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Shopping for real estate and men with Taylor Swift
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Brighten your day with these three mouse-only games
Keyboard, be gone!
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Hatsune Miku is here to destroy everything you love (and hate) about pop stardom
Pop’s uncanny valley makes her way to the States.
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This playable music video conjures the slacker-raps of the ’90s
I sometimes fear that Basehead’s Play With Toys is lost to time. Originally released in 1992, the record got a lot of acclaim and little else: an immaculately low-key live-instrument take on hip-hop, with songs that seemed to have ambled into existence. On the microphone, Michael Ivey split the diff
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Sketches from Radiohead’s Polyfauna app highlight the creative process
Say the words “Radiohead” and “new music” almost anywhere and you are bound to attract attention. Maybe even a lot of attention. So when I heard that Radiohead’s interactive wandering app, PolyFauna, from developer Universal Everything, was not only being updated but also that it had 8 new tracks th
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These interactive music videos remind us of Tron’s light-cycle scene, almost
The imagery for George and Jonathan’s interactive music videos for their album III is simple yet savvy: bright polychromatic lines streak across a grid towards infinity. It’s pretty much like the light-cycle scene in Tron, which is suiting enough for electronic music, but with one catch: all the com
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Indie rocker Mac DeMarco needs your help torturing cockroaches
Mac DeMarco writes jangly, bluesy indie rock songs. As far as I know he has no songs about burning insects with cigarettes, though I could be mistaken. He does however have a game about it. His label has just released Squish’Em, which you can play here. Armed with a half-smoked cigarette from your c
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This interactive music video is everything you love about Hotline Miami, sans the pig masks
Granted, there’s a lot to love about the pig masks. But Scarface-types in animal masks aside, the smooth, distinct vibe is realized in the music video/not-quite-a-game Honey by musical artist James Dean and video artist Vince Mckelvie. There are the rows of palm trees receding in the horizon; the th
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This warped music video is like having a brain hemorrhage (in the good way)
The song is called “Radiation Therapy” by a noisecore artist going by the name of Wolfshirt. (Googling produced no additional information other than this superlative entry on Urban Dictionary: Wolf shirts generally possess an almost magnetic effect on women; who as if under a spell, cannot quench th
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Kill Screen and Moog team up to explore the role of sound in videogames
As part of Moogfest, we’re arranging an afternoon of talks featuring people who worked on Nidhogg, Dance Central, Gone Home, and more. It’s gonna be awesome.
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This proves all musical instruments should have particle effects
Physical touch is something that’s been sorely missing as music has become more digital. You’re not going to see a producer going all Pete Townshend on his $10,000 dollar studio equipment. But a weird and wonderful acoustic research project by Felix Flair turns any hard surface into a tactical music
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Radiohead releases strange new music in their strange new mobile game
Today, Radiohead surprised everyone with a free mobile “app” called PolyFauna in which you walk around a desolate atmosphere while messing around with your phone’s features and, of course, listening to Radiohead. I’m just gonna call a spade a spade and say it’s a game. Here are some of the game-lik