How to dance to Daft Punk

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By Low Lai Chow in Video on Wednesday 22 May 2013

How much more epic can Daft Punk’s new single featuring Pharrell Williams, ‘Get Lucky’, get? Well, loads more, as a certain YouTuber, Gabriel Zev Kenny, showed us, thanks to his mashup of the tune with some footage from American variety show Soul Train of folks getting their groove on. It’s so good, you could learn [...]

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In Nottingham, you can get a degree in heavy metal music

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By Low Lai Chow in New Music on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Wow, this is too cool for words. At the New College Nottingham in England, you can headbang your way to a degree in heavy metal. To be specific, if you enroll in the Heavy Metal Music Performance degree — it’s a full time course, mind you, heavy metal demands nothing less than guts, blood, sweat [...]

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Illustrated baboons for Black Spires’s music video

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By Nicola Smanio in New Music on Saturday 18 May 2013

This video by Dutch illustrator and animator Kristof Luyckx is so simple and effective that it’s pure genius. The animation is very well done (just look at the drummer smoothly banging away) and rendered in Luyckx’s trademark black and white style. What about Black Spires, though? Never heard of them, but I must say I [...]

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À tout à l’heure: the awesome new music video by Bibio

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By Darwin Cosico in New Music on Thursday 16 May 2013

On May 13, Wolverhampton native Bibio will release Silver Wilkinson, the follow-up to his excellent 2011 record Mind Bokeh. He has shared the video for the album’s first single, À tout à l’heure. Directed by Bibio in collaboration with Russell Weekes, the clip chronicles what summer would look like back in the 60s coated with [...]

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Landfill Harmonic: Music made from trash

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By Low Lai Chow in New Music on Wednesday 15 May 2013

A few years ago, garbage picker Cola teamed up with local musician Favio Chavez to cobble together instruments out of trash for some Paraguayan kids living in their slum. That’s violins and cellos from oil drums, flutes from water pipes and spoons and guitars from packing crates. The Landfill Harmonic — you have to love [...]

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All The Machines: one of Grace Slick’s worst musical moments

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By Erik Kraft in New Music on Tuesday 14 May 2013

Grace Slick has been responsible for inflicting some absurdly terrible music on society. Sure, White Rabbit and Sombeody To Love are great, but are they great enough to let us forget We Built This City? I can even remember being on a plane when I was 12 and the in-flight music channel had the new [...]

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Puppet stop-motion video by Hiné Mizushima

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By Michael Amter in Video on Tuesday 14 May 2013

Insect Hospital+ is the official video for the new They Might Be Giants album, Nanobots. The puppet stop-motion video was created by the talented craft artist Hiné Mizushima. She sells her amazing needle and felt work via Etsy.

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Ending theme from the anime movie Berserk

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By Dead Star in Video on Saturday 11 May 2013

I discovered the anime series Berserk many years ago through a friend and I was immediately hooked. It was made in the 90‘s and based on the Manga by Kentaro Miura. In my opinion, it’s one of the greatest stories ever told. Demons, swords, violence, amazing character development… what more could you ask for? Berserk [...]

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I’ve Got Drugs (Out of the Mist) by The Frogs

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By Dead Star in New Music on Friday 10 May 2013

The Frogs were a band formed in 1980 by brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion who wrote catchy pop tunes about race, religion, and homoeroticism. My favorite album, It’s Only Right And Natural, was released on Homestead records in 1989 and was extremely controversial because of the subject matter. The band was championed by Kurt Cobain, [...]

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We Found Love: new music by Palma Violets

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By Darwin Cosico in New Music on Friday 10 May 2013

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, then you need to check out Palma Violets, an indie rock/garage rock band from London and currently signed to the famous Rough Trade Records (The Strokes, The Libertines and Arcade Fire). The British quartet released their first studio album in February called 180, and [...]

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Starlings forming clouds of poetry in the sky

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By Low Lai Chow in New Film on Wednesday 8 May 2013

So Neels Castillon was shooting a commercial with Mathias Touzeris in Marseille, France, when a massive flock of starlings turned up and started a mass aerial display. The technical term for the dance is ‘murmuration’, and Alt-J’s Hand-made makes a really good soundtrack for the birds’ ensemble performance.

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Outside: animated music video for new David Bronson single

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By Rebekah Rhoden in Video on Wednesday 8 May 2013

‘I knew I wanted to work with Johnerick as soon as I met him’, says New York-based singer-songwriter David Bronson about animator Johnerick Lawson and his contribution to the new music video for Bronson’s song Outside. Johnerick’s work is a creative mixture of animation techniques that compliments the song’s themes of inner reflection. ‘Who can [...]

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Daft Punk’s new single Get Lucky: it’s a groovy space jam

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By Annie Churdar in New Music on Tuesday 7 May 2013

Get ready for a lot of shiny chrome and sequins. This is Daft Punk’s new single from their soon-to-be-released album, Random Access Memories. Get Lucky (Featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers) is a blast from the space-crazed past. I feel like these guys should be jamming in the background at a space club somewhere in [...]

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Time Train: new album from Singaporean band Strait Groove

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By Benjamin Lim in New Music on Thursday 2 May 2013

Singaporean music collective Strait Groove has released their new album, Time Train. With a new guitarist thrown into the mix, their latest record features a richer and more complex sound. From the brooding dark riffs of opening track Lost My Mind to the acoustic heartbreak song Chains, they somehow retain their schizophrenic mix of rock-blues-jazz-indie-folk-acoustic [...]

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Simple As Hell: new music by Eaten By Bears

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By Steven Quinn in New Music on Thursday 2 May 2013

The Eaten by Bears track ‘Simple As Hell’ is ridiculously catchy and what song isn’t made better by bongos? They also have a great name. Fortunately, they haven’t yet been eaten. By bears. Catchy tunes with a math rock edge. You can stream their first album free on their bandcamp. For fans of Foals.

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