Tag: Shawn Brackbill

PHOTO ESSAY: In the Studio & on the Campaign Trail With Kurt Vile

Photos by Shawn Brackbill

As some of you may have seen in our new issue, self-titled contributor Shawn Brackbill spent four days shooting candids of Kurt Vile during his Smoke Ring For My Halo sessions and was nice enough to share some of his best shots with us. As an addendum to that story, we asked Shawn to answer a few questions about his ongoing work with Kurt and managed to score a slew of shots from his recent record release shows at Other Music, Academy Annex, and Generation Records. Make sure you don’t miss the Thurston Moore/Ted Leo cameos…

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PEEP SHOW: Pissed Jeans, “False Jesii Part 2”

Photo by Andrew Parks

It’s been a hot minute since we last heard from Pissed Jeans, so we’re happy to report that the Philly band just released a random video from last year’s King of Jeans LP. Directed by longtime self-titled contributor Shawn Brackbill, it’s loosely inspired by a Beach Boys video and features lots of dancing girls who were hired off Facebook and Twitter. Hurray for social networking.

Check it out after the jump, along with a free MP3 of the song and Shawn’s first music video, Cale Parks‘ “One At a Time.” Pissed Jeans’ next proper single, Sam Kinison Woman, drops in 7-inch/digital form on October 26.

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COVER FLOW: Photographer Shawn Brackbill Tackles Perceived Misogyny and Candy Wrappers in His Album Art For Pissed Jeans’ “King of Jeans”

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Planted in the center of the album cover for Pissed Jeans‘ latest LP, King of Jeans (Sub Pop), is a hairy, pasty arm, cropped at the wrist and bicep, slightly bent. But the arm is more than it appears: Opening the sleeve reveals the entire Smell the Glove-ish scene (shown above). It’s a great cover. Even better after we realized that Shawn Brackbill, one of regular contributing photographers, shot all the album art—and even more nuts when we realized that the record’s innards contained an image that originally appeared on this very dot-com. Yep, it’s our 15 minutes. But we’ll happily share the spotlight with Shawn (guess he’s earned it, after all). Here the photographer—who recently shot a video and the new LP cover for Cale Parks as well as a pair of 7-inch sleeves for Paint It Black—preps to tackle NYC Fashion Week by answering a few of our questions regarding the record sleeve’s caramel-y goodness.

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