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The Music Video For The Hobbit‘s Final Song Will Give You Chills

Billy Boyd (who played loyal hobbit and silken-voiced songster Pippin in The Lord of The Rings) will lend his vocal talents once again to The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. Here’s the official music video for”The Last Goodbye,” which will play over the film’s end credits. Going to be totally honest here: This gave…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

What would happen if you lived in a country with only terrible music

I totally agree with what this ad for Belgium-based radio station Studio Brussel says: Good music is a human right. Or at least, the United Nations should ban You’re Beautiful and James Blunt from everyfreakingwhere. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

7 Pieces of Album Art From the Golden Age of Disco Design

What’s hot, sweaty, and filled with sexual innuendo? I’m talking about disco—what did you think I was talking about?—but I’m also talking about the design that was created to sell this era of suddenly decadent lifestyles. The new book Disco: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records includes over 2000 (!) album…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Google Just Gave You a Good Reason to Quit Spotify

I signed up for Spotify three years ago, the day the service launched in the United States. $400 in subscription fees later, I’m still a member, and I’ve never regretted the money for a second. But for the first time since joining, I’m actually tempted to leave. YouTube Music Key might just win me over.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Singing Pirate Christopher Walken Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Peter Pan Live! has released even more dancing and singing footage from the dress rehearsal of their soon-to-be-live and televised musical show. If there was any doubt that there is magic in this world, please let the pausing and mugging Walken clear that up for you. Casting Walken in this role was probably the smartest…

Television Meredith Woerner

Free Google Cardboard App Lets You Stand on Stage With Paul McCartney

Google’s cheap virtual reality solution—a piece of folded cardboard—is perhaps the best thing to happen to VR in a long while. And now it lets you stand right there on stage with Paul McCartney. https://gizmodo.com/turn-your-android-into-a-virtual-reality-headset-with-g-1596026538 An app created by Jaunt allows you to experience what it was like to be on stage with Paul and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Quirky’s Ohm Bluetooth Speaker Charges Wirelessly So It’s Always Ready

Portable Bluetooth speakers are awesome and convenient until, inevitably, you want to take yours somewhere and it’s out of batteries. This new speaker from Quirky is less likely to suffer this indignity because it charges wirelessly. On the surface, the $170 Ohm is a pretty standard Bluetooth speaker block that allows you to play music…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

When Singing to No One In Particular Was The Hot New Thing

Back in 1910 the highest paid singer in the world was blazing trails into the future. Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso reportedly pulled in a quarter of his $200,000 income (about $4.8 million adjusted for inflation) from singing to an audience of nobody. Which is to say, he was singing for recordings that would be…

Tech News Matt Novak

1 percent of recording artists earn 77 percent of recorded music revenue

Thanks to the internet, there are now more ways than ever to get music. But this hasn’t allowed smaller artists to get a bigger share of the financial pie. In fact, the top 1 percent of artists now collect 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music. The Atlantic has a new story out about…

Tech News Matt Novak

BitTorrent Now Lets Anyone Release an Album as a Paid-For Bundle

Earlier this year, Thom Yorke released his new album on BitTorrrent, selling it in a package that had to be paid for. Now, BitTorrent will let any artist release an album as a paid-for bundle. Just in case you’ve missed how bundles work on BitTorrent, here’s a refresher: Basically, a bundle is really just a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

First Peter Pan Live Clip Gives AMAZING Christopher Walken

NBC’s Peter Pan Live! show is nearing its official air date. In hopes of getting us all very, very excited, the studio has released a snippet of dress rehearsal footage, and Christopher Walken’s Captain Hook is already stealing the show. When we heard that Christopher Walken would be performing the role of Captain Hook for…

Television Meredith Woerner

All Special Effects In This Music Video Show Off Scientific Concepts

Nigel Stanford’s song Cymatics is named for the study of visible sound vibrations, and we see sound made visible in this music video. In fact, this video is a treasure trove of science, with ferrofluid, Chladni plates, Tesla coils, and a fiery Ruben’s tube. Shahir Daud directed the music video for Cymatics, a track from…

io9 Lauren Davis

Fugazi: First Demo

Fugazi is my favorite band, so it’s deeply saddening to me that the DC post-hardcore legends have been on hiatus for nearly a decade. They’ll probably never make music again. But in the absence of new tunes to sink my teeth into, I’ll settle for their demo, which was recorded 26 years ago. Next week,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Listen To Pippin’s Beautiful Return Song From The New Hobbit Movie

Pippin will return in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. Or, at the very least, he’ll appear on the soundtrack. Actor Billy Boyd has returned to Middle Earth to lend his pipes (yet again) to the drums of war. And you can listen to his entire song right now. The aptly titled tune, “The…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ol’ Dirty Bastard: Shimmy Shimmy Ya

Today marks 10 years since rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard died. So let’s take a minute to remember ol’ Dirt McGirt. Here’s Shimmy Shimmy Ya, off ODB’s 1995 solo debut, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version. I’m not here to argue if it’s the best ODB song. You guys can duke that one out…

Tech News Leslie Horn

World Premiere: “Sweat On Me” by Flynt Flossy & Turquoise Jeep

Winter is coming. For much of the world, it’s already cold, wet, and terrible out there. We need a legit dancehall banger to heat things up. Well, ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes and bodies on this Gizmodo-exclusive world premiere. It’s “Sweat On Me,” from Flynt Flossy and the crew at Turquoise Jeep Records. The…

Tech News Brent Rose

This CD DJ Deck Doesn’t Play CDs

You’re looking at Pioneer’s new XDJ-1000 DJ deck. What’s special about it? It’s the first deck of its kinds to, err, not play CDs. Pioneer’s original CDJ -1000 ushered in a shift among many DJs to stick their vinyl in a closet and instead play using CDs. But now the CD’s practically dead, so decks…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Taylor Swift Says Spotify Pays Out Way Less Than They Claim

First, Taylor Swift and her managementpulled the singer’s music from Spotifyover claims of paltry royalty payments. Then Spotifystruck back, explaining its royalty pay outs were actually quite large. Now, Swift is questioning Spotify’s numbers. Spotify explained that it handed out $1 billion in royalties to labels in 2014 alone, with Swift on track to bag…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Incredible music video shows how science experiments react to music

Sound makes funny shapes. We don’t usually see it in real life but when you put together water and sand with speakers bumping at different frequencies, you’ll start seeing spirals and kaleidoscopes and other wild objects. This new video by Nigel Stanford and directed by Shahir Daud features all those awesome cymatics in action. SPLOID…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Man Going Deaf Can “Hear” Wi-Fi Signals

Losing your hearing can be a frighteningly isolating experience. But instead of trying to replace the audible landscape he began losing at age 20, science writer Frank Swain decided to find a way to listen in on something humans can’t hear: the hum of Wi-Fi all around us. In this essay for New Scientist, Swain…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Music Video For The Hobbit‘s Final Song Will Give You Chills

What would happen if you lived in a country with only terrible music

7 Pieces of Album Art From the Golden Age of Disco Design

Google Just Gave You a Good Reason to Quit Spotify

Singing Pirate Christopher Walken Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Free Google Cardboard App Lets You Stand on Stage With Paul McCartney

Quirky’s Ohm Bluetooth Speaker Charges Wirelessly So It’s Always Ready

When Singing to No One In Particular Was The Hot New Thing

1 percent of recording artists earn 77 percent of recorded music revenue

BitTorrent Now Lets Anyone Release an Album as a Paid-For Bundle

First Peter Pan Live Clip Gives AMAZING Christopher Walken

All Special Effects In This Music Video Show Off Scientific Concepts

Fugazi: First Demo

Listen To Pippin’s Beautiful Return Song From The New Hobbit Movie

Ol’ Dirty Bastard: Shimmy Shimmy Ya

World Premiere: “Sweat On Me” by Flynt Flossy & Turquoise Jeep

This CD DJ Deck Doesn’t Play CDs

Taylor Swift Says Spotify Pays Out Way Less Than They Claim

Incredible music video shows how science experiments react to music

A Man Going Deaf Can “Hear” Wi-Fi Signals

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