee with the release of their 1992 album, La Sexorcisto. But while most people will remember their bizarre look and macabre lyrics, what many failed to realize was that their lanky, high-octane bass player was a woman.

    I’m in the Band charts White Zombie’s rise from the gritty music scene of New York’s Lower East Side in the eighties to arena headliners during the nineties alternative-explosion that followed in Nirvana’s wake, while sharing the unlikely story of a female musician who won the respect and adoration of male metal musicians and fans. From 1985 to 1996, Sean Yseult was the sole woman not only in White Zombie, but in the entire metal scene: bands, roadies, managers, you name it—with the exception of girlfriends and groupies, Yseult was in a world by herself.

    With I’m in the Band, Yseult combines eleven years of tour diaries, flyers, and personal photos and ephemera—many featuring rock icons such as Lemmy Kilmister, Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, and Lux Interior—into a striking visual memoir. She offers fans a unique vantage on the life of a mega-band during rock’s last golden age.

    Sean Yseult played bass and wrote music for White Zombie from its inception in 1985 through its breakup over a decade later. Since then she’s played with Famous Monsters, Rock City Morgue, and The Cramps; exhibited her photography in galleries across the country; and formed the design company Yseult Designs. She divides her time between New Orleans and New York City.

    “This book has more good stories than a salty old sailor:  tattoos, evil deeds and alcohol breath included!”
    -CJ Ramone, The Ramones

    For more info: seanyseult.com

    Monday, April 4th, 7pm

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    Tuesday, April 5th, 9pm

    And then the next night, April 5th, we’ll be selling books at Delilah’s where Sean will  be guest DJing!

    Metal Shop at Delilahs, Chicago’s longest-running metal DJ event, is excited to announce that on Tuesday April 5th, former WHITE ZOMBIE bassist SEAN YSEULT will guest DJ! Sean Yseult and DJ Platz will also have rare White Zombie items to giveaway, along with 5 hours of the best in new and classic metal and hard rock!

    Delilahs
    2771 N. Lincoln Avenue. Chicago
    773-472-2771

    Metal Shop is from 9pm-2am, the first Tuesday of each month. As always, NO COVER.

    For more information:
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    seanyseult.com


  • Sara Marcus Reads GIRLS TO THE FRONT With Jessica Hopper, author of The Girls Guide to Rocking

    GirlsFrontThe last great underground cultural movement of the pre-Internet age, Riot Grrrl revolutionized girlhood itself. In the early 1990s, young women were realizing that the equality they’d been promised was still elusive, and a newly resurgent right wing was turning feminism into the ultimate dirty word.

    Riot Grrrl roared into the spotlight in 1991: an uncompromising movement of pissed-off girls with no patience for sexism and no intention of keeping quiet. They published zines, founded local groups, and organized national conventions, while fiercely prophetic punk bands such as Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Huggy Bear, and Bikini Kill helped spread the word across the US and to Canada, Europe, and beyond.

    GIRLS TO THE FRONT (Harper) is the first-ever history of Riot Grrrl—lyrical and infused with punk, it tells the story of a group of extraordinary young women coming of age and coming into their own. Part social history, part cultural criticism, and part collective biography, this passionate narrative takes us from the front row of a punk show to the stage of the Republican Convention; from a seedy strip club to the US Supreme Court. It tells the tale of a time when America thought feminism was dead, but a generation of noisy girls rose up to prove everybody wrong. Deftly weaving together a wide range of political and cultural histories, this is a dynamic chronicle not just of a movement but of an era.

    Also joining Sara is Jessica Hopper, author of The Girls Guide to Rocking (Workman Books).

    For more info: www.girlstothefront.com

  • Neon Marshmallow Fest Starts Tonight!

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    Tonight the Neon Marshmallow Fest starts at The Viaduct Theater 3111 N. Western Ave.  Chicago, in the heart of Roscoe Village. Don’t miss this weekend’s festivities there, featuring a wide array of experiental noise music. See neonmarshmallowfest.com for details.

  • A Night With Continuum’s 33 1/3 Book Series

    33.3 Series

    33 1/3 is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the past 40 years. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music.  The series now spans over 70 titles, covering a wide range of albums, from Public Enemy and Slayer to ABBA and Celine Dion. Indeed, this event is probably the only time in history that AC/DC and Belle and Sebastian will share a bill. Three writers, three albums. One event.

    Joe Bonomo – AC/DC’s Highway to Hell

    Joe Bonomo strikes a three-chord essay on the power of adolescence, the durability of rock & roll fandom, and the transformative properties of memory. Why does Highway To Hell matter to anyone beyond non-ironic teenagers?  Blending interviews, analysis, and memoir with a fan’s perspective, Highway To Hell dramatizes and celebrates a timeless album that one critic said makes “disaster sound like the best fun in the world.”

    Joe Bonomo teaches in the English Department of Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band (Continuum 2007), and Installations (Penguin), a collection of prose poems.  His personal essays and prose poems have appeared in numerous literary journals.

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    Mark Richardson – Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka

    “[A] wildly accessible, entertaining, and thoughtful book about the importance of an album that nobody talks about much anymore.” –The Stranger

    The Flaming Lips’ 1997 album Zaireeka is one of the most peculiar albums ever recorded, consisting of four CDs meant to be played simultaneously on four CD players. Approaching this powerful and complex art-rock masterpiece from multiple angles, Mark Richardson’s prismatic study of Zaireeka mirrors the structure the work itself. Thoughts on communal listening and the “death of the album” are interspersed with the story of the Zaireeka’s creation (with assistance from Wayne Coyne) and an in-depth analysis of the music, leading to a complete picture of a record that proved to be a watershed for both the band and adventurous music fans alike.

    Mark Richardson is the managing editor of Pitchfork. He was a contributing editor to The Pitchfork 500 and his writing on music has appeared in publications including the Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Metro Times Detroit.

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    Scott Plagenhoef – Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister

    If You’re Feeling Sinister shows how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves over the space of a decade, from a slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group. Along the way, the book shows how the internet has revolutionized how we discover new music—often at the cost of romance and mystery.

    Scott Plagenhoef is Editor-in-Chief for Pitchfork Media.

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    For more info: http://33third.blogspot.com/

  • Mountains of New Stuff!

    We’ve been pretty busy as of late, but wanted to make sure you knew what new things we’ve been getting in lately, so here’s our list of 139 things you simply can not live without (that we conveniently have in our store):

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    (Funny (Not Funny))

    Artsy Fartsy Books

    Mythical Beasts of Japan From Evil Creatures to Sacred Beings (PIE Books) $35
    You Are Forgiven by Matt Leines (Free New Projects) $45
    Art of Bollywood by Rajesh Devraj (Taschen) $29.99

    Kid’s Stuff

    Mama is it Summer Yet by Nikki McClure (Abrams) $17.95

    DIY/How To

    Old Man Drinks Recipes Advice and Barstool Wisdom By Robert Schnakenberg (Quirk Books) $14.95
    Steampunkery Polymer Clay and Mixed Media Projects By Christi Friesen (CF Books) $14.95

    Drugs! (books about)

    Altered State the Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House By Matthew Collin (Seprents Tail) $15.95

    Erotic Comics

    Hot Moms vol 1 TPB By Rebecca (Eros) $18.99

    Fiction

    Awful Possibilities By Christian TeBordo (Featherproof Press) $14.95
    Going in Circles By Pamela Ribon (Simon & Schuster) $15
    Little Brother By Cory Doctorow (Tor Tom Doherty) $9.99
    People Who Watched Her Pass By By Scott Bradfield (Two Dollar Radio) $14.50
    Perscription Errors By Charles Demers (Insomniac Press) $15.95
    Sex Dungeon For Sale By Patrick Wensink $10
    Stories of Ibis By Hiroshi Yamamoto (Haika Soru) $15.99

    Gewgaw

    Absinthe Flavored Toothpicks (Accoutrements) $2.50
    Absinthe Soap for Hand and Bath An Enchanted Absinthe Sented Soap Fashioned by Green Fairies (Accoutrements) $6.00
    Boo Boo Kisses Adhesive Bandages (Accoutrements) $5.00
    Cal Q Tek 2000 Calculator Watch (Accoutrements) $15.00
    Curry Flavored Kali Mints (Accoutrements) $2.50
    Gesundheit Tissues Uber Absorbent (Accoutrements) $1.00
    High Rollers Exotic Dancers 4 Magnetic Coasters (Gamma Go) $7.50
    Hobo Bubble Gum Cigarettes Campfire Coffee Flavored (Accoutrements) $1.25
    Jackalope Tumbleweed Wine Stainless Steel Water Bottle (Accoutrements) $12.00
    Lil Devils Trick of the Day (Accoutrements) $10.00
    Manly Mustache Mirror Clings (Accoutrements) $3
    Rotting Zombie Mirror Clings (Accoutrements) $3
    Sunrise in Meatopia 500 Piece Puzzle With Bonus 48 Piece Mystery Puzzle (Accoutrements) $10.00
    Yeti BBQ Coffee Mug (Gamma Go) $12.00
    Gama Go Stickers Like Peanut Butter Sandwich These Designs are Stickalicious By Tim Biskup (Gamma Go) $5.00

    Glossy Periodicals

    Artforum Apr 10 $10.00
    Dwell May 10 $5.99
    Famous Mag #11 Desert and Plants $5.00
    Hi Fructose #15 $6.95
    Muddy $12
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #1 $6.25
    Bizarre #161 $10.50
    Make vol 22 $14.99
    Tokion vol 3 #4 $6.99
    High Times Jun 10 $5.99
    Taps paraMagazine vol 6 #2 $5.95
    BlackBook #75 Apr 10 $4.50
    Hyphen #20 Spr 10 $4.95
    Time Out Chicago Apr 08 10 $2.99
    826 Quarterly vol 11 (826 Valencia) $15.00
    Iowa Review vol 40 #1 $9.95
    Packingtown Review vol 2 2010 $13
    Fader #67 Apr May 10 $5.99
    Mojo #198 May 10 $9.99
    Uncut May 10 $9.99
    Wire Apr 10 #314 $10.99
    Adbusters #89 May Jun 10 vol 18 #3 Ecopsychology $8.95
    Monocle vol 4 #32 Apr 10 $10.00
    Pin Up Show $15.00
    Skin Art #132 $6.99

    Graffiti and Street Art

    Belio 030 Back to the Roots Experimental Art and Design (Belio Magazine) $35.00
    Calligraffiti the Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman (From Here to Fame) $29.95
    DY005 Nicholas Di Genova (Belio Magazine) $29.95
    DY008 Saner (Belio Magazine) $29.95
    DY009 Gualicho (Belio Magazine) $29.95
    Swoon HC (Abrams) $35.00

    Graphic Novels

    Area 10 By Christos Gage (Vertigo) $19.99
    Batman and Robin Batman Reborn Deluxe Edition HC By Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely (DC) $24.99
    Beats a Graphic History SC By Harvey Pekar (Hill & Wang) $14.95
    Body World HC By Dash Shaw (Pantheon) $27.95
    Crossed vol 1 By Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows (Avatar)$24.99
    Emberley Galaxy A Tribute to Ed Emberley $12.00
    Funny Not Funny Modest Selection of Comic Art Exhibiting Signs of Black Humor By Ryan Standfest $14.95
    Market Day By James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)$21.95
    Melvin Monster vol 2 John Stanley Library By John Stanley (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95
    Mome vol 18 Spr 10 (Fantagraphics) $14.99
    Neptune By Aron Nels Steinke (Tugboat Press & Sparkplug Comic Books)$14.00
    Other Lives HC By Peter Bagge (Vertigo) $24.99
    Sparky The Life and Art of Charles Schulz By Beverly Gherman (Chronicle Books) $16.99
    Teenaged Dope Slaves and Reform School Girls (Pure Imagination) $20.00
    Whirlwind Wonderland By Rina Ayuyang (Tugboat Press & Sparkplug Comic Books) $15.00
    Wonder Woman Amazon Hero Icon HC By Robert Greenberger (Universe) $35.00
    Young Lions By Blaise Larmee $10

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    (Perversity Think Tank)

    Humor

    99 Classic Movies For People In a Hurry By Nicotext (Nicotext) $9.95
    PS I Hate It Here Kids Letters From Camp By Diane Falanga (Abrams) $12.95
    Youre a Horrible Person But I Like You Believer Book of Advice By Sarah Silverman (Vintage) $13.95

    Low Brow Art

    Another Science Fiction Advertising the Space Race 1957 to 1962 By Megan Prelinger (Blast Books) $29.95
    Beautiful Decay Book 3 The Underdogs (Beautiful Decay) $20.00
    Jime Litwalk Sketchbook vol 3 Monsters Misfits & Maidens By Jime Litwalk (Presto Art) $30.00
    Nymphettes Erotic Elfin Art By Barry Blair (SQ Productions) $14.95
    Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash vol 3 By Jerry Collins Sailor (Hardy Marks Publications) $50.00

    Mayhem!

    Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You By Robert Brockway (Three Rivers Press) $14.00
    Zombie Combat Manual a Guide to Fightnig the Living Dead By Roger Ma (Berkeley Books) $14.00

    Minicomics

    Clutch #21 Invincible Summer #16 Split By Clutch McBastard & Nicole Georges $2.00
    Feedback #6 By John Isaacson $2.00
    Phase 7 #014 By Alec Longstreth $4.00
    Phase 7 #015 By Alec Longstreth $3.00
    Pop Art Show By Trevor Wayne $8.00
    Pyromania #5 By John Isaacson $3.00
    Roots To Fruits By APAK $4.00

    Video Discs

    Mellodrama The Mellotron Movie DVD (Bazillion Points Books) $24.95
    Wholphin #10 (McSweeney’s) $19.95

    Muckraking, Memoirs & Miscellany

    Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace By David Lipsky (Broadway) $16.99
    Cardboard Gods An All American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards By Josh Wilker (Seven Footer Press) $24.95
    City Kid A Writers Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post Soul Success By Nelson George (Plume) $14.00
    Fix Is In Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL MLB NBA NHL and NASCAR By Brian Tuohy (Feral House) $16.95

    Music Books

    Arcana IV Musicians on Music By John Zor (Hips Road) $34.95
    How to Wreck a Nice Beach Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop Machine Speaks By Dave Tompkins (Melville House Publishing) $35.00
    Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life HC By Steve Almond (Random House) $23.00
    Swedish Death Metal By Daniel Ekeroth (Bazillion Points Boks) $34.95

    Comic Books!

    Blaster Al Ackermans Tales of the Ling Master Barnes $3.00
    Hate Annual #8 Bagge Peter (Fantagraphics) $4.95
    Rabid Rabbit #11 Tall Tales and Magnanimous Myths By C M Butzer and Ben Trinh $5.00

    Outer Limits

    Great Airship of 1897 By J Allen Danelek (Adventures Unlimited Press) $16.95
    Solomon Islands Mysteries Accounts of Giants and UFOs By Marius Boirayon (Adventures Unlimited Press) $16.95

    Poetry

    Adulthoods By Bambi $10.00
    Dodging Traffic By J Bradley $12.00

    Politics

    Anarchism and Its Aspirations By Cindy Milstein (AK Press) $12.00
    Capitalisms World Disorder Working Class Politics at the Millennium By Jack Barnes (Pathfinder) $25.00
    Che Guevara a Revolutionary Life Revised Edition By Jon Lee Anderson (Grove Press) $20.00
    Common Ground in a Liquid City Essays in Defense of an Urban Future By Hern (AK Press) $17.95
    Crisis In The Global Economy Financial Markets Social Struggles By Andrea Fumagalli (Semiotext(e)) $17.95
    Propaganda Inc Selling Americas Culture To The World By Nancy Snow (Seven Stories) $11.95
    Thousand Machines By Gerald Raunig (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

    Sex Guides & Culture

    Perversity Think Tank By Supervert $15.00
    Pornapocalipse vol 1 By Rachel Gontijo Araujo $10.00
    Worst Laid Plans When Bad Sex Happens to Good People By Alexandra Lydon (Abrams) $14.95

    Sexy Art Books

    Shunga Japanese Erotic Art (PIE Books) $35.00
    Vanessa Del Rio Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior (Taschen) $59.99

    Zines!

    Aristocratic Hands #13 By Gregory Walker $2.00
    Aristocratic Hands #14 By Gregory Walker $2.00
    Blow Jobs In The Afterlife By David Moscovich $1.00
    Box of Chocolates By Leslie Perrine $5.00
    How To Stay Alive In the Metaphorical Woods $2.00
    Lets All Find Awesome Jobs Actual Information By Kevin Fanning $3.00
    No Better Than Apples #6 Piecemeal By Kate Larson $2.00
    Or Let It Sink #3 $1.00
    Reality Mom vol 7 #2 By Corbin Lewars $3.00
    RIP by Steve Katz $1.00
    This Is the End Journeys Toward Armageddon By Aaron Cynic $2.00
    Tragic Genius of Dan Gleason By Dan Gleason $2.00
    Volkerlchau By Melanie Bonajo $10.00
    Welcome to Bend Population 80995 By Laura Walker $5.00

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    (No Better Than Apples)

  • New Stuff Week of January 31, 2010

    Check out these new things before anyone else does. Then take their eyeballs, so they can’t check them out ever!

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    ZINES

    Fluke Magazine #8 $2

    COMICS/COMIX/MINIS

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer #32 By Joss Whedon $2.99

    Crass Sophisticate #23 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

    Crass Sophisticate #24 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

    Crestfallen #2 by Sandra Sierra $3

    Franz Kafka’s Poseidon by Jarod Rosello $4

    Stories vol 2 Copy Matthew and Buster Swimming Free Hugs by Martin Cendreda $3

    Tales From The Crypt #13 $3.95

    Tank Girl Skidmarks #3 by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo $3.99

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

    Crogan’s March by Chris Schweizer $14.95

    Fables vol 13 the Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, and Mark Buckingham $17.99

    Teenage Timberwolves Lust for Lightning by James Havoc & Daniele Serra $14.95

    MAGS

    Against the Current #144 Jan Feb 10 $5

    Altercation #24 $3.95

    Car Busters #40 $5

    Dwell Mar 10 $5.99

    Earth First vol 30 #2 Jan Feb 10 $4.5

    Extra Feb 10 vol 23 #2 $3.95

    Grafik #181 Jan 10 $19.99

    Hails and Horns #16 WIn 09 $4.95

    Haunted Times vol 4 #3 Win 10 $6.5

    Hip Mama #45 $5.95

    In These Times Feb 10 $3.5

    Monocle vol 3 #30 Feb 10 $10

    Namaste Vol 11 #2 $9.99

    Nexus vol 17 #1 Jan Feb 10 $5.95

    Progressive Feb 10 $3.95

    Tattoo Life #62 $6.99

    Tattoo Society #20 $7.99

    Time Out Chicago Feb 4 10 $2.99

    Trace #86 $5.99

    Transworld Skateboarding Mar 10 $3.99

    Vman #17 Spr 10 $5.5

    Winq Win 10 $7.95

    Z Magazine Feb 10 $4.95

    LIT JOURNALS

    826 Quarterly #10 Sum 09 $15

    McSweeneys #33 $16

    Pleiades vol 30 #1 $8

    FICTION ‘N’ POETRY

    Failure By James Greer $15.95

    Orange Crush By Simone Muench $14.95

    MUCKRAKING, MEMOIRS, AND MISCELLANY

    Complaint, From Minor Moans to Principled Protests By Julian Baggini $15.95

    Madame Curie Complex, the Hidden History of Women in Science By Julie Des Jardins $16.95

    DIY/HOW TO BOOKS

    Artist in the Office, How to Creativel Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week By Summer Pierre $13.95

    Little Green Book of Absinthe, an Essential Companion with Lore Trivia and Classic Recipes By Paul Owens $18.95

    FINE, LOW BROW, AND GRAFITTI fART BOOKS

    Cholo Writing, Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles By Francois Chastanet $24.95

    Autumns Come Undone By Shag $40

    Open Book Drink and Draw Collaborations $24.95

    Shadowplay by Mark Wilkinson $39.95

    MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS

    Strange Case of Dr HH Holmes, World’s Fair Serial Killer by John Borowski $20

    Hollow Earth, the Bizarre 60s Classic Back in Print By Raymond Bernard $16.95

    Homage to Pan, the Life Art and Sex Magic of Rosaleen Norton By Nevill Drury $24.95

    MUSIC

    Band Crime Punk77 Revisited, a Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk By James Stark $14.95

    Radiohead Hysterical and Useless By Martin Clarke $19.95

    POLITICS

    World Report 2010 By Human Rights Watch $25

    PORN BOOKS

    Season of Infidelity, BDSM tales From the Classic Master By Oniroku Dan $14.95

    Exhibitionism for the Shy, Show Off Dress Up and Talk Hot By Carol Queen $15.95

  • Chunklet #20 Is Here!

    Now in stock for the awesomest price ever of $9.99 for 134 pages of the usual tiny font, the 20th issue of Chunklet (20 issues, 15 years!). Don’t miss Whirlyball with such bands as Arcade Fire, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie and countless others. Laugh-out-loud funny Rock Sniglets, Music Journalist Application Form, Zine Fair Pick-Up Lines (That Failed Miserably) [“I’m not the do-it-yourself type…I’d rather do it with you.”] — This is rockin’. That’s why this mag only comes out once every 3 years, because of its high hilariousness quotient. Chunklet makes fun of pretty much everything the cool kids listen to, which is why I love it. More music mags should have this many opinions, instead of just being a conglomeration of press releases the publicity agents are sending out. I mean, really, does EVERY magazine need to have Cat Power on the cover with varying pictures from the same photo shoot?

  • Bend Matrix Live at Quimby's

    Dan Layne stopped by the store today and gave a short demonstration on the Bend Matrix. It is some kind of crazy sequencer that sends audio signals out to different speakers. So armed with an array of eight little speakers, a circuit bent drum machine and hand built tonal generator Dan proceeded to rock out the back of the store with crazy tones and cycling beats! Excellent!

    Check out videos of similar Bend Matrix action

  • Louder Than Your Mom Karaoke Tournament Fundraiser

    Our friends at Co-op Image Youth are holding a Karaoke Tournament Fundraiser at Ronny’s. If you’re in Chicago this Friday (June 27th) you should come, even if you’re not singing; karaoke singers need an audience! Here’s their details:

    Be the Karaoke King/Queen you always knew you could be! Or just be mercilessly entertained! On Friday, June 27th Ronny’s (210. Suggested donation of $51 N. California Ave) will host Chicago’s first, one and only, Karaoke Tournament: LOUDER THAN YOUR MOM! at the door, contestants get in for free. Karaoke power-couple Joe and Liz Mason will MC the event as the First Round begins at 9 o’clock. There will be four rounds of competition. This event is held to benefit Cooperative Image Group.

    Here’s how it will work: Karaoke contestants will compete in the contest, much like a marathon. They will be required to have a minimum of three sponsors who can donate up to four songs (depending on how far they expect their contestant to go) at $10 a song. A panel of audience judges will be rating the performances on a scale of 1- 10. Four finalists will receive a prize and trophy designed by Co-op Image Youth. The winner will receive a prize, trophy, and cash.

    Incorporated in 2003, Cooperative Image Group is an interdisciplinary arts education and social entrepreneurship organization that facilitates programs with youth ages 6-21. Located in Humboldt Park, Co-op Image works with over 700 youth per year out of its Corner Art Center and approximately 400 additional community members through a number of outreach satellite projects. The programs Co-op Image creates include the production of a cooking show aired on CAN-TV, a screen-printing and design business, an audio/visual recording studio, mural painting, glass sculpting, documentary film-making and more. Co-op Image seeks funding through several channels, including a number of creative fundraisers and benefits, earned income, individual donors, and foundation and government grants. Benefits like LOUDER THAN YOUR MOM! account for approximately 30% of Co-op Image’s annual budget.

    Check us out at: www.coopimage.org and to view our videos check us out at: http://www.youtube.com/user/coopimage.