Dog Leather
In Olympia, WA, there are punk houses scattered about town that are all painted black. They are all owned by a man who is known by the nickname “The Dark Dentist”, because he is a dentist by trade, and a somewhat shadowy figure, and because he has painted these houses this way on purpose. (More …)
Lichens
I arrive at Neal Mello, a cozy, rustic, horse stable-chic vintage shop on Grand Street (in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, several blocks east of the BQE), to find Rob Lowe crouched behind an open laptop. “Dead Plane” from No Age’s Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat, 2007) is playing on the computer’s modest speakers, and it’s just at the part of the song where the filtered guitar emulates an airplane taking off. (More …)
