The Beatles: some people love them, some people hate them, and some people are indifferent to their music. Me? I’ve never heard of them until now. But Youtuber Broccaloo has used OpenAI’s Jukebox, a “neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres
This is a video of Luna Lee covering Pink Floyd’s iconic ‘Wish You Were Here’ on a traditional Korean gayageum. As always with Luna’s covers, it was a joy to listen to. You know, I actually got to see Luna in concert…gosh, what feels like forever ago. It wasn’t forever
The online Winamp Skin Museum. Looking through all of these I can close my eyes and almost see my freshman dorm room. The loft bed with desk underneath, a huge 21-inch CRT monitor taking up most of the desk space, a Winamp visualizer playing at full screen. Little did I
This is a clip from the 2020 Crufts International Dog show of 10-year old border collie Breeze (representing Switzerland along with her caretaker Monika Ballerini) dancing to Evanescence’s 2003 banger ‘Bring Me To Life’ during the ‘Freestyle Heelwork To Music’ portion of the competition. Did she win? I’m not sure
Because the internet is a tilt-a-whirl that never stops spinning no matter how much people puke, this is a surprisingly well made video of Gollum deepfaked to perform Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, as made famous by Sinéad O’Connor’s 1990 cover. The music video even follows O’Connor’s. Gollum’s new lyrics,
This is a video of Team USA Ice Dancers Oona and Gage Brown performing their 2020-21 Free Dance routine to Metallica’s 1991 banger ‘Nothing Else Matters’ at the Bryant Park’s Winter Village ice rink in New York City. Wow, has it really almost been thirty years since ‘Nothing Else Matters’
This is a 90-minute mixtape of classic/popular hip hop song medleys (unfortunately no rapping) reimagined with medieval style instrumentation by Beedle The Bardcore. Artists include Wu Tang Clan, Eminem, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog, 2Pac, Outkast and more. Obviously, I plan on looping the mixtape at
Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ‘Take Five’ is easily one of the most recognizable jazz standards ever recorded. Contrary to popular believe, the song was actually composed by quartet saxophonist/long time Brubeck collaborator/boozehound Paul Desmond, and became the first jazz single to sell over a million copies. And this is a video