Tag: Music
After their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Barclays Center last night, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl headed to Greenpoint’s St. Vitus Bars, where they played a late-night set of Nirvana songs, fronted by the likes of Joan Jett, Annie Clark, Kim Gordon, and J. Mascis. Some highlights: “Heart Shaped Box” […]
For the past three years and change, Isac Walter has been wearing a different band t-shirt every single day, documenting his outfits on his blog, Minor Thread. On Monday, he reached number 1,000, and posted the above picture of every shirt he’s donned so far. According to a blog post, arranging the tees took four […]
Ordinarily, we wouldn’t encourage you to look at advertisements in your free time, but this Japanese-market Vitamin Water spot is an easy exception. Soundtracked by a goofily catchy new song about NYC by former Das Racist guy and all-around great rapper Heems (“New/plus York/equals New York!”), a dude with a weird turntable/boombox hybrid for a […]
Pharmakon, the noise artist who melted the speakers at the Basilica SoundScape art and music festival, has released this version of Nancy Sinatra’s definitive cover of Sonny and Cher’s hit “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).” She sings, not growls in a tearing dense scream, as we know and love her to do. It’s melancholy. But […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from the Detroit punk band Protomartyr, whose excellent sophomore album Under Color of Official Right was released today via Hardly Art. Though the new record mellows out the raw, drunken […]
A funny thing that no one seemed to notice when Parquet Courts “released” their new “single” “Sunbathing Animal” on sheet music last month: the song sits on one chord for almost its entire length, rendering all those notes on the page close to unnecessary (more efficient instructions might have simply read “Just play B Major”). Today, the […]
This is concert violinist David Aaron Carpenter playing Stradivari’s 300-year-old “MacDonald” viola, which is poised to be “the most expensive instrument in the world.” At Sotheby’s on Monday, Carpenter performed Isaac Albéniz’s 1892 “Asturias” with its “passages that sound like nothing so much as heavy-metal shredding.” “It’s the pinnacle of my career,” Carpenter said. “Every moment up until this point […]
What’s this Patatap? From artist Jono Brandel and music group Lullatone, here’s what you’ll be doing for the next half an hour. Wait for it to load. Now, your every key will generates a specific sound and a dynamic abstract form. LOOK AT YOU MAKING MUSIC WOW. And here’s ANIMAL’s Andy Cush (who makes music). He just made this: […]
Here’s your chance to make good on that promise you made to your friend who’s always emailing songs to you. Play My Inbox turns your Gmail account into a playlist, collecting every YouTube and SoundCloud link you have in one place for easy listening. As Evolver.fm points out, you have to give the app access […]
Odonis Odonis are a great noisy industrial/punk band from Toronto, and their new video, for “Order in the Court,” features visuals ripped from the Early Netherlandish master of evil himself, Hieronymus Bosch. The Lee Stringle-directed clip brings paintings like The Garden of Earthly Delights and Christ Carrying the Cross to life, animating their characters and scenery in time […]
