FLUGELDAR (Christian Cummings & Lee Lynch) on LARZ tomorrow

This week's edition of Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine will feature the historic reunion of Flugeldar (originally known as Fireworks), the mid-Zeros art school band that galvanized the milieu from whence sprung forth Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Lavender Diamonds, and others. Anchored by the dual singer/songwriter geniuses of visual artist Christian Cummings and filmmaker Lee Lynch, the band has been on hiatus for several years, while Cummings produced his solo album Slavebation and Lynch was enjoying the hospitality of the underground fairy civilizations of Iceland.

The band will perform live in the studio, and we'll listen to some of their new demos, some vintage recordings, and some of their influences, and - if there's time - touch on their recent extracurricular activities, including Christian's recent solo show ANTI-URGES & STARGATE at Chin's Push and Lee's new documentary on failed capitalist archetypes, ranging from a full-time Dog The Bounty Hunter imitator to James Holmes, the Aurora theater shooter who dressed as The Joker.

Valentine Slash Presidents LARZ featuring Abstract Heartthrob Joshua Aster

Our Valentine Slash Presidents weekend edition of Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine welcomes LA-based abstract painter and experimental musician Joshua Aster, whose reliably powerful and sumptuous new paintings (alongside those by under-recognized idiosyncratic paint genius Spencer Lewis) are on view at Edward Cella Gallery through March 1st.

Josh is a founding member of the post-rock jam band OJO -- whose diverse catalog we'll be dipping into -- and he'll also be performing some live solo acoustic guitar on the show. 

Hopefully Josh won't be all talked out by his and informal exhibition tour and Spenser's walkthrough
conversation on Saturday afternoon at 5. But you might want to show up to that as well, just in case.

Joshua Aster and Spencer Lewis in Conversation
Saturday, February 15th, 2014 | 5 pm
Edward Cella Art + Architecture
6018 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine

Sunday Feb 16th, 12 Noon

www.kchungradio.org

Images: Contentcontainer, Oil on linen, polyester, or canvas/linen over panel 18 x 18 ins; Shifting Gears, Oil on linen 30 x 24 ins; OJO in alphabetical order: Aster, Avitabile, Cole, Medina, Ore-Giron & Youngblood; Avatar, oil on linen, 50 x 42 ins; Thru a Net, Oil on linen 30 x 24 ins; Wistful Thinking, 2014, Oil on linen 78 x 82 ins. All paintings by Joshua Aster 2013, except that last one.

Where's LaBeouf?

Chinese New Year meant that the L.A. Printed Matter Art Book Fair at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary on Saturday was chaos - it took me 40 minutes to find a parking space, and all my collaborators on rADIO fREE 'pITA3 had to bail... except for Shia LaBeouf, who read his Meta//Modernist Manifesto, thanked his supporters, and apologized again to Daniel Clowes. Did you ever notice that his last name is one letter "shy" of being an anagram for the name of another hero, Beowulf?

If anyone needs to get up to speed on Mr. LaBeouf's trajectory to art world legitimacy, here's a nice precis. We're not sure if anyone got video, but we're hoping to get further documentation of this magical event uploaded ASAP!

LAFMS on LARZ!

In the first of a projected gazillion shows devoted to the Los Angeles Free Music Society, on Sunday February 3rd, 2014 Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine welcomes founding LAFMS operatives Rick Potts, Joe Potts, and Dennis Duck, fresh from their opening-night gig at the Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair. The LAFMS were a loose aggregation of like-minded audio experimentalists that emerged from Pasadena in the mid-70s; part of a global phenomenon of artists who suddenly came into possession of the trickle-down means of production to make and distribute records, tapes, and magazines. We'll barely have time to scrape the surface of the back catalog of just these three -- Mr. Duck was the drummer for Dream Syndicate, after all, and Rick Pott was 1/3 of Solid Eye, one of my favorite local bands of the 90s -- but we'll have fun trying.

12 Noon Saturday Feb 3, 2014 at 1630 AM in Chinatown, LA or www.kchungradio.org

Photo by Fredrik Nilsen

rADIO fREE 'pITA3 at the LA Art Book Fair

On Saturday, Feb 1st 2014 from 3 - 4 PM, Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine will present rADIO fREE 'pITA3 -- a special program based on the 'patacritical Interrogation Techniques Anthology Volume 3, live from the KCHUNG Radio booth at the Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair.

The program will include live performances and interviews from contributors to 'pITA3, plus a selection of audio materials of varying pertinence, including musical selections by Peter Blegvad, steve roden, Adolf Wölfli, and the Legion of Rock Stars; spoken words from Raymond Roussel, Christine Wertheim, Edward Lear, J&H Productions, pitta of the mind, and Francis E. Dec; experimental theory from Sheridan Lowery and Craig Baldwin; and recordings of glossolalia, inuit throat singing, and scat from the ethnopoetics collection of Jerome Rothenberg.

Copies of the book will be available (with a possible signing event after the broadcast) at the RAM Publications table.

Listen on 106.9 FM in Little Tokyo and www.kchungradio.org/stream.html

Annie Lapin on Less Art Radio Zine

After experiencing some brief technical difficulties, KCHUNG has uploaded the most recent edition of Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine, featuring Annie Lapin discussing her new work, which opens to public view at Honor Fraser this Saturday from 6-8 PM, and playing the music she listens to in the studio, ranging from R.L. Burnside to Mongolian throat singing to the glitch remix of Dolly Parton's Wildflowers. Download or stream it here: Annie Lapin on Less Art Radio Zine

Image: Annie cutting a section from DH's St Sebastian Soylent Rainbow Labyrinth at PØST Gallery
September 4, 2009.

Annie Lapin on Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine

My guest this Sunday (January 5th 2014) will be LA-based painter Annie Lapin. We haven't had a lot of time to work out the details, as Annie's busy finishing up her solo show Forget the Name, which opens at  Honor Fraser Gallery on Saturday the 11th from 6 - 8 PM. One for sure playlist item is the new CD Ritual by flugabonist David Dominique, which features cover art by Annie, and was recorded in LA with a group of local improv and new music luminaries. Tune in at 12 Noon Sunday to AM 1630 or www.kchungradio.org to hear what else Annie has up her sleeve.

Image: Various Peep Shows (Through), 2013 Oil on canvas 82 x 72 inches