2 of my favorite artists popped up onto my radar today through my RSS feed. shepherd fairey got profiled in the new york times. glen e friedman in video form from a talk he gave at sweettalknyc. i met glen once at a show at space 1026 and dude is a bit of a prick but i think his work speaks for itself and who am i to judge anyways? its interesting to see where artists that i have been following for a time now pop up within ‘mainstream’ culture.

the boss is playing a free acoustic show as a voter rally for obama. it happens to be on the day my dad is getting married. go here for the free tix if youre going to be in town this saturday. so bummed.

punk from japan has always intrigued me. the music is one thing but seeing into the culture is another. the gap is just too large for me personally. any vision into the punk subculture is interesting.

from vice

the hidden cost of wars is a great animation done in a way to get information, graphics and text across to the viewer in a palatable way. i like the animation style as it makes both an aural and visual to grapple with such a hard subject matter. understanding numbers on the fly and connecting them together is not my thing at all.

i was never into this guy. i just dont see it, though i can see joe sixpack being stoked so i guess its not meant for me in particular. but dude should not go trying to finagle with history. i am talking about him doing a Rock N Roll Highschool remake. seriously? who is going to fill in for the ramones? its gonna be some shit ass band when in a perfect world it would be municipal waste or annihilation time. seriously fuck you howard stern and whatever means of transportation you rode in on.

for a while now artists have been complaining about music being sold by songs on their own instead of in full albums online with most criticism pointed at iTunes. granted i am an open apple fanboy but this must not be construed as such. this is the artists/labels/etc taking out their frustrations with consumers and the change in the marketplace in the wrong way. napster was the first to show that if people are interested only in the hot jam single they are going to go out and procure that as such. the same went for 7″ singles back in the day, tho they did give you the option of flipping it over and hearing another cut to try and get you to go buy the LP. the music industry is in a werid spot. they have begun pressing vinyl again to give consumers a more substantial connection to the music, yet they are testing out making music available on SD cards? thats just stupid and a waste of time, and resources. at this point the industry really needs to examine how consumers want to consume music and begin to figure out ways to satisfy demand or other services will come along and further the consumer from the industry and artists.

im glad someone is doing serious due diligence. lessig