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08

Jan

2010

Music-Inspired Art: The Hype Machine Zeitgeist

By Maria Popova

What American girls have to do with beach houses and Scandinavian boys.

Indie music and the visual arts have always had a rich and beautiful intersection — from the best album art out there to the Indie Rock Coloring Book.

This week, the good folks at The Hype Machine are unveiling their annual Music Blog Zeitgeist, where they get 50 talented visual artists to create original pieces depicting the 50 best artists/albums of 2009, based on their blogosphere popularity.

Each day this week, they released 10 pieces of artwork, starting from #50 and ending with today’s #1 — unsurprisingly, Phoenix.

Girls artwork by Zoya Feldman

TV On The Radio artwork by Andrea Foht

Sufjan Stevens artwork by Patrick Moberg

The artists include a ton of our favorites, and some of the albums we were most impressed with this year.

Daft Punk artwork by Lawrence Kwok

The Flaming Lips artwork by Justin Paszul

Wilco artwork by Sergio Serrano

Miike Snow artwork by Blake Suarez and Steph Davlantes

Vampire Weekend artwork by Stephen Olson

Royksopp artwork by Mark Silipo

The Xx artwork by Meredith Gran

Explore all the artwork for more a wonderfully diverse slew of aesthetic styles and creative visions, inspired by the greatest indie talent of our day.

In 2009, we spent more than 240 hours a month bringing you Brain Pickings. That’s over 2,880 hours for the year, over which we could’ve seen 29 feature-length films, listened to 72 music albums or taken 960 bathroom visits. If you found any joy and inspiration here this year, please consider supporting us with a modest donation — it lets us know we’re doing something right.


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This entry was posted on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 9:45 am in art, culture, design, music and was tagged , , , , , .

15 Responses

  1. Music Zeitgeist – @hypem got 50 artists to create original artwork depicting 50 of 2009’s best musicians http://ow.ly/UdlV

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    brainpicker on January 8th, 2010 at 10:47 am

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    LenKendall on January 8th, 2010 at 11:38 am

  4. If you missed it earlier: @hypem got 50 top artists to create original artwork depicting 50 top musicians http://ow.ly/UdlV

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    brainpicker on January 8th, 2010 at 4:56 pm

  5. rt @brainpicker: @hypem got 50 top artists to create original artwork depicting 50 top musicians: http://ow.ly/UdlV

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    amritrichmond on January 8th, 2010 at 6:17 pm

  6. Noice – 50 artists create original artwork depicting 50 top musicians http://ow.ly/UdlV

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    olliepee on January 8th, 2010 at 7:19 pm

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    LYFK on January 8th, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  8. RT @LYFK: RT @brainpicker Music-Inspired Art: The Hype Machine Zeitgeist http://ow.ly/1mNpWF

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    monisaurus on January 9th, 2010 at 1:40 am

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    MusicHelp101 on January 9th, 2010 at 4:22 am

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    natalieykim on January 9th, 2010 at 2:23 pm

  12. Art inspired by the music blogosphere: The Hype Machine’s Music Blog Zeitgeist Top 50 artists of 2009 http://is.gd/5YBYn (HT @brainpicker)

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    sbleby on January 9th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

  13. Music inspired art http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/01/08/hype-machine-zeitgeist/ (via @therealsridevi)

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    wishfulpinking on January 11th, 2010 at 3:27 am

  14. Hype Machine Zeitgeist: 50 Artworks 50 Albums http://is.gd/6j19I

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    drNoor on January 17th, 2010 at 3:40 pm

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