Three Sensitive Skin editors had a chat with legendary musician and composer Fred Frith. We asked him some good questions, and some (or so he apparently thought) pedantic ones. But that’s how we roll. Fred’s answers were always interesting…
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Ghazi Barakat discusses “The United States of Hoodoo” with long-time friend Darius James, who stars in the documentary film. They cover everything from Sammy Davis and the Church of Satan to the murder of Robert Johnson to Maya Deren and Eartha Kitt.
Editor’s Note: This letter from Herbert to his Dad was first published in Peau Sensible, the print precursor to Sensitive Skin, in the summer of 1992. The issue also contained work by Joel Rose, Jack Micheline, Darius James and many more, and will soon be available as part of an anthology collecting the entire original… Read more »
A Sensitive Skin web exclusive! Allen Ginsberg interviews William S. Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas in 1992. With photographs by Ruby Ray, from the original REsearch magazine sessions, and drawings by David West. With an intro by B. Kold.
The New Monsters are a Bay Area combo lead by bassist Steve Horowitz (The Code International) and tenor sax “monster” Dan Plonsey (of Daniel Popsicle, and composer of Leave Me Alone, an opera with libretto by Harvey Pekar). Dan and Steve go back many years as both friends and collaborators; they toured together in 1999… Read more »
The Berkeley Arts Festival 2011 presents OFF, the Old Friends Festival, highlighting the best of the 1990s Bay Area music scene. 25 musicians, six bands, two nights!
Just dug up this nugget – an entire Spitters show (almost 21 minutes long!) filmed live at The Cooler, a great 1990s downtown NYC rock club. This performance is from 1998 and features the post “boy-band” Spitters; Bill, Tim and Louis have all graduated to other pursuits (including high-school teacher, fatherhood and life imprisonment, roughly… Read more »
Snow Advisory was shot in ’99 at Plaza Blanca in Abiquiu and at Tsankawi Caves right near Bandelier National Monument near the Jemez Mountains and the infamous Los Alamos New Mexico.
George Kuchar, RIP. Kuchar and his twin brother Michael practically invented the “camp” genre. He prided himself on making films with non-actors, script, or theme, for almost no money. The 8mm movies he made in the 60s were as important a part of the underground film scene as those made by by Andy Warhol, Kenneth… Read more »
Whenever anyone asks me who my top transgressive Canadian writers happen to be, Philip Quinn is always at the top of that list. Hamilton-born, Quinn’s writing takes the familiar and makes it strange; then takes the strange and makes it quotidian. He is one of those few Canadian writers whose works are consistently transgressive and… Read more »
Here’s a Friday night treat for you all – the complete concept film of Serge Gainsbourg’s classic “rock opera”, Histoire de Melody Nelson. There’s little doubt that Melody Nelson, a short (27 minute) album released in 1971 is Gainsbourg’s masterpiece. If you’re a fan of the man (as are Air, Beck, Pulp, Portishead, and many… Read more »
Jane Does reviews Chester Brown’s “Paying For It.”
I left upstate New York at 18 still thinking Robin Trower and the Marshall Tucker Band were music. Until fall 1976, when I came across Punk magazine #3 (the Joey Ramone cover) in Boston. It was like some message inside me suddenly got decoded: Oh—I get it! When my first-ever job in NYC went south… Read more »
And, in the Predictable Controversy Department, Las Vegas’s The Arts Factory is showing (and selling) the art of John Wayne Gacy, in a show called Multiples. (The actual location for the show is Sin City Gallery.) As of this writing, their website still claims the proceeds will go to the National Center for Victims of… Read more »
In the Spring of 1971 Herman “Sonny” Blount, aka Sun Ra, was artist-in-residence at the University of Califonia at Berkeley, where he offered a lecture course, “The Black Man in the Universe.”
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Sensitive Skin issue #9 is available in a full-color paper edition, and features an exclusive interview with seminal guitarist Fred Frith, the missing chapter from the latest novel by science fiction legend Samuel R. Delaney, a portfolio of paintings from John Lurie, a memoir by Marty Thau, former manager of Suicide and The New York Dolls, a new translation of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, photographs of the seamy side of Tijuana by Chris Bava, an interview with Darius James, about his new documentary, 'The United States of Hoodoo,' art by J.D. King and James Romberger, and much, much more.
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Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming a novel by "Carl Watson . . . explodes the bleary-eyed myth of the American road."—Donald Breckenridge |
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Barefoot in the Heart "Barefoot in the Heart" is a collection of transcribed oral stories of the Indian "miracle saint" Neem Karoli Baba. Edited by Keshav Das, it includes many anecdotes and first-person retellings that for various reasons did not make it into "Miracle of Love," edited by Ram Das. |
