“Roman is as Roman Does” is the first official video off of Themselves‘ Crowns Down. It’s an odd mix of animation, hip hop, and cupcakes.
Also on worth noting is this live but arty video of Oversleeping, another track off of their new album. Dose kills it, but it’s always to watch Jel’s MPC wizardry in [...]
I’m a total sucker for acoustic covers of my classic electronic songs, so finding Andrew Flanders’ cover of Aphex Twin’s “Four” really made my day… But then I realized he has a entire series of Aphex covers on YouTube, as well as tabs and mp3s! Holy shit! Time to practice!
Jason did an awesome job on [...]
Ratatat and Despot are currently touring the US. During each day of the tour, the duo will write, record, and perform a new song that will eventually be released on a free album when the tour is finished. During their recent San Francisco show, they asked Aesop Rock to appear on their daily track. Aes [...]
Semi-obscure music fans rejoice: iTunes is currently featuring John Cage’s “Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds” as their Discovery Download of the week! For those that don’t know, 4′33″ is a composition in which Cage instructs the musician not to play anything at all for four minutes and thirty three seconds. It’s the sort of piece [...]
Based on my google hits, I see several folks stumbling on DrownRadio.com in search of Bomarr’s newest installation to the Wild X-Mas mixtape series. Sadly, last years volume was the last in the series, but fear not; videogame musician and bead sprite artist Doctor Octoroc has released 8-bit Jesus, a chiptune tribute to christmas songs. [...]
Looking back, I probably wouldn’t have bought Xoc’s newest album, The Beginning of the End, if it had cost one dollar more. Not that I wasn’t interested… GameMusic4All’s description of the Sacramento based musician who performs live versions of video game sound tracks sounded enticing, but without as much as a single preview track, my [...]
2008 has been a good year for dorkumentaries. Along with the dvd release of King of Kong, we’ve also seen the premiere of not one, but two docs about nerdcore hip hop (Nerdcore for Life & Nerdcore Rising). If you just can’t get enough retro gaming and quirky music, be sure to check out Blip [...]
The newest episode of the Tank Riot podcast is an in depth episode all about Leon Theremin, the godfather of electronic music. Theremin is best known for his invention that shares his name, but he has lived a fantastic life beyond his musical devices.
Each episode of Tank Riot features a new interesting topic that is [...]
How to Speak Hip, the comedy album by Del Close & John Brent, has recently been posted in it’s entirety on Skyelab Music (via). Currently, they only have a flash player, so you can’t download the tracks, but a quick torrent search may provide you with a downloadable copy.
How to Speak Hip is a classic [...]
“If I where a number, I’d be complex!”
Monzy has posted his newest song on YouTube, check it out here, or download the video (wmv or mov)Can’t get enough? Download the .mp3 here. This is Monzy’s first music video since his classic nerd track “Kill Dash 9“.
