Music

How to Use Siri to Find New Music

One of the tasks any respectable virtual assistant should be able to carry out for you is to discover new music, and Siri is certainly up to speed in this regard. If you’re lacking inspiration for your next road trip tune or party mix, here are some of the ways you can get Siri to…

Gadgets David Nield

Definitely Expose the Gremlins Vinyl Soundtrack to Sunlight and Water

Don’t feed it after midnight, though. That would be weird. As revealed by EW, Mondo’s new Gremlins soundtrack comes with art that is responsive to UV light and to water, revealing hidden images when they come into contact. Phantom City Creative made a jacket that, when exposed to light, has scrawled messages appear. Put a…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a SoundCloud Master

SoundCloud has been around since 2007, growing from a simple streaming player to take on podcasting, music discovery, and basically anything else that involves audio. Whether you make use of the site as a listener, creator, or both, here are 10 tricks for taking your SoundCloud experience to the next level. 1) Start stations for…

Gadgets David Nield

Why the 1978 Superman Soundtrack Works So Damn Well

I’ve been listening to John Williams’ soundtrack for the old Superman film a lot, ever since I wrote this post about a mash-up video for Kal-El’s appearance on Supergirl season two. But I’ve been listening to it very differently. https://gizmodo.com/john-william-s-superman-theme-makes-supergirl-even-bett-1787193198 I was six or seven the first time I saw the 1978 Superman movie and,…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Disney’s Live-Action Beauty and the Beast Is Using Lyrics Cut From the Original Animated Film

We knew that the old classic songs would be there and that there would be new music as well, but that there are Howard Ashman lyrics from Disney’s original animated film that will be used in the upcoming live-action movie is great news. The unused lyrics will be mostly in “Gaston,” causing a bunch of…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

You’re Going to Want to Play With This Goopy Modular Instrument

The surfaces of ROLI products practically beg you to touch them. Unlike the slappy, clicky keys or gorilla glass surfaces on most new tech, they’re coated in a responsive, almost fleshlike silicon rubber that’s at once alien and intuitive. So what are you waiting for? For the first time in the company’s history, the it’s…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Very Happy Man Plays Custom CRT Sets Like Bongos

Japanese artist Ei Wada specializes in turning old consumer electronics into new musical instruments. He’s rigged up old CRT TVs to simultaneously function like bongos, transformed AM/FM radios to squeal like a theremin, and converted a busted office fan into a wailing guitar. That and more, it all seems to bring him endless joy. In…

Sploid Rhett Jones

Bruce Springsteen Really Did Write a Song for Harry Potter That Was Wisely Rejected

I am not saying anything bad about Bruce Springsteen. But I do think that his style, amidst all the grade-A Britishness that Harry Potter exudes, might have been a little jarring. Speaking to BBC Radio 2’s Simon Mayo, Springsteen confirmed the longstanding rumor that he had written a song called “I’ll Stand By You Always”…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

The Doctor Strange End Credits Theme Is So Weird It May Actually Be Music From Another Plane of Existence

Seriously, I don’t think anyone was expecting something like this composition from Doctor Strange’s score—and honestly, if the rest of the tracks are like this, it might be the first time in a while a Marvel movie has a memorable original soundtrack. https://kotaku.com/the-forgettable-music-of-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-1786532230 Marvel just released “The Master of the Mystic End Credits,” Michael Giacchino’s…

Movies James Whitbrook

This Tiny Drum Set Sounds Amazingly Good

Who needs a set of fully-tunable miniature drums? A guy who does most of his drumming with a bearded, bandana-wearing puppet. Ricky Syers may not be a household name, but you might recognize the video of his puppet Chops expertly bashing his way through Rush’s “Tom Sawyer.” Back then Chops’ kit was repurposed aluminum cans,…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions

Amazon has just launched its long-awaited Spotify competitor, Amazon Music Unlimited. Like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, and Deezer, Amazon Music Unlimited offers on-demand access to tens of millions of songs. And like those services, it also offers “thousands” of “hand curated playlists” and personalized stations. So why would anyone want Amazon Music Unlimited?…

Commerce Christina Warren

Trippy Video Uses 3D Printing and Stop-Motion Animation to Make a Statue Sing

Here’s a really cool music video that uses 3D printing, stop-motion animation, and projection mapping to make a model come alive to sing a song. It’s a especially trippy, because it’s like seeing a statue start talking out of nowhere. The whole video for the song Magnetic by Dan Sultan took two months to get…

Sploid Casey Chan

People Are Using Britain’s New Plastic Money to Play Vinyl Records

The new plastic polymer £5 notes are bonkers. They can’t be crumpled, are extremely hard (though not impossible) to burn, and some wonky stuff happens if you shine a laser through the queen’s face. By far the strangest revelation about this Money Of The Future? The £5 can be used as a rudimentary record player…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Twin Peaks‘ Synth-Infused Soundtrack Returns In a Haunting New Teaser

As if we couldn’t possibly be more excited for a return to Twin Peaks next year, here’s a minute of Angelo Badalamenti playing Laura’s theme from the original show to make the wait for more even more excruciating. Badalamenti, who composed the original series’ soundtrack, will return for the new season, due to air on…

Television James Whitbrook

Fun Video Hilariously Explains What All Those Random Symbols on Sheet Music Mean

This clever video by Julian Cianciolo explains how to read sheet music and is actually much more enjoyable to watch than you’d imagine, especially if you’re a musician who can read sheet music because you can probably understand all the deadpan explanations, layered in-jokes, and trombone quips. But even if you’re not a musician and…

Sploid Casey Chan

YouTube-to-MP3 Converter Site Sued by Major Record Labels

A group of major record labels—including Universal, Sony, Capitol and Warner Brothers—is suing YouTube-mp3.org, which rips audio from YouTube videos, for every single instance of piracy the site allegedly facilitated. The plaintiffs claim YTMP3 provides and “facilitates…means for its users to engage in copyright infringement, while profiting from the infringement,” as well as violating YouTube’s…

Tech News Eve Peyser

John Carpenter’s New Music Video Is a Dystopian Audio and Visual Delight

The video for “Utopian Façade,” off John Carpenter’s Lost Themes II, isn’t actually directed by the horror master. But directors Gavin Hignight and Ben Verhulst definitely took inspiration from Carpenter’s style—plus some other cool science-fiction influences (can’t resist those Logan’s Run vibes) too. Oh, and you’ll never guess who makes a cameo at the end.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Listen to the First Music Ever Made With a Computer

Researchers from New Zealand have restored the very first recording ever made of computer generated music. The three simple melodies, laid down in 1951, were generated by a machine built by the esteemed British computer scientist Alan Turing. Computer scientist Alan Turing is primarily remembered for being the father of artificial intelligence and for hacking…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Three Months From Release, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Gets a New Composer

No matter what, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will be the first Star Wars film not scored by John Williams. It just won’t be scored by who we thought. The Hollywood Reporter says Michael Giacchino just replaced Alexandre Desplat as the film’s composer. The reason behind the change? Those damned reshoots. Apparently, because the…

Movies Germain Lussier

Watch the Excellent Trailer for RZA’s Live Scoring of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

Music and film fans in Austin and Los Angeles are getting a real treat in the next few weeks. Legendary music guru RZA is performing a live, hip-hop score to the classic kung fu film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, and the trailer is here. RZA will perform the live score three times, twice in…

Trailers Germain Lussier

How to Use Siri to Find New Music

Definitely Expose the Gremlins Vinyl Soundtrack to Sunlight and Water

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a SoundCloud Master

Why the 1978 Superman Soundtrack Works So Damn Well

Disney’s Live-Action Beauty and the Beast Is Using Lyrics Cut From the Original Animated Film

You’re Going to Want to Play With This Goopy Modular Instrument

Very Happy Man Plays Custom CRT Sets Like Bongos

Bruce Springsteen Really Did Write a Song for Harry Potter That Was Wisely Rejected

The Doctor Strange End Credits Theme Is So Weird It May Actually Be Music From Another Plane of Existence

This Tiny Drum Set Sounds Amazingly Good

Amazon Comes for Spotify With Cheaper Music Subscriptions

Trippy Video Uses 3D Printing and Stop-Motion Animation to Make a Statue Sing

People Are Using Britain’s New Plastic Money to Play Vinyl Records

Twin Peaks‘ Synth-Infused Soundtrack Returns In a Haunting New Teaser

Fun Video Hilariously Explains What All Those Random Symbols on Sheet Music Mean

YouTube-to-MP3 Converter Site Sued by Major Record Labels

John Carpenter’s New Music Video Is a Dystopian Audio and Visual Delight

Listen to the First Music Ever Made With a Computer

Three Months From Release, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Gets a New Composer

Watch the Excellent Trailer for RZA’s Live Scoring of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

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