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" and "Two Dipsticks in Love"
• Jackie "Dew Drop" Brevette - "Destroy Mankind"
• Earth Girl Helen Brown - "Space Travel's in My Blood," "I Wanna Do It," "Girls of My Dreams"
• Brian's Beats - "Night Beat"
• Cabezas Cortades - "Teenage Thugs"
• Carol Darger with the Concrete Prairie Band
• Hank Champion - "From Dud to Stud, From Zero to Hero," "Broke Artist," and "I Walk the Streets, Richest Man Who Ever Lived"
• Robert Chuffley - "Ain't No Turnin' Back"
• Durango Dexter - "Del Rio Prayer for a Dying Dog"
• Danny Dusk & The Twilights - "Life Ain't Clear"
• Bobby Hawkins - "Minimum Wage" and "Difficulties, Mistakes and Errors"
• Jackie Feathers - "Year of the Cock"
• Jackie Feathers and Carol Darger - "Apache Rock"
• Fuckaroos - "Cosmorama" and "I Miss the Jams"
• Little Antoine & The Sparrows - "A Steady Stream of Love" and "Do I Remember Me?"
• The Loud Fast Fools - "Time to Split"
• Terry and Ronnie Russel - "Moki Canyon"
• S.E. Land Otter Champs - "Wolf Like Howls From the Bathhouse"
• Hazel Shep - "Some Women Artists All Around Town" and "Canyon Manor Rehab"
• Sonny & The Sunsets - "Planet of Women"
• Zig Speck & The Specktones - "Fruitcakes" and "One Time Doomsday Trip to Nowhere"
• Teen Age Thugs "Cabezas Cortadas"
• The Transients
• Versatile Kyle - "Sick Girl"
• The Wayward Youth - "Half Boy Half Girl," "Broom & Dustpan," and "Garbage Storm"

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.)
• 100 Records Vol. 3 (Polyvinyl Record Co., 2013)

External Links

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