Had a blast chatting with Paul Leary and King Coffey of Butthole Surfers for Pitchfork about their latest batch o' reissues: Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis, Locust Abortion Technician, Hairway to Steven.
The chaos-capturing pix are by my old friend Pat Blashill (author of Lone Star punkscene photohistory Texas Is The Reason), reuniting us on the same page for possibly the first time since Melody Maker days.
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Had a really interesting chat with Greek journalist Angelos Kletsikas about Futuromania - touching on subjects like retro culture, AI, politics + pop, form versus content, and the imperishable appeal of raves.
Perhaps one of the best gigs I have ever been to was Gibby Haynes performing with the "School of Rock" All-Stars in 2008 at Highlight Ballroom in NY. The SOR "All-Stars" were young teens. It was absolutely surreal to see him do "Sweet Loaf" in audience filled with parents filming their kids performing with old punks who saw them back in the 80s slam dancing each other. It was awesome!
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