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The Tiny Music Box On This Watch Plays Sinatra At the Top Of Every Hour

In an effort to further differentiate their high-end products, luxury watchmakers are continuing to move farther away from precious metals and jewels, and focusing more on wacky novelty features. So instead of just chiming at the top of every hour, Ulysse Nardin’s Stranger watch plays Frank Sinatra’s 1966 hit Strangers In the Night on a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

90-year-old Stan Lee is a parkour master with his own theme song, obviously

Stan Lee has done plenty in his 90 years on this planet Earth, but now you can add “parkour master” to his titles of “creator of some of the greatest comics characters of all time” and “movie cameo star.” Watch Stan jump, roll and climb his way through L.A. with skills that would even inpress…

io9 Rob Bricken

Scientists Have Made Graphene Earphones, and They’re Amazing

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has created the first ever pair of graphene-based earphones. It might not surprise you to find out that they’re utterly incredible. In fact, in its raw state, a single sheet of graphene—with no special tweaks or tuning of its properties—provided a frequency response comparable to…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Report: Twitter Is Working on Its Own Music App

Acquisitions usually aren’t for nothing, and CNET is reporting that Twitter’s purchase of music discovery app We Are Hunted last year means its own standalone music app is allegedly on the way very soon. Called Twitter Music, the app would debut on iOS, supposedly as early as the end of the month. Apparently it will…

Tech News Leslie Horn

V-Moda Vamp Verza: The Fanciest Audio Accessory for Your Phone

Last Year, V-Moda made a specially designed headphone amp/DAC case for the iPhone. It was awesome, but way too expensive for what it did. V-Moda’s new Vamp Verza is an infinitely more flexible product you can use with iPhones and Android phones and even your computer—but it might fall flat for exactly the same reason…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Magic Radio Creates Streaming Radio Stations Based on Your Music Library

Internet radio is getting smarter all the time. The newest spin on streaming music comes from the folks at DoubleTwist. Just sync up your existing music library with the DoubleTwist music player for Android, and the app will create radio stations personalized to what you already like. DoubleTwist’s Magic Radio can work like all the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Will Streaming Music Ever Be a Sustainable Business?

For almost ten years, streaming music services have come and gone. Sure, some have lasted longer than others, but so far none has ever made the business model work properly. So can it ever turn into a real, sustainable business? Verge has an interesting feature asking that very question. From the article: [W]hile streaming looks…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A Symphony Played by Exercising Mice Fits Any City’s Budget

The cultural significance of a city is often gauged by how talented its local symphony is. But living in a small town that can’t even round up a decent quartet doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy a night at the local concert hall. Just round up 40 mice and a few music boxes. Created by a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

“The Trouble with Tribbles” retold to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble”

Josh Millard wrote and performed this musical retelling of the classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles,” with a little help from Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble.” Let “I Knew You Were Tribbles” serve as a warning to anyone who brings furry little breeders home without getting their full backstory. [via Neatorama]

io9 Lauren Davis

Go Get Your 7.39 GB of Free SXSW Music

There’s a lot of tech stuff going down at SXSW between the talking shoes and the projection-effect pool tables and whathaveyou, but at the end of the day, music is still a huge part. A 7.39 GB part. And you can go grab it all for free right now. https://gizmodo.com/googles-got-a-talking-shoe-because-wearable-computing-5989725 For the ninth year running,…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Fantastic Four become the Beatles when superheroes invade classic album covers

Last week’s edition of the always stellar The Line It is Drawn art mashup series at Comics Should Be Good made the Fantastic Four as big as the Beatles. The brilliant fanartists took up the challenge of CSBG readers to place superheroes on album covers, casting the Teen Titans as Gorillaz, the various Robins as…

io9 Lauren Davis

What a trombonist’s lips look like from inside the trombone

Trombonist David Finlayson gives us a very unusual perspective on his instrument and the human body with this video shot from inside a trombone. These lips belong to Peter Ellefson, a trombone professor at Indiana University, and was shot by Jay Bulen, a trombone professor at Truman State University. Together, these three trombonists help us…

io9 Lauren Davis

Report: Apple Is Being a Massive Cheapskate with Its Music Streaming Service

Of course this would happen. According to the New York Post, Apple is lowballing record labels for the rights to use their music in a new music streaming service. The Post reports today that Apple is offering labels 6 cents per 100 listens. That’s a far cry from the 12 cents per 100 that Pandora…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Another major band to record another Game of Thrones song

Since it worked out so well when HBO hired The National to record “The Rains of Castamere” in the second season of Game of Thrones, it should probably be no surprise that The Hold Steady have also been hired to sing one of the series’ iconic tunes. Specifically, they’ll perform “The Bear and the Maiden…

io9 Rob Bricken

A beautiful music video whose handmade effects will fill you with awe

Sometimes you need something heartfelt and sappy, especially when it’s a gorgeous music video all about the wonders of the natural world. Adam Makarenko directed this new video for Canadian singer-songwriter Royal Wood, and he writes in to io9 to explain that it was all done with “stop motion miniatures made to feel like real…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Apple Talked to Beats About Beats’ Streaming Music Service

Reuters is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook had met with Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine about Beats’ upcoming streaming music service ‘Project Daisy’. Supposedly, Cook was interested in Project Daisy’s “business model and its rollout plans” and did not get into specifics about any deal. https://gizmodo.com/beats-electronics-is-getting-its-own-streaming-music-se-5974945 [Reuters, Image by Getty]

Tech News Casey Chan

Old Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorders Put to Innovative Use: Techno

Reel-to-reel tape machines are hugely outdated these days. Justifiable reasons to use them are dwindling. Unless you are like Wouter van Veldhoven, in which case you are a tape-machine wielding musical genius. The above 14-minute jam demonstrates four different tape recorder techniques that van Veldhoven uses to make what he calls “minimal techno”. It’s hard…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How To Turn Fruits And Vegetables Into a Delicious Musical Instrument

If you wanted to learn an unconventional instrument, maybe you’d opt for the accordion or the glockenspiel. J.viewz decided to build his own. Out of fruits and vegetables. Sure, he didn’t have to use fruits and vegetables to create the effect, but it just wouldn’t be the same without them. Song’s not half bad either.…

Tech News Eric Limer

Listen to 15 seconds of a brand new Daft Punk track—but when will we hear more?

Your favorite music making robot duo Daft Punk is back and they’ve brought new tunes! Listen to a brief tease of the latest Daft Punk track (which premiered last night on SNL). The sounds are delightful, but everything else is left open. All we really know is that Daft Punk will be releasing their sweet…

Television Meredith Woerner

Gary Busey sings a very different ballad of Bilbo Baggins

When we last saw famed actor/lunatic Gary Busey, he was talking incoherently (which I know is kind of redundant when describing Gary Busey, but bear with me) about Hobbits. Today, Busey is back to educate us further on these tiny denizens of Middle-Earth, specifically their proclivity for fucking each other. In fact, the subject of…

io9 Rob Bricken

The Tiny Music Box On This Watch Plays Sinatra At the Top Of Every Hour

90-year-old Stan Lee is a parkour master with his own theme song, obviously

Scientists Have Made Graphene Earphones, and They’re Amazing

Report: Twitter Is Working on Its Own Music App

V-Moda Vamp Verza: The Fanciest Audio Accessory for Your Phone

Magic Radio Creates Streaming Radio Stations Based on Your Music Library

Will Streaming Music Ever Be a Sustainable Business?

A Symphony Played by Exercising Mice Fits Any City’s Budget

“The Trouble with Tribbles” retold to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble”

Go Get Your 7.39 GB of Free SXSW Music

The Fantastic Four become the Beatles when superheroes invade classic album covers

What a trombonist’s lips look like from inside the trombone

Report: Apple Is Being a Massive Cheapskate with Its Music Streaming Service

Another major band to record another Game of Thrones song

A beautiful music video whose handmade effects will fill you with awe

Apple Talked to Beats About Beats’ Streaming Music Service

Old Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorders Put to Innovative Use: Techno

How To Turn Fruits And Vegetables Into a Delicious Musical Instrument

Listen to 15 seconds of a brand new Daft Punk track—but when will we hear more?

Gary Busey sings a very different ballad of Bilbo Baggins

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