We talk to desert rockers BATT about Making a Scene out in the Mojave, playing in pools, their Wonder Vally Summer's Eve Fest, and skateboarding in National Parks with monks.
To celebrate Cy Dune's upcoming No Recognize EP, a bunch of local musicians, and other various art types, got together in the Arizona desert and shot at some cans of spray paint with guns, which then exploded all over canvases. Sounds like a pretty perfect way to spend the day.
Hummel talks racecars in Mexico, Record Digging in Brazil, vintage Porsche sourcing, dj'ing small town Indonesia, and skateboarding the way it was. Japan/Oregon/California culture.
Aaron Rose, founder of NYC's famous Alleged Gallery and director of Beautiful Losers, speaks to us about the seeming randomness behind a counter cultural movement in our Culture Creator Series 001 interview.
Do you see this insanely awesome picture of the Pontiac suspended in air above? Read this conversation with brilliant artist Jesse Sugarmann.
Legendary Post minimal Proto No Wave composer Rhys Chatham tells his story first hand. This memoir traces his path from 60's Soho NY with Morton Subotnick, LaMonte Young, Philip Glass, and Richard Serra, to discovering the Ramones at CBGB's, all the way to his current home in Paris.
Legendary documentary filmmaker of Who is Bozo Texino, Guggenheim Fellow, Genius Punk Photogpraher - Bill Daniel opens the vault of his amazing Texas Punk Problem series, and turns the camera away from the bands to explore the scene. Crowd shots from Bad Brains, Husker Du, Butthole Surfers shows, and more….
Long before zip lock bags of Williamsburg air were selling on the deep net for $20k, a host of creative misfits were reinventing culture a few 100 feet east of the east river. Home to many of our favorite Williamsburg artists, including Maya Hayuk, Kayrock printing, and the infamous Oneida Ocropolis studio, musician Andrew Deutsch and myriad friends take us into the legend of Monster Island.
We talk with Jesus Robles of Tucson Design/Build firm Dust, about desert architecture and the space and line between architecture and sculpture.
Looking back on how Lightning came together, it’s as if we have been chasing this story, and it’s many threads, for years.
Tales from the Doritos vending machine.
Pro Motorcross rider turned artist, Derek Gibson talks about growing up riding dirt with his dad in Southern California, and channeling that spirit into his current art practice.
Simple song masterworks on the new Wooden Wand LP Azag-Toth released on Lightning.
Los Angeles based sculptor Katsuhisa Sakai shows Lightning editor and photographer Patrick Gookin where he has hidden his secret sculptures in the Souther California desert.
Lightning editor Ali Beletic builds a primitive surfboard out of Tule reeds and surfs it at Doheny.
Underground legend Howard Wuelfing traces the confusing lines of proto punk through email.
Future Jazz Lightning fingers, screaming acoustic revolutions with the new Limited Edition William Tyler album out on Lightning Records.
Life exists tenuously. E.O Wilson writes in The Diversity of Life, “The biosphere, all organisms combined, makes up only about one part in ten billion of the earth’s mass……Michael Yun, landscape architect and guitarist in WL, talks the ecology of design.
Mule Skinners, Circle K, and the American Dream - up in smoke with the new release by Tucson underground legend Ohioan.
Reading Tale of Two Cities is actually awesome. John Wilkinson hikes from Mexico to Canada.
Redbox late at night in front of Circle K. Ryne Warner of Ohioan explores water rights and modern punk culture in Tucson.
Master Tucson woodworker Peter Baer reveals the unknown story of his past, his love for Stanley Clarke's bass shredding and dropping out of school to play Achy Breaky Heart in some Montana wanna be Casino.
Ego Death, rebirth, skipping out on high school and black flag for school credit on Dead Tour in the 80's.
Lightning Records is proud to release the first official Moan record Think About Forgotten Days.
CHRIS OWENS AND HILUX COFFEE / SETH OLINSKY SOUND INSTALLATION / ALI BELETIC SCULPTURE / DESERT HANG OUT / PIONEERTOWN CA.
Cy Dune channels Dan Graham, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bad Brains, Patti Smith, and Black Flag, on his new Lightning LP Shake.