In some ways, 2016 was a grim year. A lot of great musicians died, there was divisive political turmoil in the U.S., the environment continued to take a beating worldwide (including up the road from me where even more subdivisions replace the last sections of woods and farms in the area), and the media got…
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2016: Sixteen of the Best Album Covers
From the surreal to the humorous, album cover art in 2016 was full of designs which told a story. Below are sixteen of the most evocative (in no specific order). [Click image to enlarge] Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions: Until the Hunter I like the way this image is sort of a “world within…
The Freaky Album Cover Art of Gene Brownell
A chicken in a gas mask, a pigeon in a sandwich, a purple skinned model sitting on a cliff with a guy in a diving suit behind her….you’ve probably never heard of album cover photographer/designer Gene Brownell, but for a time in the 1960s and 1970s, his otherworldly work made the neighborhood record store a…
Behind Marconi Union’s “Weightless” Video
Somehow I missed it the first time around in 2014, but a resurrected news story on “the most relaxing song ever” has been making the rounds again recently, the story appearing everywhere from Teen Vogue to Business Insider. The 8-minute song is by the band Marconi Union and was composed with the assistance of the…
Time Stands Still For No Rush Fan
I had the opportunity, last night, to see the new Rush documentary Time Stand Still. It was playing in “select theaters” around North America for one night only, and – being as I live near Rush’s hometown of Toronto – it was in quite a few not too far from me. So, along with a…
Tobogganing On Topographic Oceans
It was a warm autumn afternoon that I stumbled into the rambling topography of a murky ocean replete with Mayan pyramids, fish swimming in mid-air, and a four part suite about…um, something to do with Hinduism. I was still in my teens, a new student at the University of Florida, and it was the first…
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