Bruise Cruise Memories
The Bruise Cruise was a social experiment. Would punk kids come on a Jamaican cruise to see garage bands like Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls, and the Black Lips, even if technically they weren’t allowed to bring drugs? No one knew, but the collaborators decided to try it out. (More …)
Ty Segall
Ty Segall’s newest full-length record Melted [Goner, 2010] has on its cover a blondish, shaggy, fanged face in a lipless grin on an orange background. The skull is uneven and it’s hard to tell if the image is a photograph or a painting. The seventh track is called “Imaginary Person” and even though there is also a song called “Melted” I have decided that “Imaginary Person” must be the actual title track because there is no way that this face can not be what you absorb when you first view this cover (the cover does not have the title printed on it). I have thought more about this cover than I have about any record cover in recent memory.
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