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Talking the Texas Punk Problem
Talking the Texas Punk Problem

TALKING THE TEXAS PUNK PROBLEM

with legendary photographer Bill Daniel

 

  JESSE SUGARMANN     Talks Making Art with Cars

JESSE SUGARMANN 

Talks Making Art with Cars

Eric Block in Conversation with Scott Towne
Eric Block in Conversation with Scott Towne

NEVER BORING

Eric Block in conversation with Scott Towne

Remembering Williamsburg's Legendary Monster Island
Remembering Williamsburg's Legendary Monster Island

MONSTER ISLAND

Remembering the Legendary Williamsburg misfit/venue/studio with Andrew Deutsch, Maya Hayuk, Wolfy, and a cast of 1000s

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Making a Scene : BATT Joshua Tree, CA
Making a Scene : BATT Joshua Tree, CA

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. 

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Cy Dune Where the Wild Things Video Premier on Vice
Cy Dune Where the Wild Things Video Premier on Vice

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. 

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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.

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Culture Creator

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.

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An interview with Jesse Sugarmann
Art

Do you see this insanely awesome picture of the Pontiac suspended in air above? Read this conversation with brilliant artist Jesse Sugarmann.  

 

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Downtown New York in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s with Rhys Chatham
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Downtown New York in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s with Rhys Chatham
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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. 

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Talking The Texas Punk Problem with Bill Daniel
Music, Art, Culture Creator
Talking The Texas Punk Problem with Bill Daniel
Music, Art, Culture Creator

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….

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MAKING A SCENE: ANDREW DEUTSCH WITH FAT BOBBY, MAYA HAYUK, AND WOLFY REMEMBERING WILLIAMSBURG’S LEGENDARY MISFIT/STUDIO/VENUE MONSTER ISLAND
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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.

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CY DUNE
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Cy Dune channels Dan Graham, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bad Brains, Patti Smith, and Black Flag, on his new Lightning LP Shake. 

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Jesus Robles of Design/Build Firm DUST
Jesus Robles of Design/Build Firm DUST

We talk with Jesus Robles of Tucson Design/Build firm Dust, about desert architecture and the space and line between architecture and sculpture. 

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Letter from the creators of Lightning

Looking back on how Lightning came together, it’s as if we have been chasing this story, and it’s many threads, for years.

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Music, Fear and Loathing

Tales from the Doritos vending machine.

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Music, Fear and Loathing
Moto: Derek Gibson
Moto: Derek Gibson

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. 

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Simple song masterworks on the new Wooden Wand LP Azag-Toth released on Lightning. 

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Katsuhisa Sakai in conversation with and photographed by Patrick Gookin

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. 

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Ali Beletic Builds a Surfboard out of Tule Reed
Ali Beletic Builds a Surfboard out of Tule Reed

Lightning editor Ali Beletic builds a primitive surfboard out of Tule reeds and surfs it at Doheny. 

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Never Bored / Eric Block talks with BMX legend Scott Towne
Never Bored / Eric Block talks with BMX legend Scott Towne

Ride every day. Never get bored. 

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PEOPLE OF THE NORTH

Check out the legend behind the new People of the North record on Lightning. 

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Howard Wuelfing talks PROTO PUNK
Howard Wuelfing talks PROTO PUNK

Underground legend Howard Wuelfing traces the confusing lines of proto punk through email. 

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Gold Mining with Chris Entz

Gold Mining. Yes. Here's how you prospect a piece of land to find gold. 

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William Tyler
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Future Jazz Lightning fingers, screaming acoustic revolutions with the new Limited Edition William Tyler album out on Lightning Records. 

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Valuing Nature in Design
Valuing Nature in Design

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. 

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OHIOAN
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Mule Skinners, Circle K, and the American Dream - up in smoke with the new release by Tucson underground legend Ohioan. 

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Reading Milan Fust on the Pacific Crest Trail
Reading Milan Fust on the Pacific Crest Trail

Reading Tale of Two Cities is actually awesome. John Wilkinson hikes from Mexico to Canada.

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American Spirit Blues

Redbox late at night in front of Circle K. Ryne Warner of Ohioan explores water rights and modern punk culture in Tucson. 

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Songwriting Tips and Tricks by James Toth / Wooden Wand
Songwriting Tips and Tricks by James Toth / Wooden Wand

If none of these tricks work for you, you may have to learn to play bass. 

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ONE CREATIVE SENTENCE BY OSSIAN FOLEY

Only One. 

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Chris Keiley on Heckfest

First you blow things up, then you fall asleep at Heckfest. 

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Peter Baer, the silver eagle, and touring at 15
Peter Baer, the silver eagle, and touring at 15

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. 

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Deadheaded Ego Death and how I found the balls to play rock drums

Ego Death, rebirth, skipping out on high school and black flag for school credit on Dead Tour in the 80's. 

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MOAN Shinji Masuko (DMBQ, Boredoms)

Lightning Records is proud to release the first official Moan record Think About Forgotten Days.  

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LIGHTNING 001 PARTY

CHRIS OWENS AND HILUX COFFEE / SETH OLINSKY SOUND INSTALLATION / ALI BELETIC SCULPTURE / DESERT HANG OUT / PIONEERTOWN CA.

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