When a person looks for a designer, it’s important to know what to look for. I’ve been hired in the past for projects requesting to do things outside the project guidelines. Where this can be something that is flexible and can usually still be done, it is important to know what to look for and [...]
Sonic Youth – The Eternal It’s official, The Eternal will be released June 9th on Matador Records. The sound of the album is claimed to be a combustion of all their material from the dissonance of their s/t album to the poppy tunes of Rather Ripped. As Murray Street and Sonic Nurse had the ‘quintet’ [...]
EXP ETC explores a diverse array of experimental from harsh mind-bleedin noise to the African grooves of Fela Kuti. The prepackaged package of goodies in this MP3 blog includes links to the 50 albums of Merzbow‘s MERZBOX, which slowly I am acquiring. Just take a look and the sidebar, it lists plenty of album downloads. [...]
Upon reading The Wire magazine‘s top 50 albums of 2008, I was inspired to share my own favorites of the year. TEN Hospitals – Hairdryer Peace Skin Graft’s Hospitals again have used their full potential to produce noisy no-wave ear brutality. It’s as if LSD was a sound and had the same effect to the [...]
Pumping Half Japanese at 4 in the ayy-emm while working on illustrations. Email for prints!
Scattered wreckage of gift wrapping inhabits my floor. Grace is in Calgary, leaving us beasts behind to caretake. The digital world has been blooming with “Top 2008″ lists, so I had an impulse to follow tradition and make one for myself: 1. Get Your War On – Top 10 Catchphrases of 2008 “I consider myself [...]
Winter struck Canada hard this year. Travel is slow, Christmas is in, people complete errands. The girlfriend and I are moving to our new place in Montreal on the 29th, and we’ve been spending time creating a mental design. Meanwhile, I finished a new illustration but lack of a scanner handicaps my creative output. Other [...]
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It’s a drag when you swap mixtapes and you get one that’s much stronger than the one you sent. So here’s a few tips to ensure someone will be happy the tape they receive. 1. Theme One of the main attributes that can turn a mixtape into a great mixtape is assigning a theme to [...]
After hearing people summarize their music taste into one word, you often hear “underground”, as infuriating as it can be. Underground implies that they’re lesser known, but what makes the sound of “underground” different from the front end of music? 1. Major labels are the devil Record companies become the band’s parent. They let them [...]