Entries Tagged as 'music'

Friday, June 19th, 2015

‘Subterranean Facebook Blues’—Bob Dylan’s Classic Sung Through Facebook Profiles

Bob Dylan’s iconic track “Subterranean Homesick Blues” has been covered and parodied many times over the years since it’s release back in 1965. But this is the first time it’s been covered using people’s names as presented on their Facebook profiles. Each line becomes a pun on a name, some work better than other, but [...]

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

‘The Goonies’ Gets Remixed With Nicki Minaj For The ‘ Truffle Butter Shuffle’

Best movie ever (aka The Goonies) turned 30 recently and in honor of this and in honor of it being a fantastic film, DJ Mike Realm has created this remix, merging some scenes from it with Nicki Minaj’s ‘Truffle Butter’—truffle butter is a term you may or may not be familiar with, if you don’t [...]

Monday, May 25th, 2015

Listen to Pogo’s New Song Made From Snippets of Various Disney Movies

Pogo, who’s made a career out of creating laidback, whimsical songs from animations and movies has made a another music video created entirely from sounds found in Disney films. Such is his expertise he makes it seem so natural and easy, but you just know it’s taken huge amounts of effort and skill.

Thursday, May 21st, 2015

Students Turn Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ into Hand-drawn Rotoscoped Video

It’s amazing what you can do with a bunch of students with some time on their hands, as you’ll beat witness to with this reimagining of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” music video. 49 students were given 52 frames to turn it into hand-drawn rotoscoped footage.

Tuesday, May 19th, 2015

This Isn’t Your Ordinary Suburbia in the Music Video for DATA’s ‘Don’t Sing’

Lurking beneath the thin veneer of normality of suburbia is general weirdness—that’s a common trope in films and culture, but things are extra weird and unorthodox in the neighborhood depicted in this music video for French producer DATA’s new song “Don’t Sing feat. Benny Sings.”

Thursday, May 14th, 2015

A Disguised U2 Go Busking on the New York City Subway

U2 got dressed up in wigs and fake beards to head down to the NYC subway and busk for an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Positioning themselves at 42nd Street station in Manhattan they played U2 songs pretending they were a covers band. The disguises didn’t last long though.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2015

Men With Mustaches Get Enthusiastic with Food in this WTF Music Video

Mannen Met Snorren, a Dutch band who’s name translates to Men With Mustaches, have a very WTF video for their debut single “Do It!”—it takes place in a kitchen and involves them stuffing and roasting a chicken, before getting friendly with some donuts, before splattering cake mix everywhere.

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

Tidal—Help End the Suffering of Music’s Multi-millionaires

Forget about your own financial woes, music’s multi-millionaires are suffering because of Spotify and its streaming service, so now they need your help to replenish their dwindling millions. For instance Jay-Z only has $560 million, the poor guy. Of course, you’re never actually going to feel sorry for these people, but that’s the tone of [...]

Monday, April 27th, 2015

Frits Towerbrits – Vozen!

A group of students from Utrecht combine their powers to form a pop sensation of a band, a band that is influenced by the greats of musical culture, like Psy, and Dutch bands JvT and K3. What!? you might say. Exactly. Watch the video and then see if you can resist it’s powerful allure, by [...]

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

David Hasselhoff Stars in Epic 80s Music Video for the ‘Kung Fury’ Movie

If you were looking for a true survivor of the 80s, then David Hasselhoff fits the bill perfectly—so who better than to star in a music video for a song off the soundtrack of OTT 80s cop movie pastiche Kung Fury than The Hoff. It features him is singing the song “True Survivor” along [...]

Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

Emily Blunt vs. Anne Hathaway in Epic Lip Sync Battle

Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway star in the third episode of Spike TV’s series Lip Sync Battle which is hosted by LL Cool J. Even though Blunt and Hathaway are good friends that didn’t stop them from doing a a little trash talking on stage before they got underway.