Followers of our newsletter no doubt know that one of the most promising up-and-coming artists in the Twin Cities, Deuce Seven, has been working with us to create some awesome screen prints of his astonishing work. This Thursday at 2pm Central, we’re putting our latest print, “Washout,” on sale. Here are some detail pictures of the final prints. Check out my flickr set for more of the process and the finished print.

Washout by Deuce Seven
Co-published by Art Minion in Northeast Minneapolis.
Separations by Bjorn with Wezz.
Printing by Ben and crew.
24 x 17.5″ (image area 21.5 x 14″)
12 color print on Rising Stonehenge archival 100% cotton paper
$70 + $5 in the US, $10 shipping international

Just wrapped up a poster design for the 4 year anniversary party for the Hifi Club in Calgary. The club is run by our homies Mike and Pete from Smalltown DJs. I had to go all in with the Canadian references on this one. Got the Calgary Tower, the Calgary cowboy hat (we confirmed with Smalltown Pete this morning that there are LOTS of cowboys in Calgary), the maple leaf, Royal Bank of Canada logo (one of the illest bank logos ever), and the HIFI CLUB letters, set in a typeface designed in 1977 for the Canadian transit system.

Exposing one of the screens…

That orange is actually gonna be fluorescent, so put on your lazer goggles for this one, kids!

If you’re cool and were in Minneapolis over the weekend, then you likely made it over to the ALMOST HOMELESS art show at our First Amendment gallery featuring collaborative paintings by local talent Eric Inkala, John Grider, Isaac Arvold, and Keiko Yagishita. The show is still up and there’s still plenty of time to come check it out, so swing on through if you can! Here are a few pics of the artwork…

Here’s a test print hanging up in our studio. See how many different BRLSQ-printed posters you can identify in here…

CLOUT issue 11 is on the news stands everywhere! and if you don’t in an area that is considered “everywhere”, you can go to www.cloutonline.com and order it.

oh right, the reason im posting this is cus i have an interview in this issue that you DO NOT want to miss and i did the cover and a shirt, you know how we do.

TB

We’re finally back in town after a great trip to Austin. Thanks to everyone who came by our booth at Flatstock to pick up posters, t-shirts, records, and sticker packs, or just to say hello. Thanks to Drue and the whole crew at Silhouette for letting us have our Do it To it party at their fine establishment for the third year running. Thanks to all of our friends we saw, new friends we made, and all that. We had a blast. Here are a few memories…

Pork and green chile taco, two bacon egg & cheese tacos from Torchy’s.

Ben and Bjorn hanging up our brand new banner in our booth at Flatstock 20.

Our booth starting to take shape! Obama is checking out Arcade Fire, and King Kong is guarding the side wall.

Dance party at Silhouette to celebrate the release of Do it To it!

Our buddy Bird Peterson on the turntables.

OHAI MIKE PLAY SINGLE LADIEZ!!!!!1

Wes snaps pics of Dave Nada and Tittsworth at Do it To it.

Sixtoo of Megasoid bringing the turbocrunklazerbass madness.

A major moment from DJ Class and Scottie B’s set at the Unruly Records showcase, A Baltimore Love Thing.

Sage Francis reppin’ the new Burlesque sweatshirt.

XXXchange only drinks Burlesque brand Moustachio Beer.

On Sunday night, we went to go check out UK dubstep sensation Rusko. Outside the club, we found the world’s only female dubstep fan!

We’re hitting the road for Austin, TX. Burlesque’s Minneapolis office will be CLOSED for the remainder of this week and the first couple of days next week.

If you send us an email or place an online order during this time, please be patient as it will not get processed until we return home.

Thanks and hope to see you at SXSW!
- BRLSQ crew

Just a few days after we get back from SXSW, we are proud to present the sequel to First Amendment Art’s “Almost Famous” art show from 2007. Isaac Arvold, Eric Inkala, John Grider, Keiko Yagishita return with “Almost Homeless”.

The opening is Saturday, March 28th at 7pm.
First Amendment Arts
1101 Stinson Blvd NE
Minneapolis, MN

6 colors including metallic gold and a split fountain. Printed on French Construction Nightshift Blue. Embossed show edition of 68 with additional copies available via BRLSQ once the event has passed. Please consult INIT Records for further info about the festival. See you there.

Not too long ago, I designed a 12″ label for our friends at Melting Pot Music for their new artist Kutiman, an afro-funk musician from Tel Aviv, Israel who plays all the instruments on his songs. The design was a two color typography workout and turned out about like this:

Soon after, Melting Pot asked me to design Kutiman’s full length album cover artwork. I loved all of the songs I’d heard from him so far and was really excited to get to work on it. It was a much more involved project:

If you haven’t heard Kutiman’s music, it’s more than worth a listen over at the Melting Pot website. We have copies for sale at our online store.

So why am I bringing up an album cover I designed like two years ago? Well, Kutiman has just popped up and shared his latest project with the world wide webosphere. Rather than releasing an album on which he’s played every instrument, he’s released a series of videos on which he’s playing … everyone else’s instruments.

The project, entitled Thru You, is a series of funk songs made up from Youtube clips of people singing, playing drums, twiddling knobs on synthesizers, clapping their hands, playing trombones, cymbals, and hand drums. Kutiman takes his samples from every type of musician imaginable -- old, young, white, black, male, female, amateur, virtuoso, even people using Youtube to sell their instruments on eBay, and blends them all together to make fully cohesive and mindblowingly on-point and enjoyable songs. You really have to see it to believe it. Here are a few favorites:

The Mother of All Funk Chords:

Just a Lady:

i have a few things in this show, some watercolor/screen prints as well as 2 full screen prints that you may have seen in a post below…