Album Artwork: Part II

Grizzly Bear has used William O'Brien's abstract, geometric artwork for every album cover since 2009.

 

Clearly they've hit on something good. 

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

The Postal Service, "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"

 The Dead Weather, "Treat Me Like Your Mother"

More reasons to like Radiohead

As if you really needed more. These are the covers for various remixes available on their website.

Dual Video of the Day

 

Pitbulls, autoerotic asphyxiation, cheerleaders and flying dancing black people are just a few of the weird inhabitants of the video for soul man Jack White's newest single, "Sixteen Saltines". Check it out here:

Noah Lennox of Animal Collective churns out trippy, tense hipster psychedelia as Panda Bear. The video for "Alsatian Darn" is like a tribal kaleidoscope or a wall of broken TVs - your choice.

In honor of 4/20

Okay, so I don't espouse the values of this 'holiday', but I'll buy into it anyway.

Five Songs About Doing Drugs:

1. Deer Tick, "Walls" - 6:11
2. The Velvet Underground, "Heroin" - 7:13
3. Marianne Faithfull, "Sister Morphine" - 6:07
4. Girls, "Substance" - 4:49
5. Amy Winehouse, "Rehab" - 3:33

Yay backdating posts!

Happy Birthda(d) 4/20

For those of you who aren't intimately acquainted with my life, I make my dad mix tapes (code for CDs) for all major holidays, instead of giving him presents. Because he's up on beat culture and I do a fair amount of talent scouting for his class on media studies. This year's was a particular hit. A little new, a little old, some indie fad bands. I'll post individual song reviews later, maybe. He's 65 now.

The Birthdad Mix

1. Beach House, "Myth" - 4:13
2. Kurt Vile, "Amplifier" - 4:01
3. Kasabian, "Underdog" - 4:37
4. Cloud Nothings, "Stay Useless" - 2:47 *
5. Beach Fossils, "Face It" - 3:34
6. Califone, "Wingbone" - 3:45
7. Nada Surf, "Blonde on Blonde" - 4:35
8. Arctic Monkeys, "R U Mine?" - 3:20
9. Girls, "Lawrence" - 3:57
10. The Black Keys, "Dearest (Buddy Holly cover)" - 2:05
11. Howler, "Back of Your Neck" - 3:43 *
12. Girls Names, "Lawrence" - 2:53
13. The White Stripes, "Fell In Love With A Girl" - 1:50 *
14. Radiohead, "Maquiladora" - 3:28
15. Panda Bear, "Last Night At the Jetty" - 4:40
16. Yuck, "The Wall" - 3:57
17. Teo Leo & The Pharmacists, "Even Heroes Have To Die" - 3:46
18. The Strokes, "Under Cover of Darkness" - 3:56 *
19. Ben Gibbard & Feist, "Train Song (Vashti Bunyan cover)" - 3:02
20. Spoon, "Goodnight Laura" - 2:29
21. Death Cab For Cutie, "You Are A Tourist" - 4:47 *

*s are for official videos. All the others are whatever quality I could pull off the internet.

Feel free to rip this for your own mix-CDs. xo

GIF-tastic

Album Artwork: Part I

 Check out these woodland shots, from a series of photographs by Amelia Bauer - one of them, "Toile #3 (Red Pines)" is the cover for Department of Eagles' In Ear Park. The others are pretty too, though.

 

Image credit: http://www.ameliabauer.com/toile-series