Where do you run to?

I am so glad that Adrian Tomine doesn't just draw Weezer posters and exclusive graphic novels, but also for New Yorker. No, not that hip magazine throwing parties with the guys from The State and Of Montreal, but the stuffy, not-so-funny one. As J. Peterman once said, "IT'S A ZIGGY!"

Besides the fact that Adrian Tomine is one of my favorite artists, I like this illustration because it reminds me of one of my favorite new bands, Vivian Girls. Yeah, they sound like New York. They sound like the Brooklyn girls that Tom Waits sings about. They open up for Sonic Youth. They look like they read Salinger on double decker buses, but that's sort of the wonderful part about them.

The album plays short like a KRS-era grrl band, but the music is much more hazy, more loose. There are wonderful harmonies that are 60s informed, but nothing that screams "trying too hard" and there are great hooks, especially in the centerpiece of the full length, "Where Do You Run To?"

via ill-formed: Vivian Girls - s/t
A full Vivian Girls show on their wonderful blog.