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We’re rather proud to tattle that we have two pieces in the running for the 2012 Lone Star Music Award for Best Album Art: Reckless Kelly‘s “Good Luck & True Love,” and Ethan Messick’s “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday.” Sarah and I are positively tickled pink to be considered for this award….especially for two designs! Read the rest of this entry »
Not only is Mike Ethan Messick one of our favorite people, in general, but he’s also an amazing musician, songwriter, singer, husband to the beautiful Codey Allen Messick, future father of the year (just 14 weeks to go) and all around great guy. Have we mentioned that we love this guy? Read the rest of this entry »
Not only do the French give us some of the tastiest food on the planet and make us all jealous with their ability to make the most mundane of sentences sound romantic and sexy, but they also, apparently, make brilliant Grammy-Winning graphic designers! We’d like to send a Texas-Sized félicitations to Madame Caroline Robert, who is the creative genius behind Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs / Scenes From The Suburbs Deluxe Edition,” and was duly awarded the coveted Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, last Sunday. This beautiful piece features a re-release of last year’s Grammy Winner for Album of the year, “The Suburbs” with the addition of two new tracks (Speaking In Tongues and Culture War), “Scenes From The Suburbs” (a film directed by Spike Jonze), and a 76 page booklet packed full of artsy photos of our very own Austin, Texas. So, it’s kind of a win for Austin, too.
If you haven’t picked up a copy of this CD or have otherwise somehow not seen Caroline’s fabulous designs, please check out her site at Caroline-Robert.com. And, help us keep printed packaging alive in the digital age: run out to a real-life record store (yes, one that requires that you drive to it, get out of the car, walk in and physically make a face-to-face money transaction), and get your copy of the CD, TODAY!!!
Sarah and I, along with our handsome arm-candy, James King and Daniel Lewis and a few of the fellas from Reckless Kelly (Willy, Cody & Jay) have our finest garb ready to hit the Red Carpet this weekend, and want to share every moment with all of you! Not flying to Los Angeles this weekend, but don’t want to miss any of the action? No problem! The 54th Grammy Awards Pre-Telecast – during which a majority of the awards are presented, including our category – is now streamed live online. For the third consecutive year, music fans worldwide will have unprecedented access to VIP and backstage events leading up to and throughout the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards with GRAMMY Live, available on GRAMMY.com and CBS.com. Go ahead and bookmark those, now, and be sure to tune in on Sunday at 3pm CT to watch from home!!
And NOW, you can also download the App for you iPhone or Android, to stay up-to-date with all the live video footage on the go!
Get more information on Grammy Live by clicking here!
And of course, don’t forget to tune in to CBS to watch “Music’s Biggest Night.” The tattle is that there will be live performances from Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Adele, Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson & Jason Aldean, Coldplay & Rihanna, Katy Perry, and The Band Perry w/ Blake Shelton. Who’d want to miss it!?!
It isn’t often that one is asked to make their home TV-ready. Heck, if you had told me a week ago that we’d be filming an interview in the back room of my apartment that we call an office, I’d have told you you were out of you mind…..But Katherine Stolp is an incredibly persuasive young lady. It took a late night clean-up spree and some clever closet jenga, but somehow at 11:30 AM last Friday, we had an impeccably decorated Studio welcoming her and Josh.
In the end, we were glad that Katy talked us into making it happen. We had a great visit, and hope we were able to share a more intimate look into Backstage Design Studio.
I know that we’ve been overloading everyone with ‘tune in’ commands, and I’d hate to throw another one at you, but I’m going to anyway! Everyone be sure to stay tuned after the Grammys Awards Concert on KEYE TV Austin (CBS) to see our little interview. Hopefully, we don’t look or sound like complete idiots….hopefully.
