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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 @dionysusxerox.bsky.social YouTube:  @saintmal2919 My Life in Cinema  has been reissued by Third Kind Tapes. Order  HERE 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 my friends at   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...

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Fokus Musik review of My Life in Cinema

Today!! My Life in Cinema Reissued on cassette at Third Kind Records 11/12/25

“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

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On the Fringes of Sound Review

“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 Elégie 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