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Listen To Samples Of Arcade Fire’s Newest Album

Nick Nicoludis :: Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 12:00 pm

The Arcade Fire’s newest album, The Suburbs-set to release in just a few weeks (August 3rd in the US and the 2nd in the UK)-is sending the blogosphere into hyperdrive.

First they previewed eight different album covers, and now a Seattle radio station is streaming 30-second clips of every song off of the new album. Click through to hear the tracks. MORE »

Muziic DJ Turns YouTube Into Mixing Station

Gray Hurlburt :: Thursday, May 27th, 2010 4:15 pm

One of the more accessible sources for music, when you need to find a single to show your friends, is, of course, a video on YouTube. Be it for synching playlists to a party or for browsing an artist before you buy their album, we’re all well familiar with how integral it’s become to our audio lives.

Not long ago came the release of the Facebook app Muziic, which brings music and playlists to your profile via a YouTube source. And now the creator of that program has released a freestanding internet app called Muziic DJ. It works like two turntables with a mixer, giving you the ability to synch and meld songs together into an endless dance track. While the songs spin, their videos stream side by side for your viewing pleasure. The functions available to you include a fader, loops, reverb and brake. I’ll be sure to have fun with this on upcoming summer nights, with buddies huddled around the laptop to take our turn at being Girl Talk. [Mashable]

First YouTube Video Turns Five-Years-Old Today

Matt Kiebus :: Friday, April 23rd, 2010 3:45 pm

Five years ago Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley created the world’s finest and most efficient procrastinating tool of all-time, YouTube. Today we have access to enough mundane, creative, pointless, and hilarious videos to keep us entertained when the bosses aren’t looking or in between bong hits (crazy kids). Life before YouTube seems eons ago, it’s hard to believe it was only 2005. If the internet was stripped of the YouTube today our society of convenience would crumble. What in gods name would we do to keep us entertained? Play charades? That would be like reverting to using flint and steel to make fire. MORE »

Youtube Proves Its Worth

Nick Nicoludis :: Thursday, April 8th, 2010 4:30 pm

Someone out there in the Youtube-verse has uploaded a video that has the world talking. It is a video, but really just audio, of the earliest known Led Zeppelin recording to date; a bootleg of a 1968 show. I know what you might be thinking: Led Zeppelin, what do I look like a teenage stoner eating Cheez-Its in my mom’s basement? But, seriously its pretty cool that the release of the bootleg of “Dazed and Confused” recorded at a 1968 in Spokane WA. (just weeks before their debut, self-titled record came out) was released on Youtube. I think this is another piece of the growing trend of music being made public for free on websites. Take for example Holy Fuck releasing their album via the penis heavy website Chatroulette. Maybe in the future all music will be premiered secretly on free user websites, who knows but it’s still kind of cool. So peep the video après le jump. MORE »

The Opposite Of Seeing A Dick On ChatRoulette

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Friday, March 19th, 2010 3:50 pm

is this skilled pianist, who writes hilarious improvised songs based on the people he’s chatting with. How come I always get weird perverts and not this gem of a man?

Thom Yorke Appears on New Flying Lotus Track

Nick Nicoludis :: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 2:25 pm

It was announced about a month ago that some big name star would appear on Flying Lotus’ new album Cosmogramma, set to come out on May 4th. The LA beat-chop artist revealed that among some other great musicians, Thom Yorke would sing on the track “…And The World Laughs With You.” I was excited, becasue I love Yorke’s hissy and seizure-like vocals, and when you combine that with Flying Lotus’ mangled beats I don’t see how you could go wrong. The album is probably going to be incredible if 2008′s Los Angeles is any indicator. The wait is finally over, and the collaboration track is finally out. MORE »

Washed Out Gets It So Right

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 3:30 pm

Fellow D+T contributor Nick Nicoludis is something of a breeze-pop connoisseur, so I tend to listen when he sends bands my way. The most recent recommendation he made was characteristically spot-on. Washed Out is the project name for Ernest Greene, who creates what has to be the straightforwardly sexiest music I’ve heard recently. MORE »

The Bird And The Bee + Hall And Oates = Fun

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 2:20 pm

The Bird and the Bee’s “Interpreting the Masters, Volume 1: Hall and Oates” comes out on March 23, and trust me, it’s a well-produced, rollicking album that has equal parts kitsch value and real listening pleasure. Although nothing can replace the original duo, this is a damn good interpretation of their work.
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Obsession: Here We Go Magic’s “Everything’s Big”

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 2:00 pm

Brooklyn band Here We Go Magic has completely taken over my iTunes lately. Their entire album, last year’s Here We Go Magic, released on Western Vinyl, is seriously brilliant. What stands out most, though, is the final track. It serves mostly as a well-structured vehicle for lead singer Luke Temple’s pitch-perfect voice, which is lovely as the ending note of an album focused on highlighted creative instrumentation. Temple is a well-known songwriter on his own, but my favorite incarnation of his work has to be this project.
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Google Commits Music Blogocide Over MP3s

Shannon Hassett :: Thursday, February 11th, 2010 11:00 am

Had you been up early and browsing for some mp3s this morning, you would have been hard pressed to find the usual suspects. A number of the web’s most highly trafficked music blogs were shut down over the past day and a half, including: I Rock Cleveland, It’s A Rap, LivingEars, Masalacism, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted and To Die By Your Side. In addition to the release of mp3s, the sites share another common bond in their blogging platforms, as all are hosted by Google’s Blogger. Not a huge surprise, then, when overnight the creators all received a similar message from Google alerting them to their apparent copyright infringement and the immediate shutdown of their blogs. MORE »

Gmail Goes Social Fashionably Late

Shannon Hassett :: Monday, February 8th, 2010 4:25 pm

The Wall Street Journal of all places, a paper not normally known for its fun loving audience, announced earlier today that Google will be adding a social feature to Gmail. Held sacred among email providers for its organizational capabilities, cutesy background theme options and chatting service accessible in the corposphere (and conveniently made to look like regular email), news of a social networking device from fan favorite Google has caused quite a stir. While details are still at a minimum, the new feature will likely combine user updates from Google’s sister sites — YouTube and Picassa — with personal status updates, an option currently available through standard GChat that would most likely see a significant upgrade. GChat has long been considered AIM for grownups (yes, that’s AOL Instant Messenger), and the latest announcement positions Google to similarly school Facebook. Imagine a newsfeed minus all those people you hated in high school, or in other words, social networking sans the spam (just like Gmail!). Let’s all breathe a collective sigh of relief — except for China, of course.

Rielle Hunter’s Wild Ride

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Friday, January 29th, 2010 4:20 pm

Horse murders! Scandal! Media pioneering! Passion! Generation X literature! Politico pregnancy! The Wikipedia article on Rielle Hunter is one of the most eye-poppingly bizarre things I’ve read in recent memory. Her history has already been featured in the books of Jay McInerney, her ex-boyfriend, and Bret Easton Ellis, but that was way back when she was seventeen. Since, she’s embarked on even crazier adventures, most notably seducing onetime presidential hopeful John Edwards, who sired her illegitimate love-baby. I think a new book, or possibly a movie, is definitely in order, but I’m sure the opportunists who write all those ugly political-scandal books are way, way ahead of me on this one.

Far Away? Far Out. The 4 Best Psychedelic Rock Tracks From Other Countries

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Friday, January 15th, 2010 4:30 pm

From South America to Eastern Europe, psychedelic rock has been interpreted through the lens of many different cultures through the years. This usually results in bizarre hybrid songs that are equally traditional garage rock and local influence, to varying success (if you’d like an example of where it doesn’t work, check out Pakistan’s most popular band, Junoon. I love tabla, but it just ain’t right with distorted guitar). The artists listed here have definitely found the right mixture of the two, proving that you can be far from the original scene and still be way far out.

Pint-Size Drumming Prodigy Jonah Rocks Tears Up YouTube

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Thursday, January 14th, 2010 4:55 pm

It’s hard not to be incredibly jealous of great musicians. Given this, it’s especially hard when the musician is FIVE YEARS OLD. Jonah Rocks is, according to his website, a complete autodidact who’s been obsessed with drums since the age of three. I’m sorry, but I’ve been trying to learn a few different instruments, with and without lessons, for years, and this skill level is beyond me Jonah Rocks makes me accept the fact that I will never be as musically gifted as this toddler. Great. But really, this is unbelievable talent for someone so young, and it’s a total pleasure to watch.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” + The Muppets = Instant Smile

Danielle Johnsen :: Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 4:10 pm

Not sure if this really needs any introduction, but let’s try. The Muppets Studio Channel on YouTube launched today with dozens of great videos, including their cover of Queen’s quintessential hit “Bohemian Rhapsody”. I dare you to watch this video and not giggle from beginning to end. Check out the video after the jump. MORE »