A Hello Evening Record Release Party, Saturday, San Francisco

epricco@gmail.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:49:53 +0100

If you are in San Francisco this Saturday night, might I recommend going to this record release party for Hello Evening? (I may or may not be playing an instrument or three on stage). That should be an incentive, right? If you read this and come, I will buy you a drink (probably I won't, but you never know, its worth asking me, it may give me a chance to do my best Liam Gallagher).

What doRead More...

A Moment, Part 13: The Art of John Intrater

epricco@gmail.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:25:13 +0100

(McCovey)

There is something you have to like and / or get bugged out about a painter that does abstract work and names it after Bay Area sports icons. Enter John Intrater, a Bay Area artist who is doing such thing.

"My artwork is named after Bay Area sports icons. I have been a die-hard fan since I can remember, so it only seemed natural to name each painting after Bay Area athletes -- Read More...

A Day in Santa Barbara with Ancell, Stecyk, O'Mahoney, Stussy, and Adler

epricco@gmail.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:51:27 +0100

As the title suggests, I drove through Santa Barbara on Friday with CR Stecyk III, and we made some stops, saw some people, and had some very good eats on Padaro.

A Couple of Days / Nights in Los Angeles

epricco@gmail.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:37:00 +0100

There were a bunch of photos I took in Los Angeles, and I'm just going to start posting them up on the site in chunks. Maybe there will only be two posts, not sure. Here are shots from LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits, Track 16 Gallery, lunch with David Choe, and some other random walking and driving around shots. You may see some Hockney, de Burgh, Eames, Schoultz, Choe, Stecyk, Bukowski, Bart Simpson, etc etc etc....Read More...

(A) Manifest Equality Night 1 & 2

epricco@gmail.com — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:06:42 +0100

I've spent the last few nights at the Manifest Equality show in Los Angeles, a pop-up gallery that "gathers together a diverse array of hundreds of the nation’s most talented visual artists under one roof to celebrate that role and join with our gay (LGBT) friends, family members and co-workers to demand full and equal rights for all Americans." Makes it easier to just cite the press release. Read More...

A Brief Intermission

epricco@gmail.com — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:39:49 +0100

I have a bunch of pictures I took last night at Manifest Equality, but my camera is acting up, so while I work it out, here is a picture of Cat Power that I saw on A Continuous Lean. Um, she is a bad ass.

And here is another.

That should work for now.

A Manifest Equality Show

epricco@gmail.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:16:38 +0100

Been in LA for the past couple of days, catching up with contributors and visiting my "friend" who is organizing the art gallery portion of Manifest Equality. I stopped by the space yesterday afternoon, and stole a few pictures from her camera. I don't know everything in the shots, but that is Swoon above.

A Band of Outsiders blog post...

epricco@gmail.com — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:45:04 +0100

Personally, and I don't think I'm going out on some undiscovered or any limb on this one, Band of Outsiders is one of the best men's and women's labels out there. Get yourself a Band of Outsider oxford, and you have the only shirt you need. Good to go. And they take these Polaroid shots on their blog with celebrities and randoms to encapsulate an entire season, and it is just a brilliant look, really fits thRead More...

A Juxtapoz Office Playlist for February 1-5, 2010

epricco@gmail.com — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:34:48 +0100

1) "On Jupiter" by Sun Ra

2) Anything by The xx, and it has been that way for months

3) "Odessa" by Caribou

4) "Out Go the Lights" by Spoon (again, its good)

5) "Suburban Beverage" by Real Estate

6) Teen Dream by Beach House

7) Champion Sound Remixes, Jaylib

8) Brilliant Corners, T Monk

9) Radiohead Live 2006, Bootleg from Greek Theatre, BerRead More...

A David Choe Gallery Show Preview

epricco@gmail.com — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:08:14 +0100

We had a business meeting on the floor of the FIFTY24SF Gallery, home of his "Character Assassination" exhibition, opening this Friday, but that only lasted about a half hour. More on business later, maybe in a few weeks, but David Choe is very much back in San Francisco, and very much setting up shop at the gallery.Most of the conversation circled around the Kabuki Hotel, Charlie Isoe, painting in cold placesRead More...

A Tribute: JD Salinger, Age 91, Passes Away

epricco@gmail.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:27 +0100

J.D. Salinger passed away this morning. It would be rather problematic to not consider this man's legendary status, and I think anyone who has written anything in their life post WWII has in some ways been influenced by Salinger.

A good one from Catcher in the Rye:

What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and placesRead More...

A Juxtapoz Office Playlist for January 25-29, 2010

epricco@gmail.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:43:26 +0100

Every week, if I remember, I'm going to chronicle the random songs/albums that I notice I play more than others during a given week. I like doing things in quantity of 11, so you get a top 11.

1) Woods, "Rain On," from Songs of Shame

2) Quasimoto, The Unseen Instrumentals

3) Spoon, "Out Go the Lights," from Transference

4) Thom Yorke, "Harrowdown Hill (ExtendRead More...

A Gallery show by Mos Def & Cognito opens at HVW8 Gallery

epricco@gmail.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:22:10 +0100

If you are a Mos Def fan, and you probably should be, this is going to be a really cool show. HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles, that has some of the most interesting shows in all of the southland, is hosting a one week exhibition of Cognito's photos of Mos Def and the Ecstatic Tour. Mos Def is nominated for two Grammys, so it all coincides with the tour of the album nominated, and Mos Def is oneRead More...

A 2010 Jam: Jay Electronica's "Exhibit C"

epricco@gmail.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:56:33 +0100

This is my January song of the month, new jam, my jammy jam, my top track, top single, top moment, top MC, top hit of the early winter 2010 season. Jay Electronica, "Exhibit C," produced by Just Blaze, and the song is very very good.

A New Juxtapoz Issue: February 2010 featuring Josh Keyes, WTaps, Gentle Giant Studio

epricco@gmail.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:21:45 +0100

I'm always proud of the issues we put out with Juxtapoz, but the past few have been some of my favorite editorial issues since I got here at the end of 2006. Barnstormers and the Jose Parla cover, to the January Kehinde Wiley cover, to the new Josh Keyes February cover, they all seem electric. Good interviews, photos, artwork...

I got the chance to interview Karl Meyer of Gentle Giant Read More...

A Good Cause: Radiohead Benefit for Haiti in LA this Sunday

epricco@gmail.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:30:37 +0100

I've been on a big Radiohead kick recently (surprise, it comes in waves, but that wave comes every month or so), more specifically it has been a Thom Yorke kick because I have been playing, on repeat, his BBC1 Radio show he hosted with Gilles Peterson this past week. The setlist got me back listening to some favorites, like Mingus, Madlib, Clinic, Doom, Jay Electronica, etc... basically going to BoomKat.com aRead More...

A SFMOMA 75th Anniversary Press Preview

epricco@gmail.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:45:00 +0100

Yesterday morning to afternoon, High Speed Productions' publisher, Gwynn Vitello and I were invited to participate in the SFMoMA's 75th Anniversary show press preview.

Living in the Bay Area my entire life, and since the mid-1990s, going to the SFMOMA's new home on 3rd Street in the heart of SOMA, the museum has become, more and more as the years go, an attraction: a beautiful Mario Botta desiRead More...

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