DVD now upgraded visually using the best source print currently available ("restored" and colour tinted), and all CDs and DVDs for sale are now autographed by Gary — see the merchandise section
Check out Gary and Spanish spoken-word artist Bruno Galindo's new MySpace site here—and sign up as a friend!
11/13/2008
Read a rave article from Czech national newspaper Lidovy Noviny about Gary's recent "Golem" show and concert with Czech poet Pavel Zajicek which opened the newly renovated Bohemian National Hall in NYC (see an english translation here), and see a photo with Pavel here
11/11/2008
Read a chronicle in Spanish of Gary's recent show with "The Golem" at the 53rd International Valladolid Film Festival here, and see clips of Gary's performance here, and rehearsal here
10/31/2008
Check out an interview with Gary from the national Spanish newspaper El Norte de Castilla on the occasion of his Golem show at the Valladolid Film Festival, 10/27/08; see photos here, here, and here (photos by Miguel Vallinas Prieto); and here, here, and here (photos by Hector Marquez); also see the blurb from the 53rd International Valladolid Film Festival Programme Book hereRead a rave review of the new Wild Rumpus single "Rock the Joint" from UK dance authority DMCUpdate.com
10/25/2008
Legendary producer Phil Ramone (Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, et. al) selects Gary as one of his top recommended artists in his Huffington Post blog of 10/24/08 here
10/24/2008
Cutting-edge culture magazine Anthem picks the new Wild Rumpus single "Rock the Joint" in their latest issue...
Read about Gary's recent appearance at Spiegelworld NYC's "Literary Mayhem" night, which saw Gary jamming with Mike Edison, Jon Spencer, and Jonathan Ames in The New Yorker...
Check out Gary's first-hand account of The Rolling Stones live in '65, from the second issue of UK fanzine Stone Age, out now...
Erik Greenberg Anjou's documentary "8: IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL AND AMERICA", featuring an original score by Gary Lucas, will be receiving its U.S. cable premiere on NESN - the New England Sports Network on November 1st, see the press release here
10/16/2008
New Wild Rumpus vinyl 12" "Rock the Joint" out Nov. 24th on Bitches Brew featuring Gary Lucas and Cosmo (Colleen Murphy) with special guest UK Human Beat Box Champ Beardyman receiving mucho UK advance airplay and rave reviews—check iBeats, Ministry of Sound's Playlist, BBC1's Playlist from the Rob Da Bank Show—and listen to "Rock the Joint" on the new Wild Rumpus MySpace site jukebox here
10/15/2008
Check out an interview with Gary Lucas and Bruno Galindo from Mexican left-political magazine Emmeequis
10/09/2008
Check out three interviews with Gary from the national Mexican press on the occasion of his sold-out show in Mexico City Oct. 4th with Spanish poet Bruno Galindo—from El Universal, Excelsior, and Milenio
10/07/2008
Read an interview with Gary and Bruno Galindo from La Jornada on the occasion of their sold-out show at Casa del Lago in Mexico City Sat. night—more press raves coming, including a full page interview with Gary from Mexico's national newspaper El Universal
09/22/2008
Download a free mp3 of "And You Will" from Gary's new digital-only EP "Rise Up to Be"—a collection of Gary Lucas solo compositions that became the instrumental basis of many of his well-known songs co-written with Jeff Buckley, incuding "Grace" and "Mojo Pin"...and purchase his new EP here. More info available from Promonet here
09/13/2008
Check out flyers, programs and press releases for Gary's upcoming performance with renowned Spanish spoken word artist Bruno Galindo in Mexico City Oct. 4th here
09/11/2008
Check out a new mix of "Climb the Highest Mountain" and new song "Depression" at the Gods and Monsters MySpace site here—and sign up as a friend!
09/07/2008
Check out Gary being interviewed and playing live on Harold Channer's celebrated public access tv show "Conversations with Channer" here—Manhattan residents can watch Gary on Channel 34 on Time Warner Cable this Tuesday Sept. 9th at 10:30am, and you can watch it on YouTube now here
Listen to an entire concert of Gods and Monsters live at Amsterdam's famed Melkweg here, broadcast on National Dutch Radio 6 and featuring Gary with Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) on keyboards and vocals, Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers) on bass and vocals, Billy Ficca (Television) on drums, and Jason Candler (Hungry March Band) on alto sax
Read a rave review from the October 2008 MOJO about the new Some Bizarre double album compilation featuring a track from Gary Lucas Vs the Dark Poets
"The Peppermint Tree and the Seeds of Superconsciousness" by The Amorphous Androgynous added to the discography
09/06/2008
Check out "I Have a Cat", Gary's musical collaboration with Co de Kloet utilizing the last lengthy interview conducted with Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) in 1993, archived till September 10th at National Dutch Radio NPS; also featured are several new Lucas compositions recorded live in the studio specially for NPS—to download, click here, and to read a transcript of the radio show click here
"Beefheart Night at the Knit" podcast featuring Fast 'N Bulbous up online now at CultureCatch.com, check it out here
08/22/2008
Read a rave review for the new Du-Tels "Obama" video from HITS Magazine here...and also from New York Times reviewer Ben Sisario's blog here
08/15/2008
Check out a new YouTube video for The Du-Tels favorite candidate "Obama" here
08/13/2008
Gary Lucas is interviewed and plays on The Laura Flanders Show live on GRITtv, broadcast on satellite TV—and available for viewing now here. And as a web extra from the broadcast, check out Gary playing George Gershwin's "Our Love is Here to Stay" here
Listen to Gary play solo acoustic in a new set taped exclusively for Breakthru Radio here
07/31/2008
Gary's live debut with vocalist Dean Bowman at the Issue Project Room in Williamsburg on Wed. Aug. 6th is a pick in Time Out New York this week
07/30/2008
Check out a teaser track from Gary's recent New Orleans recording session with Peter Stampfel, a Du-Tels ode to their favorite candidate, "Obama"
07/21/2008
Check out a blog review (in German) and photos of Gods and Monsters recent triumphant concert in Ebsensee high in the Austrian Alps here
07/09/2008
Check out this clip from Israeli tv of Israeli pop star Ninet and Gary performing at the French Tribute to Jeff Buckley at the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris here
...and listen to their duo recording of the unreleased Lucas/Buckley song "No One Must Find You Here" on Ninet's MySpace jukebox here
In Memoriam David Gahr, 9/21/22 - 5/25/08
A fantastic photographer and a good friend and mentor of Gary's, he took several photos of Gary early in his career, including this stark black and white shot that ran in Melody Maker on 2/11/91 in the New Faces section (with a rave text by Rolling Stone's David Fricke), and this colour shot from a 1991 Guitar Player profile of Gary
05/16/2008
Check out the new track "Naye Din"—featuring Gary and UK Indian vocalist Najma Akhtar—on Gary's MySpace jukebox here
05/07/2008
An audio recording of Gary's short story "Me and the Golem" read by Steven Beeber with original music by Gary Lucas was just accepted by the Whitney Biennial for their current Neighborhood Public Radio exhibition, and can be heard as a live broadcast from the Whitney Museum tomorrow (Thursday) between 5-6pm EST here, and it will be permanently archived here—the story originally appeared in Steve's anthology "AWAKE! A Reader for the Sleepless" (Soft Skull Press)
05/06/2008
Check out a whole slew of new archival clips spanning 20 years of Gary Lucas performances around the world, now on Youtube on the OutfromUnderLive Channel here—and keep watching this space, as new clips are being added all the time
05/03/2008
Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar's live debut of their new project is tonight (May 3rd) at Joe's Pub in NYC! Read a pick from the Village Voice here and from Time Out NY here, check this photo of them at a recent taping of John Schaefer's "New Sounds" on WNYC FM here and listen to their recent live "New Sounds" session here
05/01/2008
Check out Gary's Mixtape on Rhapsody.com as part of their Celebrity Picks series here...and read his full comments about each track here
04/29/2008
Check out Gary and Indian vocalist Najma Akhtar live on Rob Weisberg's WFMU program here, recorded 4/26/08
and check out two clips of Gary live in Bilbao Spain playing on Basque Radio Euskadi's "La Jungla Sonora" program, hosted by Joseba Martin and Esti here and here, recorded 2/1/08
and check out a live radio interview with Gary on the "Dave's Gone By" show on WGBB, 4/27/09 here (about 12 minutes in)
04/21/2008
Check out this new clip of Gary playing his song "Grace" (co-written and sung by Jeff Buckley) in its original solo instrumental incarnation, "Rise Up to Be", live at the Holland Festival at Amsterdam's famed classical music venue Concertegebouw
04/20/2008
Check out this new Youtube clip of Robyn Hitchock and Gary performing "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" as part of "Beefheart Night at the Knit", 4/9/08, and check out this reading of Don Van Vliet's poem "Pena" by David Lynch, which he recorded specially for "Beefheart Night at the Knit"
04/19/2008
Read a review here from Culturecatch.com of the recent "Beefheart Night at the Knit" celebration held April 9th in the Knitting Factory NYC mainspace; a tribute to the music, art and poetry of visionary American genius Don Van Vliet curated by Gary, who also acted as emcee and performed. A full podcast feature on "Beefheart Night at the Knit" is coming soon to Culturecatch.com with full interviews and performance clips—watch for it!
04/17/2008
Check out this profile from ESEC TV (national Portuguese television) of Gary and Portuguese duo Dead Combo in action live at the recent Coimbra em Blues Festival in Coimbra, Portugal
Check out this interview with Gary (in Hebrew) about his recent collaboration with Israeli pop star Ninet performing and recording the unreleased Jeff Buckley/Gary Lucas song "No One Must Find You Here", from Ninet's website (scroll down the page)
04/13/2008
Check out this article by Gary (in Portuguese) printed in his friend Portuguese music journalist Rui Silva's new book about The Doors, "Contigo Torno-Me Real" (You Make Me Real), Edicoes Afrontamento
Read an appreciation by Gary of one of his alltime favorite musicians and groups, Florian Fricke and Popol Vuh—originally published in The Wire (UK) in 2002, now archived on a great Dutch website devoted to their music here
04/08/2008
Check out this new Youtube clip of Gary playing in Amsterdam's famed classical music venue the Concertgebouw as part of the Holland Festival here
04/05/2008
Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets new CD "Beyond the Pale" now for sale in the merchandise section, and read a rave (8 out of 10) review of the album from Gothtronic.com here
Check out this article about Gary's recent festival appearance in Coimbra, Portugal from Portugal's national newspaper Publico, here
04/02/2008
Eric Duchamp's "Dans Tous Les Sens Du Terme" added to the music section
03/29/2008
Check out these new Youtube clips of Gary playing live on Czech National TV here, here, and here, also Gary playing Wagner live on CNN's "Show Business Today" here
03/27/2008
Check out "Gary Lucas and Golem", a documentary by Peter Braatz for Slovenian national tv now on YouTube here: part one, part two, part three, and part four
Also check this clip of Gary performing his song "Fata Morgana" from Downtowntv.com's hit program "The Latest Show on Earth" hosted by Gods and Monsters' own Joe Hendel
03/26/2008
New Gods and Monsters work in progress "LuvzOldSweetSong"—up now on Gary's MySpace jukebox here, keep checking for updates!
Check out this YouTube clip from Israel's national TV network of Gary and Israeli Pop Idol winner Ninet performing and recording Gary's unreleased song co-written with Jeff Buckley, "No One Must Find You Here", filmed at the Bowery Poetry Club and Looking Glass Studios NYC March 1st and 2nd 2008
03/17/2008
NEW WILD RUMPUS SINGLE "PURPLE SOMERSAULT" OUT MARCH 17TH—SAINT PATRICK'S DAY—AS A 12 INCH VINYL SINGLE ON BITCHES BREW! AVAILABLE NOW ALSO ON iTUNES...CHECK THESE GREAT REVIEWS FROM CLASH MAGAZINE (UK)—AND MUCH MORE—HERE!
03/12/2008
Check the flyer for Gary and Najma Ahktar's debut live performance May 3rd at Joe's Pub NYC here
