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People We Admire – James Jean

Posted by Dillon St. Jean On April - 2 - 2010

Taking a look at James Jean today, one of my favorite artists.  He has done the covers to Fables and the first issue of The Umbrella Academy.  He has done posters, prints, and advertisements.  He’s done covers to novels and all sorts of paintings.  God, he just does such amazing, surreal works of art.  In his work you can identify such a fluid understanding of how things flow and how things interact.  Graceful human figures and well balanced placement of all elements works quite well in his work.  So instead of spending too much time trying to describe his colorful masterpieces, I think I’ll just show you some of them.

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The Blackest of the Blackest Night

Posted by Dillon St. Jean On April - 2 - 2010

It’s over.  The Blackest Night has come to a conclusion.  Therefore, it is important that we go over all the elements of this story just so we have proper preparation before going into The Brightest Day.

The story of the Blackest Night, besides having had to contend early on with comments by Alan Moore about how they were just “rehashing” his old work, has received a lot of feedback that has been both positive and negative.  The ending, which we’ll get to in a little bit, was pretty much predicted by the majority of readers, and some have commented that all the story is doing is serving as another reboot to things.  I don’t necessarily feel the same.  There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get going.  Spoilers ahoy.

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Bonobo – Black Sands

Posted by Jamie Concepcion On April - 2 - 2010

Black Sands is Bonobo’s fourth album and also his fourth on electronic label Ninja Tune, a great label that you should check out if you haven’t heard of it. Some would call this type of music trip-hop, instrumental hip-hop, or even jazzy downtempo. However you want to classify it, it deserves your attention. Black Sands was released on Ninja Tune March 23rd.

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The Morning Benders – Big Echo

Posted by Liz Dean On April - 2 - 2010

Big Echo is  the second album and  Rough Trade debut from the California-based The Morning Benders. The album was recorded in San Francisco and mixed in Brooklyn, and was co-produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor.

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Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be

Posted by Jamie Concepcion On April - 1 - 2010

I Will Be is Dum Dum Girls first full-length album. It’s a fairly lo-fi non-studio recording, but you can tell that they wanted it that way. It was released on Sub Pop March 30th.

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