Mike Kelley is no more. His death has shocked us deeply. A great artist has left us. Shortly before his death Mike sent us samples of the latest editions on his Compound Annex label. At the time we ordered a number of those, which – now that we have said farewell to Mike – have been added to our catalogue next to the Compound Annex editions that we already stocked. A tribute.
Mick Farren is known as singer of the legendary British proto-punk band The (Social) Deviants (1967-70), editor of International Times, activist, writer, journalist, and occasional songtext writer for Motörhead, Hawkwind, and Wayne Kramer. In 1970 Farren organised the Phun City Festival which featured a.o. The MC5 and William Burroughs. For his solo album Mona, the Carnivorous Circus (1970) Farren was awarded an “approval patch” by the Hell’s Angels.
Black Dogs Circled is a collection of poems compiled by Mick Farren and Sea Urchin and printed in a limited edition. The 18 poems contain personal observations, phantasies, obsessions, memories and lyrics, composed by Farren with a musical ear and a sense of humour. Space Opera, Skin Of White Latex, Cocktail Napkin, en The Creature are some of the titles of the poems that together create a sultry atmosphere. Punk, kinky, subversive, intoxicated: Farren at his best. Design and illustrations by Ben Schot.
This beautiful little book and accompanying audio CD have been compiled by Cary Loren on the occasion of the Destroy All Monsters show Hungry For Death at Boston University Art Gallery, November/December 2011. A full DAM discography, photos, flyers, drawings, and notes plus essays by Byron Coley and Brandon W. Joseph.
The included audio CD Get Out Of My Bedroom! consists of 74 minutes of previously unreleased Destroy All Monsters material: demos, recordings of practice sessions and live performances, and solo pieces from the period 1974-2007. → Great stuff!
Now available from Sea Urchin: Destroy All Monsters Magazine edited by Cary Loren.
This beautiful book is a facsimile edition of all six Destroy All Monsters magazines (issued between 1976-79), including recovered material of the ‘lost’ seventh issue, which was never released. The Primary Information publication Destroy All Monsters Magazine contains artwork, photographs, and flyers from original DAM members Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw and consists of densely layered pages with B-movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, drawings, psychedelia, and subversive collages.
→ Get your copy now and blow your mind for good.
Primary Information (James Hoff & Miriam Katzeff) is a New-York based non-profit organisation devoted to printing artists’ books, artists’ writings, out of print publications and editions.
Dan Graham’s collected essays on rock and music were published in 2009 by Primary Information and are described by the publishers as follows:
“The first collection in English of Dan Graham’s influential body of writing on Rock and Roll music. Stretching from the late 60s to the late 80s, Rock/Music Writings contains the following 13 essays, most of which are currently out-of-print or seen here for the first time in a widely distributed form: Holes and Lights: A Rock Concert Special – All You Need Is Love – Live Kinks – Late Kinks – Country Trip – The End of Liberalism – Punk as Propaganda – Rock My Religion – New Wave Rock and the Feminine – Musical Performance And Stage-Set Utilizing Two-Way Mirror And Time-Delay – McLaren’s Children – Untitled – Artist as Producer”.
→ Order this book from the Sea Urchin catalogue.