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Promotional newsprint poster zine by the illustrators and designers in The Pencil Factory, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Includes Kim Bost, Josh Cochran, Jennifer Daniel, Gilbert Ford, Jessica Hische, Grady McFerrin, Ted McGrath, Alex Eben Meyer, Chris Silas Neal, Zacharia O’Hora, Leif Parsons, Rachel Salomon, myself, Jillian Tamaki, and Sam Weber.

View it.

Available in The Forest shop.

I’m really loving Feral Harmonic by Old Canes (side project of Appleseed Cast frontman Chris Crisci) and not because of their location (Lawrence, KS) or the musicians from bands such as The Appleseed Cast, Boys Life, The Dactyls, but I really do think it’s great just like their last one. It had to grow on me a bit but now I love it. Thank you again Lawrence, Kansas.

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MP3 >> Old Canes – Little Bird Courage

They’re hitting the road and will be in California so try to check them out. Tour dates can be found on their Myspace page.

UPDATE: Old Canes is currently Chris Crisci (Appleseed Cast), Kelly Hangauer (4th Of July), Lucas Oswald (Minus Story), Taylor Holenbeck, Joey Henry (Calamity Cubes), Jordan Geiger (Minus Story), John Anderson (Boy’s Life / White Whale)

Purchase Feral Harmonic at Amazon.
Listen to more at Myspace.
Listen to their first record Early Morning Hymns over at earlymorninghymns.com and purchase it at Amazon.

Head on over to Paper Monster who have some original works by Mike Perry up on their site. I’m sure they’ll go fast and feel free to get them all for me.

Paper Monster also asked Mike Perry to pick a friend to do a drawing with back and forth, each drawing for 1 minute at a time. Mike picked London based artist/friend Jim Stoten to collaborate with. You can see the whole project by going to Paper Monster’s site. You can also purchase the final product over at Mike’s site by clicking here.

Check out more work from Mike Perry here and check out the illustrations from Jim Stoten here.

I picked up DIY Album Art: Paper Bags And Office Supplies yesterday when I was at Needles & Pens here in SF picking up issue 53 of Cometbus with Jon Cheese.

As soon as I started looking at it I had to have it. The book showcases the DIY copy and paste style that labels like Gravity, Tree Records, and many of the bands such as Indian Summer, Frail, Ordination Of Aaron, Angel Hair, Mohinder as well as many others were doing in the 90’s.  I was really happy to see so many records I love so much in the book living next to each other. The quality / production of the book is great. I mean Jon and I got REALLY nerdy when we started looking through it, just saying.

You can take a look inside the book by visiting diyalbumart.com.

Go get it in San Francisco at Needles & Pens (and find many other amazing things) or order it online at Amazon.

Watch CAPYBARA play Cutaway Kid / KRUXcoustic. Buy their record, love them like I do.

View the photography work of Jake Dow-Smith.

(from what I’ve heard of this Sleep Whale record I’m excited to get it today.)

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

For all your MP3 needs purchase from iTunes.

Preview a lot of these releases at Spinner.

MUSIC:
50 Cent: Before I Self Destruct
AC/DC: Backtracks (2CD & DVD box set)
Asobi Seksu: Rewolf (vinyl)
Bobby Birdman: New Moods (vinyl)
Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be (2-LP vinyl with bonus tracks)
Little Girls: Concepts
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Xenophanes
Pants Yell!: Received Pronunciation (vinyl)
Sleep Whale: Houseboat
Snow Patrol: Up to Now
Wale: Attention Deficit (vinyl)

DVD:
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First and Second Seasons
Up

(If they have a STAR by them, it means I’ve heard it and I like it. Album title links go to Amazon. If I miss any good releases, please add them in the comments.)

For all your MP3 needs purchase from iTunes.

Preview a lot of these releases at Spinner.

MUSIC:
The Band: Cahoots (vinyl reissue)
The Band: Stage Fright (vinyl reissue)
Cold Cave: Love Comes Close (reissue) (vinyl)
Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (CD & DVD)
Half-Handed Cloud: Cut Me Down & Count My Rings
Jookabox: Dead Zone Boys (vinyl)
Joy Electric: Favorites at Play
King Khan & BBQ Show: Invisible Girl (vinyl)
Little Dragon: Machine Dreams (vinyl)
Lymbyc Systym: Shutter Release
Melt Banana: Melt Banana Lite Live Ver 0.0
Molina & Johnson: Molina & Johnson *
Morrissey: Swords
Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (vinyl reissue) *
Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island (vinyl reissue) *
Nirvana: Bleach (remastered with bonus tracks) (2-LP vinyl deluxe edition) *
Nirvana: Live at Reading (CD & DVD)
Nirvana: Nevermind (vinyl reissue) *
On Fillmore: Extended Vacation (vinyl) *
Say Anything: Say Anything
Slayer: World Painted Blood (CD & DVD deluxe edition)
Systems Officer: Underslept
Themselves: Crownsdown (vinyl)
Weezer: Raditude (2-CD edition) (vinyl)
Yeasayer: Ambling Alp (vinyl)

DVD:
Food, Inc.
I Love You, Beth Cooper
It’s a Wonderful Life [Blu-ray]
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Ultimate Collector’s Edition)

Beautiful photography work by Anastasia Cazabon. I really like her story telling and her compositions, makes me want to shoot 6×6 again soon.