Petter Ringbom
Creating Public Service Announcements to the web community, doing the work for the love of the craft, taking the fear out of facing reality: We chat with designer Petter Ringbom about his design, your design, and going berserk.
Andrew Womack
Posh
The man who put up the cash to build the first New York City subway line (from City Hall to 145th Street) was one August Belmont, Jr. He so loved riding his subway line that he commissioned the building of his own private subway car… And when the car was
Lowercase, Going-Away Present
Dark, driving punk rock sewn from the same fabric as Unwound. But it’s different, mind you: this is death-wish music. Oh, yes, and then comes the screaming. Might want to make that stop, though. Favorite track: ‘The Open Sea’
The Faint, Blank-Wave Arcade
They played two shows here in New York last weekend—both sold out and I didn’t get into either one. It’s a shame, too, since I saw them last year at what was one of the most impressive shows I’d seen in a long, long time. This,
Message Board
Hershey’s has a children’s site, called Kidztown, that features a message board that allows users (presumably children) to post questions, one would guess, generally related to chocolate. Some of the questions, however, seem to stray a bit from the subject at hand. And they range from the innocent:
A Silver Mt. Zion, He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms
This Godspeed You Black Emperor! side project featuring Efrim shows a more focused version of the music for which Godspeed has become synonymous. Here you will find a much more distinct utilization of leitmotifs, the ever-present brooding, percussive strings, and, happily, vocals(!). I passed this by when it first
Suede, Sci-Fi Lullabies
A two-disc collection of b-sides from Suede (AKA ‘The London’ Suede, for legal reasons…) is a beautiful idea, in that it could easily be argued that no band has ever put so much thought into their single b-side releases, almost treating those three-song releases (one ‘a’
Bjork, Selmasongs
The only way to ‘get’ this album is, I would surmise, to watch the film, Dancer in the Dark, for which this music was composed. And if you like the film as much as I did, you’ll want to hear this music again and again. Especially the brilliant, orchestral
Spiritualized, Pure Phase
It is, apparently, mixed separately by channel. Which, certainly, means you should listen to it with headphones. And it’s brilliant, through heartbreaking delicateness to devastating chaos and back again. Never mind…it’s impossible to describe. Best track: ‘Feel Like Goin’ Home’
Daft Punk, Discovery
I first heard this album last week and it’s purely coincidence that this record is today’s top review on Pitchfork: really, I swear. Okay, so you don’t care, because you know what a great album this is. Anyway, I, too, think it’s a fantastic album (and