Tag Archives: The Cramps

DAM it all

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i was deeply involved witht he new ‘garage rock’ revival during the late 1980′s and early 1990′s. largely through my friendship with dave crider and his label estrus records (yes, “ESTRUS”. shameful, eh?), i was … Continue reading →

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snagging the exotic:the youthful prodigies

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Art

graphic design is language not art… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): School papers are made by dorks and nerds. you just never find cheer leaders and jocks working on them (except part-time sports reporting). It’s basically the place where any kid … Continue reading →

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instant litter: waiting for a rise from the rubble

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Art

When there is no more negation to negate. Art looks back at the punk scene and what lessons can be learned, or unlearned… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Back in around 1984, I put together a little book about Seattle punk posters … Continue reading →

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spooked: after midnight

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Dave

getting spooky. And it all began with Helena Blavatsky and her spiritualist movement, then assumed a distinct identity within popular American culture… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): What do the Cramps, Gwar, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Blackstone the Magician, David Copperfield, penn … Continue reading →

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collector geeks: crying over the whole shebang

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Dave

Obsessive completist collector geeks…. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): While collecting records over the years,I began to become fascinated by a certain weird ‘category’ of record collecting. There are so many odd little nooks and crannies of record collecting that you never … Continue reading →

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my back pages and bent pages

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Art

When erotica was the printed word, and the language of “smut ” had a different aesthetic… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) Dirty books. With bent pages. Stains. Yellowed. Icky. The underground world of the dirty book market seems to have gone away, … Continue reading →

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filling in the pauses: the aural gaze

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Art

Creating a new genre of music. Improvisation, “making shit up” when you articulate the pauses and these gaps, these silent but charged spaces become the content and assume the central position in the compositional structure….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) : … Continue reading →