The Bad Mitten Orchestre is releasing their new album at the WOW Hall (Eugene, OR) on Saturday, if you live in Portland or Eugene or any point inbetween - you should go! I was lucky enough to do the art for the new album by this very talented group of musicians. So... go support them! They deserve it.
My buddy Conrad Marshall (aka Ndevu Nrefu) is the soundclouder of the day on soundcloud.com. His music is super original and worth checking out. I listen to his stuff pretty often while I'm up late at night drawing, it has a really comfortably spooky atmosphere that can easily take over an apartment or modest shack with its melodic apparitions - check it out for yourself.
My friend Conrad is the mysterious mammal behind the music of Ndevu Nrefu, and such a nice young lad is he that he recorded a song in my honor! Now, the song is titled "Dirty James", which may imply that I have less than average hygiene, but I still like the attention. That being said, I have been listening to a lot of Old Dirty Bastard lately, and I am after all: "the Osiris of this $#it, mother%@#%ers"... When I received the song from Conrad I put a bunch of his music on my mp3 thangy and listened to it while I drew him a picture and nursed a cup of coffee at Cafe Mediterraneum in Berkeley (they spell cafe with two f's but I refuse because it looks stuppidd). This art may look like the cover to a J.R.R. Tolkien themed indie-electro pop album, but Ndevu Nrefu's originality escapes even my oddest of invented sub-genres. Download the album for free right here and hear for yourself.
If you've got a band, brand, shop, business, winery, brewery, or cereal factory in need of cartoon spokes-animals / logos / etc., let me draw that stuff for you! Get in touch with me here: JamesTheStanton (at) yahoo (dot) com
