100 Cassettes

by Dennis Callaci

Overview

100 Cassettes started life as one hundred hand drawn cassette covers for an installation at the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona. This book features one hundred chapters on artists and the inner life of music.Find early entries of abstraction on Alice Cooper, Earl Sweatshirt, Talk Talk, and Prince as well as non fiction meditations on Tony Conrad, Black Sabbath, The Fall, and The Sun City Girls.Featuring a foreword by Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by Allen Callaci, the book winds around autobiographical information, the rich culture of Southern California from 1969 to the present day, and all musical points in between. 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163965472
Publisher:	Pelekinesis
Publication date:	02/14/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Dennis Callaci was born in Corona, California and has bounced around Southern California his entire life. He runs the record label Shrimper, noted for bringing forth the earliest recordings from Amps For Christ, Woods, Franklin Bruno, Lou Barlow's Sentridoh, The Mountain Goats, Dump, Kevin Morby, The Secret Stars and a few hundred other releases for over the course of the last thirty years. He is also in the band Refrigerator who have released twelve records over those thirty years, as well as solo records by Callaci & collaborations with John Davis, The Debts, and Simon Joyner. A former KSPC DJ, booker of shows around Southern California, and GM of two record stores of note, music has eaten up the majority of his life.

Editorial Reviews

"Callaci conjures a mix of fiction and trivia and memoir and secret code, and when I say “I wish I’d written it myself” I mean that I wish I thought I could have, or even knew exactly how it works."

- Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Feral Detective

“This book could be your life.”

- Ira Kaplan, Yo La Tengo

“This collection conjures up times and places that are achingly personal and bends them towards the universal.”

- Allen Callaci, author of Heart Like a Starfish

“In 100 Cassettes, music and whatever else there is to life try to drive through Dennis Callaci's brain, and continually get stuck in its fascinating detours and rest stops. Who knows which parts are fact and which are fiction, but it's definitely all true.”

- Marc Masters, Washington Post, author of No Wave

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