“it’s us trying to deal with all the craziness that’s been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel natural.” – MGMT, a few months ago when talking about the band’s new album. The cover art has just been released today, but even though the band stated it’s gonna be whole different album than Oracal Spectacural, judging from it, I have a feeling we’re still gonna be in stored for…
Last year’s “The Satanic Satanist” by the Alaskian experimentalists Portugal. The Man delivered some of the best material I’ve had the chance to listen all year round. Now, barely a year after their previous effort, the band is set to release a follow-up titled “American Ghetto” on March 2nd. Captioned above is the official art work for the album which I guess portrays the father-son relationship in an American ghetoo – that or the wacky…
I haven’t posted any illustrations for a good while now, but now is a good a moment as any, seeing how I just stumbled across this majestically drawn Andrew Bird poster. I’ll leave you to contemplate the illustration for a minute (hint: click on the image to enlarge it a bit). If you’re curious to see more similar work, the poster from above was made by The Little Friends of Printmaking, and they have a…
This is extremely funny as hell… in the first second, that is. After that it’s just ahhhhh, another lol cat, I mean lol dog or whatever. Considering the above captioned canine levitating through a living room will be the cover art for Weezer’s upcoming seventh album, titled “Raditude,” makes the down spiral slump the band’s been on for the last few album even more embarrassing. This album should better deliver something valuable and quick before…
Band officials just recenly unveiled the cover art for Wolfmother’s upcoming “Cosmic Egg.” “That’s a darn big ass egg alright”, says the stoked young boy in the bushes, staring enigmatically. In the land down under, however, nothing is surprising anymore. Enough with the comic eggs though, I want heavy and mind blowing cosmic jams! I’ve been pretty anxious about the new album ever since I heard Wolfmother’s new single “Back Round” when we featured it…
Seeing how Jay-Z’s upcoming eleventh album, “Blueprint 3,” is just weeks away from its release, it’s pretty understandable what’s with all the buzz around Hova lately. Just yesterday we posted about Hova’s awesome APW performance where he covered a Beastie Boys song. Now, today, we’ve got our hands on the official Blueprint 3 cover art – an all white scenery comprised of all kinds of musical instruments and equipment. Not much sense to it and…
The cover art for Pearl Jam's new album - Backspacer. Click for larger view.
Pictured above is the ACTUAL cover art for “Rain Machine”, the upcoming debut by Kyp Malone, TV on the Radio’s vocals/guitar/keys/beard man. The childish-like, crayon rendition will undoubtedly stir up some sweet memories from one’s grade school days. Yup, those were the days. No worries, no stress, just play, rainbows and naked chicks on lions. Oh, and you guessed it – Kyp drew this one with his very hand. Rain Machine gets out September 22…
Don’t threat people, there’s nothing really going on with the all-ladies Brooklyn trio, apart from releasing a new, juicy album that is. Last year’s incredible, albeit very short self-titled gained the Vivian Girls a lot of praise, especially from behalf of music blogs like the one you’re reading now, but also attracted some criticism because of it’s lyrics. Now, only 12 months after their well received debut, time in which they’ve extensively toured the country,…
Provocative artwork? Surely not. That’s not blood on the cover of the new Manic Street Preachers album, just a boy with one side of his face more red than the other. Or to put it in more artistic terms a la frontman James Dean Bradfield, “a much more modern version of Lucian Freud-esque brushstrokes”. But either way you look at it, this work of album-cover artistry for the Journal for Plague Lovers has been banned…
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