In today’s newsletter, we accidentally said Aaron Horkey’s new Eryops Rising print will go on sale this Thursday July 1st. The correct date is Thursday July 2nd!
Thursday July 2 at 2:00pm Central time.
8 colors including metallic gold / edition of 100 / 8 x 11.25″
New York New York! I’m gonna be up in your giant of a city later this week. Catch me DJing Thursday night at Santo’s Party House for the Cubic Zirconia record release party. I designed the group’s “Fuck Work” 12-inch single cover and also this here gig poster for the event. Screenprinted posters will be on hand at the show and also available on our online store after the 2nd.
Three color print on French Steel Blue paper… printed by Bennie of course. Get a load of that lineup. Where else in one single night at one single venue can you hear the ghetto tech and booty jams of DJ Assault, the early ’80s cosmic boogie jams of Dâm-Funk, the electronic dance rock of Head Automatica, the acid house disco of Cubic Zirconia, and whatever the hell I end up spinning? What should I play?
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Check out our dude Chris Devlin rockin’ a Burlesque moustache sticker as he DJs for Burlesque-approved rappstress Amanda Blank in this quickie video shoot for MTVu! DJ Ronnie Darko can be seen wearing SleepShorts™.
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You can pick up Moustache Bandanas and the School’s Out Forver poster for our Santigold / Amanda Blank afterparty in our online store!
This Friday night myself and a couple of other local DJs/good peoples are throwing a dance party at Club Jäger in Minneapolis. In an effort to add to the good times, we are giving away a limited number of mix cd’s and t-shirts for FREE, so get there early to get your hands on some free thangs. You can find more info about the night on our blog. Big thanks to the ever impressive Adam Garcia of The Pressure for designing the flyer/logo for us. Don’t forget to download Espada’s half of the mix here. See you Friday!
Friday June 19th
Club Jäger
923 Washington Ave N.
10pm
FREE
Today we’re putting our new poster for Bonnaroo 2009 up on our online store.
Designing for Bonnaroo is always an interesting challenge in that there are dozens upon dozens of band names to include. This makes prominently featuring any of the artists difficult, so, having designed three other Bonnaroo posters, we usually push the band names off to the side or the bottom and let some kind of type or imagery take center stage. This year I wanted to try to make the bands jump out and be the stars of the poster and came up with the idea to represent each group with an illustrated icon. Some of them are literal (David Byrne’s white jacket), some are inside jokes that only fans of the band will know (Phish’s vacuum cleaner), some are references to song titles (Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Gold Lion”), and others just came to mind when thinking about the artist (an anvil for the American musical workhorse Bruce Springsteen… THE BOSS).
For visual inspiration, I was looking at a lot of scuzzed-out and worn-down illustrations like the ones found in those 1970’s magazine ads for selling greeting cards and getting hovercrafts and ham radios. Also, check out these bizarro Mexican dust bags.
Here is the rough sketch I submitted to the folks at the festival to show them the direction I was planning to take:
Here are some detail shots of the printed poster. Bennie did a top notch job making sure all the roughed-up nooks and crannies came out nice and scuzzy. Note the metallic purple ink!
The poster goes on sale at 2pm Central time on the Burlesque online store. Don’t miss out!
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8 colors on French Whitewash. Edition of 100/10APs/10PPs. Image also to be used for an upcoming Broadrick/Broder collaborative 7″ record issued via Hidden Hive.
Onsale information will be released through the Burlesque mailing list, so make sure you’ve subscribed if you want to stay on top of it!
What the heck’s going on around our office today?
I’m wrapping up the poster and t-shirt design for Rock the Garden, an outdoor concert in the Walker Art Center’s sculpture garden featuring The Decemberists, Yeasayer, Calexico, and local do-gooders Solid Gold.
Wes is eating Big League Chew.
Mike Cina strolled down the hall to say hello. The pizza place down the street doesn’t like delivering to our building, so we started tipping the drivers with Dre Day sticker packs to make it more appealing. Whenever Cina calls to order pizza, they ask “Are you with Burlesque?” so he just tells them “Yes.”
Welcome to the team.
Hey, here’s the new Gig Posters book!!! Come celebrate the release with us this weekend!
WHERE: Magers & Quinn Booksellers (3038 Hennepin Ave S, Uptown Minneapolis)
WHEN: Sunday June 14, 6-9pm
WHAT: Pick up a copy of the new book as well as posters and other goodies from Burlesque, Amy Jo, Aesthetic Apparatus, and more!
WUT? It’s free, stoopid!
ALSO: Check out this great writeup of the book and feature on Minneapolis’ uneffwitable community of screenprinted poster artists.
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Are you ready to see an EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at a new Aaron Horkey art print? Are ya? Wes is working on the color separations for this beast and assembled this half sketch / half color mockup to share on our blog.
Aaron originally created this artwork for an awesome collaborative 7″ between Jesu and our dear friends Fog. Part of Hidden Hive’s Kissing Kin split vinyl series, the two artists started working on songs, then passed them off for the other to finish. Check out the site for more info on the record and note that Fog’s contribution will be released under a different artist name for this project.
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ill try keep this short and to the point, altho there are a few points so ill just do my best…
Grace From Falling is a project that myself and Shingo (the eyes and ears of BRLSQ in Japan) have started as a vehicle to make handfuls of odd ideas into actual physical objects that you can buy and love for the rest of your life! sound good? yup, you are right, it IS good.
first thing out the gates is this Poster i designed for our friend Fuko who because of her modeling has become a bit of an icon in Japan and soon to be the world.
if you already get the BRLSQ news letter (if not, see above and get you some), you know all the details, but just to be safe, here’s everything you need to know…
Going on sale this weekend ONLY IN JAPAN is Todd Bratrud’s art print commissioned for Japanese model and mega-celebrity FUKO. The first in Grace From Falling’s “Idol x Art” project, the posters were printed here at Burlesque and signed both by Bratrud and by Fuko herself.
5 color print on French Parchtone Relic Gold paper.
63 x 45.8cm
¥6,800 + ¥840 shipping in Japan (¥2,500 international)
For purchase information, visit gracefromfalling.com
