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The Creators Project

Animal Collective's 'Applesauce' (Live from Terminal 5)

Abby Portner, who dubs herself the “visual person” for Animal Collective, has been creating images to go with their sounds since they started their sonic experiments back in 2000. For the new album cover and tour poster she thought up the concept of an alien radio transmission. Full story

I Heard Big Boi's New Album Before You Because I'm Special

Frankly, the listening party was a little too normal. Robots, aliens, or lasers would have helped. It’s sad to think that it made me want to take a time machine into the past so that I'd feel like I was in the future, you know? Full story

No One Was Sober at a Monday Afternoon Outdoor Aerosmith Show

Earlier this week, quintessential roofer-rock band Aerosmith gave a free concert in Boston in front of the apartment building where the band first lived and jammed in together. Home Depots across New England must have been severely understaffed. Full story

Taji's Mahal - Peace Concert

For this week's Mahal, I got to check out a Peace Concert at the Unitarian Church of All Souls on Lexington Avenue in New York City. During his life, Sri Chinmoy put on over 800 peace concerts, during which he would combine soulful performances of his haunting music with extremel… Full story

Melchior Tersen's Shiny Happy People

These pictures from his new series, 'Communauté,' feature portraits of people at concerts doing things that makes them happy, and that makes us happy. So click through the gallery and get happy. Full story

The Creators Project

Yeasayer + Casey Reas

When Yeasayer approached us about helping them create an immersive experience for their new live show, we enlisted software art pioneer Casey Reas to do something he’s never done before: conceive stage design and visuals. Here's what he came up with. Full story

Live from Iceland's Black Metal Asshole

Magda shows us pictures from her recent trip to Iceland, where smelly kids love to put on corpse paint, get drunk, and make out in broad daylight. Which is all the time, by the way. Full story

Candid Camera

Sanna Charles Captures the Kids

Just because you own a camera and take pictures of your buddies when you’re drunk doesn’t mean you’re a great photographer. Full story