Cramp, Slash & Burn: Punk and glam through the lens of rock photographer John Scarpati

Cramp, Slash and Burn: When Punk and Glam Were TwinsJohn Scarpati: Cramp, Slash & Burn: When Punk and Glam Were Twins (6/22/12)

As a photographer, John Scarpati is well known for his work on album covers, each a dynamic and living piece of art. During the 1980s in Los Angeles, he was the music photographer, an anthropologist of the Sunset Strip, his lens documenting the fashion, sounds, and faces in the era of outrageous musical fashion. Now Scarpati has collected those images in a book, Cramp, Slash & Burn: When Punk and Glam Were Twins.

Jherek Bischoff

Video Premiere: Jherek Bischoff’s “Blossom” f. Wordless Music Orchestra

Jherek Bischoff: Composed (Brassland, 6/5/12)

Jherek Bischoff’s solo album Composed (which we called “immaculately arranged orchestral pop”) was recorded by layering and cutting together single musicians recorded in their living rooms, over his own previously recorded parts. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, however, Bischoff was able to organize a concert at New York’s Merkin Hall with a full backing orchestra.

Stones Throw Records Founder Peanut Butter Wolf

Fund this: Stones Throw documentary gets Kickstarted

When Peanut Butter Wolf started Stones Throw Records in 1996, his friend and rap partner Charizma had just been killed. What started as a cathartic way to release the music they recorded together soon grew into something much larger, a record label releasing an eclectic range of music, with artists as diverse as Madlib, Mayer Hawthorne, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez on their rolls.