Boston band Mystery Roar recently had their record release party at Great Scott. With the debut of their self-titled album they’ve also created a music video for their first single “Mayhem”.
Check out the disco grooves (and a whole lot of frontman Nathanael Allen Bluhm’s face) above. Also digging “NYC Balloon” which you can download for free at Welikeit.indie.
Illustrator and artist Pat Falco recently posted his series of “Craigslist Portraits” online for the world to see. Crawling through endless ads, Pat took the best phrases and memorialized them with imagery. The series shows us the strange, funny, sad (mostly funny) things people are willing to write with anonymity of the internet.
Mr. Falco took the time to talk to DPM and answer 5 questions about his series.
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1) Where did the idea for this series come from?
I was just browsing around Craigslist one day, and reading all the personal ads. I was really intrigued by the combination of funny, sad, and disgusting things people would say. It got me thinking about who was saying these things, and it kind of took off from there.
2) What was the process in picking out which posts to elaborate on?
I made a large document of quotes and ads that stood out to me—It ended up being like 15 pages. I narrowed it down to the quotes that stood out to me the most, and the people I thought would be the most interesting to draw.
3) How did you decide what the now non-anonymous faces would look like?
Once I had the quotes I just drew what I thought the person saying them would look like.
4) Have you ever posted a Craigslist personal ad?
I have never posted a Craigslist personal ad, and after reading most of them I think I’m okay with just meeting people in real life.
5) Any plans for another series of portraits?
Nothing planned. I’ve been doing some stuff with dictators, but I think I’ll be coming back to Craigslist soon.
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Check out some of our favorite’s from Pat’s Craigslist series after the jump. You can view the whole series at his blog, and view more of his work at his website.
Scream Team members The Blue Pages recently released their synth-pop EP “Night Hawke”. Right now you can download “Lil Mama” for free, and also get “Slow Down” in exchange for 1 tweet. (“Lil Mama” is featured in our Season 3 photoshoot video.) Check out their Purevolume page for all the info + the entire new EP.
The boys perform live tomorrow at Throwed at the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, MA.
Our hearts are broken.
After 4 years of gathering, Hearthrob is coming to an end tonight. Every other Tuesday (and sometimes more) The Middlesex Lounge gave way to a no-crap dance night for self-proclaimed “whores, junkies, and freaks” of the night.
Revisit more blacked out memories at Zanazzi, courtesy of Gillian Bowling.
Following his “death” last week, co-founder and resident <3THROB DJ RedFoxx will be reborn in NYC. With this departure could very well lead to the departure of the long-running dance night. Billed as THE END, it will definitely be the end of an era without the red-haired (Watch out for M.I.A. in your immigration.) popping up like the Caped Crusader of Boston.
The farewell starts at 9. NO COVER!
Add your memories + more to the memorial on the Facebook event page.
This video is so weird, but yet beautiful? It’s part Sleepaway Camp part High Tension set to a music video. Directed by Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric) he also directed this Major Lazer video.
You can download the song at gorillavsbear.net.
While the weather could be snowing tomorrow, right now the weather is looking nice and warm in Boston. Not having to trek through any hail or rain, I made it out this week to see The Sea Captains at T.T. The Bear’s Place.
More on the “party” side than “massacre” for DPM, they’re perfect to wind into summer. Surprisingly catchy, energetic pop-rock (reminiscent of Weezer, Death Cab for Cutie and OK Go) from our neighbors in Portsmouth, NH, you can throw it on at any summer cook-out.
Check out some songs from their debut CD below—In which I recommend “Lonely All The Time” and “Come On, Sugar”.
-Alex
I’m usually one to defend pop music, but the only thing I can say in a positive light about Ke$ha’s SNL performances is that she is on TV making bank, and I am sitting on a front a laptop writing about it for no $$$. So good for her.
Once people start realizing she is just some looney trying way too hard, she’ll be dead to the world. Don’t try to be weird when your music is teen-dance-pop. If you’re gonna be weird and avant-garde, at least believe in it. Maybe if you weren’t singing about getting crunk at a house party I’d believe it too. The sad thing is, my little art-school heart goes out to the person behind some of the visuals and costumes, but they don’t belong near Ke$ha or her songs.
-Alex
PS-Ke$ha, these kids did better with your song than you.
If you don’t know about Johnny Cupcakes just read about his story here. He’s currently on a cross-country trip stopping at boutiques and doing signings and selling limited product.
I had to post this one. Little dogs will stop me in my tracks any day. The shop he stops at (WISH) is a cool store too—I’ve actually been to Atlanta to see it before. The downstairs where the shoes are displayed feels very secret underground library.
Johnny is lookin all pro-fresh with his cap and glasses.
He seems to be putting out a new video for every city stop he makes. The amount of people that showed up for the NYC stop is insane. I’ve seen these lines down Newbury St in Boston. Ish iz crazy!
