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The Banana Sequence T is available at Reserve LA and ONLINE HERE.

We’d like to thank everyone for attending last Friday’s House Industries exhibit at Reserve, both the locals and the attendees from Typecon, and everyone from House. And still available at the shop are the House/Reserve collaboration t-shirts and tote bags.

Join us Friday August 20th at the Reserve Gallery for a special House Industries show and installation featuring new wood serigraphs, custom Reserve/House products and plenty of House gear. This Reserve show opening is timed to coincide with TypeCon, an annual gathering of typophiles, graphic designers, artists and programmers, where Reserve will also be merchandising a small section of their on site gift shop with vintage books magazines and other TypeCon-scious Reserve products.

Opening: Friday, August 20th 7pm – 11pm

Reserve LA
420 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90036

Reserve would like to extend a special thanks to everyone in attendance last Thursday for Bruce Kalberg’s photography exhibit. We released an extremely limited run of deadstock NOMAG copies which are still available at the shop. If you missed out, you can catch a closer look at Bruce’s photographs on Freshjive.com’s new Exhibits section HERE. Additionally, the exhibit will be displaying at Reserve through August.

Freshjive presents the Bruce Kalberg / Bruce Caen photography exhibit at Reserve.

Thursday June 3rd, 7:00-11:00 PM
Reserve Store
420 N. Fairfax
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Bruce Kalberg
From 1979-1984 Bruce Kalberg photographed virtually every band and personality against the backdrop of the first rush of Punk Rock in Los Angeles and Hollywood. As publisher and chief creative force behind NO MAGAZINE (NOMAG) Bruce photographed both the music and art scene nightly in his studio in Echo Park creating a portrait of fashion and underground culture like no one else. This was the real culture made up of outsiders, losers, immigrants, Punk Rockers from generation one (‘76-’82) living in Hollywood thirty years ago, more crudely wrought lives outside of the sparkle and spotlights than the Entertainment Industry would have you imagine. The obverse of the coin of the world presented nightly on shows such as Entertainment Tonight, this was the heart of Hollywood.

In our third and final installment of digitizing the legendary punk publication NOMAG, we  offer a glimpse into an issue dedicated to the passing of photographer Jules Bates, who was a large part of the magazine. Jules was killed in a motorcycle accident while either leaving or arriving to his photo studio at 4th and Normandie in Los Angeles on September 26th, 1982. This issue features lots of his photography, as well as an obituary written by Bruce Kalberg himself. The cover features Suzi Gardner (of L7) and Patrice Rapose, photographed by Bob Seidemann.

Be sure to check out our first and second digital uploads of NOMAG.

Bruce Kalberg’s photography exhibit will be taking place on June 3rd, where we will be releasing a very limited amount of dead stock NOMAG copies.

For our second installment of digitizing the legendary publication, Reserve LA offers a glimpse into one of the more unique issues of NOMAG. This issue has a feature article on Geza X, a crucial part of the 80’s punk scene, and includes an extremely rare flexi vinyl of Geza X’s “Mean Mr. Mommy Man”. The cover features Rick Wilder of the Mau Maus, photographed by Frank Gargani.

Geza X – Mean Mr. Mommy Man
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Stay tuned, as we will be providing digitized editions of NOMAG on our blog weekly leading up to the exhibit launch with Bruce Kalberg on June 3rd. You can also purchase dead stock copies of NOMAG at the Reserve LA store starting June 3rd.

Reserve LA offers a glimpse into LA’s early 80s, punk rock scene via NOMAG.

Edited and published by LA’s punk rock cultural anthropologist Bruce Kalberg, NOMAG featured content against the popular media grain. Filled with controversial contributions from some of LA’s most noted punk icons including Black Flag and Social Distortion, NOMAG blazed a trail for later alternative publications and serves as a time capsule of one of the great pop culture shifts of the early 1980s.

Now for the first time, NOMAG will exist digitally. We will be providing digitized editions of NOMAG on our blog weekly leading up to the exhibit launch with Bruce Kalberg on June 3rd. Check out the first one with avant-punk performance artist Johanna Went on the cover, photographed by Jules Bates. You can also purchase dead stock copies of NOMAG at the Reserve LA store starting June 3rd.