Doug Freeman is a multi-talented Austin hero. The former Austin Chronicle writer, and current occasional columnist, has also co-authored the essential “The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology” which was released... Read More »

July in Texas is… hot. The temperature climbed up quickly in May and has been inching ever closer to skin-evaporating heights of the sun. But thankfully there is reprieve... Read More »

Zarouhie was in town on an artistic mission back when there was still a need for sweaters. We met her at a the dusty bar that we favor, immediately... Read More »

Early last year, as we strolled the streets of London, we decided to take the opportunity to sit down with a series of editors that are, in... Read More »

Hello! As some of you might know already, some months ago the Gopher team moved it’s headquarters to sunny Austin, TX. Here we found a new home, a profusion... Read More »

Our visit to the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection this week (a collection! and you can use it!) has us reeling with an aesthetic inspired by the... Read More »

Chilean wonder-duo Dënver (as they say, “the band, not the dinosaur”, whatever that means) claim that music comes naturally to them. Mariana claims she learned to play the guitar... Read More »

Continuing with the habit of interviewing bands that find their name inspiration in the Animal Kingdom, this time The Gopher went to talk to Nijae Draine, half of American... Read More »

So, you know when you have this friend, this awesome friend whose life you’re so in tune with and then someone moves and you keep in touch and then... Read More »

Crochet art comes in more forms than just your grandmothers artfully studied bunny-patterned sweaters. As amazing as those are, now that it’s getting colder, and since my grandmothers most... Read More »

Interviewing labels like Neon Gold – inspired, ambitious and genuine lovers of music – is the reason we decided to create this series of posts. Having come across Passion... Read More »

Bronzerat Records is a UK-based independent netlabel. With the amazing and creative talent a metallic musical rodent obviously needs to have, BR works with a variety of genres focusing... Read More »

After bracing myself against wind and sand, I see the massive, hulking shell of a building. Its white walls are crumbling, its great glass windows long broken. Perched right... Read More »

Merrill Garbus is a lovely example of the power of one + friends. She decided to pursue her solo musical project without a record studio. Without specialized... Read More »

In the audiovisual era of today, it is definitely not new to experience music both through eyes and ears alike. Concerts and musical presentations have become a mix of... Read More »

If there is one typographer you should keep an eye on, that is without a doubt Alejandro Paul. A quick look at his twitter just... Read More »

Gopher Staffer and licenced biologist Angie Nicolás has some sleep issues. From her wonderful, sleep deprived but still scientific mind, we... Read More »

Proyecto Playlist is the brainchild of Ma. Elizabeth (Marie) Hernández and the Maracaibo lovechild of High Fidelity character Rob Gordon (neé Fleming). The blog, born out of... Read More »

It was a rainy summer afternoon when I discovered her in the attic above my mother’s bedroom, hidden beneath a thick layer of dust and surrounded by a fortress... Read More »

While the expression “art that haunts you” is applicable to plenty of artists, we must admit that when the imagery of the artist is... Read More »

We continue our series on netlabels with one we’ve followed for a while. trastienda.org was founded in Salamanca (Spain) during the summer of 2005, an odd frog type of... Read More »

Brooklyn-born global dweller Romeo Alaeff is an artist. Any sort of definition beyond that may be fuzzy or inaccurate, and his work itself blurs the boundaries between... Read More »

I always suspected that bats and rats and strange cave-dwelling animals have their very own theme parks among all the rock and humidity and general yuckiness of those holes... Read More »

This here is a disclaimer for the change-sensitive.

Cool new idea we’re going for: this Sounds section will now have a series featuring music labels. Yes! We’ve decided to... Read More »

Dear friends,

As many of you know by now, this Friday at 8:35am the first print edition of the Gopher Illustrated was born! we promise a much lengthier feature in... Read More »

Posting about climate change and a green conscience may strike some as preachy, and we at the Gopher have to confess a great deal of pickiness when it comes... Read More »

Denis Carrier is the mind and hands behind Studiofolk, source of a bevy of wonderful, unfussy and clever illustrations. We imagine him exactly as he describes himself – his... Read More »

Having made the (admittedly very basic) Internet rounds it’s clear that Pick a Piper is exciting the ears it reaches. Their sound gets described in elaborate, evocative, complex and... Read More »

Some of the Gopher staffers grew up surrounded by Op and Kinetic art: stripes of fluorescent color, geometric forms of dubious contours and beams of tinted light were part... Read More »

Writer and filmmaker Julio Ramirez is not just a friend but also an inspiration, genuinely. I first had the pleasure of meeting Julio in the summer of ’07,... Read More »

Super Lambada en Hollywood

By some twist of fate, two Gopher editors found themselves listening to a strange lecture on independent and self-produced music... Read More »

Simon Bernheim is a French artist whose work “constantly evolves around the perception of words, signs and language. His project is to change the meaning of words and language... Read More »

Tallest Man on Earth - Burden of Tomorrow

Shallow Graves, the previous Tallest Man on Earth record left us with two questions: “how did... Read More »

Just like that. Aquiles-Hadjis-is-the-shit. This is an unashamed, blatant post of love and imagery about our most recent entry in that narrow category called art we can’t... Read More »

Lido Pimienta is a mother, an artist, a singer-songwriter, a screamer, a banana-sandwich eater, a student, a Colombian in Canada, a Canadian with dreams of Colombia.  She also has... Read More »

We fell in love with the woozy, eerie colors of Ana Pais Oliveira’s work immediately. Twenty-eight year old Ana has had a busy year, receiving a bevy of prizes... Read More »

GNG BNG – Flying Lotus (Los Angeles)

Steven Ellison, a.k.a. Flying Lotus is a musician and producer from Winnetka, California. His music is often... Read More »

Freddie Stevenson, the English-born singer-songwriter is a self-taught musical genius. Freddie gives his listeners the kind of musical and lyrical experience usually reserved for the likes of Leonard Cohen,... Read More »

_Our dear friends at Lay Flat, an incredible magazine about photography, are releasing their second edition titled Meta. The concept? We’ll just give it to you straight from the... Read More »

Full disclosure here: We love Kickstarter. Through their website we’ve been fundraising to print the first, fabulous, tricked-out print issue of The Gopher Illustrated. We got in touch with... Read More »

Ok people listen up: is December 29h, midnight’s approaching and we haven’t decided yet which song will end up being our last post of 2009.... Read More »

For the Gopher follower this won’t come as a surprise: we effing love collage. Tonya Harding + Tokyo + Macrame we like.... Read More »

When the Candy Claws told us they wanted to visit The Gopher on their Online World Tour, we were excited to learn what an online tour was. We asked... Read More »

Communion – Put It All in One Place and Burn It

When we learned about Hi Ho Silver Oh, a musical project spearheaded by... Read More »

Simple fact: every time that we Gophers are not capable of finding something on the Inter-webs the same intense feeling pervades us. We feel like... Read More »

Philippe Intraligi is a German-born, Brazil-interning, New York-dwelling, Graphic Designer whose impressive client includes Telecom Italia, Adidas (and their Missy Elliott collection that a Gopher Editor who will remain... Read More »

The Sound of Arrows – Winding Roads (Danger/2008) The Sound of Arrows is the hard-labored baby of Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand, a Swedish... Read More »

Born in Fribourg and designer from the cradle, Bénédict M. Rohrer is much more than your average line-drawing, typeface-choosing feller. To this team of... Read More »

After taking a tour through Candice Tarnowski’s works on her website, reading that she was born in the Canadian Prairie seemed almost obvious. Tarnowski’s media – textile and installation... Read More »

Toro y Moi – Causers of This

It’s time for our wildly speculative affirmation of the week: we’re pretty sure... Read More »

With all these music and art and design posts, we couldn’t resist waxing philosophical. On a recent trip, I met with philosophy Professor Jesse Prinz at NYC’s Deitch Galleries... Read More »

Gonduras Jitomirsky is a self-taught photographer, illustrator and all ’round artist living and working in Tel Aviv. We befriended him on a website and were captivated by his... Read More »

This one time I went Scuba Diving. I was thirteen, and and I felt like an idiot with all the gear and the flippers and the mask on top... Read More »

Receiving and reading submissions is probably one of my most favoritest things to do. Usually, I put them in a neat little reading stack (on my e-mail inbox, of... Read More »

The Sound of Lucrecia Ara from the album Congost

A couple of years ago some of us Gophers felt... Read More »

In this enormous world few galleries-cum-shops are loved by the Gopher team as much as El Diente de Oro. The “Diente” is a beautimous project located in Buenos Aires... Read More »

Like many of our posts, we owe this internet-find to our incredible clumsiness. We search, we fail and in failing find something radically more exciting. Emmanuel Polanco... Read More »

Ulises Hadjis

Lunes (nuuro remix) - Remixes 2009

Ulises Hadjis is a great personal friend of the Gopher editors. A maracucho with Greek roots,... Read More »

Shane Lavalette is a Photographer. He lives in Massachussets, shoots everywhere else, often waking at the ugly, hairy and sleepy side of dawn to capture space in convoluted places... Read More »

Kyra Choucroun is one of the founders of The Gopher Illustrated and a political fiend (try and stop her, we dare you!)  Her interests range from International Political Economy... Read More »

Love is Sold (Lips and Ribs remix) Entropy, 2009

One may be inclined to do some horrible... Read More »

So far, the Eye Candy section has featured design, photography, painting and work that is beautiful and belongs – in one form or another... Read More »

Tone Adventure #3 from the album Moondagger by Deastro Monday afternoon means a new track on the the... Read More »

Gentle Friendly begins as an environmental experiment in instrumental hodgepodge. After a friend rescues a drum-kit and some coffee from “a skip” David and Daniel [ and... Read More »

The world is ending, and every page of every magazine ever printed has self-destructed – burned, BURNED! – in protest of the coming apocalypse of the newsstand because by... Read More »

A couple of weeks ago we started our annual “things we’re suckers for” list with an website that looked like an old computer desktop.... Read More »

As August comes to an end, we bring you an artist from beyond the turning leaves of Europe and America. Guy Yanai is a Middle... Read More »

El Blu del Ping Pong by Rita Indiana y Los Misterios Wednesday. Fourth day of the week. Last night we went dancing merengue.... Read More »

- What lessons have you learned from working in design and within the art scene of Minneapolis?

1. I don’t really see myself as a designer. 2. People here... Read More »

Friend and Gopher-writer Dylan Shrader came up with an idea for a review format. Early on, us Gophers agreed that we’d like musicians to do all the music reviews.... Read More »

An old favorite of the Gopher, the Le Grand Content video is something we have bumped into in many different times and places. A document on the omnipresent PowerPoint... Read More »

We met Manuel Cabezalí when he was touring with songstress Russian Red in a room papered with foil. It was then he mentioned his project Havalina, a band... Read More »

Lope, our Art Director, is a type freak. Longtime editor of Platanoverde Magazine in Venezuela, he dreams in highly stylized type-text and drools at the sight of Futura. When... Read More »