Arthur Magazine has been resurrected but it still needs your help to raise the extra funds to make it a smoother relaunch. To show your support you can attend the Arthur Benefit Party tomorrow in Los Angeles. I’m pretty tempted to make the trek up there for this. Details:

ARTHUR BENEFIT PARTY

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 * 8pm

Silent Movie Theater
611 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles

featuring

Six Organs of Admittance
special one-time-only performance with Joseph Mattson, Steve Ruecker and and Elisa Ambrogio

Ruthann Friedman
songs from legendary “astral folk goddess” (cf. Galactic Zoo Dossier)

Entrance

full band performance!

Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers)
reading

Lewis MacAdams (poet, author, Friends of the L.A. River co-founder)
reading

Paloma Parfrey (ex-Sharp Ease)
reading with sounds by Tamala Poljak

MC: Oliver Hall (E.S.P.S.)

Admission: $15

Advance tickets available via Ticketweb — click here to order

Also highly recommended tomorrow is the following show, If you’re in LA or close there’s really no reason that you shouldn’t be going out to one of these great shows:

It’s Fahey Friday:

An Early John Fahey appearance on a TV show called “Guitar, Guitar” in 1969

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New music later today when my host fixes its servers…

(photo by the always wonderful Alissa Anderson)

Vetiver have gone back to the studio to record some new material for their as yet untitled upcoming album. From the update, which appears below, it looks like Vetiver started things off by playing some covers and possibly some new songs. Until more news and material surfaces from the recording of the new album, you can get ready for the late fall release of a new E.P. The new E.P. is set to include alternative mixes from last years To Find Me Gone and possibly (hopefully) some new material.

From Vetiverse:

” If you were to spend many days staring out the windows at the wonderful studio called
the Hangar in Sacramento, as we have and as our great producer and engineer Thom
Monahan does, many weeks out of the year, this would be your view. Alissa snapped this perfectly simple shot of the train tracks and a blue building nearby.

Vetiver holed up at the Hangar for a couple of weeks in March to record some songs by other songwriters that we love. We covered a lot of ground, but still have a ways to go to complete an album. There has been talk of releasing an e.p. of some of the tunes later this fall, along with a couple of remixes of songs from our last album, which Thom and I and Otto have been working on, off and on for a while now. Thom and I finished mixing about 5 tracks and these remixes recently, so we’re working to put together this aforementioned e.p. now.

We’re also headed down to Buenos Aires to play a festival curated by Juana Molina, Nuevos Aires Folk 07 on June 12. We’ll be recording a little with Juana and just enjoying the wonderful hospitality and friendly atmosphere of our kind friends in Buenos Aires. We’re all very much looking forward to the journey.

Also, for our friends and fans in the Bay Area, we have a couple of shows coming up in California at the start of July, including a show in San Francisco at the Independent, with our friends the Papercuts and the Dry Spells, on July 3. Don’t miss it, as we’ve no certain plans to play again in the area any time soon.”

Also, don’t miss this great interview with Andy Cabic about Vetiver

Entrance have finally finished their long awaited video for the song Grim Reaper Blues, which Naturalismo earlier described as being “like Helter Skelter in reverse, only with the “Look Out” yell serving as the soft introduction to the eventual climax that sends the song splintering into electric chaos.” The song plays well within the context of the surreal and psychedelic video.

From Guy Blakeslee, of Entrance:

“THE ENTRANCE BAND just completed a cross country adventure playing peace concerts with our dear friends from Lavender Diamond. Thanks to all who came and represented and shared the summer heat with us.
this is a posting to announce that our music video, long in the making, is up now here on this page……
“GRIM REAPER BLUES” the movie was conceived, shot, directed and edited by Maximilla Lukacs”

Bat for Lashes -- What’s a girl to do

(Or if you prefer watching a version that doesn’t have the same resolution as a 1991 mini portable tv… go here for a quicktime copy of the video: Bat for Lashes -- What’s a girl to do

Bikes, Bats and Bunnies. Pretty surreal video from Bat for Lashes, so eerie and intriguing. Even crazier that boingboing picked it up too.

Headdresses new album Turquoise was “recorded in a hollow hill in the grasslands of the Sonoran desert under the moon of shedding ponies.” While listening to Turquoise I had the overwhelming feeling of being back in Tucson, taking shelter from the monsoon season and taking it all in through an old and dusty window pane. I spent three summers there and it’s truly something everyone should experience at least once. It’s no wonder that so many artists find inspiration from the red earth and blue sky of Tucson, Arizona. The slow and ethereal onset of the monsoon storms echo the feeling one gets while listening to Headdresses songs. Rain drop guitar plucking, windy vocals and distant claps of thunderous tambourine combine to paint the deserted backdrop of Turquoise. Once in full downpour, the rivers of the album run full and wolves come out to stretch their legs. The climax is the day after with the formerly crackled and dry dessert now green and full of life; crickets and birds sing out, and lazy rays of sun dance through the guitar, shimmering as they strike the mountains of vocals.

Headdress is out now on Totem Songs and is limited to only 250 copies. Visit their website here to purchase a copy.

Listen to two tracks from Headdresses Turquoise:

[download] Headdress – Babylon

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[download] Headdress – Arizona

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(these tracks will be back momentarily… accidentally deleted them while moving things around)