Salvage Vanguard Theater

Ralph White
A founding member of the seminal Austin bluegrass/punk outfit Bad Livers, Ralph White has been an enthusiastic student of music for decades. In the late '70s, he traveled to Ireland to learn fiddle technique....

Jandek
Some have described Jandek as the sort of musician who was destined to be a cult phenomenon, though it's quite remarkable that he's managed to attract any following at all. Jandek isn't an artist who has covered his tracks so much as he's struggled to avoid leaving any -- he releases his own albums, he only sells them by mail order, he doesn't talk to the press, he doesn't sit for photographs, and the rare few who've communicated with him can't even get him to admit he is Jandek (he prefers to identity himself as "a representative of Corwood Industries," the name of his self-run record label)....

Daniel Higgs
With the appearance of a heavily bearded tattooed prophet, Daniel Higgs emerged from the early-'80s hardcore punk scene as an underground icon with a near-mythological status. He sharpened his teeth in the music scene as a wild-eyed vocalist in the legendary Baltimore hardcore group Reptile House....

Nick Hennies

Hieroglyphic Being