
Welcome to fall, where the air is spooky, the veil is thin, and properly gaunt music is essential.
This season's playlist is a collaboration with Dave Quiggle, world-renowned illustrator and tattoo artist based in Southern California by way of Erie, PA.
If I recall correctly, we officially met in a mid-sized city in western Belgium when both of his bands xDisciplex a.d. and Shockwave were touring Europe at the turn of last century.
Years and heaps of mayonnaise-fries later, we connected again when we spun up a massive tattoo project that would ultimately result in something like 30% of my person being inked with his signature style.
As an art collector myself, his is probably one of the most carefully curated aesthetics I've seen-- one I can only describe as California Desert Gothic, which is something that seems to live at the crossroads of mid-century Americana, monster mags, vintage Fender amps and the Santa Ana devil winds.
It's a visual language I find so unique, I don't tell people I have a back tattoo, I tell them I have "a Dave Quiggle," like I would say I have a Banksy or a Warhol or a giant shark from Damien Hirst.
Beyond tattooing, you may have seen his art on album covers, posters or merch for the likes of Joey Ramone, Foo Fighters, Cypress Hill and Pearl Jam, or at the WonderGround Gallery at the Disneyland Resort, and at LA's Gallery1988.
Or you may have seen them at my house, because I have a more than a few framed pieces on the walls next to the antlers and Victorian death wreaths.
But I digress.
If you need some dark vibes for the month of October, check out the playlist we put together for you.
And if you plan to be in California and need some incredible art permanently installed on your person, get an appointment with him at Old Rose Tattoo.
Tracklist
The Girl on Death Row - The Raveonettes
Found Love in a Graveyard - Veronica Falls
She's My Witch - Kip Tyler
Sisters - White Hex
Human Fly - The Cramps
Night Patrol - Two Wounded Birds
Experiment in Terror - Henry Mancini
London Dungeon - Misfits
Ghost of Love - David Lynch
Crows - The Gothic Archies
Don't Fall - The Chameleons
Slow Kill - Fields of the Nephilim
Six Bells Chime - Crime & the City Solution
Ghost in the Trees - Thee Oh Sees
Snake Eyes - Trouble
I Know I'll See You - A Place to Bury Strangers
Night Walk - Dirty Beaches
Freaks - Singapore Sling
Migas 2000 - The Limiñanas
Black Candy - Beat Happening
Blood Bitch - Cocteau Twins
Halloween - Sonic Youth
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What I’m reading: Anti-Story: The Anthology of Experimental Fiction (Philip Stevick)
What I'm listening to: (See above)
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