If you’ve ever scoured Youtube for live music video clips of that gig you attended and found nothing but shaky camera footage and distorted audio, you’re not alone. That’s why two new Irish digital music startups have sprung up recently.

45Sound was set up to address the uploading of fan-captured video with poor sound. 45Sound does that by recording the audio of gigs directly from the sound desk. So when you end up with a kickass live clip with shoddy audio quality, you can send it to 45Sound and if they captured audio at that particular gig, they will sync up a properly mastered high-quality version of the audio cut to your footage before you upload it to Youtube. 45Sound first debuted at this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes festival and the demos so far are impressive with clips of And So I Watch You From Afar, Rubberbandits and The Redneck Manifesto demonstrating the technology.

On the visual front, a new online “live entertainment venue” called VenueOne.com was launched with a gig at The Grand Social in Dublin on Monday with a lineup featuring Little Green Cars, The Riptide Movement and Arveene amongst others and you didn’t even have to attend to experience it. The gig was streamed live on the VenueOne website which is aiming to become the defacto site for video of pre-recorded and live gigs. Continue Reading..»

South African Animation School students collaborate on an animated short story about the birth of ideas.

Wing It from The Animation School on Vimeo.

A$AP Rocky
Throw yo’ dolla signs up. The news of a $3 million record contract proceeded the arrival of A$AP Rocky, a Harlem rapper with a Southern rap style whose LiveLiveA$AP mixtape featuring the tracks Pe$o and Purple Swag has made him the most hyped rapper around.
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Florence covers Drake
Florence Welch shows her love for the title track from the Canadian rapper’s North American chart-topping Take Care album. The original features production from Jamie xx as well as vocals by Rihanna. Florence’s version injects it with her typically airy orchestral arrangements.
Listen / Watch at When The Gramophone Rings
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• The Nickelblock plugin – remove any trace of Nickelback from your internet browsing.
• Restaurant or indie band?
• If Nicolas Cage’s head was a paintbrush…
• Back To The Future 2: Irina Werning travels the world yet again to photograph recreations of people’s pasts in the present.
• Double Suns – An Oxford-based t-shirt and collaborative art project featuring Foals, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Dave Ma and other musicians.

Press Play & Record
The return of the cassette? Every covermounted NME cassette tape from the ’80s in downloadable-form.
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Our Cat Could Be Your Nine Lives
Cats as music critics or “feline music scribes”.
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iMeme
If you’ve ever wondered where image memes are made, this might explain it.
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E-Mom Gloria Bianco shows The Onion News team how physical distance is no obstacle to a parent’s ability to keep tabs and interfere on all aspects of their children’s lives.

The latest in the Bad Lip Reading series tackles the speeches of Ron Paul in which the potential US presidential candidate tries to convince people to vote for him by talking about “the bad faeces pudding”. If you refuse he will “haunt your prostate”.

A quiet walk in Richmond Park is interrupted by a labrador who chases deer in sheepdog mode and a dog owner who can’t believe what’s happening. “FENNNNTOONNNNNN!” The most shared video of the week.