Samuel Locke Ward joined our pal Mike Watt on the Watt from Pedro show this weekend to chat about his collaboration w/ Jad Fair on the Pure Candy record as well as his work w/ Watt on their incredible Purple Pie Plow record. High voltage, a place to stay, justice? It is all in their …
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Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward unleash Pure Candy LP
If there is an antidote for these times that serves as a lift, a reminder that all politics are personal and in the personal there is hope, this record is the one for me in 2025. The real estate of our souls has no room for ill working agents. The hearts that don’t beat to …
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TM Givens “Diaries and Letters” book is out now on Bamboo Dart Press
What we see in this series, apart from the beautifully recognizable style of artist TM Givens, is the constricting space of pandemic-era living. Compared to his Garden Prayers series on Pelekinesis and the recent Coffee Shop drawings, whose fluid lines and outward observations express a sense of openness and connection, these drawing convey the isolation …
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Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward “The Good Stuff”
I confess, I fall in love with every record that I issue. So imagine how it feels to be loved back by that record. I mean the actual sleeve and insert and electric yellow marbled vinyl, and the labels on side one and two. Hell, the LP labels themselves do more for me than that …
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Trailer for TM Givens Diaries and Letters book on Bamboo Dart Press premieres
Tm Givens’ Diaries and Letters is out on February 25th. On display in his latest is his always beautifully recognizable drawing style. combined with the constricting space of pandemic-era living. Compared to his “Garden Prayers” series on Pelekinesis and the recent Coffee Shop drawings, whose fluid lines and outward observations express a sense of openness …
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Falcon Eddy prepping Shrimper record for 2025
Falcon Eddy are finishing up the recording of their debut release on Shrimper. Amy Maloof and Erica Tyron, seen here performing a brand new song, are a powerhouse. This clip displays their musical dynamic, sense of humor and out of this world lyrical word play.
Gail Butensky Bamboo Dart Press book and New Yorker piece
Dog Faced Hermans photo (c) Gail Butensky
Peter Wortsman’s “The Laboratory of Time, and other cutup poems” it out now
The Laboratory of Time, and other cutup poems, Peter Wortsman’s third collection of experiments in the form, lets time be told in the way we live it, sometimes stretching a second into seeming eternity, sometimes compressing eternity into a second. The first part, titled “The True Glue,” comprises recycled assemblages of words cut out of …
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Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward video for This is That debuts!
Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward’s Pure Candy is out on March 7th, check out the first music from the record with a lovely video by Claus Frohlich that premiered on Austin Town Hall today.
Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward “Pure Candy” LP unleashed
Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward’s Pure Candy LP is out March 7th on Shrimper/Stationary (Heart). Check out Samuel Locke Ward receiving a copy and walking through the history of the record. Preorder the record here and here.