Major Murphy – Access
Dig everything about this. Feels very early 2000s. Sort of a Dashboard Confessional sound. A sound that I'm very ok with.
Beach Bunny – Blame Game
Suddenly, every female band sounds like Soccer Mommy or Snail Mail. Don't hate it.
Dayglow – Close To You
Really nice. Feels a bit like Rebounder.
Big shout to our first don.earth contributor, Collin O., for the new slaps he's blessed us with:
Q – Take Me Where Your Heart Is
Nothing can kill a room's good energy faster than BAD lighting. We've all experienced it. Walking into someone's place and feeling like you just stepped into a Walgreens. You hate to see it and even worse, it's hard to pay attention because you are trying not stroke out on account of all those lumens. Kelvins kill.
We can read your mind: "OMG don.earth is my home poorly lit? How do I make my home lit in a good way? When you hear someone say it’s lit, are they referring to their home’s interior lighting?"
We've been conducting some deep ®esearch on interior lighting and are proud to share with you our latest learnings.
We recently discovered the work of American/Japanese artist and designer Isamu Noguchi.
The new HAIM 3 AM Toro y Moi remix slaps. It feels super late-90s in all the right ways. Almost a Semisonic "Closing Time" vibe to it. Haim's The Steps made our top 20 of 2020 list.
Other new music worth checking out – The Avalanches' new album We Will Always Love You, specifically The Divine Chord featuring MGMT.
The new Noah Cyrus track, All Three, is very dark and very good. I think this is the year the world finally recognizes Noah Cyrus is for real.
Fast forward to 2006. New Balance was set to celebrate its 100th anniversary and needed a special product to mark the occasion. It bet big on the latest addition to the 990 line, the new 992 model. There was a lot of pressure to get the shoe right. In fact, legend has it that longtime fan of the brand, Steve Jobs was made aware of the new 992 and played a key role in shaping its design. The story (if not myth) is that New Balance chairman, Jim Davis, asked Steve Jobs for design insight and that Jobs actually sent Davis a personal letter with a sketch of what he desired in the shoe. Although New Balance denies any collaboration, they do admit that Jobs might have had final approval on the design before it was taken to market.
New Balance made just over a million pairs of the 992 before the model was discontinued in 2010. Part of its allure is both its lack of availability and its historical connection to Jobs. Since his passing, Jobs has become a sort of fashion icon and his daily uniform has been the focus of countless moodboards. For many, the Apple brand signals an elevated sense of design and taste – Jobs speculative involvement in the design of the 992 and his daily wear of the shoe represents the ultimate endorsement.
