Faces with maces for eyes, dissected frogs and smiling clowns – it’s as if Woodring is working in the same vein as graphic artist Charles Burns if Burns were a carver of cameos. Now here’s Woodring’s self-proclaimed “generic anthropomorph” Frank, a buck-toothed creature traveling through a black-and-white animated diorama wasteland, encountering strange sniveling pig-men and a big jar of bones on his way to have a picnic.

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FRIDAY, JAN. 11 Bill Frisell is a unique voice in American jazz guitar, and for that reason alone he deserves to be listened to. His rhythmic counterpart and longtime collaborator Joey Baron is a musician of startling facility, equally capable tossing out be-bop fills or smashing in eardrums by playing blast beats, as he did [...]

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