Entries Tagged as 'music'

Sunday, June 26th, 2016

True Love is…This Couple Dancing to ‘What’s Up Fatlip?’

Back in 2005 Spike Jonze directed the video for rapper Fatlip’s song ‘What’s Up Fatlip?’—it was already a pretty weird video featuring a sad clown rapping while standing around in LA. But now this couple, h3h3Productions, have added an extra layer of weirdness by making their own, frankly awesome, homage to that video.

Friday, June 24th, 2016

‘Gorillaz – Deconstructing Genre’ Looks at how the Band Revolutionized Pop Music

They’re a band that, theoretically, don’t actually exist instead they consist of cartoon characters—but behind the fictional lineup of Gorillaz is Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett and a lot of musicians who have collaborated on the project. In this video Kaptain Kristian takes a look at the group and the influence they’ve had.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016

Aphex Twin’s New Music Video is Directed by a 12-Year-Old

Earlier in June Aphex Twin announced a new EP, Cheetah due out July 8 and he’s recently released the first song off it and an accompanying music video. In typical unexpected fashion the music video for “Cirklon3 [ Колхозная mix ]”, his first music video in over 15 years, is directed by a 12-year [...]

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

Barney the Dinosaur Raps Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Big Poppa’

YouTuber Adam Schleichkorn has been doing a series of videos bringing old school hip hop to the masses by mashing them up with popular TV shows. Often they’re kids shows and Barney the lovable purple dinosaur has featured in quite a few. Mainly because he seems to be the perfect figure to edit into looking [...]

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

Get Prepared For Mondays With This ‘Take on Me’ Cover

The danger of this video is that it’s likely to make you want to dress up in lycra and dance around your neighborhood like a crab. Because that’s exactly what these two guys do with Aha’s 80s classic ‘Take on Me’ playing over the top. Much like ‘Eye of the Tiger’ is a song to [...]

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Various Animals Sing The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’

If you count yourself as a fan of The White Stripes’ music you’re probably slightly peeved that the duo—Jack White and Meg White—broke up the band back in 2011. Alas, there might not be any new music from them but that doesn’t mean to say people can’t cover their old material. Or if not people [...]

Tuesday, June 7th, 2016

Dan Bull Says ‘F*ck Everything’ in His New Song

There is not one thing it seems that Dan Bull isn’t telling to f*ck right off in his latest song which is appropriately titled ‘F*ck Everything’—in which he holds up cards stating just what it is he’s telling to eff-off in case the song wasn’t quite clear enough. Nothing is safe from his nihilism as [...]

Monday, June 6th, 2016

Watch the Strange But Captivating Music Video for Vitalic’s Classic ‘Poison Lips’

Taken from French electronic dance musician Vitalic’s seminal album Flashmob, the single Poison Lips is a banger of a track featuring splintered female vocals and thumping sub bass—if you’ve seen the movie Dredd then you’ll remember it from there. And the video is pretty awesome too, it features a Japanese girl smearing blood on various [...]

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

Uber Driver Lays Down Some Freestyle Rap For Car Full Of Babes

Rising to the challenge of a group of women who didn’t believe he can rap, this Uber driver lays down some freestyle rhymes to the beat of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Electric Relaxation.” Although he doesn’t normally rap for his passengers the women were curious after he told them about his music career.

Monday, May 30th, 2016

The Doors’ ‘Light My Fire’ Gets a Steptoe and Son Remix

The theme from British 1960s sitcom Steptoe and Son has no right to work so well mashed together with The Doors’ seminal hit “Light My Fire”, but someone thought up the crazy idea of combining the two, and they—somehow, some way—work very well indeed together.

Friday, May 20th, 2016

Dillon Francis is a DJ For Hire in the Hilarious Video for ‘Need You’

In this hilarious music video directed by Jack Wagner EDM musician Dillon Francis plays his alter ego, a DJ for hire who gets a gig playing a suburban garden party for some middle class moms and dads. Wearing a visor and mirrored sunglasses Dillon shakes up things quite a bit, turning the staid affair into [...]