What happens when you reverse Pi?
What a toothpick replica of San Francisco looks like.
How to use Google Buzz for something useful.
Download a Kill Rock Stars label sampler featuring Elliot Smith, Gossip and more.
The records that Carl Sagan shot into space.
Etsy
A huge site which helps people who make jewellery, art, clothing or homeware to sell unique items to lucky consumers like us. Great for a unique gift.
http://www.etsy.com
Couch Surfing in Dublin
Shibby is a 24-year old Longford lad who is spending six weeks couch surfing in Dublin. This blog details his experiences.
http://csindublin.blogspot.com
Bitspace
Store your music “in the cloud” from €4 per month, and use Bitspace’s slick full-featured player to play it from any computer or browser.
http://www.bitspace.at
Lissie covers Gaga
Supporting Joshua Radin, country folk singer Lissie will play The Academy, Dublin on the 26th. Her cover of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance proves she is one to watch.
http://bit.ly/lissiegaga
The Joy Formidable
This Welsh three-piece will release their third album of lush, dense yet melodic rock this year and interest is growing thanks to recent killer single Popinjay.
http://bit.ly/thejoyf
Gold Panda
Derwin Panda is a lone electronic producer from the UK who appeared on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll and who is obsessed with Japan. His new EP, led by the sample cut and paste warm haze of You is out now.
http://bit.ly/goldpanda
Sunday Girl
With a hot Diplo remix, and a mention on influential pop music site PopJustice, Sunday Girl might just be the next big thing.
http://www.myspace.com/wearesundaygirl
Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live over the weekend to host the show after writing for it for so many years. Here’s her best sketch from takeover.
April Fools’ Day may just be one day a year but in internet terms, the jokes live on. In the week proceeding April 1st, a keen web user encounters dozens of crazy and fake news stories which persist on websites after they’ve served their ephemeral one-day use. It’s best just to mark “read all” in your feed reader and be done with it or you could end up reading with interest, about Coldplay’s plan to launch a new fragrance called Angst (with a bottle designed by Brian Eno) or Indaba Music’s remix prank without realising it.
The remix community site Indaba launched a remix competition on April 1st which gave users the opportunity to remix “one of the most important musical works of the 20th century”, 4’33 by composer John Cage. The site purported to offer stems of the track for remix purposes but of course, 4’33 is in fact, four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. So you’d be a proper April fool to fall for it. (more…)
Logorama
Watch the Oscar-winning animated short set in a world which consists entirely of logos, branding and advertising characters.
News Anchor vs Field Reporter
This is like a scene from the movie Anchorman except it ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Amazing.
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Hey rock stars!
Henry Rollins has some sound life advice for you guys before you get on that stage..
Link via Champagne Candy
10 rap songs white people love
From Whoomp (There It Is) to Jump Around to MC Hammer’s Can’t Touch This, this list is frightening in its accuracy.
Link via All Hip-Hop forum
Pink Floyd 8-bit style
Dark Side of the Moon re-imagined as a Nintendo-style video game soundtrack.
Link via The Daily Swarm.
Gayngs
Bon Iver, Solid Gold, Megafaun, P.O.S. and a slew of Minneapolis musicians have united under Ryan Olsen’s supergroup to play soft rock music directly inspired by 10CC’s I’m Not In Love. It sounds dubious but judging by The Gaudy Side of Town, the album Relayted, out next month is worth investigation.
Listen at Nialler9
Bob Dylan’s gonna knock you out
Dylan was joined by comedian Steve Merchant on his radio show recently and the two rapped through LL Cool J’s hip-hop classic Mama Said Knock You Out.
