Pitchfork: Devendra, Xiu Xiu, MMJ Contribute to Art Book

Devendra, Xiu Xiu, MMJ Contribute to Art Book

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's Book #1 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.

Six pieces by Devendra Banhart are featured, as are a short story entitled "Our Runner in Buffalo" by Jim James of My Morning Jacket, poetry and art from Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, three pages of artwork/writings by Ariel Rosenberg (aka Ariel Pink), and a collage by the Germs' Don Bolles. Josephine Foster, Marissa Nadler, Richard Swift, Tarantula A.D., Daedalus, David Greenhill of the Double, Slumber Party's Aliccia Berg, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Allen Karpinski of the Six Parts Seven, and more also contribute.

For the time being, Book #1 can be picked up at Amoeba Records' Hollywood and Berkeley locations, as well as Penny-Ante's website. Arrangements with other distributors are in the works.

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