The sophomore release by Sloppy Heads has finally landed and is available now. I am going to add an exclamation point to that. The CD is in stores everywhere and elsewhere & the digital rivers floweth over starting now for the phone digit juggling music afficionado. There is also limited edition lo-fi cassette version that …
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Sloppy Heads new one is out this Friday, check out this interview with The Jarnow’s as they discuss touchstones of the new record
The new Sloppy Heads CD/Digital and cassette is out this Friday. Read the following Aquarium Drunkard interview w/ member Jesse Jarnow as he hot glues the artists involved in the record that also served as influences along with his artist father Al Jarnow whose work you will surely recognize. The trio includes Ariella Stok and …
Second single/video premieres from forthcoming Sloppy Heads record
The second single from the forthcoming Sloppy Heads record Sometimes Just One Second is the track Try Again. The record is out in a month with ongoing preorders of the extremely limited edition cassette as well as the CD. Below is the video directed by Dennis Callaci.
Karen Greenbaum-Maya’s new book on Bamboo Dart Press is out August 8th. Trailer premieres today.
The Beautiful Leaves by Karen Greenbaum-Maya consists of poems about the diagnosis, illness, and death of the author’s beloved husband, and her grief. In the short film above, Karen reads a passage that is one part robocall and one part remains, with both halves fused together for a stunning coda. The book is available for …
Sloppy Heads announce new CD/Cassette out August 18th
The new Sloppy Heads record is out next month. Check out the first video/single below as well as details about this wonderful second record of theirs. Wig on the wonderful Gary Panter cover art above. Preorder here. https://austintownhall.com/2023/07/11/sloppy-heads-announce-sometimes-just-one-second-lp/
Emily Fernandez “Pliny and Other Problems” book on Bamboo Dart Press is out today
Emily Fernandez’ “Pliny and Other Problems” new book is out today. Like messages in bottles washed ashore, the poems in Emily Fernandez’s Pliny and Other Problems feel miraculous. They movingly catalog moments of the speaker’s life as well as the forms of life on the edge of California—mixing vignettes from adolescence and young love to marriage …
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“Remnants of a Full Moon” book by Michelle Gonzalez is out now on Bamboo Dart Press
In Remnants of a Full Moon, Michelle Gonzalez tracks the cyclical nature of life through its recurring movements: parent and child, in sickness and health, then and now. These compare-and-contrast moments are described with humor, grace, and a sincerity. The multi-dimensional speaker of these poems is far from the wallflower some might mistake her for. For instance, …
Trailer for Emily Fernandez’s “Pliny and Other Problems” book on Bamboo Dart Press premieres
Pliny and Other Problems starts with the problems of ordinary life – a mother’s midlife crisis – and the doings (and undoings) of aging and loss. In the central poems, Pliny the Elder’s life and tome, Natural History, is playfully explored. Pliny mixes Roman mythology with observations of nature, and these poems build little narratives with his …
New Dennis Callaci record out this Friday on Shrimper
In tandem with the last Southern California readings from his latest book, Lost Reflection on 22 reading The Garner House in Claremont (featuring the only electric Refrigerator show of the year), Shrimper is releasing a limited editon version of the new Dennis Callaci record Ones and Zeros. Two sixteen plus minute songs recorded last week …
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Trailer for Michelle Gonzalez’s “Remnants of a Full Moon” on Bamboo Dart Press premieres
Remnants of a Full Moon is a collection of poems that take you on a journey with a daughter, wife, and mother. Many of the poems shine a light on the forgotten and lost, on awkward situations in a dentist chair, or while staring at a painting of a girl stuck in a corner. Beloved …