The west coast branch of the collective (me and sndrft eeoo) headed out to Oakland a few weeks ago for the 2009 Skronkathon BBQ at 21 Grand in Oakland. It was an “all-day marathon music and BBQ extravaganza” filled with an extremely eclectic list of performers. Traffic, confusion, impostors, malfunctioning software, potluck chili and a strangely hypnotic, clawed, goth, drone singer (myspace warning!) made for an enjoyably absurd experience.


Sndrft eeoo (cello, clarinet) and Mike Jacobs (game controller => pure data) at 21 Grand

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My man Gary Morris just started a new site to catalogue and distribute his veritable cornucopia of musical excursions. 

Like Proyekto, Gary gives you full albums, one-off tracks and big-ups to his fellow gang members. He will also fight you with a knife if you step to him (not true).

Highly recommended!

My preview on a new Soho art exhibition called the Black Acid Co-op appears in NYPress today. The opening is tomorrow night (July 2nd) and comes highly recommended for those in the area. 

DON’T BOTHER WITH the back room at Café Select. Forget the basement of La Esquina.The new place to be in Soho is the burnt out meth lab on Wooster Street. 

Beginning July 2 at the Deitch Projects annex on Wooster Street, you’ll find an artistic mishmash so thought provoking and racy that it will give the neighborhood’s usual debauched haunts a run for their (rolled up) money. I’m talking jars of mystery meat and faux fetuses, strewn kitty litter, a library, visual and auditory deconstruction, Chinese herbs, astrological pelts, the aforementioned meth lab, a blown up RV, aquarium rocks and a replicated penthouse art gallery. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, two New York-based artists completing their third collaboration, are the architects and alchemists behind this secret world. Welcome to the Black Acid Co-op.