Tag: Music
Discover magazine brings us the story of “Mr. B,” a Dutch man who suffered from severe anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mr. B’s doctors gave him a brain-stimulation implant to treat his symptoms, and it worked: Mr. B. reported he felt very confident, calm and assertive and he started to call himself “Mr. B. II”, the new […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 66° F NIGHT 56° F Best film to see this weekend: Nabil Ayouch’s Horses of God at Film Forum — a character study of young men growing up without hope, who would […]
Early evening television is currently deep in the throes of Jeopardy’s “Battle of the Decades,” a royal rumble of past champions, and this week, a category devoted to “The 1990s Rap Song” saw all-time great Ken Jennings laying waste to the competition. “What is ‘Mo’ Problems,’ Alex?” […]
Book your tickets to the UK: The Jesus and Mary Chain will play their landmark debut album Psychocandy in its entirety at shows in London, Manchester, and Glasgow this November. No word on whether they’ll play facing the audience or with their backs to the crowd like they did back in the day. Tickets go on sale […]
Remember Toby Sheldon, the 33-year-old man who spent $100,000 on plastic surgeries to make himself look like Justin Bieber but doesn’t actually look like Justin Bieber? How about Kitty Jay, the woman who spent $25,000 on plastic surgeries to look like Jennifer Lawrence but doesn’t actually look like Jennifer Lawrence? In retrospect, it seems inevitable […]
Russian sound artist Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol:: has transformed a dulcimer-like Russian folk instrument into a self-playing robotic device. The instrument can either generate sounds through an algorithm or by reading brainwaves with an EEG headset. Morozov’s brain sounds quite avant garde. ::vtol:: has previously created a device that turns an encoded tattoo into noise, an umbrella that acts as a personal […]
On May 27, the London Contemporary Music Festival will host an event called “Marxist Chillwave,” which, well, let’s just take a moment to let that sink in. What could it possibly mean? Neon Indian covering Gang of Four? A Friedrich Engels reading set to sidechained Fleetwood Mac samples? Stereolab? Once you get past the trollbait name, however […]
In a new and we hope, delicious, twist on musician and brand pairings, the experimental looping artist Julianna Barwick has teamed up with Dogfish Brewery to release a new beer alongside a limited edition 10″ record that Barwick made by sampling sounds of the brewing process. The wasabi and red rice-inflected IPA shares its name […]
The 1990s were a glorious time: good economy, lots of “x-treme” things, rock songs that got played on the radio. There was also, apparently, a lot of “la-la-la-hey-hey-hey-na-na-na-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh” going on those rock songs. Take a quick aural tour through the era in the “90s Alt-Rock Vocal Hook Supercut” above, which starts with the immortal “Cannonball” […]
Here “Crocodile Chop,” a magical mash-up of Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock” and System of a Down’s “Chop Suey” by Neilcic. It sounds awesome. And it fits perfectly. But to fit perfectly, Neilcic did a lot of work on it: Slowing down the vocals, adjusting the pitch, chopping up the phrasing of the chorus… Not that […]
