ARTHUR - the magazine

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Sorry, I didn't want to make a silly joke cause I really really do LOVE this magazine.

Ronan, you should be a contributor. Aside from Ian S.'s Peaches article, there isn't much on dance music, I don't think.

Nice one.

(my aunt used to be mayor of Costa Mesa)

Come celebrate the happy, all-too-brief life of Arthur Magazine with free giveaways and a reading featuring Molly Frances, Oliver Hall, and Peter Relic.

Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm

Family Bookstore, 436 N. Fairfax Avenue (across the street from Canter's Deli), Los Angeles, 90036.
Arthur's "New Herbalist" columnist Molly Frances incited a revolution nationwide by informing readers of the true powers of almonds, sprigs of mint, and Lord Byron's secret potion (a.k.a. apple cider vinegar). Molly's eerily prescient horoscopes have been known to strike the melodic funny-bone of even the most determined non-believer. Tonight Molly will be giving astrological readings as well as tripling any double entendre at hand.

Oliver Hall penned Arthur's cover story on Kim Gordon and memorably profiled folk radicals Faun Fables. He is the statuesque guitarist with L.A.'s newest psych-rock sensation E.S.P.S., and is seldom seen without his trusty Patsy Cline t-shirt. Tonight Hall will be dispensing priceless aphorisms as well as deconstructing the pungent, multi-faceted phrase "no money, no honey."

Peter Relic eulogized Jam Master Jay and went on the road with the Black Keys and Sleater-Kinney for Arthur. Relic's profile of the Geto Boys, reprinted in Da Capo's Best American Music Writing 2006, was deemed by Seattle's The Stranger to be "easily one of the most surreal, violent, and ludicrous artists encounters ever documented." Tonight Relic will be reading from his storehouse of pantoums, an unjustly obscure Malaysian poetic form.

We look forward to seeing you there -- dressing in black not a requirement!

Hey there Jay, I subscribed right before you stopped printing and only ever received the Sparks and Galas issues. Any chance my subscription will be re-started?

Jon - Byron & Thurston review comics/graphic novels all the time.

Moodies - Check it out: http://arthurmag.com/info-for-old-subscribers/

cool, we'll use the submission-for-review info for Bull Tongue on that link you posted earlier.

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has arthur the magazine ever written about arthur the russell?
just a thought...

t**t - no. not sure there's a need at this point, given all the coverage elsewhere. tell me if there is...

Heya Jay, dropped a line via the submissions link the other day, dunno if you got it...

Ned - Nope... Weird! Hmm.

Ned - Thx for pointing this out. Some email was not being forwarded. Now it is. AWLLLLRITE!

man, this Arthur thing has been lacking

glad you're back

"Jay,

I wasn't an Arthur subscriber for a long period of time (issue 27 with Celebration was when I began), but it had a profound affect on my while it was in my life. Just wanted to say thanks upon thanks."

lol gmail search

Andrew - Too much!

Byron Coley & Thurston Moore just handed in their columnage for first new Arthur in 4 years. Psyched to get to publish these old dudes again.

Ha! Cool

Jay I will have a second pitch for you soon, the wheels are grinding

Jay, will the 'no ads except on back cover' thing be an ongoing standard? Is that one big ad or several smaller ones? Curious for my publisher.

Jon - Probably, yeah. Back coverS, actually, as there are two sections — in this issue, at least. Maybe in the next issue, there will be 3 sections, who knows. Ads are a real bitch to handle for a ton of reasons, and we protect ourselves by limiting them in this way. It's worked out really well for us. Your publisher can get in touch with us thru normal channels.

fwiw - http://arthurmagdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/arthur33cover.jpg?w=450&h=682

Dig it

lookin' good. psyched for the jack rose feature. three years since he passed away!

3 years to the day. Very spooky.

looks AMAZING

Oops - meant to add - here's some more details on contents and how to get a copy and so on, if you're interested - Arthur website

love that

rip jack rose

My copy came in the mail today. I haven't cracked it open yet, but the cover looks fantastic.

resurrected arthur is a thing of beauty!

Just got my copy yesterday

New issue is at the printer. 8 more color pages, more music coverage in this issue than last one.

http://arthurmagdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/a34coversml.jpg

After 20-plus years navigating strange, inspiring trips across myriad underground psychedelic terrains with a host of fellow free folk, righteous musician/head MATT VALENTINE (MV&EE, Tower Recordings, etc) finally spills all possible beans in an unprecedented, career-summarizing, ridiculously footnoted epic interview by BYRON COLEY. Plus: Deep archival photo finds from the MV vaults, a sidebar wander through some important MV listening experiences with your guide Dan Ireton, and a gorgeous cover painting by ARIK ROPER of MV & EE at peace in the cosmic wild. Delicious!

Also in this issue:

Psychedelic scholars Christian Ratsch and Claudia Muller-Ebeling lay down a rap about this planet’s AROMATIC APHRODISIACS, with art by Kira Mardikes…

Gabe Soria chats with author AUSTIN GROSSMAN (Soon I Will Be Invincible) about the basic weirdness of playing (and making) VIDEO GAMES, with art by Ron Rege, Jr….

LA Record’s Chris Ziegler encounters young Southern California psych-rock band FEEDING PEOPLE, with photography by Ward Robinson…

All-new full-color comics by Lale Westvind, Will Sweeney, Vanessa Davis and Jonny Negron…

A lengthy interview with the remarkable ecstatic cartographer DAVID CHAIM SMITH by Jay Babcock, with massive reproductions of his out-of-time artwork…

Stewart Voegtlin on what (or: who) made MELVINS’ 1992 beercrusher “Lysol” the most unlikely religious record ever built, with art by Stewart’s Chips N Beer mag compatriot Beaver…

Columns by the ever-provocative “Weedeater” Nance Klehm and The Center for Tactical Magic…

Byron Coley and Thurston Moore’s essential underground review column, Bull Tongue, now expanded to two giant pages…

http://adhoc.fm/post/arthur-magazine-calling-it-quits-again/

online mail-order Arthur Store will be open until March 2, 2014. At that point, all unsold backstock will be chucked on the compost heap or into the recycle bin.

Shakey Mo's decided not to store this junk any longer basically.

That's a real shame.

Shakey Mo's decided not to store this junk any longer basically.

now now. (ftr all Arthur material was moved long ago to a super-secret airtight underground bunker way out in the middle of the desert in Joshua Tree)

but yeah buy up that shit! posterity demands it

bummed, i was really enjoying the new arthurs, but i definitely understand that it was a labor of love for all involved.

just bought some stuff, I really needed that cassette comp with the Michael Hurley tune so thanks for the bump even if it's bad news

Thanks Tyler, yeah the energy for doing this proj has diminished for so many reasons — at least it wasn't financial this time! — but we'll see what happens in the future. Sleeve, thanks friend, your stuff is already in the mail.

http://adhoc.fm/post/arthur-magazine-calling-it-quits-again/

the fact that adhoc lives while arthur dies is completely fucked

Whiney - I would hesitate to draw any conclusions. Arthur's existence has always been precarious and contingent on so many things..

Jay am I correct that you are sold out of all the "new" issues other than the Hurley one? I would have sprung for those as well but didn't see them.

Sleeve - Yeah 33 (Rick Veitch/Jack Rose/etc issue) and 34 (Matt Valentine/David Chaim Smith/Feeding People/etc) are gone now. Sorry bout that...

Sleeve & others - I came across a few more copies of some issues that I thought were all gone, including the Brightblack/Godsmack/Derrick Jensen issue, and the Devendra/Joanna Newsom/Cocorosie issue...so those are all now available in the Store, til close date, which is this coming Sunday. But no 33 or 34, sorry.

Spoke too soon. Just found 7 more copies of 34 (MV issue).

LOL well OK then, guess I'd better head back to yer website

by the way I already got that package, thanks! loving the CD comp...

The fact that Rolling Stone lives while Arthur dies is even more fucked.

Farewell, Arthur.

Arthur Magazine archive finally complete

This took forever, but I am very glad to be able to write this morning that the entire run of Arthur magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13), which I co-founded and edited, is finally available online as single issue PDFs.

Pretty great!

Yay! No 3d glasses though

oh great, I think I learned about both ayahuasca and Pandit Pran Nath from a single (free!) ish of this.