John Vanderslice Archives

Best Albums: Sandrider, Ghost, Mark Orton, Mick Turner, Audiences

Sandrider: Good to Die
Ghost: If You Have Ghost EP
Mark Orton: Nebraska soundtrack
Mick Turner: Don’t Tell the Driver
Audiences: Roam

12 awesome album covers from June 2013

Most of the best album art of June 2013 has one thing in common: loads of color.

Fund This: Short film inspired by The Shining, Dexter, Repulsion, scored by Christina Vantzou

There are films and directors whose influence cannot be overstated. Stanley Kubrick and The Shining, subjects of a recent documentary, are two of these. Roman Polanski, criminal or not, is another. These, among others, are some of the works that influenced artists Christina Vantzou and Kristina Ianatchkova regarding their upcoming short film Going Backwards to Recover That Which Was Left Behind.

Help John Vanderslice release two new albums, including an entire David Bowie disc

Over at Kickstarter, singer-songwriter John Vanderslice has been taking pre-orders and offering a crazy amount of special packages in anticipation of two new self-released albums — Dagger Beach (full of originals, again with Minna Choi’s Magik*Magik Orchestra) and a start-to-finish cover treatment of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs.

Concert Photos: John Vanderslice / Damien Jurado @ Lincoln Hall (Chicago, IL)

The newest entry into John Vanderslice‘s deep and undeniably remarkable catalog is White Wilderness, and it’s a record like no other he’s made before. It comprises nine new songs captured live over three days in a unique collaboration with the Magik*Magik Orchestra, a collective of classically trained musicians in the Bay Area led by artistic director Minna Choi. Images below are from Vanderslice’s recent show with Damien Jurado at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. Photography by Jon Shaft.

John Vanderslice with The Magik*Magik Orchestra: A “Wild” Analog Opus

Singer/songwriter John Vanderslice teams with The Magik*Magik Orchestra for a honest, lush album of pop rock driven by cinematic orchestration, recorded on tape in Vanderslice’s own studio, Tiny Telephone.