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The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran

Long before directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry made the jump from music videos to movies, Russell Mulcahy innovated on MTV and directed Highlander. What would movies even look like without him? Mulcahy is still around and still directing movies — he directed Resident Evil: Extinction, which was a much, much better film than…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Table of Sound Will Make Everything Shake, Rattle, and Roll Off Your Desk

Dock your iPod in a corner of the Table of Sound concept model and turn it up for the built-in speakers. Now try to get anything done while your table is shaking from the old-school rock blasting out its sides. Imagining writing on it aside, the Table of Sound is a neat idea with both…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket Is For Suckers Only

The Wattgate “Audio Grade” wall socket costs a mere $147, but the crisp, unmatchable sounds it will create in your home are positively priceless. It’s all bullshit, of course. Like Monster Cable and that $500 Denon Ethernet cable, there’s more snake oil flowing through this “premium” socket than anything else. And as with that Denon…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Lala iPhone App And Its 10-Cent Songs Might Be Reality By Year End

We heard of Lala’s iPhone app a year ago, but now, along with their connection to Google’s music service, we’re hearing that the app is going through the approval process with hopes of availability by year end. https://gizmodo.com/lala-unveils-iphone-app-unusual-10-cent-song-sales-5066225 Songs are a mere ten pennies through Lala because they would be streamed to your phone, but…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Trent Reznor Makes Fringe Even Creepier

Nine Inch Nails frontman and all-around rock god Trent Reznor is remixing his own “Zero-Sum” for J.J. Abrams‘ Fringe. And in keeping with the show’s nerd-overload, the whole thing is full of geeky Easter Eggs and hard core Fringe references. According to Entertainment Weekly, Reznor will be mixing William Bell’s on screen dialogue with his…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Multi-Track Beatboxing Gets You In The Ghostbusting Mood

It’s little videos like this that actually get me excited for Halloween. Normally I hate beat-boxing, but this little Ghostbusters remake has some high quality multi-tracking.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA: Proud to Be a Geek

In this video interview with True/Slant, RZA says hip hop and “geekism” go hand in hand when it comes to using new technology. “We geeks man, we geeks!” He also talks about video game addiction…and busts out a roundhouse kick! As someone who dabbles in music production on the side, I’ve long been a fan…

Tech News Danny Allen

Listen to Classic Scifi TV Scores Played By An Amazing Orchestra, This Saturday Night

It’s not often that you get to hear great science fiction TV scores given the full orchestral treatment, but this Saturday in San Pedro, California, you’ll get your chance. Plus you can meet a legend in the scifi music business, Stu Philips, who has worked on everything from Buck Rogers to Battlestar Galactica. Darth Mojo…

io9 Annalee Newitz

First Screenshots of Google’s Music Service

Maybe called “One Box,” or maybe not, Google’s new music service is basically a set of music search tools. And even if it’s not an iTunes killer or a stateside Spotify, it still matters. https://gizmodo.com/how-will-googles-rumored-music-service-work-updated-5386574 Techcrunch has a few shots of the service, which give a pretty good idea of how it’ll work: You, Anonymous…

Tech News John Herrman

How Will Google’s Rumored Music Service Work? (Updated: Oh, Like This)

Earlier this year, Google launched an iTunes-style music download service in China. The twist? All the music was free. Now, Techcrunch says a US launch of a Google music service is imminent. Could it be free, too? Doubtful. Google’s already got a decent music search engine in place, and they’ve got plenty of experience designing…

Tech News John Herrman

Ow! I Feel Bad! The Psychedelic James Brown Freakout That Brought Tim Robbins Down

This is sort of a dream sequence, sort of a hallucination — but mostly, this funky-ass scene from Jacob’s Ladder is 100 percent awesome. Tim Robbins has a brain-melt to the tune of James Brown‘s classic jam, “My Thang.” Spoilers… How this scene fits into the dream sequence/hallucination/epilepsy attack canon is complex, given the big…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Beautiful Scientist Auto-tune Jam Will Make You Smile, Possibly Sing

Check out this amazing collection of autotuned scientists from past amazing series and old cosmic sermons remixed and put into beautiful melody. Sing with the mental giants and TV scientists from all different eras and know: "We Are All Connected."

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sonos ZonePlayer S5 Hands-On: Sonos for the Masses

Sonos, best known for their premium-priced (but adored) wireless audio systems, announced an all-in-one receiver and speaker recently, and after seeing and hearing it, I’m impressed—but not blown away. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-gets-a-little-more-affordable-with-zoneplayer-s5-5380365 Whether you’re taken with the S5 largely depends on how you feel about Sonos in the first place. If you’ve been itching for an elegant…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Klenginem: Eminem Remixed With A Bat’leth

Listen to Eminem’s “Without Me” in Klingon, by Klenginem. We didn’t think it was possible to translate Slim Shady’s rapping into Klingon, and yet here it is in mighty warrior glory. It’s impressive. Qapla’! Visit Klenginem for tour dates.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sonos Gets A Little More Affordable With ZonePlayer S5 Wireless Speaker

Sonos’ wireless home audio system is great for convenient, hiss-free streaming, but it’s pretty pricey. The S5 changes that (a little), by incorporating a receiver and speaker into one unit—compared to the $350 ZP90 which requires separate powered-speakers. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-improves-wi-fi-with-zoneplayer-zp90-and-small-sel-5033093 The ZonePlayer S5 will be $400 on November 10, and gives you an all-in-one option to…

Tech News Danny Allen

The Mountain Goats Go To The Moon, Harvest Your Organs

How did we miss the fact that the Mountain Goats released an EP set in an organ-harvesting facility on the Moon? Moon Colony Bloodbath, a collaboration with John Vanderslice, has a story like Duncan Jones’ Moon, only much darker. As far as we can tell, Moon Colony Bloodbath was only released as limited-edition vinyl album,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Listen to Dr. Horrible’s Batman-Fighting Musical Number

Neil Patrick Harris is up to his old singing supervillainy, this time as the Music Meister on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Listen to his first nefarious number, where he forces the show’s heroes and villains to sing along. NPH’s episode, “The Mayhem of the Music Meister” premiered at Comic Con, where it wormed…

Television Lauren Davis

Apple to Indie Labels: iTunes LP Is Out of Your League

With a higher price than regular albums, no lossless audio and virtually no device support, iTunes LP seems like a hard sell. Turns out, it might be lame for musicians too—at least, the ones without platinum records. Updated https://gizmodo.com/itunes-lps-should-be-lossless-5356005 I spoke with Brian McKinney, who runs Chocolate Lab Records, a smallish label out of Chicago.…

Tech News John Herrman

Spotify Phone to Stream Music and TV Across Europe

Not only does the US still not have the awesome media-streaming service Spotify (though it’s on the way), now the UK is going to get a Spotify phone. According to TechCrunch, UK company INQ is developing the full-out Spotify phone for telecommunications provider Telia. And with recent news that Spotify service is expanding to television…

Television Mark Wilson

Avatar’s Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You

James Cameron‘s Avatar score will be filled with singing in the Na’vi tongue. Zoe Saldana talked Na’vi native to us on camera, and we liked it… a lot. But James Horner’s three-hour soundtrack is not just blue people singing. https://gizmodo.com/zoe-saldana-talks-navi-to-us-5321677 In an interview with Movie Score Magazine Mike Knobloch, the executive vice president of Fox…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran

The Table of Sound Will Make Everything Shake, Rattle, and Roll Off Your Desk

Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket Is For Suckers Only

Lala iPhone App And Its 10-Cent Songs Might Be Reality By Year End

Trent Reznor Makes Fringe Even Creepier

Multi-Track Beatboxing Gets You In The Ghostbusting Mood

Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA: Proud to Be a Geek

Listen to Classic Scifi TV Scores Played By An Amazing Orchestra, This Saturday Night

First Screenshots of Google’s Music Service

How Will Google’s Rumored Music Service Work? (Updated: Oh, Like This)

Ow! I Feel Bad! The Psychedelic James Brown Freakout That Brought Tim Robbins Down

Beautiful Scientist Auto-tune Jam Will Make You Smile, Possibly Sing

Sonos ZonePlayer S5 Hands-On: Sonos for the Masses

Klenginem: Eminem Remixed With A Bat’leth

Sonos Gets A Little More Affordable With ZonePlayer S5 Wireless Speaker

The Mountain Goats Go To The Moon, Harvest Your Organs

Listen to Dr. Horrible’s Batman-Fighting Musical Number

Apple to Indie Labels: iTunes LP Is Out of Your League

Spotify Phone to Stream Music and TV Across Europe

Avatar’s Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You

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