Down the Wormhole
Dream pop, harp intel, eBay gold, and more
Welcome to the wormhole, a new weekly Deep Voices email. Consider these dispatches an exercise in music lover world building. Expect to find cheap records to buy, crucial YouTube accounts to follow, concerts to attend, essays to read. I’ve spent my life digging into this weird and fruitful universe of music art and I’ll be paying it forward here just for paid subscribers.
This week: the best art book/poster/shirt/everything dealer around, a crucial eBay find, SF dream pop, harp intel, and exactly one piece of election related content.
By the way, right now, Deep Voices is 20% off. Cheap!
1980s PUNK ROCK PHOTO ALBUM SAN DIEGO CIRCLE JERKS BLACK FLAG DETONATORS. The ultimate eBay find—a photo album of mid-’80s punk and hardcore shows including a heap of iconic Rollins shots. The description says the seller bought these from the original photographer (whose name he has sadly forgotten) and that there are two more photo albums yet to be listed. If enough people buy a paid subscription to Deep Voices for me to afford its $250 price tag, I’ll buy the photos and scan them all. If someone reading this buys them, can you send me one of the Rollins pics?
At essentially any type of fair I go to—the paper ephemera fair, the art book fair, the record fair, etc—there is one dealer who always has the best stuff: