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Mars Needs Moms rap video is the most terrifying thing you’ll hear all day

The new Mars Needs Mom trailer starts with such promise and great zombie banter. Until the rapping starts: “Can’t even tell, is that a boy or a girl? They look so nasty, make a robot hurl!” (Cue barfing robot.) What is happening with this movie? There are aliens, spaceships and cool looking little baby aliens,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

MyLyrics Helps You Remember Those Songs You Forgot

If you’ve ever hummed song without knowing all the words, MyLyrics is an app that lets you know what’s been stuck in your head all day. Just enter a few of the lyrics and off you go. [iTunes]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Your iTunes Might Sound Almost Twice as Nice Soon

According to CNN, Apple and other digital download services are in talks with record labels to up music files from 16-bit to pristine, high-fidelity 24-bit. But while Macs can handle 24-bit music already, iPods and iPhones would need to be retooled to accommodate the sweet sounds. Soon please! [CNN]

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Is What the Dying Music Industry Looks Like

Instead of eulogies for a music industry too slow to adapt to the digital age, its mourners should just print up this chart on huge poster boards. And while digital sales are helping staunch the bleeding, as you can see here it’s not nearly enough. Then again, apparently the new Radiohead album is pretty good?…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Britney Spears Surfs PlentyOfFish Dating Site in Her Latest Music Video

Some critics are calling Britney Spears‘ latest single Hold It Against Me “genuine art.” Others, “a total visual assault.” All I know is that the song is the pits, and that she’s accepted a lot of product placement moolah from companies including Sony and the PlentyOfFish dating site. Yep, the very same site that Lady…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

“Tonight I’m Frakking You” is your new scifi dance single

This video is just plain adorkable. It’s like a Ke$ha song for scifi fans, complete with rapping from Big Bang Theory’s Raj and Caprica’s Zoe doing Princess Leia cosplay. Admittedly it’s not quite as great as “Fuck Me Ray Bradbury,” but then pretty much nothing is. [via Break Originals] https://gizmodo.com/fuck-me-ray-bradbury-is-the-best-scifi-pop-song-of-t-5615023

io9 Annalee Newitz

Spotify Just Signed Another Major Label, Now Halfway to US Domination

AllThingsD is reporting that EMI Music has just signed a deal with Spotify. Counting Spotify’s previous deal with Sony, the awesometastic music service now has two of the four major record labels locked up. The other two? Warner, who has said nice things about Spotify before, and Universal, who happens to be the biggest whale…

Tech News Casey Chan

A DJ That Knows Exactly What Music You Like Just By Looking at Your Face

Confident in your taste? Stick your mug in front of Automatic DJ, a program written by Hunch’s Ben Gleitzman that recognizes your face, looks you up on Facebook, and uses your profile info to put on a song you’re guaranteed to like. I didn’t know computers could do any of that stuff. You can grab…

Social Media Kyle VanHemert

Rest Assured, Shakira Fans, Sony Isn’t Pulling its Wares From iTunes

Sony Music Entertainment isn’t pulling out of iTunes, according to their COO Shawn Layden. Ad Age reported the other day that Sony was pulling out in retaliation for Apple blocking Sony’s Reader app from the App Store, but au contraire claims Layden: https://gizmodo.com/if-sony-abandons-itunes-will-others-follow-5758171 “Sony Music as I understand it has no intention of withdrawing from…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sony’s Streaming Music Service Misses the Service Part

Sony’s mumble-mouthed “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity” has arrived in the US today, streaming all the music you can handle, whenever you want, wherever you want—as long as you don’t want it on your smartphone. That seems poorly thought out! The service costs $10/month, comparable to what you might expect to pay with Rhapsody, Rdio…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Rdio’s Revamped iPhone App Has a New, Squeaky Clean Homescreen

Rdio’s iPhone App is getting a bit of a makeover to celebrate its 1.0 release. Now it has a springboard-style homescreen and a player bar that is always visible along the bottom of the screen (Both of which are similar to what MOG has on their app). They also added enhancements for search, playlists, and…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Apple’s New Subscription Model Is Evil

Digital subscriptions for the iPad are here. Huzzah! Sounds pretty good! You can subscribe to the New Yorker or PopSci with one click, and it’s automagically delivered. No in-app purchases; no muss, no fuss. I’ve been holding out on renewing my paper mag subscriptions, waiting for this very moment. But it’s not all puppies and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nomis App Tells You About the Music Releases You Should Be Looking Forward To

Sure, you follow a handful of your favorite musicians on Twitter and perhaps even peruse their official websites now and then. That doesn’t mean that some upcoming albums don’t slip by you. Nomis scans your music library—albeit a bit slowly, at this stage—and lets you know about upcoming albums from the bands you already like.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Disgruntled Ink Cartridge Man’s Next Trick—Ink Cart Beatboxing

The site that impressed and slightly confused the world with its viral-going ranting ink cartridge description is back, this time with a musical creation. The above tune is made entirely with ink cartridges. They really do live, sleep, eat, breathe and even listen to the sounds of ink cartridges. The site says that “A bit…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Flaming Lips Make Smartphone Symphony With 12 YouTube Clips

The Flaming Lips‘ new single is a YouTube symphony that requires 12 smartphones to be properly heard. Released on Valentine’s Day, the audio tracks that make up “Two Blobs Fucking” are spread across a dozen different YouTube videos. Each of the 220-second clips must be played in sync to create the complete tune – a…

Tech News Caleb

Two Futures, Decades Apart: Arcade Fire’s Suburbs vs. Rush’s Subdivisions

Arcade Fire’s album The Suburbs won top honors at the Grammys last night, cementing its reputation as one of the best modern examples of dystopian rock. You can see the science fictional underpinnings of the album’s themes in the Spike Jonze-directed video for single “The Suburbs,” and many of the other songs on the album…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Use Barcodes to Play a Piano

Ignore the overwrought, coming of age type soundtrack and you’ll see a rather neat idea: a musical instrument that plays music by “reading” barcodes. The Barcode Piano consists of tiles and a board. Each tile is associated with a number which triggers a certain tune. You can arrange the tiles in preset songs or any…

Tech News Casey Chan

How Hunter-Gatherers Are Working to Stock Shazam With the Latest Indie Tracks

If you’ve read this, then you know all about how Shazam, the sound-identifying app, works on a technical level using algorithms. But how do they ensure users can ID all songs, not just whatever mindless ditty is the radio hit that week? The NY Times has a really nice piece on the hunter-gatherers who go…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Do whales appreciate clarinet music?

According to Dr. David Rothenberg professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in the US, there is a definite possibility that they do. The professor, who is himself a clarinetist, embarked on a preliminary investigation in January-February 2007, when he played a live gig to a group of humpback whales…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research

All 5 Best Album Grammy Nominees Were Engineered By Graduates of a College You’ve Never Heard Of

Every album that’s been nominated for a Best Album Grammy this year was engineered by an FSU alum. Not Florida State; Full Sail University. The Winter Park, Florida college has cranked out a full 74 graduates who’ve worked on Grammy-nominated albums this year. So now you know who to blame for pretty much everything on…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Mars Needs Moms rap video is the most terrifying thing you’ll hear all day

MyLyrics Helps You Remember Those Songs You Forgot

Your iTunes Might Sound Almost Twice as Nice Soon

This Is What the Dying Music Industry Looks Like

Britney Spears Surfs PlentyOfFish Dating Site in Her Latest Music Video

“Tonight I’m Frakking You” is your new scifi dance single

Spotify Just Signed Another Major Label, Now Halfway to US Domination

A DJ That Knows Exactly What Music You Like Just By Looking at Your Face

Rest Assured, Shakira Fans, Sony Isn’t Pulling its Wares From iTunes

Sony’s Streaming Music Service Misses the Service Part

Rdio’s Revamped iPhone App Has a New, Squeaky Clean Homescreen

Apple’s New Subscription Model Is Evil

Nomis App Tells You About the Music Releases You Should Be Looking Forward To

Disgruntled Ink Cartridge Man’s Next Trick—Ink Cart Beatboxing

Flaming Lips Make Smartphone Symphony With 12 YouTube Clips

Two Futures, Decades Apart: Arcade Fire’s Suburbs vs. Rush’s Subdivisions

Use Barcodes to Play a Piano

How Hunter-Gatherers Are Working to Stock Shazam With the Latest Indie Tracks

Do whales appreciate clarinet music?

All 5 Best Album Grammy Nominees Were Engineered By Graduates of a College You’ve Never Heard Of

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