Colour Your Favourite Indie Rockers

05/19/09 4:55pm

The Indie Rock Coloring Book, which features colouring and activity pages by British graphic designer Andy J. Miller that were inspired by musicians, will be published in September.

Rilo Kiley, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Devendra Banhart, Bon Iver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The New Pornographers, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, MGMT, The Magic Numbers, The National, Broken Social Scene and Bloc Party are among the acts represented and ready for colouring in the book, which will be published by Raincoast Books in Canada and Chronicle Books elsewhere.

"This is the greatest coloring book since coloring was invented," says The National's Matt Berninger. "I've decided to have kids just so I'll have somebody to give this book to."

All royalties from the book will benefit Yellow Bird Project, which raises money for such charities as Art For Change, Transportation Alternatives, AIDS Society Of Canada, Teenage Cancer Trust, Safe Space, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and The Elliot Smith Memorial Fund. The full list of charitable organizations is on the Yellow Bird Project website.

Rilo Kiley bassist Pierre De Reeder wrote the foreword for the book and called it "a great example of how you can turn your love for music and art into something that can really help."

Yellow Bird Project also raises money by selling T-shirts designed by musicians. But the latest one was done by Neptune, the three-year-old daughter of The Dears' Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak. Profits from the sale of the shirt will go to the Pablove Foundation, which helps children fight cancer.