Nanotube Speakers
Check it, loudspeakers thin as a sheet of plastic wrap: Link Got to wonder how those speakers would handle the lazer bass.
Tag: music
Bloom: Brian Eno iPhone App
For only $3.99 you too can make music like Brian Eno! Link Via Sellout. FYI, Eno’s Oblique Strategies iPhone app is FREE.
Take On Me: Literal Video Version
Via kottke.
The Mother of the Mp3
At the NYT, two-hit wonder (by her own admission) Suzanne Vega blogs about how her song “Tom’s Diner” came to be used in the refinement of a certain audio compression algorithm now called the mp3.
Needs. . .
MoreCowbell.dj invites users to add more cowbell plus more Christopher Walken to uploaded tracks.
Oklahoma Rocks
So. . . the state of Oklahoma is going to have an official rock song? Here’s Resolution 1047 if you don’t believe me. We’ve got plenty of friends in Oklahoma. How come none of you guys told us about this?
Buchla + LensBaby
I don’t know what I like more about this video, the sounds of the Buchla Music Easel or the look of 16:9 720p High Definition format shot using a Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL! Awesomeness all around. CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL from ALEX on Vimeo.
Modern Art Revisited
Photo: T. Bllard Leseman, 1983 My first band was called Modern Art. As you can see in the above flyer, we were very serious about being a band. First off, we had a look – berets. Yep. We all wore berets. You know, the kind of hats that Claude Monet used to wear. I guess[…]
I Pity The Fool Who Forgets Mother’s Day
An early and extremely catchy reminder – Mother’s Day is next Sunday, May 11.
R.E.M. Earworm
Finally, after four days straight, the new R.E.M. song is NOT playing in my head. Particularly the chorus of the new R.E.M. song, Supernatural Superserious (Album Version). I think it is Mike Mills’ background vocals that make this thing so sticky. What follows in a blockquote reenactment of the aforementioned chorus. I’d link to an[…]
Sweeet Home Alabama!
This is a funny time of year. Some days, posts that look real turn out to be a joke, and then things that look like a joke turn out to be real.. like this! The Leningrad Cowboys, with the Red Army Chorus, booming out Lynyrd Skynyrd finest. Oh my, this is the perfect day-after-April-fools-day rock[…]
Boondogs
And now, a moment to salute friends of Lucky Dog, the Boondogs. This footage is from their appearance last year on AETN Presents, visually tweaked by Boondog percussionist Dylan Field. Not only do we love the songwriting team of Grotto and Weinheimer, but our partnership with Weinheimer’s Sellout Music lets us do great custom music[…]
Let’s Go Below the Border for Some South American Jive
Ethel Smith sure could tear up a Hammond organ. BTW one has to assume that the 360 degree crane shot near the end of this clip is for the benefit of getting a full view of her hairdo.
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
allmusic (((Telly > Overview ))) People know that singing is not my bag,” Savalas writes in his liner notes, “but if I say, ‘Hey, this is how Telly feels about this or that song,’ I can’t mistakes. I can only make mistakes by pretending to be a great singer.” Perhaps the most unlikely contender for[…]
Ween Jingle Video Goodness
So it seems 0ldScratch likes Legos. Not only that, he must like Ween because he turned their infamous unreleased Pizza Hut jingle into pure web goodness.
Squeezebox Hero
For those about to polka, we salute you!