featuring…

Chris Ziegler and Kevin Ferguson visit veteran sui generis pop duo SPARKS in L.A. as they prepare to perform their entire 20-album, 240-song ouevre in a single three-wek London engagement in May. “We’re actually better than we thought,” reveal the brothers Mael. Plus: an appropriately outsized ‘Listener’s guide to Sparks’ by Ned Raggett. With photography by Jeaneen Lund.

ENDARKENMENT MANIFESTO: “The last agreeable year for us was 1941, the ideal is about 10,000 BC, but we’re not purists. We might be willing to accept steam power or hydraulics.” Arthur proudly presents poet/scholar Peter Lamborn Wilson’s half-serious proposal for a political movement to uphold and propagate the ideals of Green Hermeticism–the “coherent spiritual movement that constitutes the only imaginable alternative to unending degradation of Earth and humanity.” Wilson, using the pen name Hakim Bey, is the author of the Temporary Autonomous Zone concept, introduced in 1990…

The debut of “Advanced Standing,” a new column by Greg Shewchuk which asks, What if we thought of SKATEBOARDING as a mind-body practice? Illustration by Joseph Remnant.

Joe O’Brien has a drink with RUDY WURLITZER, the legendary author (Nog, Quake, Flats), screenwriter (Two Lane Blacktop, Walker) and aimless wanderer.

New columnist NANCE KLEHM explains how to make dandelion wine and what to do with human pee. Illustration by Aiyana Udessen.

DAVE REEVES on why we can’t let the President kill himself, with an illustration by Sharon Rudahl.

TWO PAGES OF FULL-COLOR ARTHUR COMICS, edited by Buenaventura Press, featuring new comics by Anna Sommer, Matt Furie, Kevin Huizenga, Jeffrey Brown, Anders Nilsen, Al Columbia, Tim Hensley, C.F., Ted May, Souther Salazar, Tom Gauld, Jonathan Bennett, Helge Reumann, Lisa Hanawalt, Dan Zettwoch, P.W.E. and Simon Evans.

“The Day Is Long”: SPRING FASHION on a Los Angeles afternoon, with photography and styling by Molly Frances and Mark Frohman.

Why you’ve always wanted to TALK TO PLANTS, and some of the best ways to do it, according to the Center for Tactical Magic.

Artist Arik Roper on the art and inspiration of animator RALPH BAKSHI.

“Bull Tongue” columnists BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE review choice finds from the deep underground including work by Jackie O Motherfucker, Cookie, Times New Viking, “Guitar Army” by John Sinclair, “Eye Mind: The Sage of Roky Erickson” by Paul Drummond, “Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue” by Robert Scotto, Uneven Universe, Mors Ontologica, Hall of Fame, Egypt Is the Magick #, Baretta, Log and Toilet, Toylit, Bill Nace, Daniel Higgs, Mouthus, Hive Mind, Aaron Dilloway, Psychatrone Rhonedakk, WFMU’s “The Best of LCD,” Ashtray Navigations, Slurp Dogs, Wally Shoup/Nels Cline/Greg Campbell, Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano/Paul Flaherty, Ghidra, “Ugly Things” No. 26, “Like, Misunderstood” by Rick Brown and Mike Stax, Sunburned Circle, Testicle Hazard, Trash Ritual, Chrome, “Duplex Planet” No. 180, San Francisco Water Cooler, Jorge Boerhringer/Core of the Coalman, Take Up Serpents, Usputuspud, Henry Kuntz, Opeye, “People Take Warning!” comp, Robert Martin and Bobb Trimble reissues.

The Magik Markers’ ELISA AMBROGIO waxes enthusiastic about Blake Bailey’s Richard Yates bio, Alex Nielson & Richard Youngs, Evolution of a Cromagnon by John Joseph, Joshua Burkett, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Spectre Folk, Joan Acocella, VizUSA, Donovan Quinn, Luc Sante, Mick Turner, Colossal Yes, Mick Barr (Ocrilim), Buckingham/Nicks, Tony Rettman, Jason Wambsgans, Joe Carducci, Mick Flower, and Falk, California. Plus other stuff.

The fake economy’s parasitical relationship with the real economy isn’t going to last much longer, says columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF. Illustration by M. Wartella.

The government is obsoleting analog television in February, 2009. ERIK DAVIS examines what we are losing. Illustration by Chris Rubino.

PLUS: Noisician/author Gabe Soria reports from New Orleans, singer-songwriter-bandleader Stephen Malkmus updates us on OLIGARCHY ‘08 and Plastic Crimewave memorializes the late great KLAUS DINGER.

The magazine is out now in Los Angeles, and this coming weekend in the rest of the country.

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ARTHUR 28 CONTENTS…

“The Woman Who Knows Too Much”: For over two decades, she has terrified and enraptured audiences with plague masses, homicidal love songs and sensational vocal and piano acrobatics. Meet DIAMANDA GALAS: avenging queen of the damned, obvious musical genius and the only person alive who’s a fan of both Doris Day and Vlad the Impaler. By John Payne, with photography by Susanna Howe.

“Guerrilla Warfare”: What happens when bands play live where they’re not supposed to? Paul Moody dissects the London GUERRILLA GIG scene of the early ’00s spawned by the Libertines. Plus: No Age’s recent daylight guerrilla gig by the L.A. River, with photos by Joshua Pressman.

“Reign of Blood”: Erik Morse tells the amazing-but-true, blood-drenched story of how fictional pulp criminal FANTOMAS begat numerous classics of early cinema and inspired the most revolutionary art movements of the 20th Century.

“The Girls Who Fell To Earth”: Clothes make the alien. Photography and styling by Molly Frances and Mark Frohman.

“Do the Math”: When the Man went after Dave Reeves, Dave took notes.

“Applied Magic(k)”: How to use a magic wand, by The Center for Tactical Magic.

Zodiac by Molly Frances: 2008 is a ‘1 year’ in numerology. Time to draw up those blueprints for the future of you.

“The Analog Life”: The debut of a new column by ERIK DAVIS exploring cultural life outside the ascendant empire of the digital.

“21 Recently Discovered Delights”: Farmer Dave Scher waxes enthusiastic about aging, elliptical machines, using your left hand and more.

“Where’d You Get That Name ‘Arthur’ From?”: If you don’t know, now you do. Art by Joseph Remnant.

Plastic Crimewave salutes the late CHARLIE NOTHING

“Strings” by PShaw: the final episode

“People Are Talking About” by Brian J. Davis

“Bull Tongue”: Columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review the latest burps and gurgles from the deep underground.

C & D: Two pseudonymous know-it-alls get their comeuppance while still having the last word on new records by The Carbonas, Beach House, Cloudland Canyon, Clark, Earth, Dead Meadow, Graveyard, Monade, The Dirtbombs and a live one by Harmonia. Stephen Malkmus makes a cameo, discussing the meaning of golf

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I.F. “Ian” Svenonius files a field report on Baltimore psychedelic soul rock ‘n’ roll band CELEBRATION. Photography by Stacy Kranitz.

Photographer Abby Banks drove across America, visiting spaces occupied by groups of youngish refuseniks who’ve left behind America’s grey gridlife. An exclusive excerpt from her new book, PUNK HOUSE…

The Sodfather, the Compost King, the Guru of Doo-Doo: Daniel Chamberlin talks shit with California’s rhyming sultan of sod, TIM DUNDON. Photography by Eden Batki.

Ben can truly call him Al: Six Organs of Admittance’s BEN CHASNY and Om’s AL CISNEROS manifest music, vibration and camaraderie in a conversation between the two. Visual interpretations by Arik Moonhawk Roper.

Erik Davis catches up with SIR RICHARD BISHOP–gypsy picatrix, ex-Sun City Girl and guitarist extraordinaire. Illustration by John Coulthart.

Columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF wonders if an unplugged parenthood is still possible. Illustrated by Jack Pollock.

RED SCARE! A glance back at early 20th century radicals Louise Bryant and John Reed—an essay with clothes. Styling by Jaclyn Hodes, photography by Annabel Mehrain.

Columnist MOLLY FRANCES on cleaning house, clothes and body–without toxic chemicals.

If you’re going to PROTEST something, do it right. The Center for Tactical Magic lights the way in their “Applied Magic(k)” column.

PLUS: SONNY HOPSON (”The Mighty Burner”) (!) tells Peter Relic about JAMES BROWN, Nurse Periwinkle takes health questions from the crowd, and an update on what people are really talking about by columnist Brian J. Davis.

“I Get to Ask One Question”: new poem by MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN

PShaw’s “Strings”: full-page comics in full color.

PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE on three new histories from Process Media: Eye Mind: The Saga of the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound by Paul Drummond, Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue by Robert Scotto and The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family by Isis Aquarian.

“Bull Tongue” columnists BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE review the latest emanations from the deep underground.

C &D drink kratom smoothies and beer, run the fog machine and check out the “ULTIMATE REALITY” dvd by DAN DEACON & JIMMY JOE ROCHE, the “MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES” dvd, AC/DC’s live/TV triple-dvd, an unearthed goodie by KAREN DALTON, and new records by WITCHCRAFT, BABYSHAMBLES, SOULSAVERS, TENDER FOREVER, MICHAEL HURLEY, PHOSPHENE RIVER, WOODEN SHJIPS, DRAGONS OF ZYNTH, YELLOW SWANS, EXPO ‘70, EXTRA GOLDEN, BRAD LANER and HEADDRESS. With artwork by Beth Hoeckel.

Arthur Issue #27

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Arthur Issue #26

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featuring…

Old folks cry, young lovers smile and cynical hipsters get confused when she’s onstage. What is Lavender Diamond’s peace-love-and-ecology frontlady BECKY STARK up to?

Thurston Moore & Byron Coley have an audience with YOKO ONO. Discussed: the Peace industry, Fluxus, Sarah Lawrence and her life/art before Lennon. Plus: “Yoko Tanka,” a review of Ono’s recordings in tanka form. With photography by Eden Batki and a selection of vintage Ono photos.

Ever been harassed by a cop? Then you know how suicide bombers get made, says DAVE REEVES, PhD.

Columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF says 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORISTS are distracting many of our brightest minds from the ongoing horror show in plain view.

Journalist Joel Rose visits 80-year-old Zen humorist/media innovator HENRY JACOBS. Plus, an appreciation of Jacobs’ radio and TV work by filmmaker Mike Mills.

DEERHOOF dude Greg Saunier spiels on the joy of all-ages gigs. Plus photos of DC’s early punk scene, from by photographer Susie J. Horgan’s Punk Love book.

Fashion!!! Fringe knitter TINA MARRIN works off the grid in her cozy, color wonderland.

Byron Coley remembers the SUN CITY GIRLS.

Columnist MOLLY FRANCES hops on Miranda July’s time machine to visit a land of seeded fruit.

Soon the State will have Hummers with cannons that can heat up people’s skin half a kilometer away. The Center for Tactical Magic has some more evolved ideas about mobilizing vehicles for change. Plus: what to do when cops really want to search your car.

New “People Are Talking” columnist Brian J. Davis on what SIMON COWELL, Secretary of Defense ROBERT GATES and KELLY CLARKSON have (respectively) been up to this summer.

PShaw’s “Strings”: full-page comics in full color.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review the latest emanations from the deep underground.

C &D drink beers and check out new records by Alan Vega, Magik Markers, Blues Control, Celebration, White Rainbow, Devendra Banhart, Daniel A.I.U. Higgs, Angels of Light, Wolves in the Throne Room and Marie Sioux. They also share their feelings about the Faust IV reissue and The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family book.

Arthur Issue #26

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An epic-length profile of California harper Joanna Newsom by author Erik Davis, with exclusive photos of her geniushood by Eden Batki

“Bog Venus vs. Nazi Cock-Ring: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography” by Alan Moore: a landmark eight-page essay/manifesto, with illustrations

Chuck Dukowski (Black Flag, Chuck Dukowski Sextet) on the deeper, civilizational issues surrounding all-ages shows, illustrated by Geoff McFetridge

Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio talks with Jay Babcock about directly confronting USA militarism…

“New Herbalist” columnist Molly Frances on the roots of Christmas…

“Do the Math” columnist Dave Reeves on guns…

Douglas Rushkoff on visionary thinker Robert Anton Wilson…

Lisa Anne Auerbach’s knitted sweaters photographed by Justine Kurland on the occasion of her show at White Columns…

Nabob Shineywater (of Brightblack Morning Light) on musicians Sandy Bull and Hamza al-Din…

Chris Ziegler on new albums by White Magic and Sunn O))) & Boris…

Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on oodles of underground culture forms from Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bar, Silvester Anfang, R.O.T., Sammy Harkham’s Kramers Ergot, Private Stash, Comic Art, Arf Museum, Drawing Hand, Alex Nielson, Alastair Gabraith & Richard Youngs, Oren Ambarchi, Scott Horscroft, Hado Ho, Henry Kaiser, Noxagt, Ultralyd, S. Clay Wilson, Crown Now, Bone Rattle, Dreamhouse, the Halflings, M.O.A.C., Coco & Fiend Friend Mononoke, Hello Trudi, Dave Newman, Shuffleboil edited by David Meltzer and Steve Dickinson, Ong Ong, Macronympha, C. Spencer Yeh, Jim O’Rourke, Two Dead Sluts One Good Fuck, Helios Creed, Outtakes, Sub City Girls, Trockeneis, Harrius, WZT Hearts, Michael Layne Heath, Wesley Eisold & Charles Rowland, Carol Lewis & Regine Polenz, Haunted George, Demon’s Claws, The Golden Boys, Evil, Enema Syringe, Commando Laarz, Drap En Hund, Ports Bishop, Hurray, Timo van Luyk & Kris Vanderstraeten, Sarah Becan, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Skarekraouradio, Child Pornography, Quem Quaeritis, Copper/Yellow, Mudsuckers, and Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano/C. Spencer Yeh.

a full-color full-page of “Strings” comics by PShaw…

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featuring…

How Comets on Fire and Howlin’ Rain singer-guitarist ETHAN MILLER got his cosmic California yawp. By Trinie Dalton, with photography by Eden Batki.

A History of ALL-AGES, Part 1: a chat with MC5 manager John Sinclair. By Jay Babcock, with artwork by Geoff McFetridge.

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: The propaganda state attempted in 1930s Europe has finally reached fruition here in the US.A. Now what do we do?

Making clothes for fall from new BUILT BY WENDY patterns. Photography by Glynnis McDaris, modeling by Nicole Lombardi.

Chris Ziegler meets Los Angeles’ fabulous liberation rockers SHARP EASE, with photography by Molly Frances.

DAVE REEVES: Getting into it with Iran will be twice as fun as the party in Iraq! Just ask the British.

Scenes from a 1967 LOVE-IN AT LOS ANGELES’ GRIFFITH PARK, photographed by Seymour Rosen. Text by Kristine McKenna.

COMICS: “Mulberry Season” by John Hankiewicz, “Strings” (now in full color) by Pshaw.

The Center for Tactical Magic on CELL PHONES, BLUETOOTHS AND MAGIC SPELLS.

New Herbalist Molly Frances goes cuckoo for the ultimate natural brain food: NUTS

Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on dozens of new excitements from the planetary underground, including work by Upset the Rhythm, Leopard Leg, T.I.T.S., Marcia Bassett & Matthew Bower, Michael Bowman, Hello Trudi, Garry Davis, Dinosaurs, Baseball & Hopscotch, Glen or Glenda, Kapital Ink, Dumb Angel, Dream, Genders, the Mall, Sonic Transmission: Television, Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Astral Blessing, Vanishing Voice, Outlaw Con Bandana, Eric Amling, Trash Ritual, Government Alpha, Genius Females, Circuit Wound, Emily Maguire, Impractical Cockpit, Fat Worm of Error, Ian Svenonius, Chris Kraus, Suicide, New York Dolls, Patter, Robert Amft, C.M. von Hasswolff, Aritoma Nishihara, Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi, Lifespan, The Devil’s Sword, So Wrong They’re Right, Sonic Outlaws, Golden Digest and Trash Talking.

C & D think as hard as they can about records by Akron/Family, Beach House, Mick Barr & Zach Hill, The Horrors, Primal Scream, The USA Is a Monster, Wolf Eyes, The Thermals, Trainwreck Riders, The Black Keys, Buffalo Killers and Graham Coxon, as well as a new Blind Faith dvd, a new Byrds box set, the Numero Group’s Good God!: A Gospel Funk Hymnal compilation and of course Ed Rosenthal’s Big Buds Calendar.

…and much more

Arthur Issue #24

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Arthur Issue #23

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contents:

Who are BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT and how did they make one of the most beautiful albums of our time? Daniel Chamberlin catches up with the nomadic quiet-souls under a full moon in Joshua Tree. Photography by Eden Batki.

Arthur asked GODSMACK singer Sully Erna to explain his pro-war statements and his No. 1 million-selling pop-rock band’s involvement in military recruiting campaigns. Then things got stupid.

Good riddance to bad rubbish: why DERRICK JENSEN wants civilization to end–now. Interview by Jay Babcock. Photography by Shayla Hason. Read the article online.

Author Ed Halter on protesting inside online video games; plus a brief history of the heavy crossover between video game makers and the Pentagon. With illustrations by Geoff McFetridge.

New Herbalist columnist Molly Frances on the wonders of MINT.

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF on why he’s not moving to Canada.

Comics by J.T. MILES

John Patterson on the little-seen, oft-suppressed work of dissident filmmaker PETER WATKINS.

New earfuzz tones and drones from New Orleans: Gabe Soria interviews the BELONG dudes. Arik Moonhawk Roper paints a picture.

SIGILS, LOGOS & LUCKY CHARMS: how to recognize them and use them. By the Center for Tactical Magic.

Survivalism for Hipsters 101 by Dave Reeves

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review the latest emanations from the deep underground.

C & D take multiple infusions of Comets on Fire, Vetiver, Awesome Color, Zizek!, Beavis and Butthead Vol. 2, Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan, A Visit to Ali Farka Toure, Tony Allen, Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label, James Hunter, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Loren Connors, Charalambides and The Golding Institute Presents Final Relaxation.

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Arthur Issue #22

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featuring…

How nature droners GROWING found their flow. By Peter Relic. Photography by Eden Batki.

Swiss anthropologist-author JEREMY NARBY talks with Jay Babcock about what hallucinogens like LSD and the Amazonian drink ayahuasca have to teach us in the 21st century. Introduction by author Erik Davis, with a full-color illustration by Arik Moonhawk Roper.

How columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF learned to stop worrying about current events.

Why power duo Al Cisneros and Chris Haikus reunited to make the meditation-suitable heavy metal sound of OM.

“Do the Math” columnist David Reeves on the main reason why the USA should seal its border with Mexico.

The life, work and astounding impact of North Indian vocalist PANDIT PRAN NATH, guru to Western minimalists La Monte Young and Terry Riley. By Peter Lavezzoli.

“New Herbalist” columnist Molly Frances on Lord Byron’s secret elixir and the Prophet Muhammed’s top condiment: VINEGAR.

How to recognize–and use–OCCULT FORCES, by the Center for Tactical Magic.

Notes from Mardi Gras in New Orleans, 2006 by the intrepid Gabe Soria.

Comics by Vanessa Davis, Chris Wright and PShaw.

Scenes from ArthurBall 2006, featuring Joanna Newsom, The 5:15ers (Joshua Homme & Chris Goss) and Moris Tepper and Polly Harvey.

Bull Tongue columnists BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE review Richard Youngs, Pink Mountaintops, Parts & Labor, Oneida/Plastic Crimewave, Ex Models, Mouthus, The Bummer Road, Idea Fire Company, Taurpis Tula, Spykes, Ong Ong, Carson Cistulli, Starbird, 2673, Ladderwoe, Tovah Olson, Pan Dolphinic Dawn, Gastric Female Reflex, ANP Quarterly, Matt Chambers, The Colonial, Mineshaft, Little Claw, Black Lips, Zaat, Mystical Footprints of Asia, Whysp, The Story, Skarerkauradio, Jerusalem & the Starbaskets, Noise Nomads, The Nightjar Review, Shannon Ketch, Jeremy Rendina, Carousel, Quantum Noise, Lambsbread, Carlos Batts, Trenton Doyle Hancock, S.M.S.R., Tchernoblyad, Narrowmind, Sudanstrain, Blod, Sharon’s Last Part, Mnem, Edwidge, The Rita, Mania, Ashtray Navigations, Evenings, Septic Sores, Bottom Dweller, Paul Metzger, Tombi and Glass organ.

C & D riff into the dawn on Marvin Gaye’s The Real Thing: In Performance, 1964-1981 dvd plus new albums from Gnarls Barkley, Rufus Harley, The Black Keys, The Raconteurs, Eagles of Death Metal, The Cuts, Future Pigeon, The Aggrolites, The Fiery Furnaces, Espers, Josephine Foster, Scott Walker, Fred Neil, Belong, Boris and Howlin Rain. Plus: Peter Relic’s Book Conrer spotlights new poetry collections by Alex Mitchell and John Tottenham.

And more…

Arthur Issue #22

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Arthur Issue #21

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Contents:

Belief in RELIGION is a public health crisis, says columnist Douglas Rushkoff.

David Reeves says it’s not late to JOIN THE MILITARY before we come in for the big win in the end in Iraq. With an illustration by The Pizz.

Author Trinie Dalton catches up with the glamourous new age/punk artist/musician duo DELIA GONZALEZ & GAVIN RUSSOM in Berlin. Photography by Hadley Hudson.

Twenty years ago, a German enthusiast traveled with rock ‘n’ roll legend TAV FALCO and his Unapproachable Panther Burns through an American South on the verge of vanishing. Text and photography by Richard A. Pleuger.

How blues rock thunder chooglers PEARLS & BRASS found their sound in rural Nazareth, Pennsylvania. By Brian J. Barr. Photography by Maria Tessa Sciarrino.

The Center for Tactical Magic inaugurates a new column on APPLIED MAGIC with easy-to-do exercises in magical thinking, activating hidden forces and making presidents disappear.

If You See Something, Say Something, a new poem by Michael Brownstein

Effigies of George a new poem by Charles Potts

Four pages of new comics by BEN JONES.

“Rendition” by Sharon Rudahl

“Strings: comics by PShaw.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review 80 plus one significant emanations from the deep underground in 2005.

And C & D riff on new music by Mountains, Citay, The Duke Spirit, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Beth Orton, Belle and Sebastian, and Sparks.

Arthur Issue #21

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Arthur Issue #20

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In this issue:

How do the drone-metal bands EARTH and SUNN O))) get something out of nothingness? By Brian Evenson, with photography by W. T. Nelson.

DAVID LYNCH talks about Transcendental Meditation with Kristine McKenna.

Somewhere amidst the music-box plinkings, plangent strings and percolating drones of COLLEEN’s music is the Parisian Cecele Schott. John Adamian finds her.

American journalist/photographer Daniel Chamberlin concludes his travels in the Middle East with a journey through SYRIA and a return visit to EGYPT.

NEW ORLEANS filmmaker Henry Griffin returns to the Ninth Ward. Illustrated by Arik Moonhawk Roper.

Musician Alan Bishop listens to THE BUDDHA MACHINE.

Making money should really just be a happy result of contributing to the world what you do best, says columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF.

Comics by Tom Hart, Jason Miles and David Lasky.

Bull Tongue columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review the latest emanations from the deep underground, including new jams from August Born, Ben Chasny & Noel Von Harmonson, Telepathe, Child Abuse, D Yellow Swans, Inca Ore, Family Underground, Mirage #4, Industrial Sabotage, The Recluse, Calvin Johnson, Old Time Relijun, Selten-Ubel, Jeff Ladouceur, Nadia Moss, Lauren Naylor, Nate Young, King Brothers, Dirty Dynamite Gang, John Olson, Guam River, Dennis Tyfuss, Times New Viking, Double Leopards, White Rock, Jana Hunter/Devendra Banhart, Shackamaxon, Feathers and Kent Johnson.

C & D reason together about a bounty of new audio and video recordings from Tv on the Radio, Cast King, Nina Simone, Hisham Mayet, OOOIOO, Pearls and Brass, The Fall, Tarantula A.D., Mi and L’au, Bjorn Olsson, Biff Rose and Lavender Diamond.

Arthur Issue #20

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Arthur Issue #19

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In this issue:

Trinie Dalton finds out how blurry psych-art-rock ANIMAL COLLECTIVE make such beautiful, beguiling sounds. Photography by Susanna Howe. Plus: Deakin and Geologist on the “best drug ever”: scuba diving.

“Dr. Moustache and the Egyptian Gentleman”: American journalist/photographer Daniel Chamberlin spent three weeks traveling through EGYPT, LEBANON and SYRIA this summer. Here’s what happened, from the Cities of the Dead to the Hezbollah’s gift shop.

Reviewer Gabe Soria says SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS feels more like an epic-length stoner rock record than a video game.

Eddie Dean remembers R.L. BURNSIDE.

What our reaction to SUICIDE BOMBINGS tells us about ourselves, by columnist Douglas Rushkoff. Illustration by Dylan Martorell.

Faced with death and destruction, there was only one choice: life. A complete story from cartoonist JAMES KOCHALKA’s new collection, The Cute Manifesto.

“There are a lot of ghosts and good avocado trees in Echo Park…”: A short story by Trinie Dalton from her new book Wide Eyed, with an illustration by Ian Holman.

David Reeves on the secret powers of GINSENG..

New comics by Greg Cook, Kiersh and PShaw.

New artwork by Able Brown, Ernest Eugene Gibson, Nathaniel Russell and K-Fai Steele.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on Sunburned Hand of the Man, Jessica Rylan, Can’t, The MVEE Medicine Show, PG Six, Charles Potts, the Loosers, Fag Tapes, Death Kcomm, Hair Police, Dead Machines, Virgin Insanity, Magik Markers, Sun City Girls, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, The Time Flys, Sean Meehan, Glass Organ, Sewer Election, Impregnable, Mahogany Brain, Chris Trouchon, John Wilkes Booze, Maniacs Dream, Fricara Pacchu, Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family, Jack Rose, Paper Rad Collective, Leslie Keffer, The Assemble Head, 400 Blows, D Yellow Swans, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, The Recluse, Easter Everywhere, All Yesterdays’ Parties The Velvet Underground in Print 1966-1971 and Ed Sanders.

C & D comment on new recordings from Vashti Bunyan, Jana Hunter, M.O.T.O., Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up, Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq, Radio Pyonggyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom, Residual Echoes, Lightning Bolt, We Are Wolves, Boards of Canada, MF Doom & Dangermouse, Fiery Furnaces, Van der Graaf Generator reissues, Unknown Instructors and Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom.

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In this issue…

Cover illustration and lettering by PAUL POPE.

John Payne visits with a true master: JON HASSELL, composer, trumpeter and visionary theorist-enacter of a sensual new kind of music. Plus, a beginner’s guide to Hassell by John Adamian, and a provocative new essay by Hassell himself. Photography by W. T. Nelson.

Stricken by skin cancer, David Reeves journeyed to IQUITOS, PERU. There, he found witchdoctors, ayahuasca, deluded gringos, fears of American ‘facepeelers,’ the legacy of the CIA, the boat from Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, a shantytown built on water and more. Photography by Simon Lund.

Could it be that SERIAL MONOGAMY is at the root of all of our civilization’s problems? Columnist DANIEL PINCHBECK is on the case.

Swedish psych-pop wunderperson DUNGEN and Earth’s finest living crooner RICHARD HAWLEY get to work in their respective kitchens.

Arthur assembles its knights for a Round Table discussion on the gems worth checking out in THE GRATEFUL DEAD’s vast catalog. Up for the task are members of Animal Collective, Comets On Fire, Brightblack Morning Light and the Duna Records braintrust as well as Barry Smolin, Erik Davis, Michael Simmons, The Seth Man and Daniel Chamberlin.

ALAN BISHOP of Sun City Girls speaks with Brandon Stosuy about terrorism, travel, clueless Americans and curating the cut-up world music collages of his Sublime Frequencies label.

Oliver Hall encounters AFRIRAMPO, Osaka’s number one freedom paradise rock duo in downtown Los Angeles. Photography by W.T. Nelson.

New full-page comics by Keith Jones (”Bacter-Area”), Vanessa Davis (”Preparation Information”), Chris Wright (”Letter to Rachel”) and David Lasky (”Diary of a Bread Delivery Man”).

New artwork by John Lurie, Able Brown and Dennis Culver.

After a controversial sabbatical, 85-year-old bluesman T-MODEL FORD returns to the counselor’s desk.

Columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF wonders if some techniques of persuasion are so inherently wrong that they should never be used, no matter how noble the purpose.

“Bull Tongue” columnists BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE review the latest emanations from the underground, including new stuff from Picks & Lighters, Zaika, The Friday Group, Christina Carter/Andrew MacGregor, My Cat Is an Alien, Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation book, Richard Youngs, Andrew Paine, Alexander Neilson, Trinie Dalton, Vee Dee, Karate Party, Human Eye, Klyd Watkins, Charles Potts, Ex-Cocaine, Wayne Rogers, Marco Fursinato, Paul Metzger, Paper Rodeo mag, Roktop mag, Modern Arf mag, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Leprechaun Gathering, Whysp, French Sex Murders dvd, Dangerous Seductress dvd, Lady Terminator dvd, Samara Lubelski, Bummer Road, Nemo Bidstrup, Dream Magazine, zine, Prague Literary Review, La Societe des Timides a la Parade des Oiseaux, Legendary Pink Dots, Ka-Spel, Current 93, Kemialliset Ystavat, Maniacs Dream and Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano.

C & D come to important understandings about new audio and video recordings, including new makings from Ween, Shel Silverstein, Devendra Banhart, Silver Jews, Sinead O’Connor, Terry Reid, The 88, Flamin Groovies, The Time Flys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Cunningham, Bjork, Birds (feat. Cotton Casino, ex-Acid Mothers Temple), August Born, Coco Rosie, Modey Lemon, Sonny Sharrock and Earthless, plus a quick look at the Dick Cavett Rock Icons DVD set featuring Sly & the Family Stone, David Bowie and Janis Joplin.

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Arthur Issue #17

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featuring…

Kristine McKenna interviews BRIAN ENO on the eve of the release of his first solo album featuring vocals in decades. Illustration by John Coulthart. Plus, a celebration of the great domed one by Alan Moore.

Dave Reeves explains how to siphon gasoline out of an S.U.V.. With an illustration by Greg Cook.

Columnist Douglas Rushkoff on gurus. Illustration by Jeff Garcia.

Columnist Daniel Pinchbeck on the approaching end of day-to-day life as we know it. Illustration by Arik Moonhawk Roper.

Paul Smart journeys to a squatters’ village on the wild side of Maui. Photography by Fawn Potash.

Two pages from one of the strangest comic books ever published, courtesy of Jeff Lint biographer Steve Aylett.

Photographs by Jamel Shabazz from his new book, A Time Before Crack.

New comics by Marc Bell and Jason Miles.

Master of Reality/Goon Moonie Chris Goss reveals the history of his garlic-less Italian pork sauce recipe.

C & D on the new Kool Keith DVD and new records from Little Freddie King, Blowfly, A Band of Bees, HAL, Teenage Fanclub, Orange Juice, Vetiver, Gary Higgins, Judee Sill, Diana Cluck, Marissa Nadler, Debashish Bhattacharya, Gang Gang Dance, Boris, The Psychic Paramount, Residual Echoes, Growing/M. Evan Burden, Jane and The Juan Maclean.

Reviewed in Peter Relic’s Book Corner: Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail by Christopher Dawes.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on Jessica Delfino, Walter Ullbricht, Die Stadt, Dietrich von Euler-Donnersperg, Marci Denesiuk, Impractical Cockpit, Nuclear Family, Justin Clifford Rhody, Little Wings, Wooden Wand & Satya Sai Baba, My Cat Is an Alien, Crank Sturgeon, Gastric Female Reflex, Chris Corsano & Paul Flaherty, Steve Baczkowski, Cold Bleak Heat, By the Fruits You Know the Roots” compilation, X.O.4, Skaters, Toilet Paper, a tribute to Philip Whalen, Martz Matz, Joe McPhee, Maggie Nelson, Gown, Jaqueline Waters, Giant Haystacks, The Punks, Wolf Eyes, Ground Monkeys, Mouthus, Dosdedos, Tas Fuck, California Lightening and Sic Alps, plus a Top 10 from Michael Bernstein (Double Leopards, Workbench, White Rock).

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Arthur Issue #16

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FEATURING:

Raised in Sri Lanka and London, rising star M.I.A.’s pop instincts, radical consciousness and proudly pan-ghetto sound have no easy origin. Piotr Orlov interviews the defiant singer/MC in depth and at length (seriously! the Q & A alone is 5,500 words!). With photography by W.T. Nelson.

Author/scholar/poet Peter Lamborn Wilson (Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle n City and World, Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Atlantis Manifesto) on something better than political activism and other forms of contemporary ‘futilitarianism’: U.S. seccessionist movements.

Techgnosis author Erik Davis investigates spiritual hedonism, artistic communion and shared bohemian poverty in two of Northern California’s legendary Marin County enclaves. With photography by Michael Rauner and Stephen Frisch. Plus, a look at Zen teacher/poet/Druid Heights resident Alan Watts‘ recently reissued recordings.

A visit with today’s Scandinavian black metalists by Stacy Kranitz, with an introduction by Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal author Ian Christe. Featuring King ov Hell and Gaal of Gorgoroth, Satyr and Frost of Satyricon, Fenriz of Darkthrone, Frode Glesnes of Einherjer, Nattefrost of Carpathian Forest, Hymr and Lindheim of Helheim, Jyri Vahvanen of Battlelore, Nebelhexe of Hagalaz Runedance, Mortiis, and Blasphemer of Mayhem.

John Payne on the season’s prog by MAGMA and THE MARS VOLTA

“Sigil Logo” artwork by Sam Ott

Comics by Ben Katchor, David Lasky, Vanessa Davis, Josh Miles, Chris Wright and Becky Stark & Ron Rege

PLUS columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, columnist DANIEL PINCHBECK, answerman T-MODEL FORD, and, in the kitchen, guest chef MIKE PATTON.

Columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore appreciate the latest mindzaps from the deep underground, including work by Electrophilia, Burmese, Sighting, Michael Yonkers, Jack Rose, Sun City Girls, Paivansade, Hevoset, Edward Ka-Sepl and Martijn de Kleer of Legendary Pink Dots, Songs of Norway, Christus & the Cosmonaughts, Daniel Menche, Dreamcatcher, JMSTWGHRPR, Lee Ranaldo, Ira Cohen, Spacemen 3 & the Birth of Spiritualized by Erik Morse, Jonas Mekas, Dame Darcy, Miss Satanica, The Lamps, Volt, Weirdo Begeirdo, Foot Village, My Sexual Dad, Blab, Peter Bagge, Prague Literary Review, This Magazine Should Be Read Loud, Fish Piss, Ron Lessard at RRRecords, Ugly Things, The Misunderstood, The Loons, Sword Heaven, 16 Bitch Pile-up, Simon Joyner, Dennis Callaci, Hototogisu, Sexy Prison, Glass Candy, Hive Mind, Chinaboise and Mt. Gigantic.

C & D get their faces melted by the new SLEATER-KINNEY album…and also check out new stuff from Oneida, Angels of Light, Boredoms, Brain Donor, Turbonegro DVD documentary (!), BBQ, Radar Bros., Lee Perry, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan, Colleen, The Geto Boys, Neil Hamburger, Yellow Pills, The Ponys, Spoon, Death in Vegas and Josephine Foster.

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Arthur Issue #15

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FEATURING:

* A close encounter with the enigmatic psychedelic folk adventurer BEN CHASNY of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets On Fire. (Features massive text error in intro. Oy vey.)

* Controversial novelist and visionary J.G. BALLARD wonders if something fundamental has gone awry in America. Interview by RE/Search’s V. Vale, with an introduction by author Michael Moorcock.

* MEDITATION as a subversive activity, by Michael Brownstein. Illustrated by John Coulthart.

* Filmmaker Jessica Yu talks with Trinie Dalton about exploring the life and work of the mysterious artist HENRY DARGER in her innovative new documentary, Into the Realm of the Unknown.

* From Sharron Kraus and Albert Ayler to Lindsay Lohan and Savage Pencil, “Bull Tongue” columnists BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE reflect on “80 Goddamn Good Things of 2004.”

* James Parker on heavier metal by HIGH ON FIRE, DEAD MEADOW, JESU and OM.

* “Hotel & Farm” by BEN KATCHOR, “What Is Wrong With This Picture #3″ by JOHN LURIE and “Peace Comics” by BECKY STARK & RON REGE.

* BRENDAN BENSON explains how a proper cup of tea is brewed.

* A special feature on making art in troubled times, featuring new comics by Chris Wright, Brian Ralph, Dan Zettwoch, Megan Kelso, Ben Jones, Paul Lyons, David Lasky, Tom Hart, Vanessa Davis, Greg Cook, Marc Bell, Amy Lockhart and John Hankiewicz. Edited by Tom Devlin.

* New Arthur columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF on re-inventing the collective for the 21st century. Illustration by Jack Pollock.

* Weird War vocalist IAN SVENONIUS has a conversation with the Secret Service.

* Plus answerman T-MODEL FORD, a horoscope by BECKY STARK and the return of bickering review crew C & D, who this time round give their takes on new releases or reissues from Nina Simone, Antony & the Johnsons, The Kills, M. Ward, Fiery Furnaces, Louis XIV, Kings of Leon, Wolfmother, Parchman Farm, Heartless Bastards, Sunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough, Love’s a Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa, The Chemical Brothers, Ian Brown, Kasabian, Coyote, Mirrors, Jennifer Gentle and The Bird Show….

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Arthur Issue #14

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In this issue:

God Bless Jello Biafra: The former Dead Kennedy and veteran firebrand has returned to musicmaking with a car bomb of a new album, recorded with the Melvins. Sorina Diaconescu talks with Mr. Biafra in the direct aftermath of the Nov. 2 election about freedom, surveillance, pranks and selling out. Photography by W. T. Nelson.

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Through a curious legal twist, magic mushrooms are openly available for sale in Great Britain. Mark Pilkington reports back from a trip to the shops. With illustrations by Matthew Greene.

Photographer Ryan Beshara has been visiting the bingo halls of America. Here are some of the people she has encountered there.

The daring Danish art collective/company Superflex is changing the world by challenging multinational corporations at their own game. Text by Jay Babcock, photography by W.T. Nelson.

Oh, Canada: One year ago, Mdme X exited New York City for the cooler climes of Quebec. “So, how’s it going?” asked Arthur. Here’s what she told us, with an illustration by Tom Devlin.

“Here and Now” columnist Daniel Pinchbeck travels to Hopiland and finds a way of life threatened with extinction. Illustrated by Arik Moonhawk Roper.

Comics by David Lasky, Dan Zettwoch and Ben Katchor, plus artwork by Seldon Hunt.

T-Model Ford tells us what he wants for Christmas.

MF Doom gives us his recipe for “Villainous Mac & Cheese.”

James Parker on Mike Watt and Richard Meltzer’s autumnal works.

“Camera Obscura” columnist Paul Cullum is stark raving livid about the election results. Fortunately, he has the work of satirist Bill Hicks and (b>an unreleased Woody Allen film to help him get through it.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on underground music, poetry, prose, film and art, including work from Matthew Wascovich’s Slow Toe Publications (Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan, Tyondia Braxton, Dylan Nyoukis, Bruce Russell, Christina Carter, Valerie Webber, Real Knife Head), Criminal IQ label (Manhandlers, Functional Blackouts), Rachel Levitsky and Erica Kaufman’s Belladonna Books (Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Nada Gordon, Lynne Tillman, Lisa Jarnot, Rosemarie Waldrop), Kaufman’s Boku Books (Kaufman, Chris Martin), Social Registry label (the Electroputas, Hall of Fame), Shiv Mirabito’s Shivastan Press (Ed Sanders, Louise Landes Levi, Janine Pommy Vega, Andy Clausen, Ira Cohen), Bill Cassidy, Aa, The Weavers mag (Heather Leigh, David Keenan), Zdrastvootie, xochi23, Fursaxa, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sylvester Pollet’s “Backwoods Broadsides” series (Rochelle Owens, Bern Porter, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Amiri Baraka, Diane di Prima, Aram Saroyan), Carson Arnold, Briana, Deserted Village label (Murmansk, Job, The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree, The Cosmic Nanou, Wrecking Ball), Phylum Press (Susan Briante, Kristen Prevallet, Charles North, Trevor Winkfield), Double Leopards, Strange Attractor Journal, Tamio Shirashi and Sean Meehan, “Prisoner’s Inventions” by Angelo and The Spectral Light & Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree.

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Arthur Issue #13

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The cover feature is a MEGA oral history of the 1967 exorcism/levitation of the Pentagon and the birth of Yippie!. This piece was painstakingly compiled from old and new interviews with Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Kenneth Anger, Paul Krassner, Bob Fass, Norman Mailer, Tuli Kupferberg, Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and many many others. Also: stunning photographs by Robert Altman and Roz Payne, Ed Sanders’ original magical rite program, a page from The Oracle (San Francisco’s mid-’60s psychedelic newspaper), event buttons and cover artwork by John Coulthart that will render you mindless. You have been forewarned.

PLUS:

“If Little Bush Wins…”: DAVID CROSS and EUGENE MIRMAN smash their funny bones on the bully pulpit.

A recipe for Matzoh Ball soup from THE BLACK KEYS‘ Dan Auerbach.

GENESIS P-ORRIDGE’s ten favorite psychedelic folk songs.

Oliver Hall talks utopian pop and practical politics with feminist electro-dance bullhorn radicals LE TIGRE.

Erik R. Bluhm investigates California’s nascent New Energy Movement and the communal folkish leanings of LITTLE WINGS‘ Kaisle Feeled. Get the scoop on the movement’s collaboration with noted New York minimalist Ferg DeWitt, their taste in abstract paper clothing, and the current state of West Coast Naturmenschen. Illustrated with beautiful color photos by Jamison Carter.

Comics by Jason Miles, David Lasky, Vanessa Davis, Tom Gauld, Ben Katchor and Howard Cruse.

Why Daniel Pinchbeck went to Burning Man again. Illustrated by Arik Roper.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on new work from many of the known undergrounds.including Ben Watson’s DEREK BAILEY book, plus new stuff from FAT WORM OF ERROR, kuupuu, WITCYST,THE DEMARS, BARDO POND, TOM CARTER, PRAIRIE DOG FLESH, 500mg, PAIVANSADE, JOE + N, MIKE SHIFLET, CARLOS GIFFONI AND LASSE MARHAUG, ERIC ERLANDSON, DYLAN NYOUKIS, BLOOD STEREO, PENGO, JUSTIN BRADLEY, RICHARD RAMIREZ, REYNOLS, CRANK STURGEON, “PRETEND I AM SOMONE ELSE,” SIGHTINGS/TOM SMITH, XEX, BRAN (…)POS, ‘IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN,” “BRAKHAGE,” MAT BRINKMAN, GENEVIEVE CASTREE, GIGI PERRON, JOCKO WEYLAND, CHARLES POTTS, THE EVENS, DANIEL HIGGS, ET AT IT, DON ZIENTARA, FOXY DIGITALIS, PETER WRIGHT, MUSTI LAITON, HUSH ARBORS, AFRI RAMPO, “No W…NOW! A MUSICIAL PETITION AGAINST GEORGE BUSH” (featuring GLENN BRANCA, WHITE OUT, JACK WRIGHT, LOREN CONNORS, PAULIVE OLIVEROS and ERIC DROOKER), LOREN CONNORS, CHRISTINA CARTER, VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA, VOLCANO THE BEAR, AVARUS, EYE, THREE FORKS and DEVILLOCK.

“Camera Obscura” columnist Paul Cullum on the inspiration of Haskell Wexler’s “Medium Cool.”

C & D wax polemic about the “PICK A WINNER” DVD and new albums by TOM WAITS, THE CRAMPS, THE HIDDEN HAND, BLUES EXPLOSION, FELA KUTI MIXED BY CHIEF XCEL, AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, TIM HECKER, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, THE FUTUREHEADS, THE VERVE, PATTY WATERS, HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL, MARISSA NADLER, ENTRANCE, WILLY MASON, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, BROTHER JT, NAGISA NI TE, and GROWING.

PLUS MORE MORE MORE MORE.

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Comics author Grant Morrison, the 21st century’s Philip K. Dick, is the cover subject of Arthur’s biggest issue (64 action-packed broadsheet-sized pages!) yet. Magic works, says Morrison, and he would know–he’s been exploring it for 25 years. He talks with Jay Babcock about what he’s experienced, and What It (Maybe) All Means. Cover portrait of Mr. Morrison by “Seaguy” artist Cameron Stewart at left.

In an exclusive, extensive excerpt from his forthcoming book, Michael Streissguth explains why Johnny Cash went to Folsom Prison to make a live record. With stunning photography by Jim Marshall.

Royal Trux are gone, but RTX lives on. Jennifer Herrema talks with Trinie Dalton about chasing that airtight classic rock sound.

“Camera Obscura” columnist Paul Cullum goes in search of Bush’s brain–and finds it, in a new documentary film.

Answerman T-Model Ford on breastfeeding, the “sugar tittie,” what to eat on a first date and how come there aren’t more women playing the blues.

You gotta hear this woman sing: Josephine Foster of Born Heller and the Children’s Hour talks about her new acid-rock project The Supposed with Margaret Wappler. With a portrait by Plastic Crimewave.

Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne discusses the virtues of decaf.

Columnist Daniel Pinchbeck on why crop circles have something to teach us with an illustration by Arik Moonhawk Roper .

Never mind Metallica’s therapy film: James Parker reviews the new, strangely good Brian Jonestown Massacre Vs. Dandy Warhols documentary, Dig!

Britgenius author Steve Aylett, provides a horoscope, with zodiac designs by Arik Moonhawk Roper.

New comics by Ben Katchor, Gabrielle Bell, Tom Hart and Kurt Wolfgang.

“Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review Metal Urbain, Metal Boys, Dr. Mix and the Remix, Billy Childish, Tower Recordings, Smallflowers Press, Arthur Doyle, Hiroshi Higashi, Sound Projector, Push My Buttons, Deerhoof, Prurient, Kites, Gang Gang Dance, Tuck Tuck Tuck, Kaz and The Anaksimandros.

Bickering mysterions C & D comment on new recordings by The Gris-Gris, the Black Keys, The Faint, Mouse on Mars, Twilight Singers, Thalia Zedek, Mike Watt, Paul Westerberg, Rich Robinson, Whirlwind Heat, Col. Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains, Antibalas, Melvins/Lustmord, “Lucifer Rising” soundtrack, Wolf Eyes, Hope of the States, Signer, the Delgados, Thee Shams, Crime, the Libertines, Mushroom and the “Festival in the Desert” DVD.

And, somehow, much more….

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Oliver Hall conducts a wide-ranging and comprehensive conversation with Sonic Youth’s KIM GORDON, one of our era’s great iconoclasts. Photography by Emily Wilson with additional photos by Susan Moore Erdman, Kevin Estrada and Richard Kern.

Mark Pilkington reports from London on the Thelema convention coinciding with the centenary of the “transmission” of the Book of the Law to infamous occultist and” Great Beast” ALEISTER CROWLEY. With an illustration by John Coulthart and photos by Pilkington.

Late-blooming artist NOAH PURIFOY built massive sculptures from garbage on the desert floor of Joshua Tree, California. Arthur pays tribute to Noah, who died recently, with an appreciation/vintage interview by Kristine McKennaand new photos of Noah’s work by Bill Nelson.

Notes on the strange pleasures and pains of being a closet GRATEFUL DEAD fan by Daniel Chamberlin. With comics by D. C. Berman.

Are we in the midst of the Kali Yuga? And what is that anyway? Arthur columnist DANIEL PINCHBECK explains.

New artwork by Lounge Lizards founder JOHN LURIE.

Words of advice from T-MODEL FORD, a recipe from THE REIGNING SOUND’s Greg Cartwright, a poetry-comic by KENNETH KOCH, a full-page comic by KEVIN HUIZINGA, comics by BEN JONES and BEN KATCHOR, and new drawings by EVAH FAN and BRENDAN MONROE.

Paul Cullum on LARS VON TRIER’s more obscure work from the last six years.

James Parker on the new documentary DVD, RISE: THE STORY OF RAVE OUTLAW DONNIE DISCO.

“Bull Tongue” by Byron Coley & Thurston Moore features reviewage of work by Karen Constance, Jack Goldstein, Blood on the Wall, Icewater Scandal, Painting Soldiers, S. Isabella, Matt Wascovich, John Fahey, Stanley Brothers, John Weise, Cherry Point, Wavelength, “Captain Milkshake” DVD, Arek Gulbenkoglu & Adam Sussman, The Lost Domain, Simon Wickham-Smith, Julian Williams and other Rhizomne releases, Leprechaun, “Super Scratch” book, Gang Wizard, Algebrassiere, Clorox Girls, Excepter and Babyhead.

C & D bicker and enthuse about new records by Fiery Furnaces, Comets On Fire, The Reigning Sound, The Concretes, Martina Topley-Bird, The Obsessed, “High Volume: The Stoner Rock Collection,” Wolf Eyes, The Fall, Black Dice, M83, Legendary Pink Dots, SUNN O))) and “Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label.”

Plus other secret surprises.

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Arthur Issue #10

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Inside this issue…

DEVENDRA BANHART is here and he plays folk music. Trinie Dalton finds out where he’s coming from. Photos by Melanie Pullen.

Harp-playing folksinger JOANNA NEWSOM talks history, theory and inspiration with Jay Babcock. Visions of Joanna by Melanie Pullen.

The two sisters who are COCOROSIE have made an astonishing, haunting debut album. Trinie Dalton finds out how they did it. Photos by Melanie Pullen.

Oliver Hall raps with radical traditionalists FAUN FABLES. Photos by Melanie Pullen.

Director GUY MADDIN (”The Saddest Music in the World”) is highly resentful, terribly romantic and prone to melancholy. He also makes wondrous, utterly unique films. Kristine McKenna asks him some leading questions.

A slightly testy GODZILLA reflects on his long career in an exclusive interview with Dave Tompkins. Illustration by Brian Ralph.

Merrick explains how cell phones, Playstations and PCs are connected to ecological, human and animal destruction in Africa. Illustration by Ben Jones.

Comics by Marc Bell (a two-page spread!), Ben Katchor, Amy Lockhart and John Porcellino. Plus new doodleisms by Eddie Ruscha, Jr.

Words of advice from T-MODEL FORD, correspondence from our readers, commentary by SHARON RUDAHL and notes on our contributors.

WILL OLDHAM on pie and God.

Arthur columnist DANIEL PINCHBECK talks about the real passion of Christ.

James Parker on the autobiography of LEMMY. Illustration by Dustin Amery Hostetler.

“Camera Obscura” columnist PAUL CULLUM on Richard Nixon and Robert Altman.

The “Bull Tongue” review column by BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE examines Sun City Girls videos, Anit Strot, Leif Goldberg’s National Waste zine and calendar, Georganne Deen, Dreamlogic, Vampire Belt, Ptolemaic Terrascope, Dream Magazine, Young People, The Pirates & the Mouse by Bob Levin, Black Dice & Wolf Eyes, The Ponys, Excepter, Rhys Chatham, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, Lisa Jarnot, Jeff Fucckillo, Shattered Wig Review, the Residents, Effing Press, Niagara, Kevin Davies, Six Organs of Admittance and The Guitars Project.

C & D bicker and enthuse about new records by Eagles of Death Metal, Pink Grease, John Wilkes Booze, The Thermals, Mission of Burma, the Icarus Line, the Secret Machines, the Veils, White Magic, Espers, Acid Mothers Temple, Merzbow, Loren Connors, Thee Silver Mountain Reveries, Craig Taborn, Vetiver, Blanche, Los Lobos and Toots & the Maytalls.

And a new horoscope by IAN SVENONIUS.

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Legendary doom metal/stoner rock lifer WINO (St. Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan,The Hidden Hand, Probot) isn’t finished yet–not with these new war pigs in the White House to dispose of. Text by Joshua Sindell, with photos by Brian Liu.

Detroit’s visionary MC5 played like gods, lived like pigs and freed everyone they touched. Steffie Nelson interviews the filmmakers of the astonishing forthcoming

MC5 A True Testimonial documentary; James Parker, Ian Svenonius and The Seth Man walk us through the 5’s recordings; and Wayne Kramer, John Sinclair and Ted Nugent talk about the 5’s raw volume. With artwork by Plastic Crimewave, archival photos by Leni Sinclair and vintage posters by Gary Grimshaw.

Sue Carpenter ran

pirate radio station KBLT out of her Silver Lake apartment for three years. Now she’s written a book about the experience: 40 Watts From Nowhere (Scribners). Here’s six things she learned.

Hippies with too much time on their hands, or people who have their priorities straight? Journalist (and photographer) Daniel Chamberlin investigates the Great Arcata-to-Ferndale Kinetic Sculpture Race.

New Arthur columnist Daniel Pinchbeck on the accelerated evolution of human consciousness now underway.

LIARS‘ Angus Andrews talks about misguided angst and paranoia through the ages with Jay Babcock.

How to help keep kids from joining the military: a public service announcement from Arthur and the American Friends Service Committee.

Arthur regular T-Model Ford talks about what to do when someone’s dragging your name through mud.

Dave Catching (guitarist with Desert Sessions, Mondo Generator, earthlings?, Yellow Number Five) invites us into his kitchen and shows us how to make New Orleans Soul Red Beans, Rice and Corn Bread.

Artwork by Seldon Hunt, Leif Goldberg, Ivan Brunetti, John Hankiewicz, Tom Hart, Ben Katchor and

Eddie Ruscha, Jr.

Byron Coley and Thurston Moore review tons of stuff in their regular “Bull Tongue” column. And C & D bicker about loads of new music, much of it shockingly good.

Plus: A horoscope by Weird War vocalist/Gemini Ian Svenonius.

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Arthur Issue #8

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“SILLY BEASTS IN SACRED PLACES”: Karin Bolender on the secret truths that DOLLYWOOD reveals. Plus, an extensive review of DOLLY PARTONâs music by Paige La Grone Babcock. Illustrations by Emily Wilson.

Rootsy or folk? Post-punk or blues futura? The answer is: Yes. THE FIERY FURNACES might be all over the map, but Margaret Wappler finds out one thingâs dead certain: No one else is gettinâ in the band.

“ENCOUNTER WITH MAXIMON”: While investigating Guatemalaâs folk-magic patron saint of thieves and whores, James Marriott made a serious mistake… (With an illustration by John Coulthart!)

Hallucinogens, Ukrainian Catholicism, Nascar town alienation, the Tao De Ching and the Beatles helped make BROTHER JT the homegrown musical genius he is. Jay Babcock interviews America’s least-known national treasure. Plus, David Katznelson guides us thru JTâs vast and beguiling career.

Arthur regular T-MODEL FORD talks about crack, in-town cars and underage sex. HOLLY GOLIGHTLY invites us into her kitchen.

“R.I.P. SUV”: a poem by Charles Potts.

Comics by Gary Panter and Lauren R. Weinstein.

Steve Aylett on the whole Matrix bollocks, and Paul Cullum considers the new DVDs by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham in his ãCamera Obscuraä column.

Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review the De Stijl/Freedom From Festival in their “Bull Tongue” column, with wonderful photos by Seth Tisue. Discussed in this column: Hair Police, The Dream/Aktion Unit, MIchael Yonkers, Aaron Dilloway, Metalux, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, Emil Beausoleil, Bridget St. John, Fursaxa, Nmperign, The MVEE Medicine Show, The Wayne Rogers Unit, Borbetomagus, Tony Conrad, Neon Hunk, Burning Star Core, Arthur Doyle, Dead Machines, Jack Rose, Angelblood, Noxagt, Jackie-O Motherfucker, No Neck Blues Band, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Dwight Frizzell and Matt St. Germain.

Cantankerous duo C & D check out new releases from Unicorns, Eugene McDaniels, The Starvations, 22-20s, Sun Kil Moon, Jolie Holland, Mark Lanegan Band, Califone, Book of Lies-the Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult, Bobby Conn and the Glass Gyspies, US Maple, Skullflower, Pelt, Audra Kubat, Polmo Polpo and Double Leopards.

Plus! Art by Evah Fan and a photograph by David Ellis, a horoscope by Weird War singer Ian Svenonius (Gemini) and oodles of doodles by Ed Ruscha, Jr.

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Arthur Issue #7

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Cover by John Coulthart with W.T. Nelson.

My Bloody Valentine’s fluff-on-the-needle sound changed rock music forever. Then they disappeared. Ten years later, MBV’s Kevin Shields explains almost everything. Text and photos by Hua Hsu.

Paul Cullum considers jazz genius/Afro-futurist Sun Ra’s landmark feature film Space Is the Place on the occasion of its Director’s Cut DVD release.

This summer, underground psych bands Sunburned Hand of the Man, Comets On Fire and Six Organs of Admittance ventured across the continent in a traveling caravan of mindblowers. Tony Rettman reports live from the scene. Photos by Don Harney, Mike Galinsky and others.

In an exclusive excerpt from Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light, Flicker and the Dream Machine, author John Geiger explains the role of the legendary Dream Machine in the consciousness exploration of the ’60s by folks like Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Allen Ginsberg.

“Never Mind SARS”: Two entries from the just-published The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, by authors Steve Aylett and Brian Evenson.

“I was at home but I didn’t have anybody teach me nothin’.” Infamous 78-year-old Mississippi bluesman T-MODEL FORD weighs in on the home schooling debate. Controversial provocatuerix Peaches (wo)manhandles the problems that Arthur readers find themselves saddled with.

‘SEX $75′: Photography and text from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles by Susannah Breslin. “Sex was everywhere, every time I turned my head. Nobody else appeared to notice.”

“Charles Bronson, Dark Buddha”: An appreciation of a life, by author Joe Carducci (Rock & the Pop Narcotic).

Comics by Sammy Harkham (”The Golem Will Never Die”), Gary Panter (”Smoke Wagon”) and Jordan Crane (”Keeping Two, Part 6″).

Reviewage of recently released subcultural musical/textual/visual artifacts by Byron Coley & Thurston Moore. Including: Raymond Dijkstra and Timo van Luyk, Charlemagne Palestine, Tony Conrad, Steve MacKay, The Radon Ensemble, Bastard Noise, Smegma, Solid Eye, Afri Rampo, Richard Meltzer, Ed Pinsent, Tetuzi Akiyama, Splendor Mystic Solis, Tuck Tuck Tuck, Irving Stettner, Mineshaft zine, Wildflowers zine, Andy Clausen, Barbara Manning, Glands of External Secretion and Decaer Pinga, Fast Forward, Valerie Webber, Mouvement Lent (Slow Movement), Steven Heller’s new book on avant-gardemagazine design, Paper Rodeo paper, T.L.Kryss, Peter Brotzmann and Walter Perkins and Japanther.

A horoscope by Ian Svenonius (Make-Up, Scene Creamers/Weird War).

Cantankerous duo C & D comment on new records by The Hidden Hand, The Raveonettes, Ween, Terry Hall & Mushtaq, Brant Bjork, PFFR, The Rapture, Erase Errata, PrettyGirls Make Graves, High Llamas, Festival in the Desert, House of Low Culture, The Dirtbombs, Dufus, James Blood Ulmer, Robert Wyatt.

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Arthur Issue #6

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The Return of Iggy & the Stooges

Photographs by Peter Whitfield from their stunning live comeback at Coachella….Kristine McKenna talks with IGGY POP…RON & SCOTT ASHETON discuss their past, present and future with Jay Babcock…. How bassist MIKE WATT ended up onstage with Iggy & the Stooges, in his own words…. DON FLEMING on the lost Wylde Ratttz sessions that have led to so much more…

Plus…

For years, the L.A. Cacophony Society was a haven for creative misfits with a sense of humor. Then tragedy struck, and everything changed. By CHRISTOPHER NOXON, with photography by JACK GOULD and Michael Perrin.

This fall, American national treasure JOHN SINCLAIR says farewell to the USA for good. Jay Babcock conducts an exit interview with the poet, scholar and former manager of the MC5. Introduction by Byron Coley.

Full-page comics by JORDAN CRANE, MEGAN KELSO and SOUTHER SALAZAR.

Matt Leum interviews documentary filmmaker SAM GREEN about his new film on the Weather Underground, Î60s student radicals who wanted to take down The Man by ãbringing the Vietnam War home.ä

They were young would-be terrorists in love. Or were they? (In love, that is.) An exclusive excerpt from artist ERIN COSGROVEâs new romance novel The Baader-Meinhof Affair.

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY cheerfully answers questions about pathetic aspects of your lives. Plus, T-MODEL FORD talks about disciplining troublesome children in his new column, ÎT-Model Ford Knows Better’ and, in the margins, the debut of ÎAstrology by Arthur,â as written by IAN SVENONIUS (Gemini), lead vocalist for the Scene Creamers.

JAMES PARKER on Shemane Nugentâs Married To A Rock Star; PAUL CULLUM on film and DVDs in ÎCamera ObscuraÎ; reviewage of recently released subcultural musical/textual/visual artifacts by BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE in ÎBull Tongue’; and reviews in the margins by the C & D team.

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ARTHUR AGAINST EMPIRE!

Photographer Lauren Klain captures DAVID CROSS on his way to a Clear Channel war rally… Jonathan Shainin speaks with CHRIS HEDGES about the truths not being told about war…ALAN MOORE comments on what the US and UK governments have been up to lately….The fabulous GLAMericans are spotlit by Steffie Nelson… and DAVID BYRNE writes about his life during wartime.

Kristine McKenna on the Tower of Protest, a Vietnam-era action on Sunset Blvd by celebrated artists. With photos by Charles Brittin…

Righteous poetry by MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN, CHARLES POTTS and AMY TRUSSELL…

Art and comics by Steve Andersen, Tauno Blisted & Mac McGill, Robbie Conal, John Coulthart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bill Griffith, Megan Kelso with Ron Rege, Peter Kuper, David Lasky, Sharon Rudahl, Patti Smith & Jem Cohen, art spiegelman and Carol Swain.

MICHAEL MOORCOCK on the fate of empires; DANIEL PINCHBECK on why he’s glad George Bush is president; and new Arthur film columnist Paul Cullum asks “Is George Bush addicted to cocaine?” as he examines “Horns and Halos,” “Journeys with George,” “Uncle Saddam,” “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against the Third World” and “Unpredented: The 2000 Presidential Election.”

Also in this packed issue: Ask DICK VALENTINE of the Electric Si

“Keeping Two: Part Four” by Jordan Crane

Paige La Grone Babcock remembers June Carter Cas

Byron Coley & Thurston Moore do their review column bit

Jeff Brown, Martin Cendreda and Johnny Ryan gift us with comics throughout the mag.

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AN EXTRAORDINARY CONVERSATION

WITH ALAN MOORE

Between Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Everquest and Buffy, the pop arts are full up with mystical and magical ideas. But is there a deeper connection between the arts and the occult/mysticism? Celebrated comics author ALAN MOORE, whose League of Extraordinary Gentleman comic makes it to the big-screen this summer as a $100-million film starring Sean Connery (!!!), gives Arthur a historical-theoretical-autobiographical earful on the subject of magic and art. Extra-long feature convo with Jay Babcock, with a portrait by John Coulthart and photos by Jose Villarrubia. Check out that finger armor!

* ON THE ROAD WITH THE BLACK KEYS and SLEATER-KINNEY
Gentleman-journalist-poetPeter Relic rolls out for a week on tour with Akron, Ohio heavy blues superduo THE BLACK KEYS as they open a string of West Coast dates for thee mighty SLEATER-KINNEY. Hereâs what happened, best as Pete can remember. Photographs by Melanie Pullen and Pete; jokes by the Black Keys; chuckles by you the reader.

* HOW CORPORATE MARKETERS TARGET KIDS
In this exclusive, chapter-length excerpt from her new book Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, author ALISSA QUART examines how corporations and marketers scheme to take advantage of six-year-olds.
* JOHN COULTHART updates the US dollar bill to reflect the current climate. Yeow! This one stings. Note the legal disclaimer, please, if your name is “Clear Channel” or “Halliburton.” Use the First Amendment or lose it.

* 79-year-old bluesfella T-MODEL FORD has got all the answers. This issue he lets ARTHUR know where Bin Laden is probably hiding, what to do about a bad temper, how old you should be when you get married and why some women have mustaches. Thatâs true, now!
* Karin Bolender remembers the late Othar Turner and Bernice Pratcher, the risen stars of the Mississippi fife-and-drum tradition. With photographs by Christian Patterson and Yancey Allison.
* Comics by Martin Cendreda, Renee French, Luster Kaboom, Steven Weissman, Johnny Ryan, Jordan Crane and Sammy Harkham.

* And, in their regular “Bull Tongue” column, Byron Coley & Thurston Moore once again sift through the voids of all known undergrounds to bring you the good stuff in recordings, text and card decks (!).

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JOE STRUMMER, 1952-2002

Arthur holds a wake in print for a man who mattered. In addition to stunning photographs by Ann Summa and excerpts of back-in-the-day Clash coverage from Slash magazine, we present reflections on Joe by Kristine McKenna; a lengthy, poignant interview with Joe from 2001 by McKenna; a consideration by Carter Van Pelt of the Clashâs embrace of reggae, featuring insights from Clash collaborator Mikey Dread; and a brief on Joeâs legacy– a forest in the Isle of Skye.

* The intrepid Gabe Soria connects with every single member of THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, the cheeriest 24-person pop symphony on the planet, in addition to chatting at length with Spree leader Tim DeLaughter about the ãcä word, the SpreeÎs next move, and the sadness that remains. Portrait by Paul Pope.
* At the height of both his popularity and his artistic powers, JOHN COLTRANE went for something deeper. An exclusive, chapter-length excerpt from A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltraneâs Signature Album by Ashley Kahn.

* ASK JOHN LURIE – he may be in self-described ãhermit modeä but this longtime Lounge Lizard is eager to lend a helping hand to his fellow man. And woman too.
* In the work of artist SHIRLEY TSE, plastic aspires to more than Pop. Mimi Zeiger reports.
* COMICS by Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Johnny Ryan, Sam Henderson, Marc Bell and Ron Rege Jr.

* PLUS: Byron Coley & Thurston Moore review underground music, film and texts.

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FEWER THAN 50 COPIES LEFT

* The West Coast premiere of the Velvet Underground and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, in 1966? Lenny Bruce and Anita O’Day waiting to score? James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, the Black Panther Party and other good-souled political activists doing what needed to be done? CHARLES BRITTIN

was there, and these are his never-before-published photographs, as curated for Arthur’s readers by KRISTINE MCKENNA.

* He plays guitar and he writes/sings songs like you’ve never heard. He’s also 21 and has got a certain elfish charm. Ladies and germs, DEVENDRA BANHART, as witnessed by scribe GABE SORIA and shutterbug SHAWN MORTENSEN.

* Depressed? Hair falling out at age 23? Having sex with your cousin? “I know all about that stuff!” says Arthur’s new advice columnist, 78-year-old bluesperson T-MODEL FORD.

* Language as incantation, the art of the cut-up, larval culture, neural re-wiring and what does it feel like to live in a post-authorship world: all in a Sunday afternoon’s teatime with visionary artist-provocateur-human GENESIS P-ORRIDGE and hotshit media theorist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF. Photos by SHAWN MORTENSEN.

* In an exclusive excerpt from his new autobiography, legendary Brazilian musician CAETANO VELOSO takes us to the political, cultural and hallucinogenic frontlines of authoritarian Brazil, 1968. It’s all here: tanks, ayahuasca, street protests, witchcraft cults, and of course, Veloso’s fellow Tropicalistas, the musicians Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes.

Self-described desk-bound journalist SUE CARPENTER finds out firsthand and feet-first how women are transforming the 21st-century circus. With photographs by LAUREN KLAIN.

* Plus: Comics by Kevin Huizenga, Jordan Crane, Anders Nilsen and James Kochalka, and a drawing by Sammy Harkham; Britwit-novelist STEVE AYLETT revisits the legend of pulp fictionist/”rogue maniac” Jeff Lint, author of One Less Bastard

and creator of The Caterer; Byron Coley & Thurston Moore sort the pepper from the bugpoop in underground recordings, performance, poetry and text; and Peter “Piper” Relic remembers JAM MASTER JAY.

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* An exclusive chapter-length excerpt from The Ride of My Life, BMX madman MAT HOFFMAN’s new autobiography written with Mark Lewman. Photos by Spike Jonze, Steve Giberson and Mike Castillo.
* The crotchtastic electro-dynamo PEACHES, interviewed by indie-rock godstar IAN SVENONIUS. Portrait photos by Pat Graham and Shawn Mortensen.

* An interview with shamanic psychonaut/journalist DANIEL PINCHBECK, author of the just-released Breaking Open the Head. Artwork by Alan Moore. Yes, *that* Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen).
* A rendezvous with ARTHUR C. CLARKE in his Sri Lankan technoasis, by Paul Moody.Illustration by Geoff McFetridge.

* A frightful fairtytale in prose by DAME DARCY. Illustrated by the Dame herself. Excerpted from her new book.
* Writer EDDIE DEAN remembers driving an ICE CREAM TRUCK route in mid-’80s summers through the Blue Ridge Mountains. With stunning photos by Dave Brooks.
* An essay by the legendary JOE CARDUCCI (author, Rock and the Pop Narcotic) against the sorry state of contemporary culture. With a painting by Camille Rose Garcia.

* One-panel comics by DAVID BERMAN (Silver Jews, poet), including the now-legendary series “Scenes From the First Yes Tour.”
* A profile of LIFT TO EXPERIENCE, the most important art-rock band since Sigur Ros. By Jay Babcock with photos by Jason Amos.
* An appreciation of Eagle Pennell, the late Texan filmmaking maverick whose work inspired the Sundance Festival. By Paul Cullum.

* ASK NEIL HAMBURGER: America’s funnyman offers his considered counsel.
* Underground culture, as surveyed at lengthy by the dynamic duo of Byron Coley & Thurston Moore.

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