LATEST NEWS
01/16/2021
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Please enjoy this new clip by 3XA for "KING STRONG", the new single from Gary’s forthcoming 40-year retrospective THE ESSENTIAL GARY LUCAS, released Jan. 29th on Knitting Factory Records. Pre-order the album here, and download the new single here
01/15/2021
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Don Van Vliet a/k/a Captain Beefheart would have been 80 years old today. In honor of his birthday, check out Gary's new article about Don and his childhood friend Frank Zappa published by PleaseKillMe.com
12/17/2020
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Check out Gary's updated Wiki page here
· Just in time for the holidays, Gary now has vinyl copies in stock of his acclaimed Gods and Monsters studio album "The Ordeal of Civility" produced by Jerry Harrison—order here!
· Just in time for the holidays, Gary now has vinyl copies in stock of his acclaimed Gods and Monsters studio album "The Ordeal of Civility" produced by Jerry Harrison—order here!
12/15/2020
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FLASH!! GARY'S NEW DOUBLE CD RETROSPECTIVE "THE ESSENTIAL GARY LUCAS" is included in a TOP TEN HOLIDAY MUSIC GIFT LIST from Canada today in the Regina Leader Post; the list includes new album sets by the Beastie Boys, Elton John, The Buzzcocks, The White Stripes, Charlie Parker, Kool & the Gang, and Motorhead. The album is released Jan. 29th and you can Pre-Order it here
12/11/2020
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Gary is quoted in a new feature on Captain Beefheart in the latest issue of UnCut—read the article here
12/05/2020
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER DEPT.: An interview with Gary and Nona Hendryx about their "The World of Captain Beefheart" project just ran in PopMatters
11/27/2020
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Just confirmed; Feifei Yang, Jason Candler and Gary will give a special live-streamed concert to celebrate Chinese New Year on Feb. 12th 2021 for the Queens Public Library in Jamaica NY, which like Flushing boasts one of the largest concentrations of Chinese people in America
11/14/2020
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Gary's back in NYC after 3 weeks in the Netherlands where he played 2 nights at the So What's Next Festival in Eindhoven over Halloween weekend, check out his live-streamed set with acoustic bassist / singer Peter Willems here, and his performance accompanying the 1931 Spanish-language Dracula with his original live solo score here
11/13/2020
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A cool appreciation of Gary's all-acoustic 1996 "Evangeline" album just surfaced on the HollandTunnelDive blogspot
10/27/2020
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Gary is having a great time rehearsing in Maastricht with Peter Willems for their forthcoming album and debut performance this Friday night at the SO WHAT'S NEXT FESTIVAL in Eindhoven at 8pm Dutch time. Peter will also be Gary's special guest later today Tues. Oct 27th as part of Gary's regular Tuesday solo live-stream concert at 3pm EDT on Facebook.
10/26/2020
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This Sat night HALLOWEEN Gary is performing his live solo score accompanying the legendary 1931 SPANISH DRACULA at the SO WHAT'S NEXT FESTIVAL in Eindhoven Holland at 10pm Dutch time, 5pm EDT. And this Friday at 8pm Dutch time, 3pm EDT, Gary is performing live with Dutch acoustic bass virtuoso and singer PETER WILLEMS in their new duo format. Free to the public, watch it here! Photo collage to the left by 3XA
10/14/2020
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SEE JUNGLE SEE JUNGLE: Gary's new article about quintessential Jewish manager/agent provocateur the late great Malcolm McLaren is up now at PleaseKillMe.com
photo: an homage to Edouard Manet's famed "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" used for the cover of the second Bow Wow Wow album, produced by Malcom McLaren (and subsequently pulled from the racks of many a retail record outlet)
photo: an homage to Edouard Manet's famed "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" used for the cover of the second Bow Wow Wow album, produced by Malcom McLaren (and subsequently pulled from the racks of many a retail record outlet)
10/11/2020
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GARY RETURNS TO THE NETHERLANDS FOR TWO LIVE SHOWS!! Read all of the details in the latest Press Release
10/07/2020
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This Sunday night Oct. 11th Gary is being interviewed by legendary Dutch producer CO DE KLOET on his CoLive! Program as part of a special evening devoted to Gary's musical career, broadcast on national Dutch radio NTR—tune in at 7pm Dutch time here, and it will also available on Apple Music
10/06/2020
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From Gary's Archive: Check out an ad Gary conceived and executed with art director Jay Rohrer for the release of The Clash's second album "Give 'Em Enough Rope" in the US circa 1978. The ad ran in Trouser Press Magazine, and Gary's copy line "The Only English Group That Matters" was shortened to "The Only Group The Matters" in subsequent ads Gary wrote for The Clash. The underlying text which the Clash album cover is layered over is a gossip column lifted from the Soho Weekly News.
09/26/2020
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Jeff Buckley's 1994 2-million selling "Grace" album—the first two songs of which were co-written and performed by Gary Lucas—comes in at #147 on Rolling Stone's revised 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list
photo copyright Chris Buck
photo copyright Chris Buck
09/23/2020
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Read Gary's review of the new Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of the classic 1979 documentary "Town Bloody Hall" (a/k/a "Norman Mailer vs. the Feminists"), directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker
09/19/2020
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FAMILY VALUES: A feature about Gary's longtime favorites FAMILY, published in the Yale Daily News 10/2/72 after Family opened for Elton John at the New Haven Arena on 9/29/72
Click on these highly readable scans you can enlarge without eye-strain:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
photo to the left taken at the Arena during the show by Bill Hoffman
Click on these highly readable scans you can enlarge without eye-strain:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
photo to the left taken at the Arena during the show by Bill Hoffman
09/19/2020
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The article linked below from Forrest J. Ackerman and James Warren's MONSTER WORLD circa 1966 got THE GOLEM ball rolling for Gary...a Jewish Frankenstein, how cool is that? When New Music America and the BAM Next Wave Festival offered him a commission in 1989 to develop new musical work in tandem with another art form, he instantly hit on the idea of live scoring the original 1920 silent German expressionist masterpiece, directed by and starring Paul Wegener—and he invited his childhood friend, keyboardist/composer Walter Horn, with who he had a long history of making radical music with, in on the project. Gary and Walter debuted their live score at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria (originally Kaufman Studios, where The Marx Brothers filmed "The Coconuts") in the Fall of 1989, and were a big hit there, with Laurie Anderson coming up to compliment them. Next John Zorn invited them to play with the film at his First Festival of Radical Jewish Culture in Munich the following year, and since then Gary has taken this film and their music all over the world—playing in over 20 countries and in fantastic venues, including 35MM Theater in Moscow and Dom Kino in St. Petersburg, at the Jecheon Festival of Film and Music in South Korea, opening the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, at Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City, at POP Montreal, the WUK in Wien, Berlin Jewish Film Festival, at the Amiens Festival in France, Teatro Verdi in Firenze, the First SP Terror Festival in Sao Paulo, the Valladolid Film Festival in Spain, at Royal Festival Hall in London, the Venice Biennale, the Next Festival in Tel Aviv, at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring MD, at the Sydney and Melbourne Jewish Film Festivals, Petofi Hall in Budapest, the Silent Movie Theatre in LA, at Paradiso Amsterdam—and of course, in Prague, home of THE GOLEM. Thanks to Jeff Roth for digging into his considerable archives for this Rocket from the Tombs.
cover | table of contents | part 1 | part 2 | part 3
cover | table of contents | part 1 | part 2 | part 3
09/17/2020
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MY BECK PAGES: Check out Gary's review of JEFF BECK'S "TRUTH" album from Syracuse's underground newspaper COGITO issue #3, "Virgo '68" (Aug 23-Sept 22)
09/16/2020
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Gary's solo acoustic instrumental tour de force of the Rolling Stones classic "She's a Rainbow" is out now as a digital single—details here!
09/07/2020
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Check out a new article by Gary about the one and only Brian Jones up at PleaseKillMe.com now—a review of the new DVD "ROLLING STONE: LIFE AND DEATH OF BRIAN JONES", plus ruminations on Brian's special musical genius
photo of Brian Jones by Art Kane
· New updated Gary Lucas WIKI page
photo of Brian Jones by Art Kane
· New updated Gary Lucas WIKI page
09/06/2020
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NEW Early Rock Writing page added, featuring Gary's reviews from the 60's anf 70's of Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, the Nice, King Crimson, and more
· Several Merch items are back in stock!
· Several Merch items are back in stock!
09/04/2020
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Gary talks about his old friend HAL WILLNER in a new article by Roy Trakin in today's "Variety"
09/03/2020
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Check out two early 70's reviews Gary wrote for ZOO WORLD MAGAZINE—a rock tabloid out of Florida—first up is his June 21st 1973 review of THE NICE and their "Autumn to Spring" compilation album, page 1 and page 2; next is Gary's Aug. 17th 1973 review of two WHO-related solo albums from Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle
08/31/2020
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One of Gary's infamous record reviews unearthed—this one for King Crimson's "Lark's Tongue in Aspic" album, which appeared in Zoo World Magazine July 1973, and reprinted in the booklets of several King Crimson compilations over the years
· FROM THE LUCAS ARCHIVES: Check out two more music reviews Gary wrote for Syracuse's underground newspaper COGITO: The Nice review is from issue #8 December '69 (page 1 and page 2), and the Small Faces article is from issue #9 Feb. '70 (page 1 and page 2)
· New interview with Gary in The Forward!
· FROM THE LUCAS ARCHIVES: Check out two more music reviews Gary wrote for Syracuse's underground newspaper COGITO: The Nice review is from issue #8 December '69 (page 1 and page 2), and the Small Faces article is from issue #9 Feb. '70 (page 1 and page 2)
· New interview with Gary in The Forward!
08/25/2020
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Terrible news just now of the death of Gary's friend Pierre Ruiz in a mountain climbing accident in Sardinia over the weekend. Pierre was the visionary genius who saw the potential of recording a full album containing new studio versions of all the songs Gary Lucas co-wrote with Jeff Buckley for his Rome-based label Esordisco, featuring The Niro on vocals and Francesco Arpino Official on keyboards and production. The album was voted Best Album of 2019 by Classic Rock Italia.
Lucas will dedicate his live streaming concert on his Facebook page today Tues. Aug. 25th at 3pm EDT—#66 in a series—to the memory of Pierre Ruiz, and play many Buckley/Lucas songs from their album
· Thanks to Sean Kitching for this new interview with Gary in The Quietus on the 50th anniversary of Captain Beefheart's "Doc at the Radar Station"
Lucas will dedicate his live streaming concert on his Facebook page today Tues. Aug. 25th at 3pm EDT—#66 in a series—to the memory of Pierre Ruiz, and play many Buckley/Lucas songs from their album
· Thanks to Sean Kitching for this new interview with Gary in The Quietus on the 50th anniversary of Captain Beefheart's "Doc at the Radar Station"
08/23/2020
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Them "Grace" fans are crazy! Today is the 26th anniversary of the release of the "Grace" album, the first two songs on it ("Mojo Pin" and "Grace") co-written by Gary who also performed on them. Listen live today Sun. Aug. 23rd at 1pm EDT to national Dutch radio NPO who are broadcasting one hour of the historic live concert THE MUSIC OF JEFF BUCKLEY AND GARY LUCAS featuring Gary with the 65-piece Metropole Orchestra
· In honor of the 26th anniversary of the release of the "Grace" album today Sun.August 23rd, Gary has posted the demo of "Mojo Pin", recorded Aug. 1991, on his Soundcloud page as a gift for the fans
· Check out a new interview with Gary in Eighth Day Magazine, Ireland
· In honor of the 26th anniversary of the release of the "Grace" album today Sun.August 23rd, Gary has posted the demo of "Mojo Pin", recorded Aug. 1991, on his Soundcloud page as a gift for the fans
· Check out a new interview with Gary in Eighth Day Magazine, Ireland
08/17/2020
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Check out a newly unearthed live rarity of Gary playing solo at London's swanky Town and Country Club Nov. 1988
photo: Melody Maker profile 2/1989 by David Fricke
photo: Melody Maker profile 2/1989 by David Fricke
08/16/2020
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NEW GARY LUCAS TRACK "SHE'S A RAINBOW" NOW AVAILABLE Just PayPal Gary a mere 20 bucks (or euros or pounds) here and a WAV file of a pristine studio recording of Gary's new solo acoustic arrangement of this CERTIFIED STONES CLASSIC will be WeTransferred to you forthwith. A highlight of the Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request" album, Lucas's version was recorded in Prague on his 1941 Gibson J-45 acoustic through a Marshall stack. The sonics on this recording are unbelievable! This clip shows a 2' x 2' 3D version of the original 3D cover of "Their Satanic Majesties Request", here realized by Robert Munn
08/16/2020
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Gary decided to take the day off today Sunday 8/16, and will resume his live streaming shows on Facebook this Tuesday 8/18 at 3pm EDT as usual
08/07/2020
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Check out Gary's "Happy Birthday Andy Warhol" show live-streamed 8/6/20
08/04/2020
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DVDs are back in stock in the Merch section!
08/03/2020
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Read Gary's appreciation of the immortal PETER GREEN—his favorite guitarist—in PLEASE KILL ME
· Check out an amazing new clip made in Hungary for "Gary and Toni Run the Hoodoo Down", a track from their Okaymusic album "Gary and Toni Go Nutz!"
· Gary's review of a local restaurant, 7/31/2020
· Check out an amazing new clip made in Hungary for "Gary and Toni Run the Hoodoo Down", a track from their Okaymusic album "Gary and Toni Go Nutz!"
· Gary's review of a local restaurant, 7/31/2020
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