Postage stamp design by Dario Canovas celebrating Argentina as guest of honour at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair.
• Sideways Through Time, Joe Banks’ book of Hawkwind interviews, was initially available as an exclusive supplement with the special edition of Days of the Underground, Joe’s essential history of Hawkwind’s first decade. From the end of October both books will be available as separate editions from Strange Attractor, with the interview collection being republished in a revised and expanded edition.
• “Two heads are better than one”: Another extract from Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr John’s Gris-Gris by David Toop.
• “Rammellzee was an electric presence”: Thurston Moore on NYC’s graffiti-writing hip-hop pioneer.
• New music: Long Tail Of The Quiet Gong by Robert Rich, and Neostalgia by Heiko Maile, Julian Demarre.
• At Colossal: Postage stamp designs by Tùng Nâm showing portraits of endangered animals.
• At Public Domain Review: Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878).
• At Print magazine: An interview with design anthropologist Keith Murphy.
• At Unquiet Things: Tristan Elwell’s visual spellcraft.
• Mix of the week: Bleep mix 287 by Sarah Davachi.
• Mariam Rezaei’s favourite music.
• Over Under Sideways Down (1966) by The Yardbirds | Stepping Sideways (2003) by John Foxx & Harold Budd | Trip Sideways (2010) by The Time And Space Machine