Burning Ambulance

It's a new music publication. You'll recognize some familiar names from here. Looks like it rules. Check it out:

http://burningambulance.wordpress.com/

Wow, word gets around fast. Here's a direct link if you want to buy issue #1... http://bit.ly/dnBZG0

To answer the basic questions up front: No ads, no distribution (Lulu.com is print-on-demand), profit-sharing between all contributors, quarterly, whatever we feel like writing about. No idea yet what's gonna be in #2.

Excellent. So very very excited to get this.

It looks OK, but it doesn't tell me who the musicians are wearing, and I don't think I can take it seriously without that.

We have a Facebook page now... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Burning-Ambulance/316284392043?ref=ts

Just ordered my hard copy, can't wait to hold it in my hands.

And said copy just showed up with today's mail. Looks fantastic, can't wait to really dig in!

Phil, not sure if you saw this yet but it appears David Adler is responding to your Shipp profile here.

Yeah, I emailed him a link when I put the whole Shipp piece online at the BA blog...if anybody else wants to check that out, you can do so here.

Pulling together articles for issue #2 and 3 now, which will be out in mid-May and mid-September respectively...if any ILMers have got an idea they'd like to explore at length, for little or no reward, by all means let me know.

thing is, shipp is totally otm - herbie hancock hasn't made a great rec in 30 years, wayne shorter's new acoustic group is v v boring, far too much mainstream jazz is still in thrall to the sound of things like MAIDEN VOYAGE 40 years -

Yeah, I mean Shipp can come off as kind of an ass the first time you read an interview, but when you realize he is generally otm it becomes pretty hard to hold it against him.

Second issue is slightly late (I promised late May) but is moving along...it will include features on Eyehategod, saxophonist Darius Jones, an incomplete guide to J-pop, a conversation about improvisation between trumpeter Stephen Haynes and guitarist/bassist Joe Morris, a piece on Brazilian singer-songwriters, and the essay I'm about to start editing, "When Quincy Met Darby Crash, Sort Of: Punksploitation Cinema of the '70s and '80s."

Second issue coming September 1 (no, really, I'm finishing the layout this weekend). Contents:

- a profile of free jazz saxophonist Darius Jones
- a big piece on Eyehategod, accompanied by six poems by their singer
- a piece on semi-obscure Brazilian musicians Cris Aflalo and Heloisa Fernandes
- a piece on punk rock movies from the '80s (Rude Boy, Repo Man, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Sid and Nancy, Rock 'n' Roll High School, and many more)
- a guide to female J-pop singers

Third issue came out yesterday. Contents:

- long profile of Anthony Braxton by Kurt Gottschalk
- profile of trumpeter/bandleader David Weiss by Clifford Allen
- profile of saxophonist Jon Irabagon by Hank Shteamer
- essay on the Moritz von Oswald Trio by Justin Farrar
- essay on 1960s Hollywood (including extensive discussion of the Monkees movie Head) by Phil Nugent
- a chapter from Jeff Wagner's prog-metal history, Mean Deviation
- a piece on how to compose for an orchestra, by an actual composer/music professor, Steve Hicken

Also, a bonus deal: If you buy all three issues in hard-copy format, and email burningambulance at gmail dot com telling me so, I will send you a Mediafire link to download the digital versions for free. There's a grandfather clause, too, if you've bought issues 1 and 2 upon release and now buy issue 3 you can also claim your three free PDFs.

Link to purchase

We're up to issue #6! Here's what's in it:

- a cover story on trumpeter and Supersilent member Arve Henriksen
- a profile of saxophonist and painter Ivo Perelman
- an interview with Robert Hampson of Loop, Main and sometimes Godflesh
- an interview with Dutch grindcore/jazz sax-drums duo Dead Neanderthals
- an interview with Swiss sound sculptor Reto Mäder (RM74)
- an interview with Bloody Panda frontwoman turned solo artist Yoshiko Ohara
- an interview (in French and English) with French black metal weirdos Spektr
- an essay on the life and career of Tito Larriva from the Plugz, Cruzados, and Tito & Tarantula
- an essay on 1970s blaxploitation horror movies

Link to buy this or any issue of BA