Anything can be deconstructed with a flowchart and almost everything has been. Today, it’s the Beatles’ turn. I still think Hey Jude is at least a little bit about the Holocaust. Come on, think about it. Jude? Jude! Hey Jude! Hey Jew! Heil Hitlah! I’m sick of the Beatles and their Nazi propaganda.
So, yeah, that big music service we were talking about earlier that Google was supposed to be launching? Turns out the truth of the the matter is slightly more anticlimactic than we had hoped. As it turns out, the Google Music service is actually going to be the One Box search engine, a search engine that will blend results from the likes of iLike and lala, allowing you to stream, sample and buy music directly from the search page.
So, are we looking at a Spotify killer? No. Could Google pull something like that off in the future? They’ve maintained on numerous occasions that their business is search, so that seems to be where they’re sticking for now.
The title of this post is in no way misleading. This is an actual working guitar made using an NES console! This must be the coolest damn mash-up in gaming history. I’ve heard people say gaming rocks, but this is ridiculous. Ridiculously awesome. Awesomely ridiculous. Awdiculous.
Including Donkey Kong knobs and Mario switches, check out the video after the jump to get a feel for how NES-ified this guitar actually is.
If you’re still listening to cassette tapes, we might have some news for you. That music technology has been dead for like, a decade now. Hell, CDs aren’t even relevant anymore.
Let me be even more blunt. If cassettes are already being used as ironic business card designs, than I think it’s safe to say they are past their prime. But hey, if cassettes still float your boat, all the power to ya, brotha’. At least the price is right.
If I was stuck on a deserted island with nothing but a pair of headphones and my iPod, I would so mod my headphones to better resemble my current habitat. In fact, this awesome headphone mod could be used as awesomely musical camouflage from the island’s natives.
It’s really a win-win. Because as you clean out the coconut shell, you get to eat the sweet meat inside. Om nom.
The alphabet is so much fun. People love playing around with typography and lettering almost as I love “playing with my dinghy.” And by “playing with my dinghy,” I mean “flogging the walrus.” And by “flogging the walrus” I mean “spanking the monkey.” And by “spanking the monkey” I mean masturabation.
And how do I pleasure myself, you are almost positively asking yourself? By starring, luckily enough, at sexy typographical gadgets. The Radio Radio is a radio that says Radio. So on and so forth. Rinse and repeat. More after the jump jump.
There have been countless methods of recycling your old, abandoned, bong water-stained vinyl, but none that have integrated the actual casing and cover art as well. If you have such epic records as Led Zeppelin’s IV, there is no reason NOT to show them off some how.
BUGHOUSE designed this unique record table, which would fit spectacularly into your den of devil worship. It’s much more thoughtful than simply throwing them in the trash bin, surely.
Last.fm, one of the bestest music services to ever grace the Internet, is losing its three co-founders. Felix Miller, Richard Jones and Martin Stiksel are bowing out of the company and “handing over the reigns” to parent company CBS. CBS purchased Last.fm for $280 million in 2007, enabling the company to grow itself even further. I hope that this won’t mean radical changes for the company, as the announcement is a bit random.
I’ve been using Last.fm for years and I love it. It truly helps me keep track of my music and I love finding out what trends in music I’ve been following. If you want to see my profile, it can be found here.
I don’t know what kind of crack Microsoft is smoking but it must be hooked on it. Today, the Redmond-based company confirmed that it is indeed working on the Zune HD to compete with not the iPhone, but rather the iPod Touch. It’ll have an OLED touchscreen, HD radio tuner (big whoop) and will use a new Zune Marketplace for purchasing videos and music. The hilarious part, however, lies in the fact that the Zune HD will be powered by Windows CE and Internet Explorer. Yes, Windows CE. You can officially call Microsoft a non-hip dinosaur now.
The concept was pretty simple. Take a bike and turn it into a drum kit. It sounds simple enough. But who would actually think of doing such a thing? David Osborne’s traveling drum kit takes about 20 minutes to transform from a bicycle into a… drum kit bicycle. The kit contains 5 cymbals, 3 snare drums and a foot pedal.
Arriving in London from Australia, with no car and no drums, Osborne’s funky white boy beats couldn’t be held back by such diversions. His drum kit is made of bowls found in a cheap charity shop, children’s toys and vintage drums. The whole set fits in two bags and a back pack. The beat is now mobile!
