Tag: music

“Diggin’ In The Carts” – Documentary series about Japanese video game music

Includes interviews with composers Hitoshi Sakimoto & Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka.

An Unused Vocal Track by Chubby Checker for Ad About Atari Video Game “Dig Dug”

WHO KNEW?

Your literary playlist: A guide to the music of Haruki Murakami

Author is a fiend for music.

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André 3000 Is Moving On in Film, Music and Life

Will star in upcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic.

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André 3000 of Outkast, billed as André Benjamin, plays Jimi Hendrix in the biopic “Jimi: All Is by My Side,” to be released next month. Credit Patrick Redmond/XLrator Media

Slash Teams up with Halloween Horror Nights for “Clowns 3D”

Guitarist will create original score.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAU-2aQ2Fjc

Black People Doing Industrial Dancing Is The Best Trend On Vine Right Now

“Literally the best form of cultural appropriation that has ever existed.”

Check out the Vine vids at Buzzfeed. Below: “Traditional” industrial dance.

Afrofuturism takes flight: from Sun Ra to Janelle Monáe

Great piece about Afrofuturism. Thank you, Guardian.

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King Britt, curator of MoMA’s Moondanda Afrofuturism event. Photograph: John Kaufman

The Guy Who Played Walt on “Lost” Is in a Band and even has a Hit Song

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Geez, who knew?

Every Last Song From Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series, Compiled

Soul, jazz, classic rock, big band, disco, metal…love projects like this.

Below, Susannah Odetta Holmes Dean and Roland Deschain, The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, Art by Ned Dameron

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The History: “Hip Hop, Technology, and Innovation”

Written by MIT’s Adjoa Poku
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