entries Tagged as [music]

Looking Glass

Video for The Birthday Massacre’s Looking Glass. Directed by Dan Ouellette. Director’s comments here. From the album Walking with Strangers.

Been cranking this one really loud while driving in morning traffic. The title track, Walking With Strangers, also a fav. Here’s TBM’s MySpace page.

And
Check out GoodbyeForever – Chibi (lead vocalist), Laura and Emily’s Etsy store. Handmade stuff, including these fun playing card prints (below).

(I was lecturing on 15th century playing card design just this past Monday)

Rad Anthem

Video for Rad Omen’s Rad Anthem. Directed by Nicholaus Goossen, photography by Harris Charalambous. Free download here.

Found via Jason Malmberg

Charlotte Gainsbourg, with Beck

Video for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Heaven Can Wait, featuring Beck. Directed by Keith Schofield.

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album IRM dropped this week, find it here. Official website here. Blog here.

Below, live performance of Trick Pony on Letterman from last week:

And
Her work for Balenciaga and Vogue Paris.

Das Model

Kraftwerk’s Das Model. From 1980.

Remastered track can be found on the album The Man Machine.

Found via Victoria Arriaga

Afrika Shox

Video for Leftfield’s Afrika Shox. Directed by Chris Cunningham, filmed in the Manhattan Financial District, February 1998.

More about the video (and Chris’ work) here.

Found via Don Reid

Happy Up Here

Video for Royksopp’s Happy Up Here. Directed by Reuben Sutherland. From the album Junior.

The Royksopp website.

Found via Matthew Valentine

This is the New Year

Video for Ian Axel’s This is the New Year. Directed by Leiv Parton.

Found via Ingrid Michaelson

Stripper

Sohodolls. Stripper. Website. MySpace. Duct tape.

Allen

Lily Allen photographed by Alan Gelati for the January 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Russia.

More pics here. Plus, her most recent video.

Found via Design Scene

Benson

‘The first in a series of photographs exploring and called the colour of music. This series purely looks at the colour of the record sleeves grouping all records by colour alone. In this way the genres of music were mixed with techno standing next to hiphop next to rock next to house and so on.’ -GWBenson

Details.

Found via Peter Crawley

Best album covers of the decade

Selected by the always incredible Paste Magazine. See all of em here.

Click on images for jump/description.


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