Cats Are Grey

The Cats Are Grey Art Show! 24 prints on display at NY music and cupcake venue Cake Shop.

The Cats Are Grey Art Show

Cake Shop

152 Ludlow Street

NY, NY 10002

Sept. 2 - Oct. 14

In 2008, cartoonist and music fan Jacob Steingroot noticed that while many bloggers were writing about the music they loved, very few were drawing the music they loved. Steingroot set out to fill that void with the drawings on his blog “Cats Are Grey.”

Currently on display at Cake Shop are 24 of Steingroot’s band portraits, each one capturing the emotional experience of the live show it’s based on in a way that words never could.

Steingroot depicts the musicians as anthropomorphic cartoon animals, placing them in fantastic landscapes based on movies, comic books, video games, memories and, sometimes, reality.

For more information contact Jacob Steingroot at jacob@zodmagazine.com or visit catsaregrey.com.

Them: Youth are an ethereal synth-pop band from the UK. Above is the official cover art for the remixes of their song “Toothache” (or as official as art can be in this age of electrophemera).

THEM YOUTH – TOOTHACHE (LUNG REMIX)

THEM: YOUTH - TOOTHACHE (STARDONE MIDNIGHT VERSION)

Courtesy of Them:Youth and the good people at Shrimp Sauce - [watch]

My losing entry in Foals UK Poster Contest.

Songs:

Spanish Sahara from Total Life Forever

Spanish Sahara (Sonar) from Sketches for Total Life Forever

Above is a flier for the annual Halloween Bingo Fundraiser held by Books Through Bars, an organization that  sends thousands of books to prisoners across the nation each year. 

The galore of prizes includes graphic novels, meals, tattoos and other fun things. And it’s all for a good cause. Check it out. Friday October 22nd at ABC No Rio.

Below are some songs (loosely) thematically related to the flier.

Mummy Beach from Lavalogy by Hot Lava

Over At The Frankenstein Place from The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack

Night Creature from At Rear House by Woods

Wolf Like Me from Live At Amoeba Music by TV on the Radio

The Thermals at Brooklyn Bowl

April 20th, 2010

This photo-realistic depiction of The Thermals is inspired by their show at Brooklyn Bowl last April. They are currently touring behind their new record Personal Life with a show at Irving Plaza tomorrow.

Songs:

I’m Gonna Change Your Life

I Don’t Believe You

More Thermals songs are here plus a drawing of them being abducted by Klaus Kinski’s space head.

(Above) A flier for Translations, playing Cakeshop on the 15th of October.

Their new EP is available at Kim’s and Cakeshop.

Music:

Tarantella

The Wanderer

Above we see a flier for a sure to be fantastic evening of music at Bar Matchless featuring Paper Fleet, Little, Big, Butterknife and Sean!

When I was commissioned for this flier I was told the date was the 30th, which will be the 55th anniversary of the death of James Dean. With that in mind I decided to draw James Dean reading James Dean is Not Dead, a Dean biography written by a  pre-Smiths Morrissey.

Had I known the date was actually the 29th I would have drawn overlooked film noir femme fatale Lizabeth Scott who will celebrate her 88th birthday this Wednesday. Celebrate by heading out to Matchless for some excellent rock music.

Get Lost by Paper Fleet.

These Days Are Gone by Little, Big.

Drop Me by Butterknife.

Unwound by Butterknife.

Prosopopeia by Sean!

Paint A Vulgar Picture by The Smiths.

Veronica Falls at Cake Shop

NYC Popfest - Night 1

This is the first of (possibly) many Popfest drawings.

Listen to:

Veronica Falls - Starry Eyes (Roky Erickson Cover)

Roky Erickson - Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson - I Walked With A Zombie

R.E.M. - I Walked With A Zombie (Roky Erickson Cover)

Flier for my friend Jen’s birthday party.

The party is on May 30th which is also the day Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1491.

Joan’s Sony Walkman is a reference to the classic Smiths song Bigmouth Strikes Again.

More Joan Of Arc related songs:

Joan Of Arc: Leonard Cohen: Cohen Live

Joan Of Arc: Melvins: Houdini

Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans): Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture and Morality

Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans): Parenthetical Girls

Kimberly: Patti Smith: Horses

Lenders in the Temple: Conor Oberst

Vow: Garbage

Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger at Union Pool

February 19, 2010

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Song: The World Was Made For Men from Chimera Music Release 0

Atoms For Peace at The Roseland Ballroom

Pictured: Thom Yorke and Flea

Listen to:

Atoms For Peace - Thom Yorke (from The Eraser)

Creep (Acoustic) - Radiohead (from Pablo Honey: Special Collector’s Edition)

Inside My Head - Radiohead (from Stop Whispering EP)

You Never Wash Up After Yourself - Radiohead (from My Iron Lung EP)

My Teenage Stride at Silent Barn

October 24, 2009 (CMJ)

Song: American Car

Charlotte Gainsbourg at The Bell House

January 13, 2010

Songs:

Lemon Incest from Lemon Incest

The Operation from 5:55

Time Of The Assassins from IRM

Comet Gain at Music Hall Of Williamsburg

April 12, 2009

Songs:

Jack Nance Hair from Broken Record Prayers

The Fists In The Pocket from City Fallen Leaves

Movies from Realistes

He Walked By Nite from Broken Record Prayers

The Thermals at Music Hall of Williamsburg

May 11, 2009

Songs:

No Culture Icons from No Culture Icons

Everything Thermals from Daytrotter

Top Of The Earth from A House Full Of Friends Comp

Here’s Your Future from The Body, The Blood, The Machine

You Dissolve from Now We Can See