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01/04/2026
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GARY'S 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2025
1. Marty Supreme (d. Josh Safdie)
2. The Secret Agent (d. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
3. One Battle After Another (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Resurrection (d. Bi Gan)
5. Sinners (d. Ryan Coogler)
6. It Was Just An Accident (d. Jafar Panahi)
7. The Fugs Film (d. Chuck Smith)
8. Sirat (d. Oliver Laxe)
9. Eddington (d. Ari Aster)
10. Nouvelle Vague (d. Richard Linklater)
1. Marty Supreme (d. Josh Safdie)
2. The Secret Agent (d. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
3. One Battle After Another (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Resurrection (d. Bi Gan)
5. Sinners (d. Ryan Coogler)
6. It Was Just An Accident (d. Jafar Panahi)
7. The Fugs Film (d. Chuck Smith)
8. Sirat (d. Oliver Laxe)
9. Eddington (d. Ari Aster)
10. Nouvelle Vague (d. Richard Linklater)
01/02/2026
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FREEFORM '68: THE BEGINNING OR THE END??: Gary's new article up now at CultureCatch.com
12/31/2025
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If you're in NYC this week start the New Year right and come to the 52nd Annual New Year's Day Poetry Marathon at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery—a fundraiser for the Poetry Project, this Thursday Jan. 1st from 1pm-12am. Ernie Brooks, Peter Zummo, Bill Ruyle, Jeannine Otis and Gary are kicking things off at 1pm with a musical tonic for the troops with a plethora of poets following.
Read all about it here which lists the schedule of events and all the amazing poets taking part—including Bob Holman, Penny Arcade, Anne Waldman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Edmund Berrigan and many other luminaries. The event will also be livestreamed, details a the link!
Read all about it here which lists the schedule of events and all the amazing poets taking part—including Bob Holman, Penny Arcade, Anne Waldman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Edmund Berrigan and many other luminaries. The event will also be livestreamed, details a the link!
12/20/2025
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Check out "Rise Up to Be", Part Two of Noah Wotherspoon's "The Gary Lucas Interviews", just online now!
12/11/2025
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MARTY SUPREME LIVES UP TO ITS TITLE: Gary's review of Josh Safdie's new film, in US theaters Dec. 25th, up now at CultureCatch.com
photo: Timothee Chalamet aș ping-pong hustler Marty in the new film
photo: Timothee Chalamet aș ping-pong hustler Marty in the new film
11/26/2025
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Gary comes in at #10 in a new podcast titled "Ten Guitarists Who Defied the Odds"
11/22/2025
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Just announced the venue and set time at the Big Ears Festival: GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS feat. Calvin Weston and Ernie Brooks, playing the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville Tennessee, Sunday, March 29, 2026 at The Standard—We go on at 8:30 PM for 75 minutes of madness
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Hashtag: #BigEarsKnox
"If you've got [BIG] ears, you've gotta listen!!"
—Captain Beefheart
https://bigearsfestival.org/passes/
Website: https://bigearsfestival.org/
Facebook: @BigEarsFestival
Twitter: @BigEarsFestival
Instagram: @bigearsfestival
Hashtag: #BigEarsKnox
"If you've got [BIG] ears, you've gotta listen!!"
—Captain Beefheart
11/22/2025
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Peter Hammill guest-hosted Howard Thompson's PURE on WPKN 89.5FM on Friday, November 21st at 3:00pm EST, and he played "Spinning Coins" from the Peter Hammill and Gary Lucas collaboration album Otherworld, along with some comments on the making of the album! Listen to the podcast version here
11/22/2025
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BEEFHEART'S LAST LIEUTENANT: New appreciation of Gary's guitar playing in the recent edition of GuitarDoor.com
11/8/2025
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Gary Lucas just returned from a two week tour of France and the Netherlands, which started with him recording 5 tracks in Normandy's Sound Factory Studio in lovely Forges le Beaux with French chanteuse Hannah Helene and a crew consisting of his old friend Dave Konopnicki on Barton guitar and bass, Lulu Gainsbourg (son of Serge) on keyboards, and other French luminaries.
They cut 5 tracks with a 5 more scheduled to be recorded in April, Gary then performed his live original solo guitar score "Too Much Johnson" at the famed Cinematheque francaise in Paris (his 3rd premiere there) and then traveled to Holland for two near-Halloween shows accompanying the legendary 1931 Spanish "Dracula" at the Lumiere Cinema in Maastricht NL for the BlackLght Festival of artist Mireille Brouwer.
Photo at left: In Sound Factory Studio Forges Les Eaux Normandie France third week October 2025 working with vocalist Hannah Helene l to r engineer Thibault, Hannah, drummer Grimaud, GL, David Konopnicki, executive producer Ari Sebag and Lulu Gainsbourg
They cut 5 tracks with a 5 more scheduled to be recorded in April, Gary then performed his live original solo guitar score "Too Much Johnson" at the famed Cinematheque francaise in Paris (his 3rd premiere there) and then traveled to Holland for two near-Halloween shows accompanying the legendary 1931 Spanish "Dracula" at the Lumiere Cinema in Maastricht NL for the BlackLght Festival of artist Mireille Brouwer.
Photo at left: In Sound Factory Studio Forges Les Eaux Normandie France third week October 2025 working with vocalist Hannah Helene l to r engineer Thibault, Hannah, drummer Grimaud, GL, David Konopnicki, executive producer Ari Sebag and Lulu Gainsbourg
11/3/2025
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Sunday, March 29, 2026—Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters (G. Calvin Weston drums and Ernie Brooks bass) play the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville Tennessee, time and venue tba
11/1/2025
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Check out Part One of a new interview with Gary on YouTube conducted by musician Noah Wotherspoon
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