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Historical ramblings on Mutant Bike Organizations (aka MBOs): CHUNK 666, BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB and Naughty NYC…

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Remembering CHUNK 666′s Chunkathlon and BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB’s Bike Kill (among other bike-fun-fests): …a little bubble of mutant-bike utopia – Megulon 5 BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB The Black Label Bike Club is an international freak/mutant bicycle organization specializing in tall bikes and choppers, established in 1992. Jacob Houle and Per Hanson started the club [...]

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Bookstore of the Night #2: Slideshow

Saturday, March 2, 2013
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Duck Tapes… A Limited Edition Cassette-only Label

Thursday, February 21, 2013

(Tape tattoo by Scott Sylvia) (HF line art by Luke Falquez) Duck Tapes on the event horizon… Our new cassette-only label, DT, is primed to drop in the coming months. We have a couple releases in the works and accompanying art is in the making. Look for co-releases with effluvian zine publishing imprint Hold Fast, [...]

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Reposted from Goteblud: Free the Crass Symbol!

Friday, February 15, 2013

The symbol that Dave King created in 1977 made its first appearance in Penny Rimbaud’s impassioned manifesto, “Christ’s Reality Asylum.” It then went on to become the logo for Crass, who defined anarcho punk for decades to follow. In the intervening years, the symbol has been reproduced countless times, and become the basis for mashup, [...]

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Better Late Than Never: Getting Postal wrt The LA Art Book Fair

Thursday, February 14, 2013

(Dusty post warning.) Last week the effluvian co-editors took a trip downtown to The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA for Printed Matter’s: The LA Art Book Fair… Much time was spent perusing the zine room, fingering little bunches of paper and spending little bunches of cash. Good conversations were had at many of the zine tables, [...]

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