drawings from mister lister > EastBayExpress (28)
Illustrations from the Award-Winning 'Press Play' column.
2006-2007
2006-2007
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me first gets the finger
Three Strikes, You're In!
Fee for 25 minutes of punk music: $20,000. Having 32,000 people boo your band: Priceless.By David Downs
Article Published Sep 13, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-09-13/music/pressplay.html
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Sufjan, the Technicolor Dreamboat
Sufjan Stevens and the Pacific Mozart Ensemble at Zellerbach set a world record for earnestness.
By David Downs
Article Published Oct 18, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-10-18/music/pressplay.html
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the uncommon alchemy of the Mars Volta
Full Metal Alchemist
Heretic rockers the Mars Volta play a secret show for America's floppy-mopped future.
By David Downs
Article Published Aug 23, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-08-23/music/pressplay.html
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Film of Honeycut
Honeycut,keyboards and s**t, ya know?
They played music, i drew pictures.
David Downs wrote a story.
Published in the East Bay Express.
dj shadow vs. the great outdoors
Taking Outsider Outdoors
A campfire focus group of Joe Sixpacks balks at DJ Shadow's latest release.
By David Downs
Article Published Sep 6, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-09-06/music/pressplay.html
Graham Reynolds
Sure A Scanner Darkly Looked Crazy
But Lets Not Forget It Sounded Crazy Too.
By David Downs
Article Published Sep 6, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-09-06/music/pressplay.html
BumTrain
There's More to BlueGrass than Train-Hopping, Fool!
Thank goodness you made the decision not to include the goat, you bigot. Classy.
By David Downs
HD Mothera
David Downs wrote a story about HD radio and its unimportance as well as the inability of the salesman at bestbuy to present him with a working unit at the store.
Also i made a print out of this included in the 2007 T-shirt show @ Space Gallery
amoeba records survives the death of physical media
What Evolves, Survives
Tower Records falls while Amoeba absorbs the music-ripper demographic.
By David Downs
Article Published Aug 30, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-08-30/music/pressplay.html
Robot From The Future
Kool Keith CD Scam Exposed
Press Play sniffs out the year's greatest music industry ruse.
By David Downs
Article Published Sep 27, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-09-27/music/pressplay.html
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Blog Graphics
I played with focus.
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Dashed Hoop Dreams
Raw brains beat cocky experience in the NBA 2K7 match-up of Dan the Automator vs. Press Play.
By David Downs
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-10-25/music/pressplay.html
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Rock Stars of the Caribbean
The Rolling Stones convert the Oakland Coliseum to a lewd echo of Disneyland.
David Downs rants.
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Legally Blonde the Musical
and why you won't like it if you are not a 13 year old girl. Also disliked was this illustation, which the paper felt illustrated the little dog humping the world.
David Downs reports.
Ipecac
Ipecac Records Literally Vomits Royalties Checks All Over Their Artists
East Bay represent.
David Downs heaps praise to cottage industry giants.
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Halou was, if i Recall Correctly, Crazy Music.
I was more excited by the female soloist cellist that opened up for them.
Thanks for covering the drinks, David Downs.
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Only Marginally About Bums Selling their Music on the Internet.
And yet, bum drawing it is.
By David Downs
Texas and Emo!
South By SouthWest
Never been. Yo, publications, send me out there, you know, so i can draw it.
David Downs, however, went, and i illustrated his coverage with a neck tattoo.
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Native Guns
The name of the band, the subject of the article by David Downs
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A Former Merry Prankster Has a New Puppet Band.
Zoopy is from outer space.
David Downs wrote an artice about it.
Flav-R-Flav!
Public Enemy 2.0Chuck D's stunning live show with Flavor Flav is just another element of his ever-growing portfolio.By David DownsDec 27, 2006ceucolor.jpg
From Broke as F*** in Brazil to National Distrobution in the U.S.
I wonder if Ceu has lots of money now. And, Vinyl??? What was I thinking?
Article by David Downs.
The Strokes? In Davis? Mooooooo.
The Strokes, in Davis? Moooooo.
Uh, Davis, CA. Maybe you haven't heard of it.
By David Downs
Article Published Sep 6, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-09-06/music/pressplay.html
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Smooth Criminal Fingers
Guitar tablature sites die copyright deaths as the intellectual-property battle rages in Washington.
David Downs reports.
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Pure Sonic TerrorismThe new book This Is Your Brain on Music meets This Is Your Brain While Waiting 47 Hours to Buy a PlayStation 3.By David DownsNov 29, 2006beer for america
Budget Rock the Non-Vote
Wash down election-day ipecac with some beer-drenched garage rock.
By David DownsNov 1, 2006
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-11-01/music/pressplay.html
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Big Awesome Porn Party Prevented on Former Millitary Base.
Also home to a small but fun skatepark.
Which is not touched upon in this article by David Downs. However, he does present a good case for turning alameda into Pinnochio's Fantasy Island (or whatever it's called... where the little boys all turned into donkeys, right?)