Tag Archives: the sonics

xmas record cover of covers

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is maybe the second best rocknroll xmas record ever set to vinyl (phil spector’s xmas disk being the best). this is the “etiquette xmas record”. i found this copy recently in a thrift store … Continue reading →

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iron(ic) butterflies

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) the very first record i ever bought was ‘in-a-gadda-da-vita’, the Lp by the iron butterfly. (the second was the beatles’ ‘revolver’). back when i was a larvae, i thought the iron butterfly was the … Continue reading →

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java jive

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) a couple of days ago, there was a front page story on the Java Jive, the famous old roadside “giant teapot’ monument architecture on south tacoma way in tacoma. it’s a a weird strange old … Continue reading →

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post punk: johnny rotten

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) I’m not very comfortable with the new popular label “post punk”. to begin with, it denotes a time frame – it comes after ‘punk’, right? ok, so how do we define 1) “punk” and IT’S time … Continue reading →

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seaweed in seattle

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): DIGGING through my crap, thinking about what to post today, i ran across this peculiar item. it’s a piece of seaweed (like the kind you purchase in small sheets in the asian food aisle in your … 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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