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Stories from Spy Rock: An Interview With Larry Livermore

July 17, 2013 0 Comments

If you’ve been paying attention to punk rock over the past few decades, chances are good that you’re familiar with Larry Livermore. He founded Lookout! Records, and his columns for Punk Planet took a satirical approach to challenging pretty much every punk orthodoxy you could think of. Earlier this year, Don Giovanni released Spy Rock Memories, Livermore’s account of his years living in a cabin in the California mountains, making music with The Lookouts, and starting the record label that would introduce thousands […]

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Popular Noise’s Fundraiser: From Black Metal to Richard Avedon

July 11, 2013 0 Comments

Not surprisingly, I’m always up for good writing on culture. So taking a look at the Kickstarter page for Popular Noise, a new magazine with contributions from the likes of Zachary Lipez (and — if the images are any indication — a profile of Turing Machine’s Justin Chearno) offers a lot to like.

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Welcoming the Slowcore Revival

July 10, 2013 0 Comments

The debut album from Overseas came out a few weeks ago. The quartet — Will Johnson, David Bazan, and Bubba and Matt Kadane — sound not unlike you’d expect: Bazan and Johnson have made their names on engagingly harrowing personal narratives, while the Kadane brothers were at the core of the beloved slowcore bands Bedhead and The New Year.

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Reading Johnny Temple on Trouble Funk

July 2, 2013 0 Comments

On a recent trip to Greenpoint’s Permanent Records, I noticed a used copy of Trouble Funk’s Early Singles — released in the late 90s by the Henry Rollins/Rick Rubin reissue label Infinite Zero — in the staff picks section. Given Trouble Funk’s fans — everyone from George Pelecanos to the sorely missed Professor Murder to the panelists at a recent discussion of Hard Art, DC 1979 have sung their praises — I forked over six bucks and walked home with it.

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“Discontent is a Great Hobby”: Charles Bronson’s Mark McCoy on Art, Hardcore, and Insularity

July 1, 2013 1 Comment

From the inception of pioneering powerviolence band Charles Bronson to numerous musical projects and publishing art books, Mark McCoy is now as soft and slow as a bullet train. A graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts and currently based out of Brooklyn, I reached out to ask him a few questions about running a punk label in 2013 and meeting challenges in both visual art and music.

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Case Studies’ Richard Brautigan Slow Jams

June 27, 2013 0 Comments

I’ve been a fan of Jesse Lortz since his days making music as one-half of The Dutchess and The Duke. And while Lortz’s musical history goes back before then — the man has an abundance of garage-rock work under his belt — his stark tales of hard living rarely fail to resonate.

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Patrick Bateman Meets Kanye West

June 11, 2013 0 Comments

It seems that Yahoo called it a year ago with the article “Scott Disick is a Bret Easton Ellis Character,” which broke down the 1980s preppy looks of Kourtney Kardashian’s Long Island-born beau. Somebody else obviously thought that, because the news is out that fellow Kardashian lover, Kanye West, has tapped Disick to star in a video that is apparently an homage to American Psycho. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

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Drone The Day Away With The Sunn O))) Discography

June 5, 2013 0 Comments

I’ve always been a fan of working to instrumental music or music with spotty or otherwise absent vocals. I’m an even bigger fan of stuff that you can literally tune out, like background noise to break up the silence, but not distract you from the task at hand. That’s why it should be no surprise that Sunn O))) is usually playing over my speakers when I’m writing.