I’m not dead – I promise! I’ve been backed up with school/finals, but now I’m done and I have a lot of neat stuff saved up to share with you. I’ve got music articles, videos, sounds, and other ephemera for days!

First off, this is the best song ever. It’s by Althea & Donna and it was a big hit in the U.K in 1978. Just try not to groove to it!

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The Black & White Years are an energetic Austin band that are firing out hot tracks right and left! I’m going to be helping out with some album art for their next release. Check these guys out!

DOWNLOAD > The Black and White Years – “Two Reservoirs”

You can purchase the entire Nursery Myths EP on iTunes

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The work of Lori Hersberger

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Here’s the full length version of the new video for the Parachute Ending by Birdy Nam Nam & produced by Justice. The video was directed by Steve Scott, creative direction, concept and illustration by Will Sweeney. Hope you dig it!

Can’t stop listening to these jams! Really anything that Matthew Mondanile touches is gold for me. I’m sure you’ve checked out Real Estate, and probably these two records from Summer 2009, but uhhh put some headphones on. I splashed a track from each record into one mp3…

Ducktails “Beach Point Pleasant” from Ducktails – S/T
Julian Lynch “Garden 2″ from the 7″ split

:::  DOWNLOAD > Ducktails/Julian Lynch – “Beach Point Garden.mp3″  :::

Both records are available in the Ducktails SHOPPE

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Recently I traded some goods with the unstoppable Rob Carmichael (SEEN), designer and the frontman to label/art project Catsup Plate. Rob hooked me up with some hot releases.

Black Dice – “Chocolate Cherry” 7 inch
Eric Copeland – “Al Anon” LP

Catsup Plate mostly does limited runs of their releases and they often have silkscreened covers!  From ‘93 – ‘97 CP was a tape only label(!) but now it just makes more sense to put ‘em out on wax.

Rob is an incredible person and is on top of his game. It’s likely you’re not unfamiliar with his homies Animal Collective, Black Dice, Dirty Projectors, Tickley Feather, Born Ruffians, the list goes on! He’s worked with these rad bands on album design/layout for several releases (not necessarily on Catsup Plate).  He’s the dude that took on the difficult task of matching pantones for the Merriweather Post Pavilion pattern (so the trippy optical illusion would work juuuust right).

Rob makes buying records even more enjoyable.

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