Covers for Kenny Burrell’s Blue Lights. Reid Miles, design; Andy Warhol, illustration. Blue Note Records, 1958.

Just because.

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

Cover art by Pedro Henrique Ferreira for Tokyo Savannah.

From 1970.

Boombox: Doomsday Train

Sleeve found via Klaus Hiltscher

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 work of Christian Marclay. Monograph here.

Found via This Blog Rules

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.

‘Was only screened in cinemas following complaints from UK TV viewers’

From 2001.

Kylie is really cool. Tho was never a huge fan of her music. But I did buy this album when it came out just because of how the type was handled.

Kylie Minogue’s Body Language, 2004

Bitter:Sweet’s music has been bouncing around commercially the past few years. Above, Dirty Laundry. Animated. With a robot. For Zune.

Below, my fav track, The Bomb (which was used for Lipstick Jungle)   . . .

Cool website here. And fun album graphics.

Bitter:Sweet: The Bomb

Highlights from a documentary on Blue Note Records.

‘Hi-Fi is a promotional music video for last year’s concert season at the Bellavista Social Pub, one of the best bars in Siena, Tuscany, according to Where’s Cool.’

Hi-Fi video, directed by Bante. More details at The Font Feed.

Found via LookingAroun.D

‘Every now then, as you stumble through design history, you trip over and fall on your ass.’

Alex Charchar takes a look at the incredible work of Reid Miles. Article here.

(and psst: click on the album covers for MP3 purchasing options.)

Joe Henderson: Jinrikisha

Dusty Brown has a new ep, This City is Killing Me. You can snag it free here.

Album artwork by Scott Hansen/ISO50.

New blog animates some jackets. Gif style. Go here.

The Strokes: Take It Or Leave It

Found via Nina Stoessinger

‘It all started with a screen printing kit from an art store and a dingy asbestos filled basement’

I first ran into Laura Edmisten at a DIY thing a few years back. She had just started silkscreening notecards and other ephemera. Today she’s conquered the local band scene and expanding outward (her business, not her). She does super cool, limited run screened cards, notebooks, tote bags. And posters. With more to come.

Check out her Etsy store here. Website here. MySpace here.

The thing is, there’s some mainstream stuff on the list too. To peruse, simply jump over to Designer Daily.

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‘It’s basically a set of modernist re-workings of classic album covers, where the album title has been distilled into a simple little black and white pictogram which acts as the artwork. So far the collection has 25 hits and misses.’ – Heath Killen, Illumination Ink

See em here.

Graphic designer Reid Miles and the Blue Note label – incredible album cover design. Here’s a great article on Miles.

And here’s the Wu-Tang albums as Blue Note releases. Found via Twitter.com/Sandoer.