Digital sanctuary of writer-author-vinyl record forager Jason Pettigrew.

While you're fetching your Halloween accoutrements, stop in at Rough Trade on Saturday Oct. 25 at 3pm, where I'll be around to read from and talk about my 33-1/3 book on Ministry's The Land Of Rape And Honey. 

Not only will I be reading stuff that got cut from the book, I will be joined by some great panelists. Moderating the panel will be Andi Harriman, Brooklyn-based DJ, boss of the party/label SYNTHICIDE, and music journalist readying her upcoming 33-1/3 book on The Cure’s Disintegration. 

S. Alexander Reed, author of Laurie Anderson's Big Science and the essential monograph on industrial culture, Assimilate: A Critical History Of Industrial Music, will discuss LORAH's role in the whole i-rock canon.  His band Seeming is signed to Artoffact Records and is releasing a new album this fall.

Brandt Gassman is a musician and post-producer who worked extensively on the Wax Trax! Records documentary, Industrial Accident. Gassman will not only reveal the technological inroads Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker made with this album, he will be playing excerpts from "work in progress" tapes from this era of Ministry. (Don't you dare call them "demos." However, the judges will accept the term "ruffs.") If you love this band like I do, it promises to be a very lively hour or so. 

Come buy...a ticket to this event. Thank you for purchasing physical media. And digital high-five to April Whitney who gets things done!