The fifty-two new poems in The Enormous Room by painter and poet Richard Brown Lethem were written during the last two years as the author re-settled in Northern Maine after his Covid hiatus in Southern California.This collection documents that transition, in particular, the radical quality of color in nature as an emotionally charged element as well as …
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The Disassociation is an eight-piece band featuring Amy Maloof, Jonathan Lethem, Sam Sousa, and all five members of Refrigerator. Author Jonathan Lethem penned lyrics during late 2020 for Dennis Callaci to write music to (Lethem had previously written lyrics for Lee Ranaldo and Walter Salas-Humara among others). The intention was to start a band with …
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The Last Chance Lottery is an old dream of a record. L. Eugene Methe and I started working on it a year or so ago after the idea of it had been floating around us for decades. In a cottage industry whirlwind, the two of us wrote, performed, engineered, created the artwork, videos, cover artwork, and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
July 12th sees the release of Dennis Callaci & Heimito Kunst’s “First Light” LP on Pass Without Trace. Here is the first peak at music from the record, Ongoing preorders here and here.
