There was no possible way one could imagine to ever make us endorse Lady GaGa. And then the impossible happened.
Lady Gaga, Victorian, Burtonesque.
Obviously whenever someone goes totally Burton on us, we become weak. Add some Victorian style to the mix and we are lost.
Yes, I wished I were at the the concert at the Royal Albert Hall to see this one song with a 20ft high piano. Screw the 20ft trail to the dress but look at the feet of the piano.
The video is best watched without sound.
There’s not much that which need to be said about this mashup. Forget bands such as Pendulum, this awesome Beastie Boys vs. The Prodigy will blow you away.
Apparently Disney had already started work on ‘Tron 1.5′ in 1998. The soundtrack to that movie is now available online at Tron.fm.
In late 1998, I was commissioned to compile and produce the soundtrack for a sequel to the film “Tron”. A draft of the story had already been written and early filming had begun (as reported by ZDNet on July 27, 1999). As I understand it, the film was kept in great confidence with the producers as Pixar was still in negotiations with Disney about the responsibilities of the production teams.
“Rise Of The Virals” was a fantastic, but much darker storyline from the original — different from the “Into The Machine” pitch made to Disney by another party. It involved updating the ENCOM universe to a networked system (thanks to the Internet), but also created a darker world — full of programs abandoned as buggy systems (or “mutants”) and abused by corrupt users as viral systems. Furthermore, the story included the death of Flynn and presented questions about the digital life of programs lasting beyond the mortality of their creators — the users.”
Kasabian plays : Guitar Hero Football. If it weren’t Kasabian I might have found it awesome. Now… bonus point for coolness but big no for music. Oh give me a break, fans!
The Yeah Yeah Yeah certainly are making up for their less than stellar latest album ‘It’s Blitz’ with their awesome video clips. The latest is no exception to this, actually it’s lots better than anything they’ve done before so far and surely generates them many more sales.
Another great music video released last week was DJ Tiesto’s ‘I Will Be Here’. Although I am no big fan of what Tiesto has done over the last 8-9 years and still wished he had stayed this awesome DJ who took you on a 2- to 4 hours long musical journey, like he did in 1999 at Innercity (Rai, Amsterdam, NL), the new video is cool, especially the robotic dancing. Feel free to turn off the sound for this one though.
Probably it’s the old boring sod in me who still knows these two bands and 2ManyDJs by their original name, Soulwax. Now take all these three components: Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Soulwax and throw them in one bucket.
Add a festival finale to it, one of the top 4 festivals in Europe Rock Werchter, with its huge history, and this is what you get.
I am no fan of popular language and hype words, but I think this one certainly qualifies as EPIC.
Maybe you’re an old boring sod like I am or maybe you just know to appreciate your bad asses music. In both cases you might enjoy the following tracks, especially if you understand German. If you have never heard of that thing called German, it’s a language. A language master Johnny Cash apparently knows how to sing in.
Nine Inch Nails and online legend Trent Reznor once again had to share his opinion with the whole world and their 3 nephews. This time the fan of free distribution shared his opinion on whether artists should sell their music or not:
If you are an unknown / lesser-known artist trying to get noticed / established:
* Establish your goals. What are you trying to do / accomplish? If you are looking for mainstream super-success (think Lady GaGa, Coldplay, U2, Justin Timberlake) – your best bet in my opinion is to look at major labels and prepare to share all revenue streams / creative control / music ownership. To reach that kind of critical mass these days your need old-school marketing muscle and that only comes from major labels. Good luck with that one.
If you’re forging your own path, read on.
* Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth is the only true marketing that matters.
Thom Yorke, Radiohead frontman, announced in an interview with The Guardian that Radiohead will not release any complete/full albums anymore in the future but instead concentrate on short-form releases:
“None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again,” he said. “Not straight off … It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.”
Keeping in mind the awesome but very flat and rather monotonous living-room sound of “In Rainbows” this can only be an improvement and makes me look forward to the next Radiohead release.
8-Bit music is the hype lately. Now The Prodigy became the victim of the hype.
On Wednesday NIN brought Gary Numan on stage during their concert at the O2 Arena in London and played “Cars”.
Drowned In Sound editor Sean Adams was on scene and reported: “Just when you thought the soul-fucking audio-visual skulldigging duggery couldn’t get any better, a fascimilie of Trent wanders on stage, in the uniform of black jeans, black boots, black hair and a slighty faded black tee clinging to masculine curves. Trent looks up from his piano, grins like a four year old munching a mud pie and introduces ‘GARY NUMAN, everybody!’ They played ‘Metal’ ending with a lush synth duel before dropping a ‘Car(s)’-bomb on the 02 and the crowd, predictably, go frugging apeshit. Beer flies, sweat is flung and front to back people dumm-noo-noo-new-num along like they’re at Guilty Pleasures.”
Source: Quietus.
Performed at the Troubadour Club, West Hollywood, CA – June 25, 2009. [via @amandapalmer].
All BBC Radio1 Essential mixes between 1993 and 2007 available for download now. Uploads will be added daily to the list. Read more
☆ The new Spike Jonze's 'I'm here, the movie' now available online
☆ I know there are fans of coffee art among the frankylicious readers, so I thought I might as well post a link to it here. Even though I would not want to wait or have a barista make a lovely piece of art I would ruin by stirring it up. No, I never would waste any of the guests' time layering flavoured mocchas. Anyway, here you go : Art in My Coffee.
☆ The Sun thinks differently. Did I just link to The Sun?Screw that. Everybody move on now! Nothing to see here.
☆ Not everyone enjoys Christmas but of course that doesn't mean you have to go totally Dickensian about it. Instead, play some Whack-a-mole. On your iPhone. Read a review at AppleGazette.
☆ 1000 Celebrities and pop culture icons in 8-bit art. On your iPhone. At $2.99 a cool deal for 8-bit nerds, otherwise wasted money. 'Get it!', we say.
☆ If you are not a victim of geotardation, ie. if you live in the US of A, you can watch the complete Caprica pilot on SyFy (who's the moron who came up with that spelling?
☆ Interesting discovery and video: an octopus uses a coconut shell to hide under but also takes the shell with him when walking over the mud of the ocean. Coconuts as tools. Most interesting of all, this was not discovered or filmed by the BBC Life team.
☆ Go on, admit it! You also want one of these: 700mW green laser pointer. Abuse the occasion as they are 20% off and only $2.499 anymore! I wished I were rich.
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