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Here’s a song single that we’ve been working on that we wanted to share with you.
Updated - 2/08/13
Actually talked on the phone with Shepard Fairey who did the artwork for the Bad Brains album. We found out after also talking with the designer that did the album art for our earlier EP and Shepard they did both use the same public domain source material for the artwork from a 1933 World’s Fair poster and that it was not just from our earlier EP artwork.
I love Bad Brains, I have since I was a kid. I was excited to hear about the new album. I just noticed a weird thing about album cover for it.
It is LITERALLY an upside-down version of the album art for our first EP.
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| Our EP art |
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| Their album art |
I mean it is seriously the same right?!
Now I’m not upset by no means about this, our art and music are all released under CC-BY-SA license which means you can build from and reuse what we make. Although, that does mean that whatever you use needs to be under the same license and attribute to us, the original creators, unless we work out an agreement for other options.
I guess my question is: where did they get the idea for this album artwork? Was it us? I would like to know.
The teenage version of me is super excited by this discovery. Present day version of me is curious and think it would be cool to hear from them about it.
You can get their new album “Into The Future” on their website.
And you can get OUR album with the same artwork here.
P.S. Just a disclaimer - The music for both albums are quite different.
More music, more problems… I don’t know…
Anyway here’s our saxophone player Bryan’s top 10 favorite songs.
Hit play and enjoy! Let us know what you think of his picks in the comments below.
Here’s another in our on-going series of music we’ve been listening to.
This is Eric’s playlist of his top 10 songs for October.
Let it play in the background, listen & enjoy!
Tell us what you think of his song choices below.
Continuing with our playlist mixes of music we’ve been listening to.
This time it’s our bassist Cliff’s turn.
Here are the top 10 songs that he’s been diggin’ on.
<ol><li>Bread & Water - Ryan Bingham</li><li>Missing Pieces - Jack White</li><li>Signs & Signifiers - J.D. McPherson</li><li>Orpheo Looks Back - Andrew Bird </li><li>Speak In Rounds - Grizzly Bear </li><li>Satellite - The Kills</li><li>Blackout - Hometown Sweethearts *(this wasn’t on YouTube but left it in the list to prove he picked 10)</li><li>Gold On The Ceiling - The Black Keys</li><li>Vampire - Dr. Dog</li><li>Primitive Girl - M. Ward</li></ol>Click play, let it run in the background and enjoy!
Let us know what you think of his song choices in the comments below.
We’ve got a single we wrote called Puano that we’re really excited about and wanted to share it with you.
This song started one night while Mark and I were setting up in the back studio. There’s a piano in the room and Mark sat down and started playing what became the lead line of the song. While he was playing I got behind some drums and came up for the rhythm for it.
Luckily, we had the recorder running and were able to get the whole thing down. As far as the song name- it’s called Puano because when we titled the file we recorded, we were just going to call it “Piano” to remember it. But I mistyped the word. When we noticed this later we thought it was kinda funny and kept it.
This is an exclusive because it’s a demo version of the song. It may change over time and you can have a copy that may not even be the version we release. It could change dramatically!
In that same train of thought let us know what you think, and leave a comment below.
Enjoy,
Tom
Sure, we post a lot of our own music. But we thought we’d also like to post some of the music that we’ve been listening to recently. So we’re going to take turns showcasing some songs that we like.
The first playlist is Mark’s music picks to date.
<ol><li>Cat Power - silent machine</li><li>How To Dress Well - When I Was in Trouble</li><li>Jamie Lidell - compass</li><li>Yeasayer - Fingers never bleed</li><li>Carla Morrison - Me Encanta</li><li>Atoms for Peace - default</li><li>Blue Sky Black Death - our hearts of ruin</li><li>Grizzly Bear - gun shy</li><li>AaraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream</li><li>The Chromatics - Back from the Grave</li><li>Tina Dico - Moon to Let</li></ol>Yeah it says “top 10”, but he snuck one extra song in there.
Enjoy the music, and while you’re at it why not subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Let us know what you think of his song choices in the comments below.