Amoeba Music

Choice Track: Matrix

Choice Track: Muñekita (featuring JT of City Girls and El Alfa)

Choice Track: Heat Check

Choice Track: In Your Corner

Somewhere between Death Metal, HC, and Powerviolence exists this gem!

Really gorgeous and intriguing textural ambient!

Super chill collab between two amazing artists! Fabiano do Nascimento's guitar is complimented beautifully by Sam Gendel's saxophone serenade.

Local soulful goodness :)

Anton Corbijn’s documentary, recommended by a co-worker, is a must-see for classic rock fans and anyone who is remotely connected to creating art/graphics. It really reminded me about the radical ways graphics have changed in the last 50 or so years. It tells a part of the story of the design collaboration behind some of the most iconic rock LP covers in the genre. The Hipgnosis Design Studio was helmed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, who are responsible for creating the aesthetic of a generation. Starting their career with Pink Floyd, they went on to produce album covers for a who’s who of classic rock, such as Led Zeppelin and Wings, to name a few. You’ll be surprised. I found myself again and again recognizing an album cover and thinking, “shit-they did that too?”. Corbijn interviews the musicians that worked with Hipgnosis while using Po as the story’s anchor. Although it is focused on anecdotes about this or that cover that are wry and light hearted, the viewer is left sensing a melancholy under it all as Po’s regrets emerge. But the larger story is how these men created images that still signify the zeitgeist of an era. Today CGI and other technology allows the production of almost anything that can be imagined. That certainly was not the case in the 60’s and 70’s. The creative thinking and energy behind making imagination into a different type of reality was massive. There were no images to manipulate or cut and paste. Hipgnosis blazed a cultural trail whose impact is hard to overstate. The documentary does an amazing job of honoring that. Many viewers will remember the album art that Hipgnosis brought forth as the covers they looked at lying on their bed, listening to the album over and over again. The time when getting a new release from a band involved going to the record store, getting the album, and coming home or to a friend’s house and dropping the needle on it for the first time while staring at the sleeve and/or insert and reading the liner notes, lyrics, or just gazing at the cover while listening. Each image became the repository of literally millions of listening memories that are now inseparable from the music itself, giving those audible memories a visual place to live. Hipgnosis carved a new space into graphics whose work was seminal in conveying the ethos of the music and musicians of their time.