Following an overview of Charles Plymell and NOW magazine, contributor Paul Hawkins offers "Charles Plymell: The Benzedrine Highway Interview." Revised especially for RealityStudio, the interview now contains additional material about Plymell and William S. Burroughs.
"Plymell has as much in depth to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about in terms of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing...death from an OD...Death from a plane crash...Computerized death...He is saying a lot about life which …
Writer Charles Plymell is a legendary figure. He was involved with a loose gang of experimental writers and outsider artists centered around Wichita, Kansas in post war 1950`s America.
A short film based upon the truCulentEnigma album track drugless...... "it seeks to balance a drugless head on a stick" jandek halooming "ideal for all petrol lighters" B. Dyland
Writer, film maker, musician and culture terrorist Joe Ambrose has a penchant for digging around the cultural margins and teasing out of the shadows relevant irreverance, countercultural phenomena, outside and (often) explosive art of pivotal significance.
Lamont Paul reviews LA show by singer/songwriter Kathleen Haskard. She is coming to the end of a successful US solo tour celebrating the US release of her acclaimed second album, Dont Tell, on Nine Mile Records.
Opening night of Allan Kaprow - Art as Life.........at MOCA Los Angeles. The man who named the "happening" as an art form is re-interpreted at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
A groundbreaker of massive reverbrations, Glass Darkly is "free falling electronic sound art for the new millenium"
Campaigning punk band Heavy Load`s rockumentary shows their struggle against the world, themselves and discrimination
Recorded in the summer of 2007 in a disused bar with a laptop, a Marshall amp and a curious mind. Throughout the recording sessions a killing fields soundtrack lurked in the background.
Jack Sargeant wrote his first book at the age of 26, and DEATHTRIPPING : THE CINEMA OF TRANSGRESSION still exists as the most exhaustive handbook on post-punk New York underground film. The subversive Soft Skull imprint have recently published its third edition.
a stinging performance by chuck prophet and the mission express when they played the david letterman show jan. `08 is up on hesterglock courtesy of youtoob .....
stockhausen/ken ishii/islamic diggers/scanner and more are part of a sound art project celebrating the CUT-UP method of word and sound manipulation, at Karrier, Denmark.
Artist George Pringle talks at length on hew music, art, TV culture and politics. Her new single Carte Postale is out now.
Contexts of Paradigm: Debordist situation in the works of Spelling Helmut Abian.........................what?
Discussion of the qualities of the drug Antabuse, the alcoholics little helper............can make you seriously sick..............
Heavy Load, the disability rights led punk band get the hesterglock panoramic celebration treatment....................
dreampt responses...................fluid situations..................(in)sanity
Review of Daxaar, the astounding new album from Steve Reid
Interview with MC/Poet Scroobius Pip
An account of October 1st and 2nd at The Luminaire Club in London. It stars Kathleen Haskard & The Guilty Preachers, Bob Frank, John Murry, Nate Cavaliera and Chuck Prophet with his Mission Express
Joe Ambrose interviewed by Paul Hawkins talks about his new book bursting with tales of NYC boho life at the infamous Chelsea Hotel Manhattan. Published by Headpress on November 29th
Paul Hawkins interviews Frank Rynne on the worlds oldest rock`n`roll band: The Master Musicians of Joujouka, the village of Joujouka and his times spent managing, recording and filming and visiting them over the past 15 years.
Interview with Chris Salewicz, author of definitive biogrphy on cool rock icon Joe Strummer
Superbly written bio of Joe Strummer, Redemption Song was written by long time friend, journalist, writer and film producer Chris Salewicz. Salewicz tells the honest tale of the cultural icon, from his first breath to his last. This book is epochal.
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