Penny Ante is a giant book collecting the art and writing of some of the best people on planet Earth—Billy Childish! Roger Miller! Sharon Cheslow! George Parsons!—that comes out with the frequency of a portentous celestial event. This edition is probably the biggest and wildest yet and tickets for the Aug. 1 release show (which gets you your own copy of the book AND your own copy of the accompanying CD with music by contributors like Jad Fair, Childish, Lucky Dragons, Robert Pollard and more!) are on sale now! Buy them here and enjoy more info below!

SATURDAY AUGUST 1st
PENNY-ANTE THREE PRE-RELEASE PARTY
with JAD FAIR, URINALS, MAN’S ASSASSINATION MAN,
MICK FARREN + MUCH MORE

Penny-Ante will be celebrating the release of our new book, THREE (out September 15th) on Saturday August 1st at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock! Three hundred lucky Los Angelinos will get there hands on a copy of Three before anyone else with purchase of ticket!

We have a great night set-up full of the best in music, art, and writing… With music performances by prolific lo-fi legend and co-founder of HALF JAPANESE, JAD FAIR (who will be performing with Brooklyn art/musician Lumberob), Los Angeles art-punk veterans URINALS, and the ass kicking Los Angeles local Black Flag-esque, MAN’S ASSASSINATION MAN (members of Residual Echoes).

In addition, readings will take place by writer MICK FARREN (also of 60s proto punk band, THE DEVIANTS), and writer/author LARRY FONDATION (Harvard Business Review, Fiction International,Flaunt).

Performance/artist DAWN KASPER has curated EXPOSURE OF PROCESS, a look into process-oriented art through performance, with artists COREY FOGEL, YASMINE KITTLES, and JASON WALLACE-TRIEFENBACH, as well as DAWN KASPER, set to perform.

Plus Deejays:
Jim Smith (THE SMELL)
DJ Jesspeleta (Weird War, ESPS)
& DJ Freak Stik 13 (of Eagle Rock’s best record store, Don’s Music)

Q. “$22!?!?! WTF. That’s too expensive!”

A. Yes, we know that might be out of some’s price range, but here’s why:
You get a FREE COPY of Three, a 320 page squarebound book, plus CD with music from our contributors (Jad Fair, Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices), Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats), Growing, Lucky Dragons, and more!

Three, the book itself, features personal written and visual works from a wide range of musicians, artists, and writers including everyone from Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) to Sean Bonniwell (The Music Machine), to Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), to Vivian Girls’ Cassie Ramone to artist Maya Hayuk and Terence Koh. Over 80 contributors have participated in this issue, our biggest and fattest yet!

A small percentage of your ticket price is going to Penny-Ante for the issuing of free books, and what’s left goes to the performers, as well as the nonprofit space hosting the event: CENTER FOR THE ARTS, which provides art programs for young children in the Eagle Rock/Los Angeles area.