Tag: Music
I was never a Daft Punk fan until Random Access Memories, and it had to do with a shallow perception of the band as gimmick musicians: robot masks, huge waiting periods between albums (the better to push the product), a unified aesthetic that didn’t ring genuine, but as carefully branded as a corporate logo. And […]
Sorry for the money shot upfront, but wow. We’ve been anticipating dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei‘s heavy metal music and here it is: “Dumbass.” Or something worse, really, something the New York Times only refers to as “a rather vulgar Chinese word.” Ai worked with Wong Kar-wai’s cinematographer Christopher Doyle, which is why the video is […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. For their edition of “Listen In,” the Canadian electronic outfit Gold & Youth compiled a playlist that mixes classic new wave with ambient techno, shoegaze, and jangly guitar pop. Befitting the band’s name, […]
Meet “the ultimate god mode.” From Special Stage Systems, here is Ming Mecca. Essentially, it is a new hybrid analog machine — a synthesizer that allows you control, manipulate, and hack the laws and visuals of vintage video games. Watch that trailer. With the heart of a video synthesizer and the brain of a videogame console, Ming Mecca […]
Are you ready, bitch? It’s not Britney. It’s Scott Walker, world’s most experimental baritone, an amazing artist, and if you don’t know, I can’t explain it to you. I’m not cool enough. BUT WHAT IS THIS? Is he singing will.i.am’s terrible, terrible pop song “Scream & Shout” featuring the inexplicably British accent-ing Britney Spears? OH MY GOD. […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week’s Sample Wars pits two generations of NYC-bred rappers against each other: Jay-Z and Azealia Banks. Jay’s “Lucifer,” produced by Kanye West, heavily samples Max Romeo’s roots reggae […]
Remember that thing I said about design-y pop cultural mashups being internet gold? Well, here you go. An illustrator and designer who goes by Billy Butcher gave a bunch of ’80s punks and rock stars a DC Comics makeover, turning Morrissey into Superman, Ian Curtis into Batman, Siouxee into Wonder Woman, and slew of others. […]
Inspired by the miniature Pixies renaissance of recent years, the band’s webmaster began compiling vintage photos of the group and hopes to release a book, PIXIES: A Visual History, later this year. He’s taking to Kickstarter to fund the thing (natch), and for a $75 donation, you’ll get a first pressing of the book in all its […]
Hear the stories behind Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty and the rest, as an impressive lineup of artists including Cey Adams, Glen E. Friedman, and friend-of-ANIMAL Ricky Powell talk about how their art ended up adorning the Beasties’ albums. Watch above. […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. After over a decade’s worth of music that ran the full spectrum of bad vibes–from “twitchy anxiety” to “slowly creeping dread”– Liars’ sixth album is at once their most welcoming and the largest step […]
