Ten absurdly beautiful plinth designs. The physical experience of playing vinyl helps listeners rationalize elaborate customizations, from record shelves to speaker stands. One of the most gratifying, and […]
Art & Design
Classic advertisements and illustrations from the cassette age. When Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape, died in March, a host of stories celebrated the life of a […]
Capturing the 70’s hi-fidelity craze in illustrations. If you were lucky enough to be a music freak who could also illustrate, in the 1960s and ‘70s you could […]
Exploring the vast catalog of jazz records pressed in Japan with a selection of our favorite OBI’s. If you have records in your collection with an OBI, you […]
Cats don’t seem to care much for music, but musicians certainly care about cats. Cats. They’re not only beloved fixtures of domesticity, but also have a rich history […]
For the next piece in our Art & Design series, we’ve decided to take a slightly different approach. Instead of focusing on a particular designer, artist or style, […]
Archival scans of the rare sci-fi graphic novel included with Haruomi Hosono’s Making of Non-Standard Music. Included with the complete package of Haruomi Hosono’s Making of Non-Standard Music […]
Next up in our Art & Design: In Focus series, Tana Yonas takes a look into the plants behind your favorite album covers. There is something endlessly fascinating […]
Larger-than-life dub heroes. For our second Art & Design: In Focus feature, ISC staff Phil Cho traces the origins behind the iconic comic book style album cover in […]
It’s been almost two decades since Sun Ra, the enigmatic artist who reported Saturn as his birthplace, left our planet and yet – the cosmic jazz pioneer’s Afrofuturist […]
