Intimate Simon Joyner/Refrigerator acoustic show in California announced

Simon Joyner is doing a series of shows in support of his Coyote Butterfly record on the west coast including an off the path intimate show with Refrigerator at our dear pals Lisa and Chris’ house in Glendale. Simon and Refrigerator will each be performing an acoustic set. Limited seating, so though it is not …

New Adam Lipman record “California Hard” is out now

Adam Lipman’s new record, California Hard, is out today. There is absolutely no one that sounds like Adam Lipman and his songs are some of the best that I have ever heard. Lipman has always been matter of fact, getting to the heart of the matter without histrionics, and on his latest work, a meditation …

TM Givens trailer premieres for his Bamboo Dart press book

TM Givens forthcoming book on Bamboo Dart Press, Standing in Line: Coffee Shop Drawings captures the restlessness, surprise, laughter and blooming doldrums on exhibit in our shrinking public squares. Givens has exhibited in a variety of media, with sculpture at the Ankrum Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chaffey College, and with drawings …

Furniture Huschle & Food Fortunata split release out today

Food Fortunata and Furniture Huschle have written and issued thousands of songs between them over the last forty plus years. You may know Joel Huschle, of Furniture Huschle from his myriad of solo and collaborative records including his work with Wckr Spgt, and perhaps Food Fortunata from his work as Sockeye and dozens of other …

Adam Greenfield’s Bamboo Dart Press book is out now

Adam Greenfield’s Dinner Party Music is a surrealistic look at how men pass on a legacy of anger to one another and the women in their lives who choose to escape it.If these walls could talk…they’d tell the story of generations of rage that are literally embodied in the walls of a family home. Greenfield’s previous books …

Jeff Friedman’s “Broken Signals” book is out today on Bamboo Dart Press

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 …

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 …