Music-Inspired Art: The Hype Machine Zeitgeist
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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
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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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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