NON (Boyd Rice) has announced a rare date in New York that will take place on July 22nd at Le Poisson Rouge with support from Jet Fueled Horses and DJs David Johansen (New York Dolls) and Jonathan Toubin (New York Night Train). A 20 minute world premiere teaser trailer for Iconoclast, a documentary on Boyd Rice, will also be shown at 10.30pm sharp.
The premiere of the documentary will take place in LA on August 17th at an event hosted by glam rock legend, Michael Des Barres and featuring a Q&A with Boyd Rice, Iconoclast's director Larry Wessel and the celebrated director Allison Anders.
Iconoclast, directed by Larry Wessel - whose feature films include Taurobolium (1994), Sugar and Spice (1995), Carny Talk (1995) and Sex, Death and the Hollywood Mystique (1999) - features interviews from, amongst others, Adam Parfrey, Kim Fowley, Rodney Bingenheimer, Coop, Gidget Gein and Bob Larson, the shock jock evangelist, and is set for release in 2010. See a little of what to expect here.
Boyd Rice is not a man to be underestimated. Operating for over three decades under the ambiguous moniker NON, Boyd Rice is an indisputable pioneer and vehement advocate of unadulterated noise in the rock milieu.
Starting in 1975 with his so-called Black Album, followed by the glitch-addled locked groove multi-axis 7" vinyl experiment of 1978's Pagan Muzak, by the mid-70s Boyd Rice had explored the spectrum of aural irritation more rigorously than any of his contemporaries. Where others dabbled (Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, The Plastic Ono Band, et al), Boyd Rice plumbed the utter depths.
No mere one-trick pony, Boyd Rice has delighted not only in bursting eardrums, but also bursting bubbles of smug complacency. Chameleon par excellence, his various paradoxical incarnations include multi-media prankster and legit actor, gnostic philosopher and camp culture aficionado, uncompromising Social Darwinist and louche martini-sipping raconteur, Satanist spokesman and the self-proclaimed descendant of the bloodline of Jesus Christ.
Boyd Rice's recent remix of Liars' "I Still Can See An Outside World" is featured on their album of reinterpretations of Sisterworld.
