Thanx again to IMPOSE for doing this!! heres the link(there are some cool pics):
http://www.imposemagazine.com/listen-the-wiggins/7757/



but heres the article:
The Wiggins is Jon Read, a gritty one man garage-rock machine from space.


A stowaway orphan of an Apollo mission, Jon Read landed sometime ago in the lower half of the lower 48 in Space City, Houston. He's played with all the requisite, gritty anti-popularity contests from that corner of outsider Americana (Daniel Johnston, Indian Jewelry, Quintron). He's also played with the Black Lips, which on a track like "Dog", might be the band he's most easily aligned with sonically. Here are some good down home freak-outs fit for the rising star employees of the 13th Floor.

You can download "Dog" on the Dull Knife website, where they're selling 300 copies of his latest 7″, on which these tracks appear.




And heres a review of an art show I was in last month at ARTSTORM(h-town)

"Lo-Fi No-Brow Folk Show" Founded less than a year ago, ArtStorm has carved out a place in Houston as a standard-bearer for quirky pop and work with West Coast roots, both of which put off the traditional centers of power in New York and Europe. "No-Brow" art has found an audience of collectors disillusioned with oblique conceptualism, and Houston is no exception. Both Jon Read and Glen Gips are dedicated lifers in an art world that has never accepted them. Gips has done portraits for years, but the work on view here is his personal, almost Dadaist drawings. In his vivid, meandering patterns and paranoiac doodles, a mental fire and a dark, brooding internal narrative are present. Composed on cardboard and other discarded materials, the psychedelic sketches are festooned with collage elements like candy wrappers and magazine illustrations. On his end, Read composes his scenes in minute detail, bright and vivid, his crayons and markers conjuring a sci-fi future of post-apocalyptic individualism. Between fighting gigantic monsters and hunting mutant fish, his characters fall in love, celebrate victory and pose defiantly in an orange-hued world. This exhibit of nontraditional artists gives credence to "No-Brow" and ArtStorm alike. Through October 18. 4828 Caroline,713-568-8174. — SC, HOUSTON PRESS