MORE INFO HERE! Another ramshackle literary event, of fiction/poetry/essays/criticism/historical revisionism/sheep dip. This month we’re “thankful” to have all of the following amazing authors, some of whom cut their teeth and their fingers playing music in California: Paul K (The Empire of Death) Claire Mckeown (Dirt… By Chris Ziegler

Anyone even half familiar with the L.A. underground these days must regard a lineup like the above with mind-bended anticipation. Indeed, most of the natty, good-looking crowd sloshing through The Echo’s venerable door looked pretty bent already. By Debi Del Grande

Table of Contents VOICEsVOICEs Scott Schultz . . . . . . . 1 I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. Chris Ziegler . . . . 3 JULIE DOIRON Ron Garmon . . . . . . . 4 THE RESIDENTS Oliver Hall . . .… By lar_import

Even on his phone while stuck in traffic on his way to the record label office, Michael Rault is more concise, funny, self-effacing, and informative than most rockcrits can manage in 1.5 lifetimes. We join him here as the pace really begins to pick up … Michael Rault plays Fri., June 29, at the Bootleg Theater. This interview by Ron Garmon. By Ron Garmon

Rakish, free-spirited and better educated than most of his compeers in first and second wave of the British Invasion, Arthur Brown was equal parts leader of two notable rock groups and surrealist heir to the bandleader tradition of Glenn Miller and Harry James. By jumbling these idioms and others while overlaying the whole with Arthur’s comically rendered angst and cartoony variable voice, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and prog were born. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's self-titled LP will be reissued for Record Store Day. This interview by Ron Garmon. By Ron Garmon