Music

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs

David Cope didn’t set out to make anyone mad. In 1980, the composer envisioned a tool to help cure his creative block: a machine that could keep track of all the sounds and loose threads running through his mind, find similarities, and produce an entire piece of music inspired by it. So he built it.…

Artificial Intelligence Frida Garza

This Rare Footage of the Beauty and the Beast Stars Singing ‘Be Our Guest’ Has Made Our Day

“Be… our… guest…” Now that you’ve got one of Disney’s all-time best movie songs stuck in your head, you’ll thoroughly enjoy this rare behind-the-scenes footage of Angela Lansbury and the late Jerry Orbach recording “Be Our Guest” for the original animated version of Beauty and the Beast. The footage is part of a documentary by…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

How to Stream Music In Multiple Rooms Using Your Smart Speakers

Our smart speakers continue to get smarter over time, and one of the features recently added to the kit made by Amazon and Google is support for multi-room audio—in other words, the option to play the same tunes in multiple rooms at once. Here’s how to set it up with a group of Amazon Echos,…

Gadgets David Nield

Netflix Takes Us Back to the ’90s with a Pop-Up Video for Trish Walker’s ‘Cray Cray’

Jessica Jones’ second season was chock full of all kinds of wild twists and turns, but none of them were quite as… shocking as the brief glimpse into Jessica and Trish’s past, when former child star Trish was still in the throes of her problems with addiction and trying to launch a music career. Like…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

A Tribe Called Quest’s Final Music Video Is a Powerful Afrofuturist Political Protest

When A Tribe Called Quest released their last album more than a year ago, a track called “The Space Program” blew listeners away with its pointed lyrics about systemic inequality in America. Now the song’s got an amazing video with a tearjerker credits roll. Look, I’m a huge Tribe Called Quest fan. The music made…

io9 Evan Narcisse

The Spice Girls Wannabe Your New Animated Superheroes

Never, and I mean never, give up on the good times, folks. Variety is reporting the Spice Girls are working on a new movie—an animated superhero movie, to be exact. According to the report, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Beckham, collectively known as the Spice Girls, “have signed off on…

Movies Jill Pantozzi

The First Great iPhone App Grows Up

The very first iPhone apps were universally dull. And then Bloom came out. Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers built the app and released it just a few months after Apple opened the App Store in July 2008. It was immediately obvious that something special was happening. The app was interesting on an artistic level, one…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Bad Lip Reading of A New Hope Somehow Turns Star Wars Into a Fantastic Musical

What if, instead of hiring John Williams to compose the score for Star Wars: A New Hope, George Lucas had brought on Marvin Hamlisch to turn his space opera into an intergalactic musical? The latest episode of Bad Lip Reading gives us a look at what might actually be the only way A New Hope…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

A Young Astronaut Follows His Space-Exploration Dreams in This Whimsical Music Video

Michael Mizrachi’s One Day Love is really more of a music video (the upbeat song is from a children’s music album by Barak Feldman, featuring Daniella Boss), but it’s also a lovely little scifi short about a pint-sized astronaut who dreams of exploring new planets and other strange wonders of outer space.

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Bitcoin Cash Has Its Own Rap Song Now, and We’re All the Poorer for It

The upstart virtual currency associated with Infowars guest Roger Ver now has an anthem, and it seems we have Canada to thank for it. After Japan’s foray into blockchain-inspired music with a cryptocurrency-themed pop idol group, it was only a matter of time “Bitcoin Ca$h” comes to us by way of Lil Windex, an inscrutable…

Tech News Avery Ellis

David Bowie’s Music, Art, and Legend Get Celebrated at This Intense Museum Exhibit

A traveling art exhibit celebrating the late David Bowie has made its final stop, giving all the Diamond Dogs, Earthlings, and Space Oddities one more chance to celebrate the artistic legacy of the Chameleon of Rock. For those who can’t make the trek out to Brooklyn, New York, io9 has a look inside the exhibit.…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Spotify Is Going Public, CEO Says It Will Be Now Some Kind of Global Cultural Nexus or Something

Stockholm-based streaming giant Spotify finally made it official and filed documents for its much-rumored plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, pursuing the unusual option of a direct listing instead of a traditional IPO. Per the New York Times, that process is one “in which no new stock is issued—and…

Tech News Tom McKay

Listen to James Gunn’s ‘Secret’ Guardians Awesome Mix Vol. 0

Before Peter Quill wore out Awesome Mix. Vol. 1 and cracked open Awesome Mix. Vol. 2, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn created Awesome Mix Vol. 0. If you’re wondering what reason there was for a Vol. 0, well, it’s fairly logical. It was used during filming. Gunn had put together a 10-song playlist…

Movies Germain Lussier

I Feel Like I’m a Part of This Jazz Band Captured With a Depth-Sensing Microsoft Kinect Camera

Microsoft’s Kinect, the depth-sensing, motion-tracking technology, might be dead as a product, but the hardware lives on, and is being used for far more than just video games now. This experimental film by Marcin Nowrotek mixes 3D footage of jazz musicians with 3D animations to create a music video where the musicians almost appear to…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Artificial Intelligence Directed a Music Video and the Results Will Melt Your Eyes

Even if you don’t care for the actual song, the music video for Hardcore Anal Hydrogen’s track Jean-Pierre is a visual feast, taking advantage of several recent breakthroughs in artificial-intelligent image processing that’s quickly gone from creating nightmares, to revolutionizing how modern visual effects are created. The behind-the-scenes processes that went into making this music…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time Soundtrack Is a Powerhouse of Femme

A Wrinkle in Time director Ava DuVernay has unveiled the new songs for her upcoming Disney film, which sees groundbreaking female artists like Sia and, yes, the glorious Sade taking center stage right alongside main character Meg Murry. DuVernay has released previews of some of the original songs created for the film, which all help…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Doctor Who Has a Fresh, New Logo for Season 11

New star, new showrunner, new composer, and now a new logo—the next season of Doctor Who isn’t due until October, but it’s definitely shaking things up already. BBC Worldwide hired agency Little Hawk to design the logo, which was done in collaboration with showrunner Chris Chibnill and executive producer Matt Strevens. Along with unveiling the…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Long-Time Doctor Who Composer Murray Gold Isn’t Returning for Season 11

Change is in the air on Gallifrey, and it’s not just who’s holding the sonic screwdriver. Doctor Who’s upcoming season will feature a new showrunner, a new Doctor, and a new composer—since the composer who’s been there since the revival’s beginning won’t be coming back to the TARDIS. During a panel at Gallifrey Con, composer…

Television Beth Elderkin

You Need to Watch the Mysterious Trailer for Janelle Monáe’s New Album Dirty Computer Right Now

It’s been a while since we last heard from Cindi Mayweather, but the Archandroid has a new message for all of her believers. It also happens to come with a guest appearance from Thor: Ragnarok’s Tessa Thompson. Though she’s most recently been blowing audiences away with her stellar performances in series like Philip K. Dick’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

How to Find the Best Free Movies and Music on the Web

Whoa, hold on there, person about to exchange money for movies or music—do you know how much free stuff is out there on the web, all legally released and available for anyone to listen to or watch? If you want to spend less on your entertainment budget and maybe discover some interesting new stuff at…

Gadgets David Nield

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs

This Rare Footage of the Beauty and the Beast Stars Singing ‘Be Our Guest’ Has Made Our Day

How to Stream Music In Multiple Rooms Using Your Smart Speakers

Netflix Takes Us Back to the ’90s with a Pop-Up Video for Trish Walker’s ‘Cray Cray’

A Tribe Called Quest’s Final Music Video Is a Powerful Afrofuturist Political Protest

The Spice Girls Wannabe Your New Animated Superheroes

The First Great iPhone App Grows Up

A Bad Lip Reading of A New Hope Somehow Turns Star Wars Into a Fantastic Musical

A Young Astronaut Follows His Space-Exploration Dreams in This Whimsical Music Video

Bitcoin Cash Has Its Own Rap Song Now, and We’re All the Poorer for It

David Bowie’s Music, Art, and Legend Get Celebrated at This Intense Museum Exhibit

Spotify Is Going Public, CEO Says It Will Be Now Some Kind of Global Cultural Nexus or Something

Listen to James Gunn’s ‘Secret’ Guardians Awesome Mix Vol. 0

I Feel Like I’m a Part of This Jazz Band Captured With a Depth-Sensing Microsoft Kinect Camera

Artificial Intelligence Directed a Music Video and the Results Will Melt Your Eyes

Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time Soundtrack Is a Powerhouse of Femme

Doctor Who Has a Fresh, New Logo for Season 11

Long-Time Doctor Who Composer Murray Gold Isn’t Returning for Season 11

You Need to Watch the Mysterious Trailer for Janelle Monáe’s New Album Dirty Computer Right Now

How to Find the Best Free Movies and Music on the Web

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

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How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

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