ELPASO

Select events/listening parties planned for US bookstores and record shops Author-created website of fictionalized band videos, merch, fanzines, tour posters, etc. Serial rights targeting Texas Monthly, BOMB, Literary Hub, and others Print and digital publicity targeting VICE, Pitchfork, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Rain Taxi, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LARB Blog, Full Stop, World Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, KTEP State of the Arts in El Paso, and others Promotion at or events pitched for Brooklyn Book Festival, Bay Area Book Festival, LitQuake, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, San Francisco Book Festival, and Winter Institute Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher’s e-newsletter

In a state rife with caricatures, Benjamin Villegas’ "anti-biography" explores the history of a Texas border-town punk band too good to be true.In 2015, Benjamin Villegas traveled to Texas in an attempt to write the biography of a music group that could have changed the history of rock: ELPASO, a Chicano band from the U.S.-Mexico border with a punk sensibility, a long since-defunct crew, and little left to remember it by but a suitcase of fanzines and one-off recordings. This is the story of one of the many bands that will never appear in rock n’ roll history books, but is at the core of the scene; a band that earned its stripes from sweaty fans and self-taught rock aficionados in basements, garages, and small venues across the country. This is the story of two kids who came together to embrace the punk ethos of the 80’s and be a part of the rock n’ roll revolution sweeping the US, a world of the Ramones, Black Flag, and, of course, ELPASO.