Survival Research Laboratories' surplus auction is now online. If you're in the market for a fully enclosed 3 axis NC surface grinder with a heck of a backstory, you're in luck. www.westauction.com/auctions/sur...

Here's Joe Carducci's take on the late Bruce Loose of Flipper--not just in San Francisco, but during Loose's earlier trek to Portland, too. Includes a couple of excerpts from Loose's upcoming memoir (his collaboration with @leavinghashurt.bsky.social). A punk-freak sneak preview, so to speak...

📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

The AI transcribed "Merzbow" as "marriage spouse."

Tim Mooney is far & above my favorite drummer, ever. (Apologies to Tiki Fulwood.) The algorithms nearly never favor a dork like me ("Like Roky? You'll love NOFX."), but once a decade they deliver. Three shots of what looks like Rozz Rezabek w/ 3x original Sleepers. Just kill me.

For those who've left their Christmas shopping to the last minute: all of these books (and many more) are available as e-books on our website for immediate download! 🎄🎁🎄 headpress.com/shop/

A new podcast episode is now available—an interview with Paul Hood and Daniel Cherney of Lazy Giants (the band formerly known as Toiling Midgets).

Doing an Experimental Kindergarten Black Friday sale this weekend! Take 20% everything on Bigcartel with the code TURKEYTRASH. -vintage fanzines -Videogore DVDs -Signed copies of Aesthetic Deviations -and more! experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/products

Last weekend’s epic viewing at @spacegallery.bsky.social: boxd.it/bMqCwL

Dogs can't read, ya idiot

i can recommend @leavinghashurt.bsky.social’s book on SF shenanigans headpress.com/product/who-...

GREGORY EGO PHOTOS: Born to Loose. Bruce Loose with Flipper at the Lion's Lair in Denver, 3/31/2012...

Another Flipper/Bruce Loose photo question... I've seen this one credited to Claire Sutherland, who seems to have been based in or around Boston, but I can't find any info on her. Can anyone enlighten me? Is she still around?

A new podcast episode is available—an interview with Philip Peters of early 80s Palo Alto electronic/synth pop outfit Quiet Room. whocaresanywaysf.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/w...

This photograph of Flipper at the 9:30 Club (Washington, DC) doesn't have a photo credit, but it's too good just to be some rando's anonymous Wikipedia contribution. Any leads on who might have taken it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper...

I wrote about French punk label Idiotape Records for this month's Tape Label Report. daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r...

Will York speaks to guitarist Andy Hawkins of Blind Idiot God "about how he developed his distinctive guitar sound..." fatalstrategies.substack.com/p/ep-3-andy-...

"Snake People, Lower East Side, 1984" This photo of Bruce Loose with Susan Miller (guitarist on his solo A-side "What's Your Name?" and later member of Bad Posture and Frightwig) was part of a series of taxicab passenger photos. brucesilverstein.com/artworks/367...

R.I.P. Bruce Loose. FYI currently reading "Who Cares Anyway" and highly recommend it!

The most thorough Bruce obituary so far. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Pescacontrarian: Bruce Loose draws the Flipper fish. Ruby Ray photo exhibit, March 29, 2012... 📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social

R.I.P. Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, longtime Flipper vocalist and bassist. Calderwood fronted the San Francisco punks on all four of their studio albums beginning with 1980’s ‘Album – Generic Flipper,’ an LP with a heavy, plodding sound hugely influential to bands like Nirvana. Bruce Loose was 66.

After a prolonged struggle with life, Bruce "Loose" Calderwood of Flipper passed away from an apparent heart attack earlier this week at the age of 66.

Thank you to the great Mike Watt (!) for having me as a guest on the Watt from Pedro show today. We talk a lot about Michael Belfer/Sleepers/When Can I Fly? and a little about Who Cares Anyway. @wattfrompedro.bsky.social @headpress.com www.twfps.com/past-episode...

Finally caught up with this outstanding episode- turns out my first live experience with Caroliner Rainbow (playing the On Broadway with Tarantino and Leaf Yard on my 21st birthday) was Winant’s first as part of the band!

Dusted considers TFUL282. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7919694...

New podcast episode: an interview with percussion maestro William Winant. (links below)

From the archives of the Who Cares Anyway? podcast, @leavinghashurt.bsky.social interviews @jonsavage.bsky.social: whocaresanywaysf.substack.com/p/ep-26-jon-...

A special "from the archives" episode of the Who Cares Anyway Podcast -- my 2019 interview with the great @jonsavage.bsky.social. whocaresanywaysf.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/w... @headpress.com

What a gorgeous bookshop @coloursmayvary.bsky.social in #Leeds is, and that was even before we saw their excellent selection of @headpress.com titles ❤️

Negative Trend. Nothing better. 100% the Compass Theater/Second City of the Bay Area music scene. They may be the S.F. equivalent of what London was to Hollywood Glam: Steven Adler/Dane Rage? DePace. Nikki Sixx/Blackie Lawless? Shatter. Izzy Stradlin/Slash? Gray. Nadir D'Priest? OK, you got me...

My Hot Wire My Heart can be your Hot Wire My Heart... Signed by CRIME's Johnny Strike. See listing below. [Or, if we follow each other, DM me to discuss further.] Pricey? For sure! But cheaper than any other copy for sale on Discogs now--and signed. www.ebay.com/itm/29696927...

Giving this another try, this time without any l-i-n-k-s. Episode 4 of my unpopular podcast series Fatal Strategies is now available -- an interview with French-born, Dublin-based multi-instrumentalist Camille Giraudeau (Dreams of the Drowned, Stagnant Waters, Dødheimsgard, et al.)

A new, French-accented episode of my very infrequent podcast Fatal Strategies is now available. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/fat...

Two new reissues out today from Bulbous Monocle. (1) This compilation of singles, compilation tracks, etc., from World of Pooh: bulbous-monocle.bandcamp.com/album/world-...

FINLAND TOUR!

ICYMI, I uploaded a new (archival) episode of the WCA podcast a couple of weeks ago, in memory of Arkansaw Man's Stephen Bartholomew Clarke. I'll have at least one more of these archival episodes coming in the semi-near future.

New podcast episode: my 2018 interview with Stephen Bartholomew Clarke (1956–2025), guitarist for art-punk trio Arkansaw Man open.substack.com/pub/whocares...

I have a couple more episodes of this in the queue, but at this rate, I probably won't continue making new ones. I know it's a niche audience, but either that audience is even smaller than I'd realized, or I'm just no good at reaching it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

In honor of #PresidentsDay, here is "Presidents Song" #ZipCodeRapists #RichardReagan youtu.be/bNF1ZKFNb0c?...

A new podcast episode is available for your listening enjoyment. fatalstrategies.substack.com/p/ep-3-andy-...

"I just devoured this 560-page tome in what was effectively three glued sittings, and I’d very much like to tell you about it. It’s one of the best rock books I’ve read in years, and I’ve read a few." - Jay Hinman fanzinehemorrhage.com/2023/04/19/w...

Sad news. Mike also administered the Zorn list (listerv) during the late '90s and published the excellent if short-lived Browbeat zine, of which I owned (and somehow subsequently lost) issue #2. web.archive.org/web/20040321...

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