Vinyl enthusiasts should take a look at the pretty nice Vinyl Art creations by Daniel Edlen.

Creating portraits of musicians on their original record albums, Daniel honors the music we all now listen to mostly on CD or MP3. He uses white acrylic to bring the face out of the shadows of the grooves and capture the spirit of the subject. Daniel’s Vinyl Art gives people a way to say, “This is my music, my culture.”

In addition too his online gallery, his work can also be check at Vinyl Art blog and his YouTube channel. (via BB-Blog)

60’s & 70’s Asian Pop Record Covers Photo Gallery with tons of covers uploaded by David Greenfield. This gallery contains scans of my ever-growing collection of rare 60’s and 70’s Asian pop singles. I mainly collect Singaporean titles, but I also have records from Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand. Even with the cultural differences, many of those covers remind me French Yé-yé albums from 1960’s.
More collections of album covers: Album Cover Art Collection of Links.

Doug Savage is known for his humorous cartoons Savage Chickens drawn on post-its. The Savage Chickens is daily cartoon with an acid humour, and for your enjoyment has a feed available. And I must say that just now I’ve got a decent attitude to subscribe to it (yes, I know, I should do it before).

The sometimes-slow-creature-here noticed this neat cartoon due to Doug Savage had won the Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers music video contest. The stop-motion video was made to the song “Phantom Mountain”. The contest rules were simple: made a videoclip for any of their songs and send it until August 31th. He tells about his video experience on the page Behind the Scenes. Some of the Phantom Mountain Fun Facts:

There are about 500 sticky notes in the video, including a butterfly and 4 or 5 stunt butterflies.
There are over 1500 photos in the video. I used a digital camera on a tripod, which I had to sort of crouch over. My back was killing me!

I drew so many cartoons that I actually developed a callus on the inside of my left thumb from drawing too much. Towards the end, I had to get up and shake out my arm every few minutes.
The old clock radio on the table used to belong to my great-grandmother.

And finally, the winner music video bellow (3 min). Great work.(via Koreus)

The parents of Zoya Eydelman keep their collection of 1970’s and 1980’s Russian Records and she kindly decided to share those treasures through her Flickr. The ’70s & ’80s Russian Record Covers photoset contains 89 pictures of diverse kind of covers. The covers for children albums have the prettiest covers, in my humble opinion of course The true is I’m familiar with most of those images, because I’ve been watching to many old Russian cartoons in the last months. I’m not able to resist to something with a illustration of Cheburashka or Crocodile Gena. (via swissmiss)
Read also Album Cover Art Collection of Links with several links and always updated. Enjoy also to watch Cheburashka and Krokodil Gena at Videos with Bibi.

To release the album Dylan: His Greatest Hits, a brilliant marketing idea was created: making a site with a Dylan message generator. You can go to the site and create a video message in up to “ten cards” to share with anyone you want. Designed by Ten4 Design, the generator uses the classic Bob Dylan video clip for the song “Subterranean Homesick Blues“, in which one he appears holding up cue cards for the audience, with selected words and phrases from the lyrics. The video is available to watch on the site too. (via Yahoo! Picks)
Update: there is now a Facebook app. I tested it on my Facebook profile and it works fine.

Jamaican Label Art . is a website for those people who are obsessed with Caribbean music and the artwork and design of the labels on the vinyl reproductions of that music. With 322 pages, over 1603 label scans and 954 details, the site was conceived by Mike Murphy and Ian Causer, friends who met through a love of Caribbean music in the Summer of 2004. (via Coudal Partners)

I’m not sure why I will post this. The excuse that I gave to myself was that I needed to exorcise the demons of my childhood, including the 1980’s Japanese TV shows with superheroes doing funny choreographies, and Ultraman is a very good example.
Part one: download and listening at least three times Ultraman 80 soundtrack to get in the mood. (via Bubblegum Fink) Part two: watch three episodes of Ultraman 80. Just watch, because they are in Japanese. Or try the 16 episodes in Chinese. Part three: explore the Ultraman fan sites UltraColony, The Ultra[man] FAQ and Ultraman Toys. Part four: post about it. I will be fine after all – or very bad.

More Ultraman: Ultraman: Singing and Dancing and International Superheroes.

I think that this is for Pingu’s fans: Eskimo Disco 7-11 Featuring Pingu. It’s not a pingu cartoon, but a musical video by the English electronic group Eskimo Disco, starred by Pingu. If you have no idea of who is Pingu, and loves claymation, try a search at your favourite video site, or start with this one.

100 Awesome Music Videos is a neat list from Pitchfork, that has other cool music lists. The list brings us videoclips from 80’s, 90’s and new productions, with classics of A-ha, Cindy Lauper, Bronski Beat, David Lee Roth, Eurythmics, Art of Noise, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Sigue Sigue Sputnick, Smiths, Talking Heads, Kate Bush and Madonna – what is a list of awesome music videos without Madonna?
However, for me that list have big mistakes. What M.I.A. “singing” Galang is doing there? And Lionel Richie with “Hello”? That’s very kitsch not awesome. Where is Pet Shop Boys? Not even “Domino Dancing”? And Queen? Maybe I missed something, but I think that “I Want to Break Free” deserve to be on it. Anyway, stay with another classic “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister.

Odd Music is home to unique, odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources. Explore their gallery with pictures, descriptions and sound clips of those weird instruments.Thanks to that site I discovered a better use for beer, at least the bootles. (via ladrilio)