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...  Bill Whitten was the singer and songwriter for the rock bands St. Johnny (1989-1995), Grand Mal (1995-2010) and William Carlos Whitten (2018-?). He is also a writer, the author of a collection of short fiction called BRUTES A new album TELEPATHS is out now thanks to my friends at Stockholm's Groover Records Listen  HERE available on BANDCAMP HERE …And now reissued on CD by    https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn012-william-carlos-whitten-diana-crash-telepaths   A new single - I'm Gone Don't Look for Me I'll Never be Back - is out. find it HER E and HERE .   A new William Carlos Whitten album has been released: ROCK MUSIC IS THE COLOR OF BLACK HAIR released Sep 6. 2024 Listen HERE  .  Described by FOKUS MUSIK: “ With this kind of clever and highly entertaining version of rock music, Bill Whitten is in the same club as brilliant British eccentrics like Luke Haines or, above all, Lawrence (Go-Kart Mozart) ” William Carlos W...

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“Telepaths is the most enigmatic and memorable record I’ve heard in a long time”. Turn And Work Review of William Carlos Whitten’s TELEPATHS

Monotone motorik post-punk pop that just oozes cool.

“If William Gibson or Elmore Leonard wrote contemporary short stories about fading ’00s era rockers, it might look something like Brutes…This book reads like one of the forgotten classics published by NYRB.” Stellar review of Bill Whitten's short story collection - BRUTES - at Turn and Work

“…with slightly shaky spoken parts set against laconic sung parts, and it works brilliantly in a sad and very contradictory ElĂ©gie pour la Musique Rock.” From FOKUS MUSIK Review of Telepaths

“The song is based on the dense, somewhat enigmatic and perhaps mystical essay The Origin of the Work of Art by Martin Heidegger, where you find the line: "The artist is the origin of the work of art.” From Extensive WILLIAM CARLOS WHITTEN Interview with FOKUS MUSIK

You must choose between the beautiful and the unbeautiful…

Music forces mankind to acknowledge its own nobility

THE PEOPLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY LIVE IN A MINDLESS, ILLITERATE, TOTALLY BARREN WASTELAND. YOU CAN’T EXPECT MUCH.

A cave must be inhabited by a sorcerer, who with an air of mystery and concentration, manipulates mysterious machines…

New Video - Me/I no longer have any hope/the blind/speak of a way out/but not me/I see

One must live outside history, in parentheses.