Afternoon Bites: Unwound Reissues, Patti Smith Reads Virginia Woolf, Conversing With Lars Iyer, and More

Four words: Numero Group reissues Unwound. No big deal; just Patti Smith reading from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. HTML Giant interviewed Lars Iyer, whose Exodus is out now from Melville House. So, about that contentious New York Public Library renovation? Michael Kimmelman has some questions about that. The New Yorker on polite graffiti. Chris Mautner on unjustly forgotten comics anthologies. A look back on Neil Gaiman’s The Books of Magic. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

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Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Us Unwound’s Justin Trosper Had A New Band?

I think it’s safe to say that Vol.1 Brooklyn’s editors contain more than a few Unwound fans among their number. Of the group’s members, drummer Sara Lund seems to have been the most active lately, as part of Hungry Ghost and the Corin Tucker Band. We’re also incredibly excited to hear that singer/guitarist Justin Trosper has a new group, called Survival Knife, who are playing shows around the Northwest. (Seriously, west coast friends: why didn’t any of you mention this?) […]

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