Album covers, back from the dead

I've written before about the album art of Joy Division (including the sandpaper album cover meant to destroy other album covers)

Just as artist’s books are surviving in the underground, there are artists still pushing the boundaries of album art. These are some very cool examples: one set is permanently sealed within its sleeve and has remnants of the artist’s own blood.  Another has human ashes (as described on the sleeve) that are crushed and painted onto the playing surface of the record.

Talk about putting yourself into your music.

Pictures and info HERE

Sound HERE

A Nowadays Passion Play

For those of you who are not aware, the city of Manchester, England decided to take a page from the playbook of tradition by staging a passion play--a theatrical performance of the last days of the life of Jesus. But this one was decidedly site- and sound-specific, featuring Mancunians covering well-known British bands.

Animated Monk

From Radiolab

If you listen long enough, like a few seconds, you get to the pooping duck.

More fistulas than you can shake a fist at

A great listen: Radiolab's episode called GUTS.

The best story is a historical one about a doctor that essentially kept experimenting on a guy who had a hole in his stomach. But it sounds way more interesting when they tell it.