Austin Town Hall premieres first track form Dennis Callaci and L. Eugene Methe LP

It has been a thrill to finally work with my dear pal L. Eugene Methe on a collaborative record as a duo. He and I have played together on songs by Refrigerator as well as a couple of solo records of mine. For our album, The Last Chance Lottery, Methe created the music and allowed …

Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci picked up for another year at KSPC

Thrilled that KSPC is allowing Bill and I to continue berating and amusing one another in between blocks of our favorite music of all walks for our fourth season of Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci. Our weekly radio show is heard ad free, with no subscription fee, no nothing, on the public airwaves from 9am …

Karen Greenbaum-Maya’s “Eve the Inventor” book is out now.

Eve the Inventor by Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a hybrid collection of poems, prose, and short fiction inspired by the Jewish story that God will not destroy the world as long as there are 36 good people, good souls in it. The characters in this collection aren’t secular saints, they are decent people, deeply decent, struggling against …

View the Shepard Fairey & Jonathan Lethem discussion about the politics and legacy of John Carpenter’s They Live

Check out the conversation that followed the Dirty Opera screening of John Carpenter’s They Live at The Claremont 5 Laemmle in California. Should you have read Lethem’s treatise on the film or heard Fairey discuss the film in relation to his art, this roundtable offers yet other ins and angles to both of them and …

“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 …

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 …

Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci KSPC radio show renewed for another year

Join My dear pal and fellow punching bag Bill Chen and I every Wednesday morning from 9am to noon PST for our three hour radio show on the commercial free public airwaves of legendary KSPC 88.7 fm. Listen live on the radio or online at www.kspc.org as we battle to near death weekly. We don’t …