As mentioned before, I've done a ton of work for Kearny, NJ's own Killing Horse Records, including numerous album covers for the great TV Sound. Here's their latest release, another hooky slab of Mod-influenced rockers, an EP called POP PERSECUTION.
Here's the final art (who can name the record label on which the one below is based?) and some prospective T-Shirt logo designs. You can listen to the record here, or order the good ol' hard copy on compact disc here.
In addition to doing the design on Secret Country's Buckle Up!, I also took the photo. Which was fun! Also pictured are alternate logo design and at the bottom is the T-Shirt design for this record.
Sadly appears that this fun slab of rock is now out of print. But find it!
I've been proud to do a bunch of work for one of my favorite local bands, TV Sound, mostly this cover to their 2013 album, Amber Glass High, featuring legendary Kearny NJ man-about-town, Tony Baloney (or is that Balogna?) on the cover.
I worked closely with Bill ("Beel") Hamilton on the cover for his band, Nipsey's 2013 release, As Seen on TV.
I designed and illustrated the 2012 WFMU Benefit bonus CD for Therese Mahler, We Are Your Friends: A Soundtrack for First Contact and Interplanetary Diplomacy.
A handful of covers for CD compilations I made for myself. This is a thing I really do not do that much anymore. But never say never.
My criteria for redoing a compact disc cover is more stringent than my DVD / Blu-ray makeovers. To replace a CD cover in my collection, the artwork has to be completely atrocious (see the Jazz CD Covers Redux post elsewhere on this site). More often what will happen is I will burn a copy of an out-of-print disc and sell it (doesn't happen much these days, of course), or I'll whittle down a box set to one manageable disc. You might presume that this behavior is now anachronistic in our post-hard media world, but I cling to the notion of actually owning my media, so this practice, while not as common as it once was, still continues.
I've posted these pieces at larger than final size, with the crop marks visible, so you have to make that "movie director's box" with your hands to see what they look like cropped and trimmed.
Also, note that these covers are designed for "slimline" compact disc cases, the kind most typically used for import CD singles. As with my DVD Redux covers, part of the reasoning is to reduce the amount of shelf space this hard media takes. I've spent a lot of money on those damn cases.
In the summer of 1996, I began working at Warner Bros. Records as the East Coast Alternative Marketing Regional out of the New York offices at Rockefeller Plaza. The thrust of the job was to build and maintain a base for developing artists using non-traditional marketing efforts. Basically, we were an in-house street team that dealt directly with independent music retailers and other lifestyle accounts (cafes, bars, bookstores, etc.) that would play music we might send them. It was a great job, and part of the last gasp of an era when major record labels still allowed artists the time to develop and find and audience. When the department was eliminated in 1998, I stayed on at the label in a new position for a half a year before finally packing it in and leaving the music industry.
As part of my Altmktg job, I designed flyers and covers for promotional CDs, wrote ad copy, and crafted mailers, a sampling of which is below. Please note that the typo in the Muffs copy was not my fault, and that none of the contact information in the letter at the bottom still exists! Hell, what's left of the NY branch of the company doesn't even work in that building anymore!
