comic books
Tom Morello playing Occupy Wall St today, Comic Con & Anime Fest begin today too (Carrie Brownstein will even be there)
Tom Morello @ Newport Folk Fest 2009 (more by Jim Brueckner)Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has announced plans to perform at the Occupy Wall Street protest at noon in Manhattan…
Devin Gary & Ross released an LP, Gary Panter is speaking @ the Whitney (where other stuff is happening too)
Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, Panter, designer and part-time musician whose name is synonymous with Pee Wee’s Playhouse, underground comics, and a post-punk artistic aesthetic…
Art Brt Brut released 'Brilliant! Tragic!', making a comic book, added more tour dates
DOWNLOAD: Art Brut – “Lost Weekend” (MP3)
Eddie of Art Brut serenades Webster Hall (more by Brook Bobbins)Dearest Internet
In glorious celebration of the imminent release of Art Brut’s ‘Brilliant…
Wavves made a comic book, playing free show in East River Park (and other dates)
Wavves‘s Nathan Williams is a modern day renaissance man. Besides being a guitarist/songwriter and a weed connoisseur, Williams is also a comic book author and has penned a twelve part series with friend Matt Barajas and illustrator Nicholas Gazin…
Jeffrey Lewis on tour, playing 2 shows Friday, setting up @ Cartoon & Comic Art Fest all weekend
Jeffrey Lewis at Mercury Lounge, 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard are currently on the road, and about to pull the van into Vassar College in Poughkeepsie to play a show tonight (4/7)…
Anamanaguchi opened for Super Mash Brothers @ Irving Plaza (pics), playing video game & comic book party Saturday
Silent Barn will host a day of “music, comic books, video games and non institutional learning” SATURDAY (2/5) starting at 2PM. It’s a multi-media event called OKEVERYTHING…
NY Comic Con 2010 in pics - part 3 (Stan Lee, Ne-Yo, Jon Glaser, Rob Huebel, Bruce Campbell & more)
Ne-Yo teamed up with Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee to host a discussion at this year’s ComicCon in New York City on Saturday. The R&B star and the the 87-year-old former president and chairman of Marvel Comics discussed their recent collaboration on, a comic book that Ne-Yo wrote to accompany his upcoming album of the same name…
New York Comic Con & Anime Festival 2010 in pics (part 2)
“Saturday’s event was a sellout, which meant tens of thousands of people were jammed into the convention center. While elbowing my way through the food court I overheard a Javits employee remark attendance had reached close to a million people…
Harvey Pekar, RIP
Harvey Pekar, the irascible writer who spun the mundane details of his own life and the quotidian existences of his fellow Cleveland residents into comic-book narratives, and who showed that the comic-book panel could include everyday feelings of anxiety and disappointment as easily as it does the adventures of costumed heroes, has died, The Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported…
Mastodon scoring Jonah Hex film, add more dates w/ Dethklok, Converge & High on Fire (2nd NYC show)
“Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have confirmed that they are working with composer John Powell and director Jimmy Hayward on the score to “Jonah Hex“, the comic-book Western/horror film starring Josh Brolin in the lead role, with support from John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Michael Fassbender and Michael Shannon…
