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POPSSongs For Tibet In spite of the Unity that is sought ("One World, One Dream") at the Beijing Olypmics, it can be easy to forget the now subjugate region of Tibet. Ironic, isn't?
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POPSToday's Topic: What's Weird in the Wikis Another interesting Blog Site I found while perusing the Net.. The "Paul Is Dead" rumors go all the way back to the latter 60's and for a while was a huge phenomenon focusing around the "demise" of the left-handed Beetle. Some of the clues and hints that the Beetle's were supposedly sending in their album art and song lyrics are still quoted today...
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POPSVisual Alchemist & Psychedelic Artist Defined A Generation Alton Kelley, whose psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 67. Mr. Kelley and Stanley Mouse, combined sinuous Art Nouveau lettering and outré images plucked from sources near and far to create the visual equivalent of an acid trip. They formed Mouse Studios: Mouse said they could work for hours in silence. "We knew what to do, we didn't have to talk." Kelley had the unique ability to translate the music being played into these amazing images that captured the spirit of who we were and what the music was all about. He was a visual alchemist — skulls and roses, skeletons in full flight, cryptic alphabets, nothing was too strange for his imagination to conjure.
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POPSBanned Album Art Some of the most famous albums to have their cover art banned! Check the link for a story on each!
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POPS|\| | |/| - Trent Reznor to fans: "Thank you" I'm sure you've heard of this by now... but have you heard it yet? I've been listening to the FLAC version since Monday. &All I could possibly say is wow! . . . no *uberWow*. 'theslip' is nine inch nails latest album. But unlike 'Ghost ' nin's last four digital albums, which Trent Reznor also released online. Where as Ghost gave you the option to pay; theslip is only available for free. Than with theslip you also get all of the cover art, inserts, &etc with the downloads. Which after you download, you can do literally anything with. I'm already playing around w/remixing portions of track 7 & 9. They're my two personal faves, for the moment at least. The last difference between Ghost &theslip is the where as Ghost were only instrumentals/digital. theslip is just as lyrically intense as nin's previous halo albums. So, as always, take a few minutes or hours, depending on your bandwidth, than, what else? enjoy yourself!
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POPSPixels Go Mad - The Celebration Of Pixel Art Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, “pixelish” video ads and even pixelated tattoos. And there is a good reason behind it: in times when popular design solutions strive for real-life-look or perfection pixel art offers a distinctive and creative artistic approach which is extremely expressive. In fact, pixel art can be impressive as well. This post attempts to prove just that.
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POPSSarah Vaughan Portrait - Limited Edition Print Sarah Vaughan was an exceptional singer known by the nicknames”Sassy” and the “Divine One. Vaughan was repeatedly voted the top female vocalist by Down Beat and Metronome jazz magazines between 1947 and 1952. In 1982 her album Gershwin Live! won a Grammy Award. Vaughan received the distinguish Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award one year prior to her passing in 1989 and was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1990. Sarah Vaughan is one of the musicians featured in a series of portrait art prints by the artist Frederick Brown. The Sarah Vaughan portrait he painted is striking and would make a great addition to a collector of Sarah Vaughan memorabilia
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POPSThe most famous unknown artist "Abdul Mati Klarwein is a visionary poet of the sublime. He is an artist of amazing technical virtuosity. He is also an enigma that an ever widening audience is trying to solve." - Director, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
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POPSArt/Pop Nerds of the World Unite: the Music of Stephin Merritt Okay, it may make me a culture snob or a geek, but I've got to admit, I wear brown, and I loved "69 Love Songs." And from the looks of this photo, Stephin Merritt has stolen my appartment. Still, great to see him getting some press. I recommend his music to everybody. On a deeper, more disturbing level, the fact that he wears the same clothes as I do, has the same apartment as I do, and seems to listen to the same music as I do makes me suddenly insecure about the uniqueness of my identity! I guess I'm different, just like everyone else. :P
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POPSJandek: The Man from Corwood This stuff is great, he doesn't even disclose the names of the people who feature on his albums because he doesn't feel it's appropriate.
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POPSPresence album cover This is (apearently) a Led Zepplin album cover. Somewhat of an odd choice, don't you think? Maybe I'm just missing something here...
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POPSgood music listen to these guys. i have a crush on eric, the guitarist.