PAST NEWS: 2025
05/27/2025
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EVERYTHING IS NOW: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop - Gary's review of J. HOBERMAN'S new book up now at THE FORWARD
05/24/2025
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Check out this spiffy new clip for Gary's Go Fund Me campaign in support of recording a new GODS AND MONSTERS studio album—and please do contribute!
05/24/2025
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Gary is cited in a new article about Australian singer Katie Noonan's upcoming tribute to "Grace" tour Down Under
05/21/2025
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"Next up is 'Evening Bell' by Captain Beefheart. I love how you can really hear Gary Lucas straining at the limits of what a human being can do with a guitar. I think it's a phenomenal piece of music."
—Jack Barnette of These New Puritans on BBC Radio's "Freak Zone"
Listen here at 21:40 in
—Jack Barnette of These New Puritans on BBC Radio's "Freak Zone"
Listen here at 21:40 in
05/14/2025
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ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL - From The Nottingham Connection 2025: Honored to be profiled in this magazine, sent out to all still breathing alumni of William H. Nottingham High School in Syracuse NY. A very public high school, we were first in the nation to have an actual race riot in 1968—sparked by friction between white frat boys and members of the Soul Generation (the Black equivalent) at a Fri. night dance (very "West Side Story")
05/13/2025
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NEW "FREAKS" live score: Check out Gary's new FREAKS page devoted to his recent live score accompanying Tod Browning's 1932 shocker, which he premiered at the Byrd Theatre in Richmond on March 22, 2025 for the 31st James River Film Festival—the page includes clips from the film with Gary's music on the soundtrack, photos, and reviews
05/11/2025
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Gary's friend Trent Nicholas who is involved in the James River Film Festival in Richmond where he recently performed his new live score accompanying FREAKS just sent Gary this nice comment from legendary producer Ron St. Germain:
"If you get to speak with Gary, please give him my best. We've met several times over the years, but never got to work together, sadly. He is a huge legend and major workaholic and a 'guitar monster'!!!"
Ron has produced and engineered albums by such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Ashford & Simpson, Mick Jagger, U2, Muse, Bad Brains, Living Colour, 311, Tool, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Creed, The Cure, Ziggy, Chili Peppers, Foreigner, Kraftwerk, Duran Duran, Nels Cline, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jackie McClean, Ben Goldberg, The Last Poets et al.
"If you get to speak with Gary, please give him my best. We've met several times over the years, but never got to work together, sadly. He is a huge legend and major workaholic and a 'guitar monster'!!!"
Ron has produced and engineered albums by such artists as Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Ashford & Simpson, Mick Jagger, U2, Muse, Bad Brains, Living Colour, 311, Tool, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Creed, The Cure, Ziggy, Chili Peppers, Foreigner, Kraftwerk, Duran Duran, Nels Cline, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jackie McClean, Ben Goldberg, The Last Poets et al.
05/10/2025
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Sunday June 1st, time tba—Gary performs with The Shriek's vocalist Luis Accorsi as part of Marc Urselli's RAMONES REDUX Record Release party at BAM's Hillman Studio, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn. The album, featuring Gary with So Hideous performing the Ramones's "The KKK Took My Baby Away", drops June 6th on Magnetic Eye Records
05/03/2025
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Check out two amazing new songs by Brazilian songstress Elaine Guedes co-written with Gary Lucas that she just sent Gary from Sao Paulo—"Send Me Wings" and I'm a Fox"
Garty has played in Sao Paulo but has never yet met Elaine in person. They met over the internet and agreed to try collaborating long distance—and the result is two dazzling new songs
Garty has played in Sao Paulo but has never yet met Elaine in person. They met over the internet and agreed to try collaborating long distance—and the result is two dazzling new songs
04/19/2025
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Check out three excerpts from Gary's new live score for Tod Browning's 1932 shocker FREAKS, recorded live at the 31st James River Film Festival at the historic Byrd Theatre in Richmond Virginia 3/22/25:
clip 1 | clip 2 | clip 3
Special thanks to Diane Lindarte and Bob Jacobson for the clips
clip 1 | clip 2 | clip 3
Special thanks to Diane Lindarte and Bob Jacobson for the clips
04/09/2025
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Gary heads to Ireland today for two solo shows: Friday April 11th at the Ards International Guitar Fest outside Belfast with his special guest vocalist Ellen Lyons and Sunday April 13th at Whelan's in Dublin with his special guest vocalists Barry O'Brien and Ellen Lyons!
04/09/2025
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Check out a YouTube interview with Gary as part of Kino Lorber's Shelf Space series, about scoring films and documentaries as well Gary's long career live-scoring of classic silent and sound films at festivals and venues all over the world—including the La Biennale di Venezia, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Paradiso Amsterdam, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, La Cinematheque Francaise Paris, Cineteca Nacional Mexico, James River Film Society Richmond, Jecheon International Film and Music Festival South Korea, Dom Kino Moscow, Jerusalem Film Festival, Tel Aviv Next Festival, Lodz Cinergia Europa Festival, Havana Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Sao Paulo SP Terror Festival and more
04/05/2025
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GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS new lineup booked to play Joe's Pub in NYC on August 7th at 7:00pm!
04/02/2025
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A NAKED LIGHTBULB: Gary's review of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at BAM
03/15/2025
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Read a new interview with Gary in Richmond's Style Weekly newspaper about the upcoming premiere of his new live score accompanying Tod Browning's 1932 shocker "Freaks" Sat. March 22nd at the historic Byrd Theatre, as part of Richmond Virgnia's 31st James River Film Festival, check out the promo clip here
03/15/2025
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New interview with Gary in GUITAR WORLD out now about Gary working with Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart and Chris Cornell!!
And read a teaser article for the interview about Gary's work with Chris Cornell!
And read a teaser article for the interview about Gary's work with Chris Cornell!
03/09/2025
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Big thanks to Bruce Lee Gallanter at Downtown Music Gallery on the LES—just about the only record store that matters left in NYC—for his nice review of my recent acoustic EP with French vocalist YASS BODY.
Yass, hitherto unknown to me, showed up at a Jeff Buckley Tribute at Arlene's Grocery a few years ago direct from his hometown Lille, saying "I had a dream I was working with you—here I am!"
I liked Yass's spirit and his energy, and we hit it off right away collaborating on new songs.
We recorded this EP at Ari Sebag's Studio 4A Sound Factory in lovely Forges-Les-Eaux Normandie right before lockdown, with my old friend French guitarist / producer David Konopnicki at the controls, and it was quite a fun session.
Now Bruce has cd copies of our EP, please check out his review and make sure you go and see him soon. Or you can order from him directly online here!
Yass, hitherto unknown to me, showed up at a Jeff Buckley Tribute at Arlene's Grocery a few years ago direct from his hometown Lille, saying "I had a dream I was working with you—here I am!"
I liked Yass's spirit and his energy, and we hit it off right away collaborating on new songs.
We recorded this EP at Ari Sebag's Studio 4A Sound Factory in lovely Forges-Les-Eaux Normandie right before lockdown, with my old friend French guitarist / producer David Konopnicki at the controls, and it was quite a fun session.
Now Bruce has cd copies of our EP, please check out his review and make sure you go and see him soon. Or you can order from him directly online here!
03/07/2025
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THE MALE / FEMALE GAZE: Review of Hideaki Anno's film "Love and Pop" and the recently translated writings of Izumi Suzuki and a whole lot more, Gary's new article up now at CultureCatch.com
Photo of Izumi Suzuki by Nobuyoshi Araki
Photo of Izumi Suzuki by Nobuyoshi Araki
03/01/2025
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R.I.P. DAVID JOHANSEN—Gary's dear friend and collaborator
Their song "One Man's Meat" is listed today in the NY Times as one of David Johansen's 15 Essential Songs
photo by Mara Hennessy taken in March 2018 at the Strand Bookstore NYC
Their song "One Man's Meat" is listed today in the NY Times as one of David Johansen's 15 Essential Songs
photo by Mara Hennessy taken in March 2018 at the Strand Bookstore NYC
02/11/2025
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Check out the spiffy new trailer for the upcoming world premiere of Gary's new live solo score accompanying Todd Browning's 1932 shocker "FREAKS" on Sat March 22nd at the historic Byrd Theatre in Richmond Virginia as part of the 31st James River Film Festival
02/08/2025
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From Gary: Thank you Barney Hoskyns for re-publishing my recollections of ELLIOT INGBER (WINGED EEL FINGERLING) in Rock's Backpages
02/01/2025
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IN MEMORIAM ELLIOT INGBER (8/24/1941 - 1/21/2025): An appreciation by Gary Lucas, up now at CultureCatch.com
01/28/2025
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The new Jeff Buckley doc "It's Never Over" is getting excellent reviews! See this writeup in The Guardian (UK)
01/28/2025
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Available now from Gary's merch store: A double colored vinyl copy of his album of early work with Jeff Buckley "SONGS TO NO ONE", signed by Gary!
01/25/2025
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ELIE WIESEL NEVER FORGOT SUFFERING: Gary's review of Oren Rudavsky's new doc. "SOUL ON FIRE", up now at CultureCatch.com
01/23/2025
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OUT TODAY WORLDWIDE!!
A double colored vinyl album released by Knitting Factory Records of SONGS TO NO ONE 1991-1992 - JEFF BUCKLEY AND GARY LUCAS
Following the success of the Record Store Day 2024 vinyl reissue of Songs To No One, Knitting Factory Records is making Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas' incredible album available again on another limited edition colorway: opaque blue denim vinyl (LP 1) and opaque white vinyl (LP 2). This album captures Jeff Buckley at the very beginning of his devastatingly short career. Jeff is accompanied by his original writing partner, guitar virtuoso Gary Lucas, and a small cast of '90s New York music luminaries. These recordings form the intimate foundation of Jeff's incredible body of work.
4 STARS in MOJO on its original release in 2002
Contains the original studio demo of "Grace"
A double colored vinyl album released by Knitting Factory Records of SONGS TO NO ONE 1991-1992 - JEFF BUCKLEY AND GARY LUCAS
Following the success of the Record Store Day 2024 vinyl reissue of Songs To No One, Knitting Factory Records is making Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas' incredible album available again on another limited edition colorway: opaque blue denim vinyl (LP 1) and opaque white vinyl (LP 2). This album captures Jeff Buckley at the very beginning of his devastatingly short career. Jeff is accompanied by his original writing partner, guitar virtuoso Gary Lucas, and a small cast of '90s New York music luminaries. These recordings form the intimate foundation of Jeff's incredible body of work.
4 STARS in MOJO on its original release in 2002
Contains the original studio demo of "Grace"
01/22/2025
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JUST CONFIRMED: THURSDAY JAN. 30th at Our Wicked Lady rooftop 153 Morgan Ave. in Brooklyn at 9:45pm, as part of Venezuela Alternative En Nueva York Night, the debut of Gary's new psychedelic duo with Toxic Tito a/k/a Luis Accorsi
Check out their wicked acoustic EP "The Cat's Outta the Bag"
Check out their wicked acoustic EP "The Cat's Outta the Bag"
01/22/2025
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Up now at The Forward: Gary's review of Willy Lindwer's new doc "LOST CITY", which recently played at the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center in Manhattan
01/20/2025
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BURIED TREASURE: NAOMI LEVINE OUT OF THE FACTORY & BACK IN CIRCULATION, Gary's latest article up now at CultureCatch.com
Photo by Eddie Hauser courtesy of The New York Times
Front row: Gerard Malanga and Naomi Levine at the Piano Marathon Sept. 9-10th 1963 at the Pocket Theatre NYC with John Cale, John Cage, et al. performing Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row
Photo by Eddie Hauser courtesy of The New York Times
Front row: Gerard Malanga and Naomi Levine at the Piano Marathon Sept. 9-10th 1963 at the Pocket Theatre NYC with John Cale, John Cage, et al. performing Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row
01/16/2025
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R.I.P. DAVID LYNCH, visionary filmmaker, who recorded this version of Captain Beefheart's "Pena" from the album "Trout Mask Replica" for Gary's Captain Beefheart Symposium
photo of Davud Lynch by Anton Corbijn
photo of Davud Lynch by Anton Corbijn
01/13/2025
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Gary sold out his solo concert at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center in the upper Hudson Valley Saturday night 1/11/25—his second sell out in a row there!
From Kate McLeod, who made this clip:
"Dear Gary, The term awesome has lost its punch but let's just use it to describe your performance last night. I was thinking as I watched your command of the guitars that you must have been that accomplished 44 years ago when you became a pro instead of a vampire or a rabbi. It was amazing to be sitting in that incredibly intimate space experiencing your music. It is forever imprinted in my soul. I saw Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden in the nosebleed section and decided not to see shows in those spaces anymore. Here are the videos we took and a recording. Please keep us on your mailing list. Amazing grace, Kate and Mark West"
View a clip of his version of Nino Rota's theme from Fellini's 1954 classic "La Strada" filmed at the show
From Kate McLeod, who made this clip:
"Dear Gary, The term awesome has lost its punch but let's just use it to describe your performance last night. I was thinking as I watched your command of the guitars that you must have been that accomplished 44 years ago when you became a pro instead of a vampire or a rabbi. It was amazing to be sitting in that incredibly intimate space experiencing your music. It is forever imprinted in my soul. I saw Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden in the nosebleed section and decided not to see shows in those spaces anymore. Here are the videos we took and a recording. Please keep us on your mailing list. Amazing grace, Kate and Mark West"
View a clip of his version of Nino Rota's theme from Fellini's 1954 classic "La Strada" filmed at the show
01/11/2025
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Gary's solo show at Spencertown Academy Arts Center tonight is SOLD OUT!! View the promo clip here
01/11/2025
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Check out the GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS NEW LINEUP web page, with clips from their recent live performances at Colony Woodstock and City Winery NYC, photos, reviews, and Booking Info!!
01/11/2025
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INSURRECTION OF A MILLION MINDS: Gary's review of the new documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat", up now at CultureCatch.com
01/01/2025
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BABYGIRL'S ON FIRE: Gary's review of Halina Reijn's new film BABYGIRL, up now at CultureCatch.com