Music Buzz The cast of The Office have a new band called Subtle Sexuality, complete with a hit song, merchandise, and an actual world tour (which is restricted to the suburbs of Pennsylvania as of right now.)
The Internet's favorite cute kids remixed together into one killer break-beat musical ensemble.
Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer brings you a melody summing up 30-years of “chap-hop”, which seems to just be regular hip-hop sung by fancy English white dudes.
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What does soon-to-launch music video portal Vevo have in common with UK football club Manchester City? No, it’s not Craig Bellamy. Both are funded from UAE emirate Abu Dhabi.
Well this remix wrote itself. Surrounding a Jeopardy category called “MC Trebek”, the master of trivia himself is required to spit a few lyrics therefore creating the perfect material to auto-tune. And auto-tune we shall.
Volkswagen in Sweden installed musical pads into a staircase, and found that 66% of people who would have taken the adjacent escalator chose the stairs instead.
This bird has a real love for the fine things in life, such as contemporary Egyptian pop music.
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Lily Allen announced today on her blog that she would not be renewing her recording contract and would no long be producing new albums or touring. The announcement comes only a week after she founded a new website devoted to anti-piracy that has been getting a lot of attention (both positive and negative) in the music world.
This video is, without a doubt, the culmination of our society and culture. It can only go downhill from here.
This is a 5 minute video of a guy listening to techno while slowly spinning in circles… Am I missing something here?
Music Buzz According to various sources, Snoop Dogg has changed his name to 'Niggarachi' in order to celebrate (promote?) his new album 'Baac To That Chuuch Vol. 1' (Yes, that's really the name.) Unlike the 'Artist Formally Known As Prince', this new name has letters, but still might be unpronounceable…depending who you are.
The Dead Kennedys knew that music piracy was something that wasn't going to go away, so they just embraced it.
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Jesus Diaz looks at the $1.92m fine Jammie Thomas faces for downloading 1700 songs and compares it to the penalties for other crimes in America (valuing jail time at $50,233, the median US household income in 2007).
This video might be called “Meow Mix,” but it's not quite what you were imagining. (via Urlesque)
Obscure jungle-rockers, The Elephants, have released their newest EP entitled TrunkTunes. (Kidding! These incredible endangered animals who live on a elephant conservation in Thailand aren't quite indie, but they do have an album out!)
Half-naked muddy ladies help create the first human synthesizer. Eat your heart out, T-Pain. Boobies beat Auto Tune any day.
Music Buzz For better or worse, the 80s and 90s happened and left behind a lot of terrible memories. Here are ten of them.
Calvin Harris combined his love of creating catchy music with his love of groping women to create The Humanthesizer. [via]