SPACE ODDITY
Commander Chirs Hadfield performing David Bowie’s Space Oddity at the ISS. David Bowie has nothing on Chris. At least not when it comes to the video.
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Bad Mofo
Hang on, ‘coz this seriously badass videoclip will blow you away. Literally. It’s the official music video for Biting Elbows‘ 2013 single ‘Bad Motherfucker’, all in one shot, filmed from the head.
Compressorhead
Move over humans. Compressorhead is a robot-metal band from Germany and is made up of guitarist Fingers, bassist Bones and a four-armed drummer called Stickboy. The mechanical trio will be joining human colleague’s like Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers and Vampire Weekend at the 2013 Big Day Out festival in Sydney.
CHROMEJAM
Jam with your friends in Chrome. Select an instrument, invite your friends and start your interwebs band. Pretty neat.
Tweetphony
The Metropole Ocherstra created Tweetphony: musical tweets to get attention for the cultural cuts of the government. Compose your own pianotweet and the most interesting ones will be arranged in a 30 minutes concert and played by the Metropole Orchestra.
CHOCOLATE VINYL
Breakbot‘s new album ‘By your side’ is somewhat different from your regular vinyl records. It’s chocolate. You have to be quick to get a taste of his tunes as there are only 120 copies. You can get it at Colette Paris. Via.
Muscle Music
Old Spice is back with another video that shakes up the internet. Muscle man Terry Crews shows you the power of music by moving his muscles. But that’s not it: in the end you can play your own muscle music by using your keyboard. Great!
STANLEY
@stanleypiano is the first interactive player piano that plays song request via Twitter. Tweet your request and Stanley will notify you when he’s playing your song. He prefers Indie music, but has taken the effort to learn how to play music out of its comfort zone. Nice work Digital Kitchen.
Fjögur píanó
The Islandic band Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band’s new album Valtari. This is one of the first result, starring Shia LeBeouf.