Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
Label: Vagrant Records
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Stream the album for free HERE
Review coming soon…

Fang Island: Fang Island (Dig)
Label: Sargent House
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Stream the album for free HERE
Review coming soon…

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 [...]

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 [...]

MGMT: Congratulations
Label: Columbia
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Review coming soon…

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 [...]

April 6:
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim:  Here Lies Love
Dr. Dog:  Shame, Shame
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings:  I Learned the Hard Way
April 13:
MGMT:  Congratulations
April 20:
Apples in Stereo:  Travellers in Space and Time
Javelin:  No Mas
Kate Nash:  My Best Friend is You
Trans Am:  Thing