idealism (ideally)

Oh Say Can You Zine | Cars With Stuff On Top by Paul Windle

Our featured zine this month is Cars With Stuff On Top by artist Paul Windle, which was inspired by “comical arrangements found on the hoods and roofs of the many, many automobiles of Los Angeles.”  Printed by Issue-Press in 2015, this zine is a nice 2-color risograph of many of Windle’s graphite / pencil drawings and contains 20 pages of fun and strange arrangements–from horses, hotdogs to wolves–all on top of cars!  You may recognize Paul’s work from the 2016 Vans Park Series in Huntington Beach where he customized several bags using air brush at a booth for Vans! 

Submission by Anna Craig! Illustrator & cartoon lizard woman from Florida who makes pictures & comics. Thank you!!! Twitter: @killapede | Tumblr:  killapede

i did a cute painting for this cute earthbound zine!!! it came out really good in print, glad i can finally show it :3c

Hey. We gotta just come out real quick and just say—without getting overly political or whatever—we’ve been struggling the last week or so with how to navigate the real-world things going on while having things of our own going on—things that we need to share and post about on social media (our roster is touring and depending on us and we want to support them the best we can, of course). With everything else going on, though, it feels trivial and something we’ve been feeling very torn about.

We’ve given a lot of thought to music’s place in a time like this; how it can help console and empower along with ways we can best elevate and support the people whom need it most right now. Earlier this year, you helped us raise $2500 for Planned Parenthood. The issues being faced now are not going away, though, so we feel they require an effort on our part that won’t either. We’ll be starting a tiered label subscription in 2017. Each tier will include ways to contribute to each of the following three important organizations: 

Planned Parenthood

NAACP LDF

The Trevor Project

Additionally, a portion of all proceeds for all pre-orders we take for all albums going forward will contribute equally to each of these organizations. Lastly, we will be making as much of our catalog as we can available for pay-what-you-want download for the rest of 2016 with all proceeds benefiting each organization equally.

From Romano Hänni, Typo Picture Book, 2012; plus Romano Hänni. Typo Picture Book and more … , print gallery Tokyo, 2013; pdf file here

Willi Kunz, Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics, Niggli Verlag, 1998-2000

So here is my inaugural post on this sandwich music hybrid blog! I apologize for the delay in getting it off the ground. I’m currently in the midst of moving and have been doing a lot of couch crashing with friends in the interim so sandwich making opportunities have been scant! That said, though, I really wanted to get this going so I decided to kick things off with an old tried and true favorite: The PB&J — toasted, of course (toasted sourdough bread is prrrrrobably the best thing in the world?). I put Chipotle Kettle chips in it as well to spice things up a bit.

When I was in elementary school my mom would pack me lunches and if it wasn’t a toasted PB&J, I would not eat it in protest because apparently I was a little brat. It’s one of the simplest things you can make, but also one of the tastiest, in my opinion — nothing to write home about, but being as I barely have a mailing address right now, it’ll have to do!

Going back to my elementary school roots here also takes me back to where I grew up: western Massachusetts. Which is also where Northampton’s And The Kids resides — a band that I am completely enamored with at the moment. Immediately, comparisons to more contemporary acts like Mitski, Mothers or Miya Folick come to mind but there’s more going on here. Where this song starts and where this song ends are two wildly different places and it’s a joy to listen to. It’s hard not to smile when the chorus first kicks in and the vocal interplay that builds to the end of the song is fantastic — the rest of the record doesn’t disappoint either. The band has a new song over on Stereogum right now.

Check out the band on:

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Melina Duterte is an incredibly prolific songwriter (we first caught wind of her creative output via Summer Peaks’ charmingly fantastic Saturday) and she continues her hot streak with what — for me, personally — was one of the best indie-pop records of 2015.

So we’re very excited to partner with the Bay Area’s Wave Dweller Records to release this album on cassette! Turn Into is the first album in our new cassette subscription series — you can order a copy of the cassette individually from Wave Dweller or from Topshelf or order a copy as part of the entire subscription series.