Tag: Music
As you may have heard, Morrissey approached David Bowie about using a photograph of the two artists together for the cover of a reissued single. Bowie apparently declined, and now the “Last of the International Playboys” cover will feature the above photo of Moz with none other than Mr. Richard Paul “Rick” Astley himself. More […]
Artist Abby Portner, who designed the album art for Animal Collective‘s latest Centipede Hz (and who is the sister of co-bandleader Avey Tare), has been the self-dubbed “visual person” for the band since the early 2000s, designing multilayered tour visuals that turn live music into a unified multisensory experience. In collaboration with Creators Project, they’ve […]
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum commissioned Mark Blamire to create a poster in honor of everyone’s favorite returning musical hero, David Bowie. And in recognition of the man’s “chameleon-like persona” Blamire wrangled no less than 100 other designers to contribute a typographic tribute. The result–101 Bowies done up in various fonts and hand-lettered styles–is a […]
Well, Trent did say “that the band is reinventing itself from scratch” so maybe this is that? Here’s a perfect mash-up of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and “Head Like a Hole” by Nine Inch Nails from PomDeter. PERFECT. NIN is going on tour starting this summer. Reznor. I missed you so bad. I missed you […]
As you may have heard, Daft Punk debuted a scant 15 seconds of music in a teaser for their upcoming album during Saturday’s episode of SNL. It’s an effortlessly funky few measures (is that you on guitar, Nile Rodgers?), and may portend, inasmuch as a 15-second snippet can portend anything, a turn away from the […]
For all the fun of flipping through dollar bin records without having to haul your ass to a Salvation Army, take a look at Rdio Obscurities, a Tumblr (and Twitter account) that highlights the oddest, most offbeat stuff the titular music streaming service has to offer. There’s Tell Your Cat You’re Pregnant, an “essential guide for cat […]
In the video for “Ingenue,” from the Thom Yorke side project Atoms For Piece, our hero dons a snazzy three-piece suit and dances to his jittery heart’s content for four minutes alongside dancer Fukiko Takase. Garth Jennings, director of Son of Rambow and clips for countless other great musicians, just made the perfect Thom Yorke video. […]
Voyager 1 is literally the musical translation of data from the raw feeds of the legendary spacecraft Voyager 1‘s magnetometer. Meaning that if there is ever a sci-fi movie made about the Voyager 1, and this was used as the soundtrack, it would basically be the most awesomely meta score ever. Domenico Vicinanza is a […]
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. In this week’s installment we’re looking at Miles Davis’s “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down,” which inspired two modern legends in their own right: Radiohead and Madlib (via his group Lootpack). […]
Once upon a time in the long long ago, record sales and terrestrial radio play were the only things that mattered for charting the performance of a particular single–if a song sold well and got radio play (and the two usually go hand-in-hand), it charted. If it didn’t, it didn’t. Then came the internet, and […]
