Made available from our archives is a fine copy of Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Die Toten, 1967-1993. The softcover book was published by Feldmann Verlag in 1998 and compiles – in pictures culled from printed matter of the period – the violent deaths of almost 100 people between 1967 and 1993. Deaths that resulted from the escalation of violence in Germany following the murder of student Benno Ohnesorg…
Sea Urchin has released on 12-inch vinyl Heathcote Williams reading a selection of his poems. The LP comes with an offset printed sleeve and an audio-CD that contains all the tracks of the vinyl plus two extra recordings. Jan Herman, who recorded Heathcote Williams in September 2013 and who…
Since 1979 Pigface Records has had a dual mission: reflecting Smegma’s personal, L.A. centric freak aesthetic and revelling in aspects of the current and past Portland scene. After the initial burst of vinyl and cassettes (1979-86) there was a 25 year or so break. Pigface Records has been reinvented by founder Ju Suk Reet Meate…
This cassette is a 40-year anniversary edition with original recordings by Ju Suk Reet Meate in Altadena, California on May 16 1974, except Side B, track 3, which was recorded on May 20, 1974. Final Editing and EQing was done in January 2014. On this recording Smegma is: Paul Rioux, Ace Farren Ford, Amy, Bev, Dennis Duck, Chuck-O-Fats (Donkey Flybye), Cheez-it-Ritz, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Chuck, and Cheez-Bro…
The front of this hallucinatory postcard, published by Cold Turkey Press in a limited edition of 36 copies, shows a collage by the recently deceased Norman Ogue Mustill. It is “Mustill in a light sorta mood, or so he thought”, writes his friend Jan Herman, “light for him, anyway: no severed bodies or bloody stumps….