Rob Oliver

Trinca revista imprescindible para todo coleccionista de revistas de autor, de esta época dorada del comic español, que se precie. Trinca nació en 1970, y duró tres años años sufriendo la censura de un régimen franquista que había forzado a muchos dibujantes y guionistas al exilio artístico, para poder trabajar libremente en otros países, fue la primera revista en formato magazine y llegó a la friolera de 65 números, su carácter historicista abrió una ventana a muchas historias que actuaban con el doble filo del arte imposible de controlar a pesar de la tijera del censor, ya que sus guiones reflejaban el carácter humano, representado con un dibujo detallista lleno de expresión, dotando las páginas de una vitalidad y libertad que solo este medio de comunicación podría darnos.

Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and wit to his selections for Best Canadian Poetry 2019. The fifty ruggedly independent poems gathered here tackle themes of emergence, defiance, ferocious anger, gratitude, and survival. They are alive with acoustic energy, precise in their language, and moving in their use of the personal to explore fraught political realities. They emit a cloud of invisible energy, a charge.

Music Scene is a spectacular, one-of-a-kind program that originally aired on ABC-TV from 1969-1970. The show featured the most popular contemporary performers along with many varied musical legends. Hosted by comedian David Steinberg and special guests, Music Scene was based on Billboard magazine's hit record charts and offered exclusive live performances by virtually every major star from the rock, country, soul, folk, and pop genres. Includes full-length, hit performances by: James Brown, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joe Cocker, Merle Haggard, Isaac Hayes, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Lulu, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Charley Pride, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Bobby Sherman, B.B. King, Sly & the Family Stone, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the Everly Brothers, the Grass Roots, the Rascals, the Temptations, Three Dog Night, and many, many more!

CUSTARD are active since 1987 but have never really made it out of the underground. They have made four studio-albums between 1999 and 2008 and their fifth album now is the first one released by Pure Steel Records.

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is a timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.

There are some new protagonists in the Chicago jazz scene, due to the revelation of a younger generation of musicians and the defection of some of the big names to other American regions, like Jeff Parker and Rob Mazurek. One of these Chicago exponents, gradually gaining importance, is pianist and composer Matt Piet, a former student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Leader of two fundamental bands in the city, Matt Piet Trio and Four Letter Words, and one of the vertices of the Rempis / Piet / Daisy triangle, he has broken into the Chicago improvised music community as a “melodic player” whose “tonefulness is thrillingly shaken by a rhythmic volatility and a fractal sense of phrasing”, according to the jazz journalist Peter Margasak, who compared his sound to Cecil Taylor in the late ‘50s and the early ‘60s.

The Kontor Summer Jam 2018 is the absolute dance music compilation for the summer with its tracklist. At current well over 30 degrees, of course, people prefer it more outside and so find across the Republic abundant outdoor events instead. As one would expect from compilations by Kontor Records, there is of course also a MiniMix in this case. If you still have not got the right music in the middle of summer. The Kontor Summer Jam 2018 is just right here, because here you get over 60 top tracks, which are currently in full swing. If we take a look at the tracklist at this point, we will find plenty of top tracks from e.g. Armin van Buuren, Lost Frequencies, Robin Schulz, The Chainsmokers, Dave Darell, Impeccable & Crazy and many more. The release of the new Kontor Summer Jam is scheduled for the August 2018.