Posts tagged with ‘i heart music

IHC After Dark: Bonkers TV song and dance number from 1970s Italy features multiple dancing David Bowies

This 1978 clip features the eternally popular Raffaella Carrà (now pushing 70) singing Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” as bald, mustachioed eye-patch wearing sci-fi weirdos, um, assist her. That’s only the “night” part, just wait until “day” comes around and the troupe of caped, dancing “Aladdin Sane” clones show up to strut their stuff!

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Awful morning music: “The Facebook Song”

This is just all kinds of awful. It makes me want to just end it all and just jump on the nearest tire fire.

Swedish condom ad makes sweet, sweet music

Use a rubber. For treble, bass or percussion.

Taco Thursday morning music: “Estrellas de Bicentario”

We often hear Mexico and comes to mind tacos, mariachis, burritos and other things… but the truth is that Mexico means much, much more… Mexico is made up of many different races, there are more than 56 ethnic groups who speak more than 60 dialects, there are plenty of all kinds such as, Mexicas (Azteks), Náhuatl, Mayas, Zapoteco, Mixteco, Otomi, Totonaca, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Mazahua, Mazateco, and many more… yes, we have European, African and Asian ethnics toodespite the fact that many Mexicans are brown-skinned, You can easily find white mexicans with blue, gray or green eyes… Mariachi and Mexican food, have been declared World Heritage… There are so many things to say about Mexico, but I will limit myself to just say that I love my country and my people… in this video you can hear songs sung in different dialects… 

Viva our roots, Viva our people, Viva Mexico!!! (=^_^=)

Geekcraft of the Day: Bass guitar made from an old Commodore 64

Jeri Ellsworth created this awesome Commodore 64 bass guitar for last weekend’s Maker Faire Bay Area. Ellsworth explains how she made the guitar and how it works in this MAKE:Live video recorded at Maker Faire.

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Today would have been Robert Moog’s 78th birthday, so here’s Brett Domino covering Daft Punk on the Google Moog doodle

In honor of what would have been the 78th birthday of music pioneer Bob Moog, Google put up an interactive Moog synth doodle today. So of course, Brett Domino used it to cover Daft Punk.

Morning music videos: Acid Fascists “Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker”

Submitted by negrofrankenstein, who said “It’s got a bad word, but otherwise it’s safe for work. This is a brand new music video from the Scottish Punk band, Acid Fascists. The best thing is that it is starring a comic book character I created in the late 80’s! Enjoy!”

Morning music: 8-bit Radiohead

Above is an 8-bit chiptune version of ‘OK Computer’ in its entirety. If you dig that, you can also listen to an 8-bit version of Kid A here.

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Afternoon music videos: Tenacious D “Low Hanging Fruit”

As you would expect, both the song and the video go after said low hanging fruit with sweaty palms straight up under the blouse.

Daily Discussion: What’s your soundtrack to the Apocalypse?

Regardless of you flavor of cataclysm, nuclear, zombie, or robot, what are your, say top 5 songs on your Soundtrack to the Apocalypse?

Morning music: Will Smith does the “Fresh Prince” rap on Graham Norton

No matter how famous Will Smith gets from his movie career, he will always… always be the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Hitchhiking John Waters picked up by indie band, for some reason

Indie band Here We Go Magic was driving across country when they picked up a hitchhiker. That hitchhiker just happened to be director John Waters, with whom the band shared a ride with for six hours. They swear it’s not a publicity stunt, which raises the question: “Why is John Waters hitchhiking across America?” Because he’s John Waters.

Read the band’s story and see more pictures they took with Waters here

Hologram Freddie Mercury to appear at a Queen show later this year

After the holographic Tupac at this year’s Coachella, it looks like “holographic” dead performers might be the thing this year. Queen guitarist Brian May recently revealed that an undead Freddie Mercury would be performing with the band later this year during a special performance of the West End musical We Will Rock You.

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Check out the trailer for ‘Mission to Lars’

Mission to Lars is a documentary about a man with Fragile X syndrome and his personal quest to meet Lars Ulrich. Looks pretty charming. Mission to Lars opens June 6 in the UK.




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