I am most impressed with Spoon’s choice of cover design for their upcoming album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

The photo was taken by Ugo Mulas in 1963, and it shows Lee Bontecou in her New York City studio. Bontecou is one of my very favorite sculptors. She creates these wild things that are like visual glossalalia - everyone will see something different. it could be as big as multiple galaxies rotating around each other, or a chemical structure model. Better yet, just look at this piece :

The album comes out on July 10th on Merge.
Here is the remainder of their tour :

TOUR DATES

04-26 New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place
04-27 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
04-28 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts
05-07 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe (Britt Daniel solo)
05-27 George, WA - Sasquatch! Festival
06-16 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
07-04 Detroit, MI - Comerica CityFest
07-11 New York, NY - River to River
08-04 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza

Ugo Mulas took many gorgeous and endearing photographs. Here is one of my favorites of John Cage -