New Arrivals @ Red Onion

Red Onion just put out a list of its new arrivals which include some new Honest Jon’s releases (Trembling Bells, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, among others), the new Dinosaur Jr. LP, the Rondos reissue, White Hills, The Field, Deerhunter, Es , Earth, Major Lazer , Betty Davis, the new Papercuts, Blank Dogs and an amazing George Mitchell -produced blues LP. Full list in annoying font/font size after the jump (apologies). Some more new vinyl: cat power: what would the neighbors think b

LA Film Fest: It’s Over

The LA Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday night with the closing gala of Ponyo , Miyazaki Hayao’s latest. Not being a great fan of animation, Miyazaki, or twee children’s dross I gave it a miss, although I may just be a curmudgeonly old cinephile with no soul. But if I’d seen that I’d have missed the sole screening of United Red Army , which was well worth the effort: a three-hour docudrama about the paramilitary student radical movement in Japan in the sixties and first two years of t

Oh, baby. Art Gerrick lakes modified headed to auction

A few weeks ago, I wrote up a preview of the upcoming RM Icons of Speed and Style auction for the Hemmings e-Weekly Newsletter , but ever since, I’ve been enthralled by the cars that will be offered at the auction. In particular, if there’s one car there I would sell a kidney or other body part for, it wouldn’t be the Deora or the Road Agent or the Khougaz roadster. It would be the Art Gerrick lakes modified. RM has it listed as lot R23, estimated to go for $40,000 to $60,000, officially de

Lowbrow art wanted

I am currently drumming up artists interested in showing pieces in a lowbrow collaborative art exhibition. What is lowbrow? It’s a pretty broad term that covers art which is underground, not ‘highbrow’…so this includes street, cartoon, graf, subculture art, punk, rockabilly, hot-rods…It can pretty much be in any medium too- from scultpure to spray paint, photography, painting, collage… The type of artists I’d love to hear from include: pinstripers (hot rods/vintage cars etc) graffiti a

Lowbrow art wanted

I am currently drumming up artists interested in showing pieces in a lowbrow collaborative art exhibition. What is lowbrow? It’s a pretty broad term that covers art which is underground, not ‘highbrow’…so this includes street, cartoon, graf, subculture art, punk, rockabilly, hot-rods…It can pretty much be in any medium too- from scultpure to spray paint, photography, painting, collage… The type of artists I’d love to hear from include: pinstripers (hot rods/vintage cars etc) graffiti a

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