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“Dude, this synth music is killing me tonight!”

Meet the Ziggybox. By way of a few strategically-placed cigarettes, cigarette boxes and some sensors, it creates music that totally slays the people who listen to it. Designers Christian Losert and Paul Schengber even created a handy video so you can see how it works and what it sounds like. Driving the rig are light…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Lily Collins on starring in Mortal Instruments AND Julia Roberts’ Snow White movie

Lily Collins is stepping into two huge roles. It was just announced that she’s playing Snow White in the untitled film where Julia Roberts plays the Evil Queen. And she’s also starring in the movie of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments. We got a chance to talk to Lily Collins about taking on the challenging Snow…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Sony’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Coming to PSP in Weeks

It’s not just the PSP which will benefit from an update bringing along the Music Unlimited streaming service—the NGP and Xperia Play will also see the Qriocity-powered service at a later date. The cloud-based streaming service is already available on the PS3 and Bravia TVs, and has six million songs to date. [Eurogamer via TrustedReviews]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Watch Katy Perry get her alien abduction fetish on

Katy Perry’s brand new totally out-of-this-world music video “E.T.” is out. And if watching robots make out with space deer is your thing, then you’re in luck. This music video is about to rock your face off with extraterrestrial inappropriateness. Also jeebus those lyrics, Perry has spent some serious time thinking about getting nasty with…

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How Facebook Could Save Ticketmaster from Scalpers

Live Nation Entertainment, the live music behemoth forged in the mega-merger between ticket seller Ticketmaster, artist manager Front Line Management Group, and promoter and venue owner Live Nation, finds itself at a crossroads. Nevermind the “convenience fees” that people still hate paying (and which incidentally go not only to Ticketmaster but also to artists, managers,…

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A Kid Turned His Jeans Into a Pair of Drums

This kid is genius! Aseem Mishra, a 17-year-old Brit, designed a pair of jeans that could be used as a drum kit. So when he wears his jeans and starts drumming his lap, well, it sounds like the drums. Spurred by the annoyance of having to lug drums around, Mishra wove 8 pressure sensitive sensors…

Tech News Casey Chan

Could Amazon’s Cloud Player Be Illegal?

Amazon may argue that functionally, their Cloud Drive service is the same as storing media on an external hard drive, but question marks hover over their Cloud Player, which streams those tracks from the cloud. In the eyes of Sony Music—and possibly more record labels—this Cloud Player requires Amazon to sign extra licensing deals, and…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?

Amazon’s taken a leap into the cloud, and they’re taking your music with them. But what exactly is Amazon Cloud Drive? And more importantly: how do you use it? It’s a cloud-based storage service… You get 5GB of cloud storage, free, that’s yours to do with as you please. For some perspective, that’s about 1,000…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Spotify Now Streamable on Onkyo Receivers, With Album Art Displayed on the TV

For over a year now, Spotify’s been streamable on Sonos systems, but you weren’t able to tinker with playlists on anything but a laptop or phone. Today that changes, with Onkyo home cinema receivers becoming compatible with Spotify Premium accounts, controllable on the TV interface. The TX-NR609 is the first receiver to add the functionality,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Amazon Cloud Player Goes Live, Will Let You Upload and Stream Your Music for Free

As we’ve speculated it might, Amazon has announced its own cloud-based media streaming service. It’s called the Amazon Cloud Player and you can start using it right now. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099 It looks like you’ll start out with 5 GB of free Cloud Drive storage, but be offered the chance to upgrade to 20 GB with an…

Commerce Rosa Golijan

Six clips from Hanna will suck you into the bloody assassin fairy tale

Teen-assassin movie Hanna from Atonement’s Joe Wright has the goods: a Chemical Brothers score, gorgeous locations (perfect for Wright’s long shot), immense talent, fairy-tale undertones, and action. And we’ve got a collection of clips that showcases each of these assets. Some of the clips are a bit spoilery, consider yourself warned. Hanna is about a…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Amazon Preparing Cloud-Based Back-Up Service to Match Apple’s Rumored Service?

How’s this for a double-whammy: Apple, and now Amazon, are both said to be working on “digital locker” services, which would store users’ downloads music and movies in the cloud. This would back-up their purchases in case of loss, but also allow them to re-download them to other devices. https://gizmodo.com/mobileme-cost-to-decrease-to-just-20-5786266 As Amazon sells all sorts…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Musicians’ Own Heartbeats Drive This Orchestra’s Visual Performance

Take a peak at the screen behind this small “Heart Chamber Orchestra.” Those visuals are generated by a series of electrocardiograms and wires attached to the musicians. Their heartbeats create the visuals, which become increasingly powerful as the piece unfolds. The performance was a collaboration between music collective PURE and artist Erich Berger. There are…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Guitar strings? Where we’re going we don’t need strings.

Enter the cool yet incredibly untested HyperTouch Guitar. What’s its speciality? Lacks strings. The guitarist plays it using an intricate touchpad. The pad is wildly customizable, but something tells me it’s not going to replace string guitars just yet. Oh, it’s also just a crazy design over at Yanko, so there’s that dubious fact to…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Concept art and sheet music from Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible gives amazing insights into your favorite supervillain

Check out this concept art from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: That’s the first sketch of Bad Horse, the mastermind of the Evil League of Evil. Costume designer Shawna Trpcic originally read the script and thought Bad Horse was a person. It’s just one of the weird revelations about the hit webseries that you’ll discover in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Google Music Could be Close to Launching

Of course, we’ve heard that one before. But according to CNET’s sources, the cloud-based streaming service is being tested now, and has been held up this long because of a little thing called…permission. Yes, they’re still sorting out rights with the labels. The reason it’s so tricksy for Google is because they need to gain…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Spotify Will Stream its First Live Gig in April

Here’s a money-making idea for music-streaming apps—accept a big chunk of change from corporate sponsors (in this case, Nissan), to stream a live broadcast. Not that the gig, which will be recorded in London on April 5th, will offer up anything worth listening to…unless you like La Roux, Delphic, The Naked and Famous and Pony…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

You Must Watch the YouTube Mashup Master’s Triumphant Return

Two years ago, Kutiman gave us one of the most amazing mashup videos we’d ever seen: bits and pieces from various YouTube performances clipped and smushed together to form a might Voltron of awesome. Now, finally, he’s back. And I gotta say, he’s really outdone himself. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-most-amazing-mashup-music-video-you-are-going-5169878

Tech News Brian Barrett

Lady Gaga Visits Google and Says She Always Wanted to be Searchable

At an hour in length, this Lady Gaga sit-down with Google is hardly worktime viewing. But bookmark it for later, and you can see Google’s Marissa Mayer chatting to her about her rise in fame—and how Google’s helped. I didn’t watch all of it because, well, it’s freakin’ an hour and 18 minutes long, but…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A delightfully insane Polish pop music video set on a disco spaceship

They play glowing, futuristic instruments in space, where asymmetrical hair is totally awesome. They’re . . . Ambulans, a Polish band from Kielce, whose new song “Wiem Że” will remind you that Italo disco never died. [via Europopped]

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“Dude, this synth music is killing me tonight!”

Lily Collins on starring in Mortal Instruments AND Julia Roberts’ Snow White movie

Sony’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Coming to PSP in Weeks

Watch Katy Perry get her alien abduction fetish on

How Facebook Could Save Ticketmaster from Scalpers

A Kid Turned His Jeans Into a Pair of Drums

Could Amazon’s Cloud Player Be Illegal?

What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?

Spotify Now Streamable on Onkyo Receivers, With Album Art Displayed on the TV

Amazon Cloud Player Goes Live, Will Let You Upload and Stream Your Music for Free

Six clips from Hanna will suck you into the bloody assassin fairy tale

Amazon Preparing Cloud-Based Back-Up Service to Match Apple’s Rumored Service?

Musicians’ Own Heartbeats Drive This Orchestra’s Visual Performance

Guitar strings? Where we’re going we don’t need strings.

Concept art and sheet music from Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible gives amazing insights into your favorite supervillain

Google Music Could be Close to Launching

Spotify Will Stream its First Live Gig in April

You Must Watch the YouTube Mashup Master’s Triumphant Return

Lady Gaga Visits Google and Says She Always Wanted to be Searchable

A delightfully insane Polish pop music video set on a disco spaceship

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