ANDRAUS show w/JERKAGRAM, HEPA.TITUS, PLANESWALKER

Here's a show poster I did for a show I am playing with ANDRAUS:


Los Globos Locals presents.....

ANDRAUS 
Heavy, experimental brotherly duo.
http://andraus.bandcamp.com/

JERKAGRAM (CD release show!!) 
Psychedelic rock's sexiest fraternal twin brothers celebrate the release of their new full length, Outer Limbs.
https://soundcloud.com/jerkagram

HEPA.TITUS 
Loud. Noisy. Rock. Roll. Great.
http://hepa-titus.bandcamp.com/

PlanesWalker
Heavy experimental math-rock.
https://planeswalker.bandcamp.com/


TUESDAY, JANUARY 26th, 2016
8pm / $5
LOS GLOBOS
3040 W SUNSET BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90026

Tickets here: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1047973?_ga=1.204521043.271124345.1452322155

AXED CROWN - Amnesty

Axed Crown - Amnesty comes out January 29th, 2016 on Asunder Records!
Cassette, CD, Digital

Pre-order now!

Axed Crown's first record Amnesty builds on layers of loss and beauty. The buzzing distortions and fading echoes reflect the transience of memory. Bittersweet melodies are woven with electronics smooth and rough, and swell from delicate washes to heavy waves. The sounds are as much about texture as they are tones. There are moments of clarity and obfuscation as instruments fade in and out, like trying to remember details of days long past.

In the case of Andrew Cox those days were spent in California on a dilapidated resort full of haunted buildings, one of which graces the cover of Amnesty. The property was owned by the Unification Church, a waning seventies cult of acid casualties and ex-flower children turned conservatives who worshipped a Korean messiah. After a strange upbringing, Andrew Cox went on to graduate from Calarts, and has worked for Hydra Head Records since 2007. He's directed videos for Old Man Gloom, Torche, and Helms Alee, created live projections for Prurient and Vatican Shadow, and worked with many others including Jesu and Sigur Rós. He also plays drums in Andraus. In Axed Crown he does nearly everything himself: recording, production, artwork. He plays and programs all of the instruments, with occasional help ("Solless" features his brother and Andraus guitarist Austin Cox). Perhaps that solitude is why these songs feel haunted. The ghosts of those empty buildings from his past, and the cassette-taped voices of religious leaders leak into the tracks.

Amnesty drifts through a haze of sub-genres, with impressions of shoegaze, noisy electronics, ambient experimentalism, and even twinges of industrial and black metal. It's post-something. The cohesion of it's precursors and influences becomes something more, as a person is more than the sum of their experiences. Like broken pottery repaired with gold, the beauty of Amnesty is in the rough spaces between it's parts.

Tracklist:
1. Overturn
2. Dial Tone
3. Eyespace
4. Grey Sea
5. Phantomatic
6. Small Knives
7. Solless
8. Ave Cavern
9. Cloudbreak
10. Deign

Pre-order Cassette, CD, Digital, and T-Shirt on Bandcamp!

AXED CROWN - Buster T-Shirt

OLD MAN GLOOM - The Lash (official video)

The music video I directed for Old Man Gloom is out now!

Premiered by Decibel Magazine.

I dragged Akina and Austin out to the desert to film, then sculpted a bunch of stuff that I lit on fire. I'll post some behind the scenes photos when I have time.

Thanks to Akina, Austin, my mom, Aaron, Caleb, Nate, Santos, Chris Bruni, Profound Lore Records, Faith, Sige Records

Henry & Glenn Forever

Here is the color cover for my three page Henry & Glenn story for Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever.
Obviously it's a ripoff homage to Mike Mignola's Hellboy.
Signed print available in my webstore

The original drawings will be on display at La Luz de Jesus for
How Many Artists Does It Take To Screw Henry & Glenn?
An Exhibition of the Art of Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever
October 3 – November 2, 2014

Artist reception: Friday, October 3rd, 8-11PM

Big thanks to Tom Neely for inviting me to be a part of it! 

So many great cartoonists and artists involved.

Nontendo

Nontendo

Spreadsheet laser print, matte board 

11"x14" 

Part of Reticulating Splines 
A group show curated by @johnniejungleguts at Chin's Push gallery in Highland Park. 
Opening today 1pm-9pm 
4917 York Blvd, Los Angeles 
Along with the Great Summer Pokémon Festival and tournament.

Axed Crown at KCHUNGFEST 2014 // Ltd 'GNUHCK' cassette

Axed Crown is playing KCHUNGFEST 2014 at Los Globos on Monday!

We go on at 4:35, so come spend labor day listening to noisy electronic post rock, and hanging with strange, beautiful LA art people!

It's a fundraiser to support independent artist-run Kchung Radio (which broadcasts my monthly show Heavy Duty, heavy music for lightweights, a gateway to headbanging for the uninitiated. Fourth Sunday of every month at 3pm Pacific)

KCHUNGFEST 2014

Monday, September 1st (Labor Day), 2014

2pm-Midnight

Los Globos

3040 W Sunset Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90026

I'll have a super limited cassette available at the show.

AXED CROWN - GNUHCK cassette

Ambient synths, noisy loops, and clumsy beats. 

Performed live on KCHUNG February 24th, 2013.

45 minutes

Recommended if you like Grails, Aphex Twin, Tortoise.

Hopefully I'll see you there!

Current Projects

I have been busy with a bunch of stuff lately, and tend to forget how many things I am actually undertaking at any given time. So, I figured I would list them out here to help wrap my head around and let you know what I am up to.
Also, because I am bad at regular updates, this is my semi-regular info purge.

- POCKET BOOK V
Pocket Book V is finished. We just completed printing and binding them. Akina hand-stitched every single one.
http://andrewjamescox.bigcartel.com/product/pocket-book-v

- ANDRAUS
New band with my brother Austin. Thrash/doom/ambient/psych/electronic/metal
We've started recording. It's the first time I have been satisfied with the sound quality of drums I've recorded myself.

We also printed shirts:
andraus.bigcartel.com

- Helms Alee / Young Widows split
I did the cover art for the forthcoming split from my pals Helms Alee and Young Widows, to be released by Sargent House.
http://hellomerch.com/products/helms-alee-young-widows-split-lp-12-vinyl

- AXED CROWN
Axed Crown is my solo musical project. I've had a debut LP languishing in near-completion for a couple years now. I finally recorded drums for one song, "Overturn," that's been almost done for a while, and I think it is finally complete. Just need to tweak and add a few bits, and the record will be good to go. It's tentatively titled "Amnesty."
axedcrown.bandcamp.com

Here is the rough demo for "Overturn"


- HENRY & GLENN FOREVER & EVER
I have a short comic in the upcoming Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever TPB. It's basically Henry as Hellboy, and they fall through the floor of their house into a forgotten practice space. I'll post a preview soon. Also, the book's foreword is written by Rob Halford. ROB HALFORD. of JUDAS PRIEST.
Pre-Order It Here

- CHEAP EATS
I'm also working on Cheap Eats, a short cooking show featuring delicious recipes for the broke and lazy. It's for KCHUNG TV, KCHUNG's entry in the Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2014 Biennial.

- HEAVY DUTY
Oh yeah, I also have a monthly show called Heavy Duty on KCHUNG radio. It focuses on hevay music for lightweights, and airs the fourth Sunday of every month.
kchungradio.org

- I'm in the middle of writing a short script about a metal band putting on a show at their parents' house. Hopefully I'll finish it this month and have it shot and edited before summer is over.

- I already wrote a feature length script for a post-apocalyptic ghost movie called Mountain Ghost that's influenced by The Road, Princess Mononoke, Red Dawn, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Intending to but not really working on pre-production (designs, storyboards, etc). Might produce it as a comic first.

- On the far back burner is a short zine/riso book called Black Days. Black metal days of the week. Sunday is a burning church, Monday is black coffee, etc.

- Probably some other stuff I am forgetting/procrastinating on. For some reason I still feel unproductive a lot of the time. Let me know if you need a video, or a drawing, or music. Because I am not busy enough.

I blame the internet.

Hydra Head Poster + T-shirt

I designed this poster/t-shirt for Hydra Head Records.
The poster is a 4 Color screen printed 18"x24" poster on 100# "Berrylicious" Pop Tone Paper. Hand-numbered and limited to 50.
Buy it here

The shirt is limited edition pre-order only, so order it now if you want one ever!
Buy it here


They are part of a series of prints for Hydra Head by a bunch of awesome artists that I helped curate, including:
- Faith Coloccia
- Michael DeForge
- Julia Gfrörer
- Tom Neely
- Sophie Penrose
- Aaron Turner
and more!

Blob monsters

Working on a poster for Hydra Head Records. 

POCKET BOOK V, coming soon

POCKET BOOK V, coming soon.

Charles Barkley, hail Santa.

Charles Barkley, hail Santa. 

GLOOMIS

More Loomis videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0KEeIY3Uh1JRdD_ywPFobw?feature=watch

The Adventures of Akinkin

I drew this as a belated birthday / Valentine's Day present for my wife Akina. She likes Tintin (me, too). I finished it two days ago. I'm busy, okay.

Lost Claus

Lost Claus

2013

7" x 4 1/4"

pencil on paper

Floor Puncher

Floor Puncher
2013
7" x 4 1/4"
ink on paper

Untitled

Untitled

2013

12"x9"

ink and pencil on paper

Little Scribble

Little Scribble

2013

7"x4"

pencil on paper

Lewd Albino

2013
7"X4"
ink on paper

My First Tattoo

Well, not on myself (I swear it's not me, despite the similar body type and apparel), but the first tattoo of my art on someone else's hide.

Tebbles emailed me out of the blue with only the words "Keep up the good work sir!" and these two photos:

He is sporting permanent ink of a modified version of my design for the limited Hydra Head poster (see previous post). This is still blowing my mind a bit.

In other news, I am 75 pages deep into writing a post-apocalyptic ghost movie. Influences include Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Stanley Kubrick, Red Dawn, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and probably a lot of other things floating around in my mind.

Hydra Head Records poster

I designed this poster for Hydra Head Records.

Limited edition
18"x24" 
hand screen printed on a matte offset background 
100# white paper 
Signed and numbered 

Pre-Order here

It's being sold as part of the larger Hydra Head Rehabilitation Project HYDRA HEALTH

I've been working at Hydra Head for over 5 years now. I started as an intern (technically Isis' intern, but I quickly rolled over to HH duties). There has never been a time when I didn't believe in the projects we were involved in, or the way we have approached them. We probably could have pressed fewer quantities of certain CDs, but we also could not have predicted such a precipitous drop in CD sales. This endeavor was never about making money, though. If it was, there would have been a lot more corporate sponsorship and licenses, shittier touring bands, and pandering advertisements. Everyone who does and has worked here has foregone any delusions of luxury (or even healthcare). I don't remember anyone besides Aaron having a car made within the last 10 years. 

People occasionally complain that our records are expensive, but if you are going to make a physical artifact of the music, you should make it well. Heavy vinyl, sturdy jacket, and quality printing. We have compromised very little on that. Maybe we should have made flimsier LPs and required our bands to tour relentlessly. Maybe we could have been rich. Except that it hasn't just been our choices that have led to our current financial peril. We only control our ship, not the entire sea.

The music industry has changed drastically over the past decade, and especially over the past few years. For better or worse, the internet has destroyed the old model of music distribution. Once it's released, artists and labels don't really have control over the dissemination of their own content. The new streaming services pay pennies, and even through proper channels, music is used as content to drive services and advertisements that benefit those providers vastly more than the artists themselves. Even if a band is the type to tour, gas has gotten expensive. I don't have any scientific data to back it up, but it feels like there are less touring bands coming through than there used to be. I think because the overhead of being on the road has become prohibitive for acts that don't have a large following.

Maybe Hydra Head is dying. I still don't believe it. Maybe it will be saved by the generosity of those that appreciate earnest, challenging music and aesthetics. Maybe the whole world really is ending and the rumble of the earth falling will match the rumble of the records we have released.

I am humbled and honored to have been directly involved with a lot of groundbreaking records, and a few masterpieces. I am grateful for all of the friends I have met, to know that there are other people that care about things like I do. I am proud to be part of this family.

Cut one head off...