06/06/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Art In The Age Music Round-Up
This week's VISUAL NOTES features a weekly round-up of musings on fine art, design, musicians/bands, and related news. Each week I really do delight in scouring the internet for cool marriages of art and music. This week, however, a whole slew o ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 06/06/2008 5:24 PM EST in Editorial, General, Visual Notes | Permalink
05/23/2008
VISUAL NOTES: An Elegy for The Paper Record
The paper Flexi-Record enjoyed a short, albeit popular life before I was even born. Oh Flexi-Record, how I would have loved to witness the advent of your existence! I would have marveled at your grooves, pressed into hot acetate film by origina ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 05/23/2008 11:17 AM EST in WTF?, Editorial, Visual Notes | Permalink
05/02/2008
Visual Notes: Top 5 Typographic Album Covers
Hello, friends. I have just emerged from a week-long crisis along the lines of, "What is art and why do I make it?" Lucky for you, instead of a discourse on the contemporary art world this week, I have narrowed the field to typography, the d ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 05/02/2008 4:00 PM EST in Editorial, Visual Notes | Permalink
04/16/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Pump The Letterpress Jams
Letterpress prints and upbeat tunes, my two life passions, have just been joined! Film producer Jörg Petri, electronic musician Michael Fakesch, and helpers from the University of Arts in Braunschweig, Germany have teamed up to create the offic ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 04/16/2008 4:15 PM EST in Electronic, Experimental, Visual Notes | Permalink
03/26/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Castanets and The Resurrection of The Cassette
Hallelujah! The cassette tape is not dead! This wonderful news was revealed to me courtesy of uhu, an independent live recording project in Portland, OR. The cassette I received in the mail held a seriously trippy, seriously awesome cover ins ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 03/26/2008 10:32 AM EST in Experimental, Folk, Visual Notes | Permalink
03/10/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Toss Your Calendars! Bishop Allen's Monthly EP Project Is All You Need
After the successful release of their first album, Charm School, in 2003, the members of Brooklyn's Bishop Allen were stumped. Until, that is, lead singer Christian Rudder procured a beat-up piano from a local elementary school. Inspired by its ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 03/10/2008 11:32 AM EST in Indie-Pop, Indie-Rock, Visual Notes | Permalink
02/25/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Album Covers Inspired by Famous Paintings
If you are a band planning to release an album, and you're lacking in visual artist friends...look no further than the closest art museum! I spotted a photo of a Bow Wow Wow album cover in an new edition of The Oxford History of Western Art t ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 02/25/2008 12:14 PM EST in General, Visual Notes | Permalink
02/18/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Ramona Cordova Video Tete-A-Tete
Ramón Vicente Alarcón (aka Ramona Cordova) lived in West Philly until a few years ago. I would go and see him play his guitar and pluck his enormous upright bass in coffee shop corners and friends' living rooms. I am and was continuously floor ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 02/18/2008 10:06 AM EST in Folk, Visual Notes | Permalink
02/11/2008
VISUAL NOTES - ECSTATIC SUNSHINE: Post-Art-School Not-So-Confidential
ECSTATIC SUNSHINE is a Baltimore-based trio comprised of guitar and electronic soundweavers Matt Papich, Kieran Gillen, and David Zimmerman. All three are schooled visual artists in addition to musicians, and not one of them cares to draw a line ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 02/11/2008 11:39 AM EST in Electronic, Experimental, Visual Notes | Permalink
02/04/2008
VISUAL NOTES: Campfire Songs and Drawings in the Sand with The Bowerbirds
The Bowerbirds (Beth Tacular, Phil Moore, Mark Paulsen), an earthy trio out of Raleigh, North Carolina, have officially floored me. It's not just their achingly sweet and delightfully catchy guitar-and-accordion tunes. It's also their bountiful ...
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