(via The Bing Dynasty's List of the Top Ten Songs of 2009)
A mash-up of Billboard's top hits of the year that's probably more catchy than some of the individual songs being sampled…
I've mentioned the annual battle to top the UK pop charts during Christmas week before but this year's contest was especially intriguing. The main contender was a song by this year's winner of “X-Factor”, a UK reality singing show similar to American Idol (actually, it's a copycat show created by Simon Cowell so he'd have […]
This video is called “A Glorious Dawn” – Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remix) and if that doesn't hint at how much coolness is in store for you when you click play below, I have only one word – auto-tune!(found via a Reddit thread on songs that were so awesome you played them at […]
This is a bit outside my normal Music Monday posts but when I heard about this “orchestra” which plays music using only iPhone apps, I just had to pass it along. The iPhone truly is amazing and the App Store which makes the iPhone the “swiss army knife of the digital age” is a big […]
ThruYou is a project that took clips of amateur musicians that were uploaded to YouTube and remixed them to create new music. Very cool!
One month until Christmas so to help get you in the mood…
The easiest way to make a cover version sound unique is to slow down a quick song. Dozens of artists use this trick on their own hits and on the hits of others (and some artists seem to specialize using this trick on all kinds of songs). This week, I thought I'd feature a particulary […]
Does anybody know why a company would prevent embedding of their YouTube clips? Just to maintain control of how their content is presented I guess? (This is also the first YouTube clip I've seen with a short ad embedded in front of it as well – hmmm, is that a new Google initiative or did […]
This song always reminds me of one of my all-time Top Ten favourite movies “Stand By Me” – a young middle class type with an artistic bent writes about hanging with the town lowlife(es).
