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Gas Station Prank Turns Couple into Karaoke Superstars

Posted on: May 13, 2013 @ 6:30 PM by Q-80 No Comments

Gas Station Prank Turns Couple into Karaoke Superstars

An awesome couple caught in a gas station prank on The Tonight Show that turned them into karaoke superstars. It all started when actor Timothy Stack as a fake newscaster on a pump’s display screen interrupted the husband from pumping gas and asked him to sing karaoke for a free tank of gas. Watch the couple sing in the video.

Leno’s gas station prank turns the singing couple (Will and Monifa) into viral video stars, they were invited by Jay Leno to play with Rickey and the Tonight Show Band, watch video below.

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

Posted on: May 10, 2013 @ 9:30 PM by Q-80 No Comments

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

The first permanent museum dedicated to Swedish pop legends ABBA officially opened in Stockholm. The museum features a host of exhibits, including childhood photos, instruments, gold records, and the glitzy costumes worn by the band in their glory days in 70′s.

Bjorn Ulvaeus, former member of Swedish pop group ABBA, arrives for the inauguration of ‘ABBA The Museum’.

ABBA has sold about 380 million albums and singles around the world. The band last public performance together was in 1982, and have vowed they will never reunite to sing together again.

The exhibition is expected to attract a quarter of a million visitors in its first year.

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

YouTube to Launch Music Streaming Service

Posted on: March 5, 2013 @ 9:45 PM by Q-80 No Comments

YouTube to Launch Music Streaming Service

YouTube will launch a subscription music service later this year to compete with the likes of Spotify and Slacker. The service has its own negotiating team and operating unit, but will likely have some overlap with new features also rumored to be coming to Google’s Android music platform, Google Play.

According to Fortune, The two new services are defined by their respective places in the Google empire: Google Play for Android is a digital locker for music—users buy, store, and sort a collection of tracks; but on YouTube’s coming service, anyone can listen to tracks for free. Both services are said to be adding a subscription fee that will unlock additional features. For the YouTube-based service, this will likely mean ad-free access.

YouTube will compete against a host of other streaming music sites, like for example, Spotify that recently hit 20 million users and 5 million paying customers and Slacker with 4 million monthly users and 500,000 paid subscribers.

YouTube will beat the competition simply by using its channels to advertise to more than 800 million users for the new upcoming service.

 

First Ever Space-to-Earth Musical Collaboration

Posted on: February 14, 2013 @ 5:35 PM by Q-80 No Comments

First Ever Space to Earth Musical Collaboration

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, from aboard the International Space Station (I.S.S.), and Ed Robertson, a Canadian lead singer from Barenaked Ladies band recently recorded a fantastic single titled “I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)” with a children’s choir, the Wexford Gleeks from Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts.

It’s described as the “first space-to-earth musical collaboration” and it was “commissioned by CBCMusic.ca and The Coalition for Music Education with the Canadian Space Agency to celebrate music education in schools across Canada.”

Watch the video below as astronaut Chris Hadfield performs “I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)” with Ed Robertson.

CataCombo: Sound System for Coffins

Posted on: January 17, 2013 @ 1:30 PM by Q-80 No Comments

CataCombo: Sound System for Coffins

You’ve got to be kidding me! Check this out, a Swedish based company called Pause designed a digital sound system specially for coffins that plays music for dead people, can you believe that? When I first saw the TV ad I thought it was one of those prank videos on YouTube, but believe it or not, Its real! The coffin is equipped with speakers and a wireless streaming sound system.

CataCombo: Sound System for Coffins

The CataCombo Sound System has three components: a music app, a headstone/music server, 8 inch subwoofer and the CataCoffin that is wired with an array of speakers. The CataCombo Sound System is available at Pause for about $30,000. Watch the TV ad. video below.

via: Laughing Squid

Electronic System Turns Human Face Into an Instrument

Posted on: January 7, 2013 @ 8:00 PM by Q-80 No Comments

Electronic System Turns Human Face Into an Instrument

Japanese artist Daito Manabe works on a experimental music performance system that uses electrical sensors to either transmit music into muscular twitches or control music by facial movements.

Taking the role of programmer, designer, DJ, VJ, and composer on each of his projects, Manabe experiment with myoelectric sensors to turn people’s faces into human drum machine. Watch some of Manabe’s test projects in the video below.

You can also see this short documentary about Manabe.

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