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Music Video Uses iPhones Like It’s 2007 All Over Again

Izabo is a kooky Israeli band, and while the music isn’t to my taste I’ve got a lot of love for their music video. They use a bunch of iPhones to illustrate their lyrics, often in an almost stop-motion style. Check out Izabo’s music video to ‘On My Way,’ below. [YouTube]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Music-Making Overhead Projector Lets Your Third Grade Teacher Rock Out

Overheard projectors were never the most glamorous educational technology—that first Smart Board was some Star Trek-type shit!—but they could be found in pretty much every classroom growing up. I wish they all would’ve played music like this one. Blair Neal from New York said, “Oh yeah, Dirty Projectors? I see you and raise you five…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Most Erotic Rendition Of The Spider-Man Theme Ever Performed

Meet Stan The Man Griffin, scifi author and fedora aficionado. He wrote “Spider-Dance Spider-Man Theme Song,” a smooooth remix of Peter Parker’s angsty existence. With lyrics like “You hear something from above / He has spider-blood,” this song = insta-sex. First off, it’s worth mentioning that Stan The Man Griffin has a book coming out,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Apple Grabs “iTunes Live” Trademark

Start up the speculation machine, for Apple has filed a trademark for “iTunes Live” and that could mean the long-rumored live music sessions are headed to the service soon. https://gizmodo.com/apple-grabs-itunes-live-trademark-5534666 Or it could just be another crazy patent/trademark filing in a long line of crazy Cupertino filings. But, for now, let’s have some speculative fun.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Sound of Gravity

Sometimes you don’t need a sound synthesizer to create rhythms and music. When you have talent and a video editing software, anything can be your instrument. Including balls. All kinds of them. [Thanks Eduardo Lozano!] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-yamahas-tenori-on-synthesizer-we-love-it-380767

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iPhone OS, Android, and Windows Mobile In Perfect Harmony

See, a guitar made up of phones isn’t just about the music. It’s about bringing people together. And by “people” I mean mobile operating systems. Presenting two Android and WinMo devices and an iPod Touch, united to play Cracklin Rosie. More information on the project, from the artist himself: I decided to create the same…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Jean-Marc Côté’s Visions of the Year 2000 (1899)

Back in 2007, when the Paleo-Future blog was just two photos of Jane Jetson and a link to my Friendster profile, I posted some images from the National Library of France that depicted life in the year 2000. I’ve since learned that these prints are from 1899, rather than 1910 as reported by the BnF.…

Tech News Matt Novak

What’ll Be Left When Apple Closes Lala at the End of the Month? A Gaping Hole

MediaMemo throws more cold water on the idea that Apple shutting down Lala at the end of the month means a streaming iTunes.com is coming anytime soon, though they’re talking to labels right now about a “web-based” iTunes. https://gizmodo.com/does-lalas-shut-down-mean-streaming-itunes-launch-5527957 Apple had been talking to labels about a “locker” service, kind of like what Lala does…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Does Lala’s Shut Down Mean Streaming iTunes Launch?

Reader Aaron Vader has sent us an email announcing that Lala.com will shut down on May 31. If you are a Lala user, your credits will be converted to iTunes credits. Does that mean that streaming iTunes.com would launch soon? It’s hard to say. WWDC 2010 comes right after Lala’s shutdown, but it’s unlikely that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Could This Be the Green Lantern Theme Song? Should It? (No.)

Aspiring musician Gary Mitchell has written a song called “In Brightest Day” that he desperately wants to appear in the new Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern flick. We don’t like to kill dreams, but… According to Mitchell on his Myspace page, “In Brightest Day” “is the perfect GL anthem, exalting themes of courage, perseverance and will…

io9 Marc Bernardin

What iTunes LP Should’ve Meant

Is listening to your iTunes playlist over vinyl the most practical of ideas? Nah. But throw in a futuristic glowing ring and call to arms for playlist purists, and Martin Skelly’s Playlist Player has a friend in me. The Playlist Player is for those who put in the kind of thought into their daily soundtracks…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Octavia Butler’s Stories Turned Into Jazz

Jazz flautist Nicole Mitchell writes music and spoken word poetry based on the works of Octavia Butler. [Gapers Block]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why I’ve Replaced My iPhone’s Music App With SoundHound

Remember Midomi? It was a first-wave iPhone app that identified songs, hummed or recorded, via microphone. It’s since grown into a much more ambitious app called SoundHound—ambitious enough to actually replace your iPhone’s music app. Now, it’s free. https://gizmodo.com/midomi-song-recognition-iphone-app-can-name-that-rickro-5023919 SoundHound’s music recognition feature is still prominently featured, and it still does its job. Unlike Shazam,…

Tech News John Herrman

Spotify Now Allows iTunes Libraries To Be Uploaded

Available now if you live in Europe or are particularly handy with an IP override, Spotify’s just released the latest version of the desktop client. iTunes libraries can be uploaded to Spotify for accessing anywhere, and social features added too. https://gizmodo.com/why-its-worth-getting-excited-for-spotifys-us-launch-5502815 The biggest news is that iTunes integration, called Library—being able to ditch iTunes altogether…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Top 10 Weirdest Songs From Superhero Movies

Mika’s single for Kick-Ass continues the cherished tradition of musicians penning (often absurd) songs for superhero flicks. Here are some of the best and/or worst songs from comic-book cinema. And no, that Nickelback song from Spider-Man ain’t on here. 10.) “Howard The Duck” by Thomas Dolby and Cherry Bomb (Howard The Duck; 1986) This song…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Iron Man and AC/DC “Destroy” an Olde English Castle

Yes, it’s a very elaborate ad for AC/DC’s Iron Man 2 soundtrack, but this video in which the Great Keep of England’s Rochester Castle is the backdrop for a display of architectural projection mapping is totally wicked. At the behest of Sony Music, a company called Seeper utilized “the site of a thousand years of…

Movies Marc Bernardin

The Venture Bros: The Key to Science is Prog Rock

Life may have its mysteries, but as young Dean Venture learns from his father, most of them can be solved with the careful application of progressive rock. No, this ain’t new, but if this clip proves anything, it’s that the classics never go out of style.

Television Marc Bernardin

The iPad DJ

Meet Rana Sobhany. She puts together some great beats using only two iPads and some apps. No laptop or synth needed—this gal’s an iPad DJ. As she explains in Rob Scoble’s (extra-long) video, Rana is using some additional equipment for this presentation, but she can work with just her iPads and some apps—Groovemaker House, Looptastic…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Get This Silent Drum Concept to Trent Reznor, Now!

It’s a shame Nine Inch Nails isn’t touring anymore. Their concerts, while an acquired taste for some, were always a spectacle, replete with one-of-a-kind technological marvels, and I could totally see Silent Drum at the forefront should they return. https://gizmodo.com/the-amazing-tech-lasers-and-lights-behind-a-nine-inch-5049414 This project is the work of Peruvian Jaime Oliver, and it plays a haunting industrial…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Lame Laser Harp Can’t Save Lame Ke$ha SNL Performance

So this happened last night. Much to Frucci’s chagrin, it looks like Laser Harps are catching on. In other news, the innuendo-laden Shake Weight now has its own DVD. [SNL] https://gizmodo.com/please-dont-let-laser-based-instruments-catch-on-5486060

Tech News Jack Loftus

Music Video Uses iPhones Like It’s 2007 All Over Again

Music-Making Overhead Projector Lets Your Third Grade Teacher Rock Out

The Most Erotic Rendition Of The Spider-Man Theme Ever Performed

Apple Grabs “iTunes Live” Trademark

The Sound of Gravity

iPhone OS, Android, and Windows Mobile In Perfect Harmony

Jean-Marc Côté’s Visions of the Year 2000 (1899)

What’ll Be Left When Apple Closes Lala at the End of the Month? A Gaping Hole

Does Lala’s Shut Down Mean Streaming iTunes Launch?

Could This Be the Green Lantern Theme Song? Should It? (No.)

What iTunes LP Should’ve Meant

Octavia Butler’s Stories Turned Into Jazz

Why I’ve Replaced My iPhone’s Music App With SoundHound

Spotify Now Allows iTunes Libraries To Be Uploaded

The Top 10 Weirdest Songs From Superhero Movies

Iron Man and AC/DC “Destroy” an Olde English Castle

The Venture Bros: The Key to Science is Prog Rock

The iPad DJ

Get This Silent Drum Concept to Trent Reznor, Now!

Lame Laser Harp Can’t Save Lame Ke$ha SNL Performance

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