Hollywood actress Samantha Morton has directed this freshly dropped video for The Kills. Here it is. What it is: a gussied up Alison Mosshart mugging at the camera and it really looks like an Andy Warhol screen test. Then, the guy who is banging Kate Moss shows up. Read more »
Here’s a little clip from the New York City subway to warm your heart on an icy day. Although we can’t verify it, according to the person who uploaded this footage to YouTube and the emcee featured in the clip, the two musicians performing never met each other. The full account below: Read more »
If you’ve turned on your various media boxes at all in the past few days, you might have heard that a certain Radiohead has been playing in town this week. Indie-hysteria over tickets have crept to an all time “eh” with plenty of people offering their first born, a fancy dinner and just about all manners of trade to get the elusive tickets. Read more »
As previously teased, here’s that power pop music video fantasy, wherein the Lindsay Lohan is a successful actress by day, a mysterious “world famous street artist” by night and someone very famous who still gets invited to shit later that same night. Read more »
Following “outrage,” avant garde composer Steve Reich is self-censoring Masatomo Kuriya’s cover image of a second plane about to this the WTC from his WTC 9/11 album. It’s comprised of amplified recordings of first responders, kids saying “suddenly it was black outside,” shmira prayers over victims’ body parts and violin drones from the Kronos Quartet who made Requiem for a Dream into horror. Yeah, it’s the photo that’s a little much. Read more »
Back when the Soviet superiors were fiercely censoring everything fun, people got crafty, especially those with a friend who could swipe some X-rays from a hospital. They would use the loot to make copies of black market Elvis in the middle of the night, lest they get caught and thrown out of school or fired from their jobs. The risk was worth that coveted Heartbreak Hotel ribcage. Read more »
Appropriation artists beware! Andy Baio of Waxy.org created Kind of Bloop, a chip-tunes version of the legendary ‘Kind of Blue’ album by Miles Davis. Awesome… until he got sued for copyright infringement of the cover. Read more »
Inspired by F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl’s NYC project Dead Drops, French musical collective Emmanuelle has installed two Glory Walls in Paris, with more coming. Essentially, these are two public USB sticks with the band’s MP3s, but vulgar! Read more »
Here’s Yo Landi in a new Die Antwoord video, distracting you from the “Rich Bitch” song quality with her gold underwear and desperately baiting a death threat from Lil Kim. Meanwhile, Harmony Korine will screen his Landi + Ninja + wheelchairs + guns short at SXSW. Read more »
No one even wants to steal music anymore, according to an internet bandwidth usage analysis commissioned by NBC. Music makes up a mere 2.9% of all copyright infringing downloads; porn makes up 35.8%. However, online content is by no means trending strictly legal: The study (PDF doc) also notes that 23.76% of all internet traffic is “infringing.” You thieves.
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