Tag: Music
“A Duet for Leaves & Turntable” is the latest audio experiment from Italian composer/sound designer Diego Stocco. Using only a turntable and found leaves (yes, leaves, like from a tree), Stocco created this bumpin’ multi-track beat. It’s pretty incredible how many sounds he achieves simply by alternating leaves and changing the angle and pressure with which […]
“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, we have JUNO-nominated “doom soul” singer-songwriter Cold Specks, who selected music from artists as wide-ranging as Nick Cave, Portishead, and ’90s Canadian alt-rockers The Inbreds. Click the big play button above […]
Not even six-second clips are safe from Prince’s well–documented copyright fury, it seems, as the artist’s label has served Vine and its parent company, Twitter, with several Digital Millenium Copyright Act complaints over videos posted to the service. In all likelihood, this was the result of innocent people innocently Vining something that happened to involve […]
Remember that nice mini-documentary we posted a few weeks back, which showed Steve Powers painting a mural for the cover of Kurt Vile’s latest album? As The World’s Best Ever points out, there’s also a limited, custom version of the cover with all of ESPO’s art removed put onto individual stickers, so you can rearrange […]
Bursts of glitches. Clusters of points. Metal, baby. Check out the new video from the Unstoppable Death Machines for “Trial and Error” directed by Scott Cramer. “We used a Kinect with DSLR and RGBD open source software, along with data glitch art,” Mike Tucci tells ANIMAL. “It’s completely digital in its creation, unlike our last video. The […]
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. As you may have heard, Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers dropped this month. As a tribute to the sartorial inspiration for James Franco’s Alien, we’re deconstructing one of RiFF RAFF’s best love […]
Earlier this morning, NME published an article about Nick Cave’s Heard NY performance in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall. Cool. Only it’s the wrong Nick Cave. Some of us may have predicted this mix-up but it’s still pretty amusing because NME is NME. So to clarify, there are two men named Nick Cave — a recording artist and an “artist” artist. Nick […]
Lana Del Rey made what should have been an ill-advised move this week, releasing a cover of one of the most heartbreaking songs ever put to tape: Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No. 2.” She mostly stays true to Cohen’s meandering original, replicating the slowly majestic guitar and half-sung, half-muttered vocals, but adds huge, cavernous reverb […]
So, tell me more about Estonia’s punk metal scene. I mean, just watched meaty men in athletic wrestling uniforms get dangled by one foot each over the Eurovision-esque stage while playing hardcore riffs on balalaikas as two drummers strapped into their vertical rotating drumsets were spinning and spinning and spinning. The gentleman sprouting a wolf-man mane out of his face? […]
The Flaming Lips new album appears to be of a piece with the material they’ve been releasing since 2009’s Embryonic: heavy, heady psychedelia, with generous sprinklings of Wayne Coyne’s naive-sounding falsetto on top. Sounds a bit like a less vocoder-y Black Moth Super Rainbow. They’ve just released a trailer for the record, entitled The Terror, which features clips from […]
