Harmonix is best known for video games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and cluttering up your living room with fake plastic instruments. Its next music game, however, trades guitars and drum sets for collectible cards that has aspiring DJs competing to remix songs—like playing Yu-Gi-Oh in the club.
Can you believe “Weird Al” Yankovic has been parodying popular music for 33 years now? It’s a testament to his talents as a musician and songwriter that he’s still around all these years later, and if you’re as big a fan of “Weird Al” now as you were in the ‘80s, a new box set of all his albums—including some new…
Sucks to be anyone who enters a Halloween costume contest and finds themselves up against the ridiculously talented craftsmen at LoveProps. They just completed work on this flawless replica of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s Daft Punk helmet that’s as gorgeous as it is fully-functional.
It’s easy to walk right past most street buskers whose performances are often more annoying than entertaining. But were to you come across this guy, who masterfully blends the art of juggling with drumming while staying in perfect rhythm to the music he’s playing, you’d feel guilty about not emptying your entire…
If you thought Aubrey Graham’s career peaked at playing Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation, apparently a bunch of other stuff also happened after he left the show that now warrants an entire coloring book dedicated to his life and accomplishments.
This adorable little girl gets to live every kid’s dream and turn her arm into an animated rocket cannon that blasts bad guys. The music video for Grades’ song King was made by Taichi Kimura and features Laika Takasu dancing (really well!) around an empty school as animation enemies sprout all around her.
The music video for Opiuo’s song Quack Fat uses 240 audio cassettes, 5,600 feet of video tape, 108 floppy discs and 1 Walkman to make an awesome stop motion animation that brings back memories of nostalgic technology and old video games like Space Invaders and Pong. The song is fun and catchy too.
The music video for Fantasía—by Spanish band Fur Voice—seems to come straight out of Salvador Dali's mind. The video—directed by Spanish director Pablo Mestres—is full of surrealistic images and uncanny dreamy sequences that made my brain hurt—in a pleasant way.
During a performance a band is completely reliant on its drummer for setting the rhythm, but what about during rehearsal when a musician is practicing alone? Or when a musical group doesn't have a drummer? That's where this new wearable comes in. It doesn't tell time, it doesn't have notifications, and it can't run…
Forgive me for being enchanted with this beautiful music video for Jack and the Giant's song A Love Like Pi. I feel like I'm following orbs with unique personalities traveling through space. Or like watching comets burn as they complete their journey to different planets. In reality though, I'm just watching soap…
Jack White's music video for his latest single That Black Bat Licorice is three videos in one. If you just hit play you'll see an animation of Jack White. If you hit "3" while the video is playing, you will get a live action version of the first one. And if you hit "B", a video of people headbanging like mad.
I love Innocent, the new track by Hundred Waters—a band from Gainesville, Florida, that sounds more European than American. This song sounds to me like a genetic experiment between old school Goldfrapp—think the amazing Utopia—and something Kate Bush. Ish. The video is excellent too.
In what has to be one of the shortest shoots ever, all it took to make this three and a half minute music video was five seconds of filming. That seems like some pretty good bang for your buck! The trick was that a Phantom 4K camera inhaled those five seconds at 1000FPS to create this moving mural painting of a music…
Neat animation effects in this video directed by Ernest Desumbila for Lighten Up, the latest song by Citizens! This London band kind of reminds me of Phoenix after going through a dance club blender mixed with some LCD Soundsystem and Pet Shop Boys ice. Good track to drive around LA, destination unknown.
French animator Kadavre Exquis just sent us another beautiful video he directed for electronic-pop band Equateur. The song, called Cheval Noir, and its video are a continuation of their previous EP Lava—already featured here. Both combined seem like the different levels of a cool video game.
This music video for Tide: The Paradox Effect—a new song by R&B singer Dawn Richard—shows a female warrior fighting her way towards the sun in a strange world full of destruction and mayhem. The video was made by directing duo We Were Monkeys.
Here's the music video for She & Him's song Stay Awhile. It's a lovely stroll that follows Zooey Deschanel dancing around with an invisible person inside a bedroom, a living room and the clouds. Dancing alone is always the best since no one is watching but dancing with an invisible person looks even better.
Eclectic Method's latest song is called 'Droids of Star Wars' and it uses footage and sounds (mostly from our favorite droids) from the original trilogy and the ignored second trilogy. It's going to be a part of a series that summaries the first 6 movies as the world prepares for Episode VII.
Instead of making videos from scratch, Californian band DUM gets famous movies like Star Wars, Home Alone, or The Neverending Story and substitutes the characters' faces for their own. The result is not perfect, but it is fun to watch. Also, their track Get Back is quite funky.
Yesterday was the anniversary of one of the most surreal music performances in TV story: 35 years ago David Bowie ushered the 1980s in Saturday Night Live. The producers censored a gay reference in the last of his three-song set—but they missed him repeatedly showing a giant penis at the end of it. [NSFW-ish]
