Category:100 Records

Artist Sonny Smith created this art project in 2010. Smith invited artists to create album covers for fictional bands. Smith then "concocted the personas" and recorded both an A side and B side for each band. The show ran at Gallery 16 in San Francisco from April to May 2010.

Partial List

• Don Adoraé - "If You Don't Make a Change" and "You're the Vessel to my Every Dream"
• The Beach Ticks
• Merriweather Bradley - "Medication"
• Bryan's Beats
• Carol Darger with the Concrete Prairie Band
• Hank Champion - "From Dud to Stud, From Zero to Hero"
  • Hazel Shep - "Some Women Artists All Around Town" and "Canyon Manor Rehab"
• Planet of Women
• Danny Dusk & The Twilights - "Life Ain't Clear"
• Earth Girl Helen Brown - "Space Travel's in My Blood" and "Hit After Hit"
• Jackie Feathers - "Year of the Cock"
• Fuckaroos - "Cosmorama"
• Bobby Hawkins - "Minimum Wage" and "Difficulties, Mistakes and Errors"
• Little Antoine & The Sparrows - "A Steady Stream of Love" and "Do I Remember Me?"
• The Loud Fast Fools
• S.E. Land Otter Champs - "Wolf Like Howls From the Bathhouse"
• Hazel Shep - "Some Women Artists All Around Town" and "Canyon Manor Rehab"
• Teen Age Thugs "Cabezas Cortadas"
• The Transients
• The Wayward Youth - "Half Boy Half Girl"
• Zig Speck & The Specktones - "Fruitcakes"

Releases

• Gallery 16 released a 7-inch box of twelve prints by selected artists and a 16 track CD of the related songs, entitled Sonny Smith: 100 Records Project Volume 1. (2010)
• 100 Records Vol. 2 (Polyvinyl Record Co., 2013)
• 100 Records Vol. 3 (Polyvinyl Record Co., 2013)

External Links

• Artist official site
• Featured on KQED (YouTube)
• Images from Gallery 16
• Village Voice article