“Crom: All Hail Those who Fail” follows the Los Angeles based powerviolence band’s early 90’s days as a trio, then into the trio becoming a five piece through both LP’s, and catches up with them in September of 2008 as they try to complete their first ever East Coast tour during their 15 years as a band.

To Have & To Hold is a ‘musicmentory’ to celebrate the age of vinyl records…including interviews, fresh graphics and good music.

One of my favorite blogs… Morbid Anatomy is an “eye opening look at the intersection of art, medicine, death and culture”.

Beautiful Decay’s Book 2, titled What a Mess!, arrived yesterday in the mail.

Details:

Book 2: What A Mess!

The artists of “Book 2: What a Mess!” all interpret the idea of “messiness” whether through disorganized methods of displaying work, or rough hewn aesthetics. Others take a conceptually “messy” approach, creating works that cause public outrage, or manipulate typically taboo imagery or themes.

In the spirit of the theme of the issue, Beautiful/Decay got a little messy ourselves, using a playfully “messy” approach to our page layouts, including crumpling photos and creating a custom typeface of childhood favorite construction materials: googly eyes, popsicle sticks and puff balls.

Book 2: Special Features

* Hand Signed Silkscreen mini print by Cody Hoyt
Each copy of Book 2 comes with a dazzling taco and fruit loop eating glue-sniffing guru print by Cody Hoyt. On the back, each mini-poster is hand signed and hand numbered by the artist!

* Sticker Insert
Custom collaborative sticker featuring a rock n’ roll wookie/Bigfoot character by Moritz Schleime.

* French flaps & Gatefold
Book 2’s front and back lining gatefold of the book opens out to stunning three part geometric diagrams, abstracting photos of the artists and their studios into a dizzying digital display replete with a secret code!

* Hand Numbered Edition
Each and every copy of Book 2’s exclusive 1,500 print run are hand numbered.

* 164 Pages of Pure Content- No Ads!
All traditional advertising has been eliminated, meaning 164 pages of pure, unadulterated content. Book 2 features some of the most in-depth interviews and image-rich spreads on emerging and establishing artists available today.

Check out the a full video preview here.

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29 years ago, John Lennon was murdered.

(Thanks Witchbeam)

“Make no mistake! Home Taping is what is killing music.” Heh…
Buy the shirt at Mondo.

“I own my shelf-space and I can do anything I want with it.”

John Nese is the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lovers destination. About 500 pops line the shelves, sourced lovingly by John from around the world. John has made it his mission to keep small soda-makers afloat and help them find their consumers. Galcos also acts as a distributor for restaurants and bars along the West Coast, spreading the gospel of soda made with cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup if John can avoid it).

There’s a great post over at The Selvedge Yard on custom 1970s vans.
1970s vans hold a very special spot in my heart. Especially red ones with a mirror over a bed in the back…

In case you don’t know: Each TV CARNAGE volume is hundreds of hours of exceptionally bad TV lovingly fused together into an hour plus; glorious cesspools of retardation. These are the compilations that have been featured and loved by VICE MAGAZINE, NME, SHARPEWORLD, FORT DRASIC, OK FLAVOR, DAILY CANDY (see CARNAGE KUDOS for more) and shown in festivals and porn theatres throughout North America, Europe and Japan.

Get them here.

The story of Dock Ellis’ no hitter on LSD.

(By No Mas)