Music

YouTube Censors Bowie’s New Music Video Full of Depraved Priests

YouTube has deleted David Bowie’s new music video (NFSW) for the song The Next Day arguing that it goes against the site’s terms of service. The video stars Gary Oldman as a priest and Marion Cotillard as a martyr dancing in a bar full of semi-naked saints and catholic priests. At one point, Cotillard’s stigmata…

I Want These Daft Punk Lego Minifigs More Than Their New Album

Daft Punk’s next official album, Random Access Memories, drops in just over a couple of weeks which might as well be an eternity for die hard fans. But while I’m as excited as anyone for the duo’s next outing, I have to say I’m even more excited by these unofficial Daft Punk Lego minifigs. Created…

A head-banging musical remix of the Iron Man films with Black Sabbath

There are spoilers for Iron Man 3 in audiovisual producer Mike Relm’s latest remix video, which mashes all three Iron Man movies with Black Sabbath’s classic song “Iron Man.” But if you’ve already seen the film (or don’t mind a few spoilers), it’s mix sure to get your blood pumping. This is by no means…

Possibly the Best Music Discovery System Yet

In the digital age of “nichification” it’s often easier to find lots of things you already like, while inadvertently walling yourself off from experiencing new things that you don’t know about yet. When it comes to music, recommendation systems like Pandora’s can help you discover music you may not have heard before, but that music…

All Things D is reporting that Spotify has acquired Tunigo, a music discovery engine with a popular Spotify app, for an undisclosed sum. Basically, hopefully, one day soon Spotify will offer up its own killer recs for new music.

KITT learns about the magic of music in the dumbest Knight Rider ever

Given David Hasslehoff’s bizarre European musical career, you might think that a Knight Rider episode centered around a very special concert would feature Hasslehoff singing and that it would be completely terrible. As it turns out, you’d be half right — “Knight Song” (sigh) is completely terrible, but at least Hasslehoff stays off stage. The…

Minister Faust explains the meaning of George Clinton’s Mothership

George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic made an indelible mark on both music and science fiction, with their afro-futurist space voyages. But what the funk does it all mean? The Alchemists of Kush author Minister Faust explains, in a new excerpt from the Adventure Rocketship anthology. The Adventure Rocketship anthology is the first volume of a new…

This fan video of Starships is sheer unadulterated joy

This fan video of Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” — packed with clips of your favorite spaceships and their crews — will fill you with love for the great, big universe. The video by bironic premiered at Vividcon last year, and she notes all the sources here: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien/Aliens, Apollo 13, Archer, Battlestar Galactica…

Empire of the Sun’s new music video has that Buck Rogers season 2 vibe

Remember season two of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, when Hawk joined the cast and suddenly there were a lot more zany helmets and location shoots in the same handful of SoCal planets? This music video is sublimely like that. Empire of the Sun’s new video “Alive” is kind of splendid, with the glowy…

The Secret Twitter Music Feature That Adds a Dash of Pandora

Twitter’s stab at music streaming burst onto the scene a few weeks ago, in all its celebrity-stalking glory. But there’s at least one feature that’s still hiding behind the scenes: a Pandora-like “similar artists” option. And you can coax it out if you know the secret code. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-music-hands-on-a-celeb-stalking-music-discov-5994969 Discovered by Tyler Hayes the feature can…

Die Antwoord to play themselves in Neill Blomkamp’s Scifi Comedy

South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord will be in Neill Blomkamp’s new robot comedy Chappie, as themselves. Which… of course they are! This makes perfect sense. Hell,Yolandi Visser has been singing about this day for a while now. https://gizmodo.com/neill-blomkamps-next-movie-a-robot-comedy-5926224 Die Burger is reporting that Visser and her other half Ninja will be appearing in the…

AOL Music Is Dead

Today, AOL pink-slipped editorial employees at its news sites, and started the embarrassing process of shutting down many—but not all—of the brands associated with the vertical. There has been no official statement from AOL master control (yet), but the dismissed staff from the sites are generating crazy buzz about the meltdown. The hype is so…

Hated Learning Piano As a Kid? At Least It Wasn’t the Wheelharp

The Wheelharp looks like a musical creation dating back to the time of Beethoven and Mozart, but believe it or not it’s not an antique. It’s a modern instrument co-invented by Jon Jones and Mitchell Manger, based on an instrument created just over ten years ago by Jones as a way to let a single…

I guess this guy really likes Sailor Moon

Also, he really likes construction paper, apparently. This is Evan MacIsaac, performing the song “Do My Thing” by Estelle and Janelle Monáe, in the cheapest but possibly most inspired cosplay I’ve ever seen. I’m genuinely impressed. And confused. And possibly mildly traumatized. [Via iGeektrooper]

These Super-Sleek Headphones Are Inspired By High-End HiFi

KEF is one of those companies that quietly gets one with making amazing—and expensive—HiFi equipment. Now, however, it’s decided to apply its knowledge of HiFi and branch out into headphones—and these things promise to be amazing. https://gizmodo.com/high-design-speakers-music-to-your-ears-and-murder-to-5803731 There’s a very clean and clear aesthetic to both pairs of headphones—both the on-ear M500s and the in-ear…

Rancid (with Sol Lewitt) – Learn to Say F*ck You to the World

The world is brimming with haters ready and more than willing to tell you just how much you suck and can’t do a damn thing right. But never mind them. If you’ve got something to express, it’s your responsibility to express it. Sol Lewitt, an American artist at the forefront of the 1960’s minimalist movement,…

All Music Boxes Should Look Like Bond Villain Speedboats

MB&F is known for its horological creations that eschew the form factors of traditional watch design. But the company has now taken its expertise in designing mechanical timekeeping wonders and applied it to the world of music boxes, resulting in what looks like a cross between a hydroplane and a retroriffic time machine. https://gizmodo.com/this-watch-is-like-strapping-a-muscle-car-to-your-wrist-5965834 The…

Daft Punk’s New Single Totally Sounds Like a Michael Jackson Disco Jam

Fans of forward-looking music have at least two things to be excited about this spring: new albums from Boards of Canada (which is teasing fans with the rarest vinyl released this year) and Daft Punk, whose Random Access Memories is set for a May 20th release. On Friday, Daft Punk dropped the “Get Lucky” single…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Remix Their New Single Using An 8-Bit Plugin and 45 Different NES Games

Releasing an album is a brutal, labor-intensive process, rife with sleepless nights and self doubt. For Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Detroit indie pop band whose latest EP, Patterns, came out on April 16, stress relief came not from cigarettes or sizzurp, but from an 8-bit plugin. “We were all stressed out with rehearsing and…

The Game of Thrones theme, as played on a bell tower

The 56-bell carillon at the University of Wisconsin is the latest ridiculous way people have decided to cover the Game of Thrones theme song. It’s performed by UW’s carilloneur and amateur Jeor Mormont impersonator Lyle Anderson. FYI, I’m pretty sure this leaves wine glasses and milk jugs as the only instruments that haven’t been used…