In what can only be interpreted as a selfless move to help a weary nation recover from the horror of the Kanye/Kim Kardashian pregnancy, Jay-Z and Beyonce are going to have another baby, in the process showing us that some celebrity couples can procreate with style and grace, seemingly immune from internet mockery.
Last time we checked in on the art of Billy the Butcher, he was drawing real-life despots as comic book supervillains and mashing up Marvel comics superheroes with stills from their film adaptations. Now he’s created “The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends” to re-cast seven ’80s music icons as comic book superheroes.
The world is slowly realizing how best to use Vine. Gillian Jacobs and Will Sasso have for months, and more recently “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal” broke the Internet in half, but there’s a new Vine pro in town and his name is: Bruce D. To quote College Humor, “A guy by the name of Bruce D has been posting vines that mash up rap (occasionally pop) songs with children’s’ programming — Disney movies, Barney, The Wizard of Oz.”
Here’s some of his best work.
Tangles of flashing electrical cords. A nearly naked man, dressed only in his underwear and tangled hair. Rainbow disco balls. More rainbow disco balls. Probably dead animals buried beneath the lit-up tubes. Yup, it can only mean the Flaming Lips dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where they performed David Bowie’s “Heroes.”
Wayne Coyne is the kind of guy who’d say, “You wish you could swim like dolphins? I’M THE DOLPHIN KING.”
Five years ago, Kanye West released 808s and Heartbreaks, his most experimental and polarizing album to date. The album was dark and came on the heels of Yeezy losing his mother and having his engagement called off. 808′s was Kanye at his darkest. Read the rest of this entry »
Introducing Brassft Punk, an outfit created to do brass band covers of Daft Punk songs, because why not? It’s the brainchild of a New Orleans man (naturally) named Earl Scioneaux III, aka “Madd Wikkid.”
Brassft Punk is digital love turned analog, a project that reimagines Daft Punk’s greatest hits as rollicking numbers for blatting New Orleans brass. The project — the brainchild of Earl Scioneaux III, the recording engineer for the legendary traditionalists Preservation Hall Jazz Band — started as a modest side hustle funded by Kickstarter, but soon became a full-scale phenomenon when the group released a record with Chicago’s pioneering Trax Records. To keep pace with the sudden popularity, Scioneaux has developed a frenetic live show that blends electronic and acoustic improvisation. On May 18, Brassft Punk will take their biggest stage yet with their early slot at Alabama’s Hangout Music Fest.
The remixes are below. Enjoy.
Picture, if you will, a Follow the Bouncing Ball music video. You probably enjoyed them as a kid because they felt vaguely interactive, like if you didn’t listen to Ludwig Von Drake and refused to play along, you’d miss out on the fun. OK, now picture a FtBB…but with games…and pretty girls…and thousands of people all over the world helping out.
That’s the idea behind Do Not Touch, an interactive website that doubles as a NSFW music video for Light Light’s “Kilo.” According to the band, “After 50 years of pointing and clicking, we are celebrating the nearing end of the computer cursor with an ever-changing music video where all our cursors can be seen together for one last time.”
In other words: screw you, Ludwig Von Drake.
Have you heard about these French guys who wear helmets on their heads and make groovy tunes, these Daft Punk guys? Everyone’s talking about them and their new album these days. We kinda like it. Lots of people do. Hell, Pitchform basically built an online monument to Daft Punk in honor of it. But you know who doesn’t? Diplo, that’s who!
“Wack Wednesdays” are the new “GOOD Fridays.”
Back in 2010, Kanye West broke the Internet on a weekly basis when every TGIF, he released a new song from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, along with other non-album tracks. It’s unknown whether he’ll do the same for his forthcoming album, but until then, the Lonely Island are taking his idea and running with it. Last week, there was “Spring Break Anthem” and now “I F*cked My Aunt,” with their “I’m on a Boat” partner T-Pain. What is sex?
