I’m Joe Krause, a multidisciplinary artist living in Detroit.
Community radio, films, performances, music, city tours, zines, sound design, audio theater, cultural documentation, podcasts and so on. Join my newsketter, follow my socials, smash the things.
Thanks for visiting my Personal Homepage on The World Wide Web.
I’ll be appearing in this show on both evenings as a butterfly playing an accordion in a cherry orchard. Show up early for a good seat!
Zelda and the Unibrows – Neves-eatnouT
Neves-eatnouT is the 2001 debut album by Zelda and the Unibrows. This “trendy teenage basement opera” made its way through college radio in the U.S. and on CBC-2 in Canada, and inspired many introverted art videos.
Mr. Rogers' Sweatshop
I co-founded this improv comedy troupe straight out of high school, along with Lou Houchin, Jesse Callis, Clifton Highfield and Chuck Charbeneau. We performed hundreds of shows, then went out with a bang.
Waiting For Lunch Magazine Presents Binge & Purge
This was a comedy compilation featuring Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz, Christopher Holt, Zelda and the Unibrows, Tony Mason (aka None Of The Above), Tom Rockwell, The Portuguese Rodeo Clown Company, and other people I knew in the 1990s.
Prosthetic Lips: The "Weird Al" Yankovic Tribute Album
Fans from the newsgroup alt.music.weird-al mailed cassette tapes to my mom’s P.O. box when I was 15 so I could compile this: the first-ever “Weird Al” Yankovic tribute album. Long unavailable, it’s back on this site for free as of June 27, 2020.
Waiting For Lunch Magazine
In high school I self-published a zine. Some of it parodied my high school newspaper, all of it was silly. Weird Al, opera, comics, short stories and poetry.
Photocopiers, word processors, paper, scissors, ink-jet printers, desktop publishing, saddle-staplers, cutting boards, photo prints, rubber cement and a post office box. $1 or trade. 1990s zinemaking.