The top 10 artists I listened to this week:

M83 14
Bon Iver 13
Stars of the Lid 12
Sufjan Stevens 12
Radiohead 11
Goldfrapp 11
Air 10
Röyksopp 10
Fennesz 9
Drake 9
Iron & Wine 9
How to Dress Well 9


This 1940 poster uses the same technique of featuring the heavily made-up, cigarette-smoking woman as a venereal disease carrier. Appealing to the soldier’s interest in the eye-catching woman, the headline playfully warns “She may be. . . a bag of TROUBLE.” The contrasts in color, font size, and capitalization draw the viewer’s attention to the word “trouble” in an attempt to create an association between the word and the image. Below the warning, the inclusion of the words “syphilis-gonorrhea” further suggest to the viewer that this is not an appealing woman but a treacherous menace.