SXSW 2010: BANDS TO WATCH
March 11, 2010 – 8:44 am | No Comment

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, [...]

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BAND OF HORSES: INFINITE ARMS
March 8, 2010 – 6:23 pm | No Comment
BAND OF HORSES: INFINITE ARMS

Band of Horses, the Low Country’s premier rock n’ roll outfit, will release their third full length LP, entitled Infinite Arms ,on May 18th through Brown Records/Fat Possum Records/Columbia Records.
The album package will feature the photography of the band’s long time collaborator Christopher Wilson.
Produced by Band of Horses with additional production from Phil Ek, mixed [...]

KATHERINE SQUIRE: THINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL IF YOU LOVE THEM
March 1, 2010 – 8:59 pm | No Comment
KATHERINE SQUIRE: THINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL IF YOU LOVE THEM

Discosalt came across this flickr photo stream from Austin based photographer Katherine Squire via www.booooooom.com.  Katherine says that her photos are “rushed attempts to capture something inspiring.” In an attempt to live with awareness, photography allows her to capture moments that inspire her as she lives them and share them with the world.  She likes [...]

NEW WORK FROM AARON SING FOX
March 1, 2010 – 1:33 am | No Comment
NEW WORK FROM AARON SING FOX

Check out some new work from DISCOSALT artist Aaron Sing Fox:

NEW WORK FROM TOM HASLINGER
February 20, 2010 – 12:45 am | No Comment
NEW WORK FROM TOM HASLINGER

Discosalt Artist Tom Haslinger,a photographer based in Vienna, Austria and New York City, has some really great new work that he showed us this week. The work below will be featured in Natif Natal – A Benefit Show for Haiti put on by Partners in Health in collaboration with Discosalt and Svedka Vodka at Glasslands [...]

ANTHONY AUSGANG: MGMT COVER ART REVEALED
February 17, 2010 – 1:10 pm | No Comment
ANTHONY AUSGANG: MGMT COVER ART REVEALED

last week, we announced that MGMT’s much anticipated new album, Congratulations, will be available in the US and Canada on Tuesday, April 13. Today, we have learned that the band have teamed up with artist Anthony Ausgang for the cover art.You can see more on Ausgang’s art and how the collaboration came about below at:
http://www.boingboing.net
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/anthony-ausgangs-mgm.html#more
Pre-order Congratulations now at: http://www.sonymusicdigital.com/mgmt/pages/5451837
To [...]

BANKSY DOCUMENTARY: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
February 13, 2010 – 11:20 pm | No Comment
BANKSY DOCUMENTARY: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

Keep on the look out in theaters this March, for the new Banksy film: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year.  Billed as “The World’s first street art disaster movie”, the film is narrated by Welsh film star Rhys Ifans of “Knotting Hill” fame and stars the anonymous international renowned [...]

WAD LUND PHOTOGRAPHY
February 11, 2010 – 1:19 pm | No Comment
WAD LUND PHOTOGRAPHY

Wad Lund is the Scandanavian love-child of two photographers, Bjørn Wad and Elisabeth Lund who have teamed up with makeup artist and fashion stylist Mari Nes. Together, the team specializes in music, fashion and advertising photography. Check out some of Discosalt’s favorite images from their portfolio below or check out their website to see all [...]

BENJAMIN PHELAN ARTWORK
February 10, 2010 – 1:20 pm | No Comment
BENJAMIN PHELAN ARTWORK

We mentioned Brooklyn based artist Benjamin Phelan earlier this week (he did the artwork for the new Yeasayer album). If you are interested in more of his work, his website has some pretty interesting quicktime vids like this compilation video here or you can check out some images from his portfolio below:
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PIERRE DAL CORSO PHOTOGRAPHY
February 10, 2010 – 10:10 am | No Comment
PIERRE DAL CORSO PHOTOGRAPHY

Pierre Dal Corso loves you…or we love him…maybe both. The under-rated fashion photographer has channeled his kavorka to create a portfolio of incredibly striking photos with uncanny use of color that beautifully capture the sex appeal of the female form. We have no idea why his work isn’t more well known…but now you know [...]

70′S NYC GRAFFITI WRITER TEAM
February 9, 2010 – 9:44 am | No Comment
70′S NYC GRAFFITI WRITER TEAM

In this short featured interview from Upper Playground’s Walrus TV,  Ricky Powell interviews his longtime friend, 70’s New York graffiti writer “Team”. Take a little nostalgic tour of Avenue C, hang at Team’s East Village apartment and learn the origin of his name and his attraction to painting and installation art.

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STAR WARS PLANET POSTERS
February 8, 2010 – 9:41 am | No Comment
STAR WARS PLANET POSTERS

If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from…or you are checking out some really sweet prints that even non- Star Wars Geeks can appreciate.
Chi-town based designer Justin Van Genderen, also known as 2046 Design, recently designed this series of posters that feature the planets of the Star [...]

ANIMATED SHORTS FROM DATDATDAT
February 5, 2010 – 3:08 pm | No Comment
ANIMATED SHORTS FROM DATDATDAT

Animated Shorts called “Palatine” and “Drone”, created by Datdatdat.org. Datdatdat is the moniker / online presence of Andreas Fischer, artist, designer and director from Berlin who is also a member of the We Are Chopchop collective.