“Free LSD” movie screening at Laemmle in Claremont this Tuesday w/ a panel Q&A featuring Dimitri Coats & Keith Morris of OFF! moderated by Dennis Callaci

Not only was the record and the script for the film, Free LSD birthed in Pomona and Claremont, but scenes in the film were shot out this way. The film is a total joy to behold. If you live in the area, you can check out a screening at The Laemmle in Claremont on Tuesday …

Trailer for Jeff Friedman’s “Broken Signals” book on Bamboo Dart Press premieres

Jeff Friedman’s Broken Signals is a wildly imaginative collection of dazzling fabulist micro tales that reveals a world of inexplicable mysteries in which we struggle to love each other and ourselves. A girl coughs out salmon fillets for the family dinner; a man can’t remember his father’s face; a man’s lover believes he’s Paul Newman…a female mime …

King Daddy “Fine in a Moment” Bamboo Dart Press book out now

“The heart is not a metaphor – no, wait – the heart is a metaphor.”King Daddy’s first volume of poetry for Bamboo Dart Press, Fine in a Minute, follows the author as he attempts to make sense of his life after the loss of his wife and muse of 30 years, Wendrika Thorpe, chronicling his grief …

Refrigerator “Fire on 12th Street” Video Premiere’s on Austin Town Hall

Refrigerator’s new record, Get Lost, is out August 23rd on Shrimper/Grapefruit Records. The album opener, Fire on 12th Street is the first music and video released by the band from the record. The song, recorded live in one take by Steve Folta, is a jumble of stabbing guitars, loping drums, broken glass and a hymnal …

Second video from Dennis Callaci and Heimito Kunst’s “First Light” record premieres

The new collaborative record First Light by Italy’s Heimito Kunst and, uh, USA’s Dennis Callaci is out July 12th on Pass Without Trace. The first video, World of Lovers was directed and edited by Kunst. The second video, below, is a one camera, one shot distilled Russian Ark affair shot and directed by Callaci for …

Trailer for Judy Kronenfeld’s Bamboo Dart Press book premieres

Judy Kronenfeld’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press, Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! is out June 20th. The book is a paean to the author’s mid-twentieth century Bronx childhood as the sole offspring of warmly loving—if sometimes provincial, overprotective, or embarrassing—immigrant parents. It is also about the wonder of lifelong memory itself, of how …

Goosewind “The Miracle of Tape” record is out now

Goosewind’s The Miracle of Tape is out now. It plays like a resume of everywhere that they have ever been while charting out future roads that include De La Soul skits, SCTV bits, Turnbuckle Davie Allan riffs, and skiffle as it will sound in the twenty second century. If it isn’t enough of that, or …

James Ducat “A Field of Nopes” book out now on Bamboo Dart Press

James Ducat’s new book of black out poetry is a collection of rejection letters that he has transformed into an equally funny and dark book. “A Field of Nopes” features both the original black out poems laid side by side next to the script for each poem. A Field of Nopes will touch anyone who has …