Category: Music

The World’s First Beer Bottle to Play Music

Beck’s came up with a very creative idea to promote its new record label based on Thomas Edison’s original cylindrical phonograph, to create what it claims to be the world’s first playable beer bottle. Check out the video below. via: Laughing Squid

A Middle-Eastern Version of Radiohead’s Song ‘Karma Police’

Singer and songwriter Rotem Shefy and cellist Leat Sabbah performed a middle-eastern version song inspired by the 1997 hit song “Karma Police” by Radiohead. Checkout the music video below.

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… Continue reading Gas Station Prank Turns Couple into Karaoke Superstars

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… Continue reading ABBA Museum Opens in Stockholm

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… Continue reading YouTube to Launch Music Streaming Service

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… Continue reading First Ever Space-to-Earth Musical Collaboration

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… Continue reading CataCombo: Sound System for Coffins

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… Continue reading Electronic System Turns Human Face Into an Instrument