Yeasayer: Odd Blood
Label: Secretly Canadian
Release Date: February 9, 2010
It’s a good thing Yeasayer is mostly full of shit. In the run up to the release of its second album, the Brooklyn band claimed it was partially inspired by the theory of Singularity, which hypothesizes that artificial intelligence will eventually overtake that of the human [...]
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Some stunning new work from Roger Weiss, a Swiss born photographer who studied in Milan at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Since an early age, Roger has always experimented with photography and his curiosity with the human form led him towards an artistic approach. He continues as an artist, as well as a [...]
Yesterday, we posted a series of classic Comic Book Covers re-imagined by UK graphic designer Chris Thornley, aka Raid71 that we thought were pretty sweet. If you are interested in Raid71’s work, he has also lent his artistic eye to a series of film posters which he remixed in his trademark simplistic style. Their simple [...]
Being inspired by everything from mystical nuances, the female psyche, and the southern gothic, to crumbling wealth, sexuality and death, Macon (GA) based Logan White creates fantastic photography that can’t be put into just one category. Her work ranges from lifestyle and fashion, to more artistic photography.
Check out the rest of her work here.
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Chris Thornley aka Raid71 , a graphic designer from the UK who has worked with Gola, NME, Levi, Threadless, MacUser, has redesigned a series of Amazing Adult Fantasy Comic covers for Warren Ellis’ cover challenge. This contest is art only. No pen-portraits, no photo-manipulation “art”. It’s up to the artist/designer what kind of company they’re [...]
Check out this really great photostream from Swedish photographer, SgtSalt. You can find more of SgtSalt’s photography and philosophy HERE, or you can view some of Discosalt’s favorite images in the gallery below:
1991: Stache-Metal pioneer Judas Priest may have ushered the hardcore machismo aesthetic into metal subculture, but Metallica shanghaied the torch, taking the facial incarnation of anti-authority to the top of the charts…and into the suburban mall. Metallica’s 1991 performance of “Enter Sandman” in Monsters of Rock in Moscow is not only a consummate moment in the band’s epic stache-metal career, but [...]
On March 7th, rumors spread that The National were announcing a last minute addition of two shows at Brooklyn’s Bell House, a tiny venue with a capacity of 350 in the concert hall for Thursday March 11th and Friday March 12th. Discosalt friend Backseatsandbar was there to fill you in on what you missed.
As you [...]
1969: The greatest electric finger-blaster in the history of rock music – and one of the most exhilarating moments in stache-rock of all time – involved some very groovy lip flair. Jimi’s 1969 Monterey International Pop Festival performance of “Wild Thing,” which immortalized his iconic onstage guitar-burning and smashing spectacle, was only intensified by the dazzling [...]
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, the 10-piece psych-folk-rock ensemble released 2 videos last year, which are part of an epic 12-part feature-length musical.
PART 1, “Desert Song”, features footage of singer Alex Ebert’s father chanting in Monument Valley – shot by his mother and is about Alex’s reckoning with the middle name his father secretly [...]
With SXSW 2010 creeping up, Discosalt has a preview of this years bands to watch. There are some amazing bands to check out, so clear the rest of your schedule for the afternoon and comb through our list:
MINUS THE BEAR
Recent Dangerbird Records signees, Minus The Bear, are set to release their new album, OMNI, [...]
Check out Discosalt’s review photo from last summer’s unapplified accoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden in Brooklyn, in the book version of Look At This F*cking Hipster (LATFH.com), which hits stores on March 30. LATFH takes its hipsterati photo format from the web to your fingertips, providing a coffee table friendly slice of hipsterdom that will [...]
Recent Dangerbird Records signees, Minus The Bear, are set to release their new album, OMNI, on May 4th. Produced by Grammy Award winning producer, Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, My Morning Jacket), the band’s fourth studio album marks the latest stage in their shape-shifting evolution, that culminates in the blending of past influences with present inspirations. Exploring erotic [...]
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