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Spotify Hack Plays Only the Most Dramatic Part of Your Favorite Song

There’s probably a perfect moment in your favorite song where everything just clicks. Wouldn’t it be great to skip right to the zenith of every tune? Music Machinery’s Paul Lamere think so—he’s just devised a Spotify plugin that takes you right to the most dramatic moment of any song. The aptly-named Where Is The Drama…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Aphex Twin’s First New Song in Almost 15 Years Is Sick

I learned to love Aphex Twin in college, not too long after Drukqs melted everyone’s ears off. It’s been a decade and a half since then. I’m getting older. Aphex Twin appears to be getting younger. “Minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]” is the first song to be released off ofAphex Twin’s new album, Syro, and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Monster Now Has Three Wireless Speakers to Pump Your Tunes

Monster has announced three new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speakers at IFA. The S1, S2 and S3—all of incrementally increasing size—offer “extreme clarity, tight articulation and deep pounding bass.” Apparently. Their “elegant leather top surface and sleek, ultra-slim design” is far cry from the bright, angular design of the Jambox, but then that could be just…

Tech News Cary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

NASA Scans Through Vast Amounts of Data By Converting It to Sound

NASA has a lot of satellites, and these satellites have collected months, if not years, of data that can take pretty much forever to sift through. But one clever idea is to turn the measurements of space into sound and speed it up; a month of data might be scanned audibly in all of 10…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Proof That More Metal Music Videos Should Star Dancing Tarantulas

What is the perfect visual companion to the twanging and screaming of sludge metal band The Body’s track The Empty Hearth? How about the twitching dances of a few large and hairy spiders? Bipolār Spider, the same character who gave us the bizarre Rubber Johnny molting tarantula video, is back with Genus, a video that…

io9 Lauren Davis

NYT: Rdio Is Turning Itself Into Spotify With Free Music and Ads

Rdio’s great, but it’s long been the under-featured, overlooked alternative to the likes of Spotify and Rhapsody. Now, the New York Times reports that Rdio is striking out with a new freemium model: abundant free music, with a shed load of ads. So, like Spotify then. Rdio began offering a free radio service last year,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Just Play With the Blocks On These Turntables To Make Music

We’ve heard a lot about tangible interfaces for gadgets lately—but what about tangible interfaces for music? Per Holmquist, a Swedish designer, built just that: Beat Blox, a “turntable” that makes beats based on where you place tiny blocks on its face. Holmquist, who created the project for his thesis at Beckmans College of Design, describes…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Moby’s Gorgeously Subtle New Video Is a Return to His Roots

Moby has gotten so good at doing so many other things— campaigning for politicians, advocating for animals, blogging about architecture—that you might have almost forgotten that he still makes music. His newest video, “The Last Day,” is out today, should you need a reminder. As the latest video off his 2013 album Innocents, “The Last…

Tech News Alissa Walker

LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy Is Making Music Out of Tennis

When LCD Soundsystem split up, it left frontman James Murphy with a lot of time and creative energy on his hands. So he’s been experimenting with a number of weird and esoteric projects, the latest of which is turning tennis data from the U.S. Open into music. https://gizmodo.com/lcd-soundsystems-frontman-wants-to-make-nyc-subways-mu-1529688444 Murphy has teamed up with IBM to…

Tech News Leslie Horn

These Are the 25 Most Popular Spotify Playlists

Part of the beauty of Spotify is the ability to share and create playlists—we do it all the time! Who doesn’t love a good mix compilation? Spotify recently tipped us off to its most popular playlists, so we’ve linked them up for your pleasure. They are as follows: 1) Today’s Top Hits 2) Dance Mega…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Crazy Ping Pong Table Houses a 2,800W Sound System

If you feel like your table tennis set-up needs a little more… oomph, then look no further than Stiga’s new Studio table: a regulation playing surface that happens to pack a 2,800 watt sound system. Beer pong will never be the same again. Lurking beneath the table’s stealth-black surface are eight 6 x 9 speakers,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

With Question Bedtime, MC Frontalot Gives Us a Concept Album

Damian Hess, AKA nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot, is about to turn your afternoon into a fairy tale with his new album, Question Bedtime. It’s a hilarious and gloriously weird cycle of songs (available online now!) retelling the fairy tales you heard before bedtime as a child. Actually, maybe you didn’t hear these folk tales. Strained…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Violinist Discovers That Elephants Dance to Bach

Violinist Eleanor Bartsch decided to take her warm-up yo the local zoo. And discovered that elephants cannot let music go by un-danced to. Batsch was getting ready to play Bach Concerto for Two Violins with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and headed to the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI to rehearse. Her lucky audience was…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Perfect Song for Driving Through the Night

The last thing you might expect to hear on an early 20th century period medical drama about corpse-stealing ambulances and childbirth gone horribly wrong is electronic music. The show in question, The Knick—or Steven Soderbergh and Clive Owen’s Mad Men but with doctors—is by most accounts all right. The music is however, by all accounts,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Disturb Yourself with this Dystopian Music Video Sung Partly in Latin

This is “The Initiation,” the latest single from artist and poet Mykki Blanco, who manages to conjure up an unsettling story of mutants using just one creepy special effect — and an eerie way of walking on all fours while chanting in Latin. There are shades of Mad Max here, as well as gangster movies.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Long-Lost Jim Henson Animation Turns Jazz Music Into Something Visual

Jim Henson may be best known for his puppeteering, but he also created a number of experimental animations, including this one, a visual interpretation of one of jazz great Chico Hamilton’s pieces. The Jim Henson Company recently rediscovered Drums West, one of a number of Henson pieces inspired by Hamilton’s music. Henson created the short…

io9 Lauren Davis

A Guide To Surviving Your First Burning Man

It’s been almost a year since my first trip to Black Rock City and I’m pretty sure that I’m no longer carrying any playa dust on my body. As that magical week approaches, I’ve been seeing first hand and virtually all the chatter and preparation my fellow Burners are going through for their trip “home”.…

Tech News Kien Lam - Where and Wander

Addictive App Lets You Compose And Arrange Music With Shapes

Geometric Music is a free app (download here, or fiddle online) that takes sounds recorded from your environment and assigns them on-screen geometric shapes. Manipulating the shapes and arranging them relative to one another allows the user to build looping, layered musical pieces. Here’s Liz Stinson for Wired: The app works like ultra-simple sample-production software,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

SoundCloud is Getting Ads

SoundCloud has been getting a little more business savvy of recent time, but now the pivotal music service has announced some sad news: it’s getting ads. https://gizmodo.com/how-soundcloud-changed-music-forever-1588811594 From today an ad-supported On SoundCloud program is live—first in the U.S. and then later around the rest of the world. It will allow content creators to monetize…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Haim’s New Sally Jessy Raphael-Style Video Is Pitch Perfect

Haim just can’t move out of the shadow of the 80s. They’ve been compared to Wilson Phillips and lauded for their #dadrock vibes. So why not embrace it? Their new video is gloriously retro as only a sendup of a 1986 daytime talk show can be. The sisters teamed with A$AP Ferg (here’s a little…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Spotify Hack Plays Only the Most Dramatic Part of Your Favorite Song

Aphex Twin’s First New Song in Almost 15 Years Is Sick

Monster Now Has Three Wireless Speakers to Pump Your Tunes

NASA Scans Through Vast Amounts of Data By Converting It to Sound

Proof That More Metal Music Videos Should Star Dancing Tarantulas

NYT: Rdio Is Turning Itself Into Spotify With Free Music and Ads

Just Play With the Blocks On These Turntables To Make Music

Moby’s Gorgeously Subtle New Video Is a Return to His Roots

LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy Is Making Music Out of Tennis

These Are the 25 Most Popular Spotify Playlists

This Crazy Ping Pong Table Houses a 2,800W Sound System

With Question Bedtime, MC Frontalot Gives Us a Concept Album

Violinist Discovers That Elephants Dance to Bach

The Perfect Song for Driving Through the Night

Disturb Yourself with this Dystopian Music Video Sung Partly in Latin

Long-Lost Jim Henson Animation Turns Jazz Music Into Something Visual

A Guide To Surviving Your First Burning Man

Addictive App Lets You Compose And Arrange Music With Shapes

SoundCloud is Getting Ads

Haim’s New Sally Jessy Raphael-Style Video Is Pitch Perfect

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