The New New Pornographers

The New Pornographers are, hands down, one of my favorite bands. So, imagine my joy when the power-pop super group announced its upcoming North American tour, which includes a stop at the beautiful Fox Theater in Oakland. Yay!!! The tour is in support of the group's fifth album, Together, which is slated for release May 4. Can I get another 'yay'"?

Art Happens :: Aesthetic Apparatus

There was a time when the walls of my bedroom were covered in gig posters - Sonic Youth, The Cure, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pavement, Elliott Smith - they were all there. At some point I decided to take them all down and replace them with framed works of art. Then I stumbled upon Aesthetic Apparatus, the brainchild of Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski. Ibarra and Byzewski combined their passions for music and screen-printing, creating limited runs of concert posters. When I saw the poster for the New Pornographers (one of my favorite bands), I had to own it. It's now hanging on my wall - framed, of course.