‘Check out one of the songs i’m most proud of – my cowrite with Nicola Roberts on a very personal, epic and beautiful ballad.’ –Maya von Doll, Sohodolls

Video for Nicola Roberts’ Sticks + Stones.

Sticks + Stones brings back memories. When one is ‘creative,’ one doesn’t always fit in.

And you know what I’ve learned over the years? It’s fucking cool to not fit in.

Video for The Ting Tings’ Silence.

‘Written by T. Bryant & L. Origliasso’

Found via Lisa Veronica

Fan-made video for Garbage’s new single, Battle in Me.

New album – Not Your Kind of People – drops May 22 (May 15 on itunes) – and I’m really loving this beautiful g they’ve found  . . .

Found via Garbage

Lady Gaga performing Just Dance from last year’s HBO special.

Caught the rerun this week.

Dancing in the Street, 1985.

Found via Waxaudio

‘Earlier this year Mikhael Paskalev won the title ‘Årets Urørt,’ which basically means that he is the most promising unsigned artist in Norway at the moment.’

Video for Mikhael Paskalev’s I Spy. Directed by André Chocron.

Cover art by Pedro Henrique Ferreira for Tokyo Savannah.

John Lee Star Stocks, photograph by Robert Knight.

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat: Whiskey & Wimmen

I need loud music in the morning. Video for Natt Weller’s Make It Louder.

Garbage’s Cup of Coffee.

Cuby + Blizzards: Windows of My Eyes

Image found via Fiore-Rosso

From 1970.

Boombox: Doomsday Train

Sleeve found via Klaus Hiltscher

Video for Kraftwerk’s Trans Europe Express. From 1977.

The Dears: No Cities Left

Image found via passif-agresif

Video for Diagrams’ Tall Buildings – very Yes-sounding.

Free download.

Beautiful short by Anne Labadie.

Gareth Emery. Feat Christina Novelli. Concrete Angel.

Trance. With subtle typography. February 16 in San Francisco.

Video for Superbus’ Travel the World.

The original Van Halen broke up when I was a senior in high school. And yes, I am an old fan of David Lee Roth, read about it here.

And the reunion no one thought would happen happened and the album no one thought would happen was released yesterday. 28 year wait. The sound harkens back (harkens is the word) to Van Halen I and II – apparently the tracks are based on notes written back around 1975–77ish.

The sound is old – with parts feeling like an odd 1990s solo album Dave put out. Album cover design by SMOG, art directed by Jeri Heiden.

New track: Tattoo, with Dave explaining it here

You Really Got Me acoustic

And an update: Dave’s been posting new videos on Vimeo all week. Love the ‘recreational director’ discourse and this one about his dogs.

‘The ads were inspired by Philippe Petit’s 1974 ‘Man on Wire’ act – an illegal tightrope traverse between the Twin Towers – as well as Charles C. Ebbets’ classic 1932 photograph, ‘Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam.”

Green Day – art directed by Yard and photographed by Danny Clinch for (Howard Stern’s favorite designer) John Varvatos, Spring/Summer 2012.

Found via Fashion Indie

‘Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine’

4-part documentary by NYC-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 is in production, donations accepted here.

Website here, Facebook page here. Remixes (inspired by part 3) here and here.

Found via Creative Bits

The work of Christian Marclay. Monograph here.

Found via This Blog Rules

Found via Heidi Andermack, mashKULTURE

‘Yeah, for the logo the ‘g’ took longer to design than all the other letter forms put together.’ -bb

Former typography student. New band. Custom drawn g.

Brett Berry survived my graphic design courses and recently formed The Tangs with his brother Brandon.

Their debut EP Let It Out can be snagged on iTunes.

Website here, Facebook page here.

The Tangs: Take Me Down

Fan-made video for Metric’s Too Little Too Late.

It’s a new year. Let’s move on.

Grimes is Claire Boucher and her new album drops in the US February 21. Details.

Album design by Jasper Baydala with Boucher’s own illustrations. At bottom, Genesis.

‘the story of the rise and fall of Black Horse Disco, a youth club set up in the centre of a large working-class estate in North London’

Knuckle Sandwich. Cover photographed by Red Saunders, a.k.a MC Redman. Powered by Gill Kayo. Details.

The Clash: What’s My Name

Found via The Pelican Blog

Percy Sledge. Powered by Gill Kayo.

Percy Sledge: Any Day Now

Found via Buro Destruct

These vintage Santas are just a tad older than me.

Them, with their cartoony script lettering, would grace the table every year – with or without the requisite salt, pepper, for which they were created. Made in Japan.

Below, track from the ultimate 1960s Christmas album.

Ray Conniff: Twelve Days of Christmas

Poster recreation by Hesh One.

The Doors: Peacefrog (remix by nathan davis)

‘Ball size may very’

Video for Meiko’s latest, Stuck on You.

Recipe here.

Video for Television Room’s Coffee Houses. Directed by Eoin C. Macken.

Featuring Project Runway 7 model Cerri McQuillan.

‘Trouble trouble trouble’

From South Korea: Girls’Generation performs Hoot and Mr. Taxi.

Found via Booted Up!

‘Looking at themes of magick, ritual, psychedelia and Aleister Crowley. Shot on location at ancient stone landmarks in Lands End, Cornwall.’

The work of Kathryn Ferguson. Music composed by Peter Mackenzie.

NYC, 1966. Photograph by Lee Friedlander.

Voyeur: Absent

Today’s zeitgeist: Jobs, Apple, Occupy. Fan-made video set to Kidneythieves’ new track, Floating Angel.

Found via Kidneythieves

The White Stripes. Kate Moss. Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself. Directed by Sofia Coppola.

This week in the car I’ve been listening to my Garbage b-sides mix.

This includes the incredible Honeybee (2005) – above, interpreted by Jenyne Butterfly.

Garbage is back in the studio working on their fifth studio album – and they recently released a U2 cover, below. Facebook page with updates (and streaming b-sides) here.

Garbage: Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

JET performs Are You Gonna Be My Girl? From 2004.

Video for AM & Shawn Lee’s Dark Into Light. Directed by Christian Borstlap and animated by Paul Postma.

Videos for Justice’s Audio, Video, Disco. and D.A.N.C.E.

Video for Phantogram’s When I’m Small.

‘She’s using a lot of graphic designer tools too’ –Devon

First thing this morning (before I had my coffee), Devon Cloutier cornered me and told me about the former schoolteacher who is the singer for Sleigh Bells – and how cool this band really is. This is their video for Rill Rill.

The song ended up stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Video for Cult’s Go Outside. Directed by Isaiah Seret.

Found via Boing Boing

M-za: That Retro Shine mixtape

Image found via KENMAT

‘The tale of doomed Major Tom plays out in Kolb’s bright and retro animation style, giving a face to the legendary Bowie character and making the conclusion that much sadder’

Illustrated just for fun. The work of Andrew Kolb.

David Bowie: Space Oddity

Found via ComicsAlliance and Badass Digest

‘a one-man band, singing and using a variety of homemade musical instruments’

Video for That 1 Guy’s Buttmachine.

That 1 Guy is playing tonite at Harlow’s in Sacramento – tomorrow San Francisco, then Visalia, Las Vegas and points beyond. Website here, interview here.

Found via Elliot Prestwich

Video for The LK’s Stop Being Perfect.