Wondering what to get that special someone this holiday season? Yeah I don’t know either. But while you’re thinking about it you could order yourself this neat weird book of musicians, artists, and writers doing their thing or the things of someone else… I don’t know, just look at it. It’s cool.

20% off.

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Take advantage of our HOLIDAY SALE running through December 23rd, with 20% off the cover price of our newest volume, THREE which features personal contributions from the likes of Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs), Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices), Roger Miller (Mission of Burma), Mick Farren (The Deviants), Thurston Moore, Bettina Koster (Malaria!), Martin Phillipps (The Chills), Maya Hayuk, Terence Koh, Billy Bragg, TV Ghost, Arrington de Dionyso, Phil Elverum, Honey Owens (Valet), Jad Fair (Half Japanese), Ian MacKaye, Sharon Cheslow, Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer and tons more… Over 85 contributors.

THREE is now only $20, with FREE SHIPPING to those in the USA.

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.

FREE ARTS FOR DAVE YOUNG – PLEASE HELP

We had a large blog entry written up this morning concerning what went down last night at Dave Young’s… About how saddened we were that what started off as a sincerely mellow, friend-filled benefit for Free Arts for Abused Children was quickly shut down due to a somewhat aggressive police “sting” operation.

However, for legal reasons, this blog entry cannot be posted.

What we will state is that Dave Young’s was SHUT DOWN last night. He might be facing fines of up to $15k, possibly more. His court date is September 19th.

Anyone who knows Dave Young, knows he is a good guy. He has opened his home up for SIX years to his friends and causes that better and strengthen our community. He has housed local and out of town bands, artists, put them up, fed them, and more, and has charged nothing to make these things happen.

In the beginning of the night while setting up, we were speaking with Dave, thanking him profusely for allowing Penny-Ante to bring our idea of a once-a-month show to help a nonprofit to his home, and just as Dave has said many times throughout the course of us working with him, “That’s what I’m here for. Whatever I can do – This space is for my friends and the community.”

There are no words to express the impact his giving nature and gallery space has had on the Los Angeles community and it will go down in history.

We have set-up a donation button to help raise funds for the coming fines Dave Young will face. To those of you who have ever enjoyed a show at Dave Young’s home, or to the countless bands Dave Young has welcomed into his home, please show your appreciation by giving what you can.

The smallest donations can make the difference in the coming month.

Please follow this link, to make your donation:

http://www.penny-ante.net/daveyoungdonationpage.html

We’d like to say thank you to E.S.P.S., Weave!, Fancy Space People, Rainbow^Arabia, Sharif Dumani of The Moon Upstairs, Devendra Banhart, and Jason Yates of Fast Friends Inc. for either getting off work, rearranging their schedules, lugging gear, making costumes, sacrificing their time and/or putting in the effort to help raise money for Free Arts for Abused Children.

We apologize to those bands that did not end up playing: Fancy Space People and Rainbow Arabia. It is unfortunate, but we’re happy to hear reports from Don that the party was taken elsewhere.

To those who helped out for free – Phoebe, Kelsey, Sharif, and others from Dave’s camp – and to those of you who came out (in time) to give and HELP PENNY-ANTE RAISE $833.42 FOR FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN, which will be delivered to Free Arts this Tuesday, September 2nd.

This is a huge accomplishment and a testament to what we, as a community, can do. It is unfortunate that people were forced away, as this monetary amount could have been much higher.

Thanks to the fire marshall for the light show spectacle and to the cops for the dick-sized flashlights in our faces.

Most of all, and more sincerely, we’d like to thank Dave Young, for not only helping our cause last night, but for all his past support he’s thrown toward Penny-Ante and others in the community, and for the years of good times, good bands, love, support, and free drinks.

Please do what you can to help.

Sincerely,
Penny-Ante

OTHER NOTES:

Photos are being posted of this event HERE. However, we were barked at to stop taking pictures by the cops, so we weren’t able to get too much.

This will not be the end of this idea; Penny-Ante will moving ahead in September with our next charity event and we look forward to working with Fancy Space People and Rainbow Arabia again at some point.

We will keep you updated on the status of Dave Young and his space.

Any help spreading the word on this donation button is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

DISCLAIMER: Free Arts was very aware of this benefit and were pleased by the idea of Penny-Ante and others helping to raise money for their work, but this party was in NO WAY endorsed by Free Arts for Abused Children.

Dave Young and 6th Street are long-time friends and supporters of L.A. RECORD. We encourage any readers who can to donate and wish him the best with this difficult situation. For a direct link to donate, click here.