Music reissues: Tape Works 1981–1982 by Laughing Hands is out now, and Scott Walker’s early solo albums will be reissued in the summer.ĭrugs and the Mind (ii), a cover design from 1957 by Eric Fraser (1902–1983) whose illustrations and designs are in exhibition at the Chris Beetles gallery, London.
Related: The ITC Avant Garde Gothic group at Flickr.
From 2011: Sex, prison and lost ligatures: The story of Herb Lubalin’s Avant Garde typeface.
Related: In Conversation with the Violet Quill: Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and Edmund White.
Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines, Polaroids of New York’s gay enclave from 1975–1983.
Also on the latter is Chris Carter who talks about his own remix (and the “Radiophonic” Mr Judd) here.
Pye Corner Audio played the Boiler Room, London, last week, and remixed a track from FC Judd’s Electronics Without Tears.
Billy Gibbons’ pre-ZZ Top psychedelic outfit, The Moving Sidewalks, surprised everyone by reforming for a New York gig last month, their first performance together in 44 years. Poster design by Mishka Westell for this month’s Austin Psych Fest.