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SLAKE AFTER DARK: JOSEPH MATTSON updated info!

THE LOWDOWNLOW:

SLAKE AFTER DARK: JOSEPH MATTSON

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012, 7PM:

SLAKE: LOS ANGELES--A CITY AND ITS STORIES presents

 Author JOSEPH MATTSON with SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS:

GABRIEL HART (Jail Weddings) w/AMANDA FRANCES (Crooked Cowboy)

ALEX MASLANSKY (Horse Thieves)

KURT MANGUM (Belt Vs. Knife)

 for
SLAKE AFTER DARK at
Atwater Crossing
3245 Casitas Ave.
Atwater Village, 90039

This will be Mattson's last public appearance for a while as he and lovely fiancee Devri (multi-talented analog photographer featured in SLAKE #s 2 "Crossing Over" and 4 "Dirt") prepare to welcome their first child. AND SO let this be a blow-up of a blowout celebration as Mattson tears through a retrospective of his work thus far, including selections from the story collection EAT HELL, his novel EMPTY THE SUN, excerpts from his various contributions to SLAKE, slices from THE SPEED CHRONICLES, and a preview of his novel-in-progress HEXICO, plus a few surprises!

Bookending the event will be LIVE music from ALEX MASLANSKY/HORSE THIEVES and GABRIEL HART (Jail Weddings) & AMANDA FRANCES (Crooked Cowboy), with musical accompaniment during the reading by KURT MANGUM/BELT VS. KNIFE!

JOSEPH MATTSON introducing JAIL WEDDINGS tonight @ Echo Country Outpost!

CONJUGAL LOVE DATE TONIGHT IN ECHO PARK WITH JAIL WEDDINGS AND JOSEPH MATTSON!

JOSEPH MATTSON has written liner notes for the new JAIL WEDDINGS Four Future Standards extended play vinyl 12" and digipak CD—liner notes full-back-of-album-style in the jazz/folk/blues/psychedelic tradition, but pushing the content of what it means to listen to a record and live music—get the record HERE direct from the label, Neurotic Yell Records—AND TONIGHT Mattson will be introducing the band with a special reading from the liner notes before their set LIVE at Echo Country Outpost in Echo Park/Los Angeles! 

JAIL WEDDINGS

THE ABIGAILS

CLAIRE MCKEOWN

 

Echo Country Outpost

1770 Glendale Blvd., Edendale, California, 90026

 

  

 

Joseph Mattson reads for SLAKE at Vroman's Pasadena Friday, July 20, 2012, 7:30PM

SLAKE: Los Angeles, A City & Its Stories thumbs its bootstraps once again to blow the minds of Southern California, this time the outlaw eyes are set on idyllic/misunderstood lovely/vulnerable Pasadena, days of parrots and roses, little-old-lady-and-gangster-deep--catch SLAKE editors & contributors at Vroman's Bookstore, Vroman's proclaiming honor badge of "Southern California's Oldest & Largest Independent Bookstore"--since the 1890s, mofos! So pay homage all, reading for/from SLAKE Issue 4, "Dirt":

DAVE WHITE
LYNELL GEORGE
JOSEPH MATTSON
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
R.S. CARLSON
SAM SLOVICK


--TALES OF SEX, SADNESS, SLAG & OTHER "DIRTY" THINGS!

RSVP if you'd like at www.slake.la!

Friday, July 20, 2012, 7:30PM
VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena CA 91101

GABE HART of JAIL WEDDINGS joining JOSEPH MATTSON today at BEYOND BAROQUE, 2pm!

The gentle scoundrel GABRIEL HART -- semi-infamous leader, formerly, of THE STARVATIONS, and, mainmost currently, JAIL WEDDINGS -- has written a book, THE INTRUSION, forthcoming TBA, but TODAY Mr. Hart will be joining JOSEPH MATTSON at Beyond Baroque in Venice at 2pm. Damn.

GET THERE:

Beyond Baroque presents:

JOSEPH MATTSON (The Speed Chronicles, Empty the Sun, Eat Hell) is featured guest of THE GREAT BEYOND reading series hosted by JESSICA CEBALLOS, at BEYOND BAROQUE in Venice! *with SPECIAL GUEST GABE HART of JAIL WEDDINGS!

Sunday, July 15, 2pm

681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291
www.beyondbaroque.org

 

 

AKASHIC BOOKS POWERHOUSE SHOWCASE at STORIES BOOKS, Friday the 13th of July, 2012, at 7:30pm, featuring: NATHAN LARSON, JOE MENO, and JOSEPH MATTSON!

STORIES BOOKS in Echo Park presents: AKASHIC BOOKS POWERHOUSE EVENT!

*NATHAN LARSON ("The Nervous System")

*JOE MENO ("Office Girl")

*JOSEPH MATTSON ("The Speed Chronicles")

LIVE, IN-PERSON!

[Exciting new novelist NATHAN LARSON is an accomplished musician--formerly of the legendary art-punk outfit Shudder to Think--longtime/current film composer--Boys Don't Cry--Dirty Pretty Things--The Messenger--www.nathanlarson.net * JOE MENO is the bestselling, award-winning author of "Hairstyles of the Damned" and "Demons in the Spring" and several more--former editor of PUNK PLANET--also a playwright--www.joemeno.com * JOSEPH MATTSON is the author of LA cult classics "Eat Hell" and "Empty the Sun," a novel which comes with a soundtrack by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE--Mattson is a current DCA COLA fellow/individual artist grantee--www.emptythesun.com]

Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park/Los Angeles, CA, 90026
www.storiesla.com