The artist of the day is Tara Ree Miller. You know her as the designer of our great new logo, but she has a great painting portfolio as well. This is my favorite one:
I really like the design work on the walls. Tara has always been really good with that, I have some of those hanging up in my house.
Back in the late 90’s, while you were still grasping onto the rotting corpse of grunge, the rest of us were moving on to new genres of music that didn’t involve grown boys in slacks. Enter Dr. Octagon, the extraterrestrial time traveling gynecologist and surgeon alter-ego of rapper Kool Keith. The result would be the 1996 release one of the greatest albums of all time (all time!), Dr. Octagonecologyst. In the videos below, you can experience Halfsharkalligatorhalfman and the amoebic ambiance of Blue Flowers.
Chris Thile is the mandolinist and singer for the band Nickle Creek and is an alt-folk-Americana all-star. Here he is covering everyone’s favorite band, Radiohead:
The Blow is a sweet band or person, depending on the way you look at things. He, she, or they have been for a while, pumping out dancy tracks with in your face heartbreak for quite some time. They are also in Yacht, a band you’d be listening to if you had ever bothered to move out of your suburban hell hole. If you had any damn sense, you’d be listening to them right now. Witness:
Chances are you’ve heard of Animal Collective and sneered at them through your mish-mash of ill-fitting clothing, since hipsters hating hipsters is the latest hipster trend. Animal Collective is a band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City, Brooklyn, Hipsterville. However, they have quite the sound and you should listen to them (just keep it from your friends):
