Music

Maybe The Internet Only Wants One of Everything

In the early days of the web, the technology space was flush with not only money, but a specific type of optimism: that this new medium would allow anybody to make whatever they wanted, and have the world see it (assuming it was any good). This was before Facebook, of course. If you wanted to…

The greatest music video about a Neon Pegasus that you’ll see all year

Some days, you just need to listen to an upbeat, unironic song about a neon pegasus who can fly over giant mechanical octopodes, fought the battle over Cupcake Mountain, and defeated the gluten-powered armada of the Gummy King. Fortunately, Parry Gripp has just such a song. If this animated music video, with art by Sarah…

Chocolate Record Woos Your Tastebuds and Destroys Your Needles

Vinyl records have been supplanted by other musical formats many times over by now, but a band called BreakBot has found the perfect way to help vinyl reclaim its popularity—delicious chocolate records! That’s right, the band’s latest album, By Your Side, can be purchased in two unique flavors—horribly inedible and possibly dangerous-to-consume plastic, or exquisite…

Top 7 Most Metal Science Fiction Premises

Science fiction and heavy metal rub up against each other in many ways. They’re both implicitly concerned with technology — metal has machine rhythms and electric instruments. They both grapple with difficult questions about human nature. And both canons include huge swathes of art that focuses on the grossest, saddest, most desolate subjects available. This…

Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze

Jimi Hendrix was one of the greatest guitar players of all time—something that still rings true today. Forty-two years ago, he was tragically found dead at the age of 27. In honor of the late rock star, here’s a video of him tearing up the classic “Purple Haze” at Woodstock. His unforgettable performance happened a…

Futuristic New Music Videos by Cat Power and Baron Von Luxxury: Rayguns and Jumpsuits in the Desert!

Both of these new music videos are pretty fun — although neither of them is quite up to the standard of Christina Hendricks selling off her body parts in space. Still, they’re both entertaining little mini-movies, in which pop stars deal with zombies and space people in the desert. Both clearly filmed in a weekend,…

Amphones Help You Shred In Silence If Your Neighbors Are Jerks

“If it’s too loud,” the saying goes, “the neighbors are going to call the cops and screw up your late-night shred session.” In an attempt to solve this eternal conundrum, the guitar amplification specialists at Vox have teamed up with the headphone geniuses Audio Technica to create Amphones. Yes, guitar amplifier headphones. It’s a preposterous…

How Do You Share Music Between Devices at Home?

There have never been more ways to stream and share music in your home. But how do you do it? Are you fully sold on Sonos? An avid fan of Apple’s Airplay? Or perhaps you run some geeky central server that feeds music to the rest of your house using some home-brew streaming solution? However…

Now You Can Tag Live TV With Shazam

Shazam, the app that lets you tag music to work out what it is, just got far more interesting. From now on, the app will be capable of tagging any TV show, to let you know what music it’s using, who’s acting in it, and whatever the hell else information you need. The company’s apparently…

Bill Withers: Use Me

Sometimes you find yourself in an awful relationship with no way out. Your friends tell you need to quit the situation, but you just can’t. Something about it still feels good. In those times, Bill Withers’ words just sound so right. I wanna spread the news/if it feels this good getting used/just keep on using…

You can now stream 458 archived John Peel radio shows, recorded between 1967 and 2004, online. Rock on. [SevenStreets]

5 Reasons Why Spotify in Your Browser Is a Good Idea

A Saturday TechCrunch report about a browser-based version of Spotify led to thousands of posts over the weekend. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-could-finally-be-coming-to-a-browser-near-you-5941639 The odd thing about Spotify’s reported makeover as a web app: Its status as a desktop client is responsible for at least some degree of its success. Being a desktop app allows Spotify to gobble upstream…

Did Muse rip off a songwriter’s science fiction rock opera?

Muse’s 2009 album The Resistance won raves for its prog-rock storylines about humanity fleeing the Earth and exploring the galaxy. But did Muse come up with all of this space-rock-opera gold on their own? Songwriter Charles Bolfrass claims not. In a newly filed lawsuit, Bolfrass says he conceived a “cinematic rock opera” called Exogenesis, and…

Spotify Could Finally Be Coming to a Browser Near You

If you’ve wished you could just load Spotify up in a browser of your choice instead of messing with a dedicated player, you’re in luck. TechCrunch has gotten word that Spotify is working on a brower-based player to augment the one it has now, or even replace it. Coming to browsers isn’t the only change…

A goblin battles his terrible office job in this hilarious metal video

Goblins should be roaming free in the dark forests, battling humans and searching for treasure, not cooped up in some dreary office job dealing with a douchie coworker named Brad. Nekrogoblikon‘s video for their song “No One Survives” pays tribute to anyone who’s ever been a cubicle-dwelling goblin — or anyone who’s felt like one.…

When a middle-aged Canadian children’s singer raps about dinosaurs, shit gets very real

Who loves getting crazy on Friday nights? Awww yeah, I see you in the back, dusting your trilobite collection, you’re the real rawness. Who loves getting fucked up and looking at SHALE? Everybody’s raising their hands — yeah, that’s necessary. For those motherfuckers who plan on getting so maniac tonight you’ll believe stegosauruses can fly,…

7 Great Android Apps You Can’t Get on the Kindle Fire

So, Amazon doesn’t exactly highlight this, but all of its Kindle Fires are Androids on the inside. Amazon slaps a heavy skin on top, so it’s not at all recognizable, but it’s Android all the same. Great, so you get access to all of the Android apps, right? Not exactly. Amazon has strayed far enough…

Is This the Least Elegant Soundbar Ever?

Sometimes, you don’t want your technology sleek, discreet and refined: you want it big, tough and purposeful instead. So if the recent glut of streamlined soundbars isn’t to your taste, how about this burly sound box instead? https://gizmodo.com/picky-panasonic-soundbar-only-streams-airplay-tunes-5897514 Proficient Audio‘s new MaxTV MT2 speaker box is designed to have a TV sat on top of…

Apple Might Be Trying to Launch Its Own Pandora Knock Off

The Wall Street Journal tonight is reporting that Apple may indeed be looking to launch its own streaming radio service, much like the one offered by Pandora. Such a service would represent a major strategic shift for Apple, branching out beyond its hardware market to expand its stake in the online music-listening game. Pandora creates…

Future Islands: Grease

Last year, Future Islands released the album On the Water, and they’ve been touring ever since. The record was—and is—odd and lovely and wildly underrated. And the beautiful, slightly sad, new video for “Grease” embodies all those sentiments. Shot in a gorgeous 360 degree panning style, the black and white video is a slice often…