Many of you Beyonders have expressed the desire to acquire the amazing Bang Bang Boogaloo / Beyond Beyond is Beyond psych comp art, which was conjured up by Justin Gabbard.
There were only 25 prints made, so go grab your hand-numbered, signed poster right from Justin’s webstore.
Cheers!
Hell-oh Bea Yawnders!
Hope you all had a hellish Halloween weekend! I’ve got an amazing show coming up on Thursday at noon (eastern) on East Village Radio; a show that should drive Erin Pope crackers! Not only will I be talking to prog-legend Gentle Giant lead singer, Derek Shulman…but I will also have artist, Jess Rotter of Rotter & Friends, and Kemado/Mexican Summer/Anthology Recordings joining me as guest DJ all show long, as we’ll try to match each other song for song and talk about the days of covered wagons.
This show’s gonna be fully radical, so be sure to catch it live on Beyond Beyond is Beyond at noon (eastern) Thursday on East Village Radio! Plus I’ll be taking attendance and there will be a pop quiz!
***UPDATE! DIG THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW RIGHT’CHERE… http://www.eastvillageradio.com/news/items.aspx?id=8972
On November 10th, 2009 Gentle Giant will be digitally releasing seven of their best-known albums and tracks in digital form for the very first time via their own Alucard label through EMI Music’s Label Services unit.
This progressive rock band, which was active from 1970 through 1980, was made up of multi-instrumentalists, and lived to expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular.” The group’s dozen albums combine a range of musical styles—jazz, pop, classical, British soul, rock, blues, medieval, pop, and blues.
In a Glass House, The Power & The Glory, Free Hand, In’terview, Playing The Fool, The Missing Piece and Giant For a Day will become available through all digital channels. More Gentle Giant music will be available in a variety of formats in 2010, starting with the January release of the seven CDs Re-Mastered from the original 1⁄4 inch tapes through Hi-Resolution (24bit 96k) transfer. First quarter of 2010 will also find box sets and Limited Edition Vinyl LPs.
About the guest DJ: Artist Jess Rotter, a woman that promotes rock bands by day at Kemado Records/Mexican Summer in New York, is the mastermind of the whimsical t-shirt line, Rotter and Friends. The tees’ prints are playful, heartfelt and inspired by rare music of the 1960’s and 70’s. Part of the indie-label’s appeal is that the tees feature hand-drawn, wickedly irreverent prints and big fans include Natalie Portman. Past collections include odes to Captain Beefheart, Graham Nash, Roky Erickson, and Bobbie Gentry- backed by a slew of Rotter’s crazy dancing hand-drawn characters. Recent press about the label has included NPR, Nylon, Spin, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, and Newsweek.
It’s been a rad year for Rotter and Friends as Jess’s illustrations for the label were made into a solo exhibition called Moontunes in Los Angeles at Garage Gallery in March, a month later her 4-piece capsule collection for Project Red was released globally in The Gap, and the label was responsible for hosting the first NYC live performance from Boston psyche legend Bobb Trimble.
This season, in their 6th collection, Rotter and Friends pay homage to Jade Stone and Luv (in partnership w/ Swedish label Subliminal sounds ), Ya Ho Wah 13, Betty Davis, and Badfinger. Fun things for Fall include a one day holiday trunk show event at Other Music in late November, a 3-piece collection of spiral notebooks for HEEB magazine which include scribble salutes to Leonard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull, and Marc Bolan of T. Rex, and a MoonTune version of Betty Davis will be included in a group show at 303 Grand gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn November 6th-20th.
My radio show, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, will once again go live on February 12th from 2-4:00 pm on East Village Radio after a successful first episode. It will also be streaming afterward, for those that miss the live feed. The hope is that after the second show, BBB will be offered a regular weekly slot on EVR. Download the first show here.
Show #2 will be just two days before the most popularly unpopular Hallmark-created holiday for lovebirds, Valentine’s Day. And wouldn’t you (or your better/worse half or stalker/stalkee) want to hear your lovey-dovey or lovelorn song requests dedicated to them by you and read by amazing radio host, Mike Newman? Well, of course they would! So send me all your email requests for great love-themed songs to BeyondBeyondisBeyond (at) gmail (dot) com. Keep in mind the show’s format…make it rock or at least be trippy…or best case, BOTH! I won’t be able to play all requests…only the bests.
Can’t wait to see what yun’s have in store, and your lover will be blown away when they hear their psychedelic dedication! Remember, send ‘em now (no SASE required) to BeyondBeyondisBeyond (at) gmail (dot) com. Sorry…trying to dodge spam…… literally!
*amazing lynx love imagery brought to you by Macho Mel, whose art is currently on display at Capricious Space in Brooklyn through Valentine’s Day
Check out this amazing portrait of our next President! It was made by Kev Moore’s partner, French artist, Miki. It really shows the worldwide respect that our country has gained by taking a step in the right direction by electing Obama. Maybe it takes the U.S. hitting rock bottom to spur our citizenry off of their couches and into realizing that many of the ways we do things need to be changed.
Below the portrait are some words about the piece from the artist, Miki, herself. Cheers, Miki! Very well done!
(Based on a photo by Bill Burke, pageonephoto.com)
So, my first Barack Obama portrait is finished.
I think it is quite different from the portraits I have seen from him on the net. On most of them the artists emphasize only one aspect of his personality.
This is not what I wanted.
I wanted to paint Obama as a human being, with all his facets:
his humanity, his leadership, his honesty, his hopes, his decisiveness…
Of course I never met him personally, so it can only be the Barack Obama I perceive through the TV and the photos I have seen from him. And I saw all of these qualities on his face.
I can only hope that I have caught a little bit of his soul…
And if you are wondering what he is counting…. words of course:
“Yes We Can!”
Click the picture to read New York magazine’s piece about Jamie, as part of their ‘Gallery of Ten of the Most Promising New York Artists of 2007′. Give your kudos to Jamie below in comments…
