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Thankfully not starring Bill Paxton or Helen Hunt, this tornado of rock barrels through anything in its path – especially disco. German artist Trimpin created the Guitar Tornado for the Experience Music Project in Seattle. But this tornado has more than form. It has function. Intermingled within the tornado is guitars connected to robotic musicians which play the guitar on cue, which spectators can enable through touchscreen interfaces. Though each guitar can only play one note at a time, so... Continue reading

The Beatles might have predated Queen, in both rock and papercraft history, but the influence of Freddy Mercury and his band of merry men cannot be ignored, nor denied. To celebrate the band’s eternal impact on music, People Too created this awesome papercraft recreation of Queen doing what they did best: strutting their stuff on stage. Queen always struck a particular chord with me. Because much like Freddy Mercury, I too prefer Fat Bottomed Girls and also enjoy an operatic... Continue reading

Even hardcore rockers need to get their caffeine fix. And they sure as hell aren’t going to use a Thomas Kinkade mug to get it done. Oh, hell no. The Guitar Amp Mug saves you some face in front of your band mates. You’ve got to know your audience. What would they think if you rolled out your Toilet Mug or even your Canon Lens Mug. They might be cool, but it’s certainly not rock n’ roll. The Guitar Amp Mug saves you... Continue reading

And you thought your Rubik’s Cube was hard. I told you, I always come in first place, even if we’re ranking by Rubik’s cube hardness… Oh, you were referring to the difficulty? Well then. Carry on.

As long as we’re on the subject of people and things other than Queen performing Queen songs, check out this amazing video of four simultaneously running Super Mario Bros. levels playing out the music to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” How people find time to do these things is just mind-baffling. I totally salute you, but seriously, get a job. Link

Love him or hate him (you’ll be able to guess which side of the spectrum I’m on by the end of this post), Bono has some slick style. U2 launched their 360 tour last night in Barcelona and Bono appeared in a jacket affixed with fricken’ laser beams attached while performing the song “Ultra Violet (Light My Way).” Now, I usually don’t like to get mixed up in politics and I’m certainly not a humanitarian, but how many starving Africans... Continue reading

In other words, this is a rock made for the kitchen. Embrace your instinctive caveman nature and just bash and grind the living hell out of your food. It might not be as rugged as just grabbing a big rock from the wild, but it’s surely more manly than using a porcelain mortar and pestle. For $43 you could do worse than buying a tool of our evolutionary past. No instruction manual is needed. Your animalistic instincts will put two... Continue reading

Hendrix and Morrison are long gone in body, but their souls live on through their music, eternally playing through radios and iPods across the planet. Not to mention cassettes. There are still plenty of people who rely on the dead technology of cassette tapes to jam out to their old favorites. But listening to music is only a fraction of what can be done with these ancient musical artifacts. If you have enough time on your hands and enough patience... Continue reading

So here’s the deal: since 2003, the US Army has been effectively torturing detainees at Guantanamo with scare tactics and other jazz. One of the tactics is to blast music and rock and roll at prisoners “to create fear, disorient … and prolong capture shock.” Everything was peachy keen until this year, when several musicians teamed up to protest the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Artists like Massive Attack and Tom Morello are trying to create awareness for this... Continue reading

Straight out of Hell and right under your Christmas tree is this hotter than Hell KISS-themed I-Dog. Who rocks harder than KISS? That’s right: no one. The dog sports Gene Simmons’ Demon face paint, but also shows some love to Paul Stanley with stars for the Star Child. It plays back music via a built-in speaker and also puts on an electronic light show, all for just 30 bucks. If this dog was a real supporter of KISS, it’d drop... Continue reading