Mumford and Sons play new song at SXSW world premiere of Big Easy Express - video March 17, 2012 23:40 The band played 'Where Are You Now' following the first official screening of the new tour film Mumford and Sons played a brand new song this afternoon (March 17) at the premiere of the Emmett Malloy directed film Big Easy Express at SXSW. Songs So Bass-y, So Loud They'll Destroy My Subwoofers I am a 34-year-old college sophomore Requested by too old to be a college student · Compiled by bumbee …and I’m a 28-year-old senior. Cheers, mate!
A History of the 27 Club ”Now he’s gone and joined that stupid club,” Kurt Cobain’s mother said in the wake of her son’s death in 1994. Cobain’s life had ended sensationally, overdosing on heroin and then shooting himself in his Seattle home. Wendy Cobain was talking about the club no one would want to join and yet an astounding number of musicians have: The 27 Club. To the uninitiated, this refers to the over 50 people who have achieved notoriety through popular music and also met their end at this precise age. This week marks the release of a new book which takes a look at this peculiar trend: 27: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse (Da Capo Press, November 12) by Howard Sounes.
The Ultimate Road Trip Playlist - 50 Best Road Trip Songs& No road trip is complete without a playlist of songs that capture the spirit of traveling on the open road. So we’ve compiled a list of the 50 best road trip songs . In order to make this be-all end-all totally definitive list that all other lists look up to, the songs had to meet the following criteria: a.) encompass the excitement and freedom of road tripping Video Game Music You will get very nostalgic as I did listening to these old memories. I almost dropped a tear while listening no Pokemon Pallet Town theme song. So, did you get nostalgic after hearing some of your childhood classics? 5 Things You Didn't Know About Nirvana Here we are now, entertain us ... with trivia. Nirvana's "Nevermind" was released on Sept. 24, 1991. The band's original record contract with Sub Pop only paid them $600, but this album would go on to sell 30 million copies worldwide. Perhaps they weren't always understood at the time -- MTV even misspelled the group's Moon Man award in 1992 as "Smells Like Team Spirit" -- but over the years Nirvana has certainly captured the zeitgeist for anyone who wishes to come as they are, no matter what team spirit they feel.
Infinite Jukebox Lets You Listen to an Ever-Changing Version of Your Favorite Song, Forever Do you really, really like one particular song – enough to listen to it forever? Well, now you can. Seriously, you can now start your favorite song and hear it played in random variations until the end of time. Or until December 21st, according to some people. Your gateway to this is the Infinite Jukebox, “for when your favorite song just isn’t long enough,” it says. The Infinite Jukebox is a product of a Music Hack Day hosted at MIT in Boston.
Video: Sounds of Threat "Mental Instability" - Punks in Vegas Local punk rock band Sounds of Threat has released a new music video for their song “Mental Instability.” The song comes from their debut album Creature Of Habit, which you can purchase now via SquidHat Records. If you like what you hear, check out Sounds of Threat live at the SquidHat Records third annual showcase at the Double Down Saloon. Songwriting Exercises - Handout Songwriting Exercises by Joel Mabus Scaffolding Stuck? Meet the Burmese Punks Feeding the Country's Homeless Punks in Yangon handing out food to the city's homeless. Photos by Charlotte Bauer Every Monday night, a group of black-clad, silver-studded punks meet beneath the overpass bridge that crosses Sule Pagoda Road in downtown Yangon, to distribute food to people living on the streets. On the evening VICE attended, even after the torrential monsoon rain had turned gutters into rivers, about 30 punks and hangers-on had gathered to help combat Yangon's rising homelessness crisis.
Daxophone,experimental musical instrument invented by Hans Reichel,bowed and plucked idiophone The Daxophone was invented by Hans Reichel, and is a musical instrument of the friction idiophone category. It consists of a thin wooden blade fixed in a wooden block, which holds one or more contact microphones, and is usually mounted on a tripod. Most often, it is played by bowing the free end, but it can also be struck or plucked, which propagates sound in the same way a ruler halfway off a table does. These vibrations then continue to the wooden-block bass, which are then amplified by the contact mics.
Early 2000s Vegas hardcore documentary "Army of Kids" makes its way online - Punks in Vegas Army of Kids, an early 2000s documentary about the Vegas hardcore scene directed by Sasha Perry for CineVegas, has been converted from VHS and posted to YouTube. It’s an absolutely fascinating look at what the scene was like at the turn of the millennium, right before social media and file sharing really disrupted everything. It’s also interesting to see how much things have stayed the same, with venue woes, bands reluctant to make Vegas a regular stop on tour, and the public’s misconception on what the scene is about, remaining ever constant. According to Perry: