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SELECTED PRESS
THREE
"[Penny-Ante's] Three is something of an alternative bible... If you’ve ever believed in or even had a remote
dalliance with outsider art, with DIY culture then Penny-Ante should be a name etched onto your heart. Taking
contributions, not just cast-offs, from some of the most inspirational minds, activists and artists of their – our,
your dammit, generation and putting them all in one beautifully bound place Penny-Ante have created, curated
perhaps, a portable haven. So the fat pleb on the bus is gassing you with Dan Brown – fuck them, take Three
from your bag and revel in it. Your friends might wonder what the fuss is about but come on in; this can be our
little club."
(SUBBA-CULTURE) -- Full feature here
"...Compiling art, writing, and interviews, and general artistic miscellany into bound anthologies with little concern
for what some might see as cohesive, but great concern for what is good art and interesting reading... As are all
Penny-Antes volumes, Three is a mixed bag, where a piece of Jad Fair’s artwork can coexist with a printed email
to a clergyman inquiring as to how to become “unbatized.” But this is what makes Penny-Ante’s books so
interesting. One can pick up a volume, open to a random page, and discover. And that is what independent
publishing should be about."
(UNDER THE RADAR)
"Started in 2006, LA’s Penny-Ante has become one of the largest independent, underground art/poetry
“mag/books” around. Made up of mostly musicians working in the field of art or poetry, Penny-Ante brings you
into the artistic endeavors of some of the music world’s most interesting figures as well as interviews
with select artists."
(FOXY DIGITALIS) -- Full feature here
"A massive collection of interviews, artwork, poetry, short stories, published conversations, autobiographical
writings and extensive essays, highlights of 'Penny-Ante, Three' includes interviews with musicians such as
Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard, Billy Bragg and Fugazi's Ian Mackaye. There are poems from Sonic Youth's
Thurston Moore, Billy Childish and the Cleaners from Venus' Martin Newell ; a story from the Deviants' Mick
Farren and art work from Childish again, Mission of Burma's Roger Miller, Dead Meadow's Stephen McCarty
and Hole and Mazzy Star's Jill Emery as well as both established and cult artists such as Julian Hoeber, Dawn
Kasper and Steve Vanoni."
(PENNYBLACKMUSIC.co.uk) -- Full feature here
Limited to 2500, this square-bound, softcover mag/book features a
320-page collection of personal writings and
visual work from just
about every other person you could possibly name drop..."
(TINY MIX TAPES) -- Full feature here
PAST PRESS
"Penny-Ante Book #I begins: "The opinions expressed
in Book#I are those of the author and/or artist and are
connected in no
way to the nonprofits Penny-Ante supports throughout these 300
pages...." Which means that
in addition to the canoodling of stories,
drawings and poems re: offensive stuff including (but not limited to)
sex,
drugs and rock & roll from a grip of artists, writers and
folks like Devendra Banhart, Jim James (heard of him?)
and Marissa
Nadler, you also get information re: the Children With AIDS Project's
art gallery, an LA-based
program called Free Arts for Abused Children
and a performance troupe called Art of Bleeding that's "dedicated
to
providing alarmingly unorthodox programs in first aid and safety
education"(?). It's a visual stunner and a
good concept: an art book
that sucks us in with flitty indie solipsism and sends us out with
knowledge of how to
ante up."
(FADER)
"...An
indispensable avenue for artistic advancement in the digital age, the
Internet offers unprecedented
access to genre-bending, free-form art
collectives. But, for all the alternatives, the one thing you can't
find
cruising the info superhighways and byways is a tangible, lovingly
crafted art book in three dimensions — the
kind that is an experience
in and of itself. Thinking along these nostalgic lines, the publishers
of Penny-Ante
have just released the second in their annual alt-culture
anthology of text and art by some the most gifted
thinkers ever to rock
the page."
(FLAVORPILL)
"Pretty goddamn gravy..."
(BULL TONGUE)
"Those
tissues coated in your favorite celeb's snot can be thrown in the trash
now, because there's a better,
less germy way to gain access to the
intimate, behind-the-scenes lives of rock stars. [Penny-Ante] is a
gargantuan 300-page collection of interviews, artwork, short stories,
photography, letters, discarded lyrics,
poetry, and more, from a slew
of indie and folk luminaries."
(PITCHFORK)
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