Tag: Music
Hot on the heels of the Bob Dylan map that dropped last year, here’s a Tom Waits map, marking the mentioned in the majestic weirdo’s work. New York gets a lot of love, with shout-outs in “Clap Hands,” “Fish in the Jailhouse,” “Downtown Train,” and of course, “Coney Island Baby,” among others. A quick perusal reveals […]
Today, Noisey premiered a video for the Dum Dum Girls song “Are You OK?” off their recent album Too True. The short film was written by Brett Easton Ellis and stars lead singer Dee Dee, who connected with the author after finding out he used their song “Coming Down” in last year’s cinematic wtf The Canyons. The 11-minute […]
Here’s video of the Korean multimedia performance collective Tacit Group created performing Six Pac-Men, an audiovisual piece that combines Steve Reich’s 1973 minimalist composition Six Pianos with the titular arcade game. Here’s how it works, via Prosthetic Knowledge. “Six Pacmen” is a work of art made by utilizing Pacman, the video game which was released in 1980, and Six […]
Well, this is unusual. To promote the next season of smash-hit Game of Thrones, HBO will release a mixtape of hip hop and Latin artists making music about the show. Participating musicians include Wale, Big Boi, Daddy Yankee, Bodega Bamz, and Common. From the sound of things, it’s a pretty blatant ploy to attract a nonwhite audience. […]
Remixing a Biggie Smalls song by playing Tetris. Using a joystick to update a website’s design in real time. Playing Mario with a synthesizer. They sound like scenarios from some hacker fantasyland, but Providence-based artist Chris Novello has done them all. Novello works with a homebuilt device called illucia, which allows him to treat programs […]
I was excited to see a press release in my inbox this morning announcing a new single from Parquet Courts, the best NYC band going in my book. It seems they’ve gone the Beck route, however, and are releasing new track “Sunbathing Animal” as sheet music and, for now, sheet music only. Things we know […]
On the map above, which shows the most distinctive artist in each of the 50 states listening preferences according to Spotify, there are a few surprises. What makes Ciara so popular in Nevada, for instance, and why is Delaware so hot on Rush? Of course, there are satisfyingly predictable states as well, from New Jersey’s […]
The Tumblr EMOCTV collects instances in which forward-thinking music turns up in children’s TV shows — everything from Mr. Rogers demonstrating an ARP synthesizer, above, to art-rock veterans The Residents performing on the Chicago public access program Chic-a-Go-Go. It’s all worth perusing, but the highlight is an episode of the French TV show Angelo Rules […]
On Chicago public radio in November, James Murphy said he’s been working for fourteen years on an idea that would make NYC subway stations musical. Now, Wall Street Journal has a clip of the former LCD Soundsystem frontman discussing the project further and previewing what it might sound like. In Murphy’s vision, each turnstile would produce […]
Here’s a cool emulation of a Commodore 64 synth that lives in your browser, as spotted by Evolver.fm. If you want those sweet, old-school sounds, but can’t be bothered to pony up for vintage hardware, you could do a lot worse than this. As Evolver points out, the thing is especially fun on an iPhone […]
