Tag: interesting
Poorly drawn album covers are way too much fun
The awesome blog Dangerous Minds recently discovered my new favorite Facebook page, Poorly Drawn Album Covers. It’s exactly what it sounds like: The page’s...
You stop listening to new music at age 33, study says
When you reach 33 years or older, you will stop discovering new music, according to a new online study. New research, based on U.S....
This list shows what each performer at Woodstock was paid
Ultimate Guitar recently dug up this old chart that shows what each artist made for performing at the legendary Woodstock festival (Woodstock Music &...
Hear all the sounds you lose when music is compressed to MP3
According to CBC, University Of Virginia PhD student Ryan Maguire created the project The Ghost In The MP3 to demonstrate the sounds lost when...
This guy plays Foo Fighters’ entire discography in five minutes
Kye Smith (who’s known for his videos drumming through Blink-182, Green Day and NOFX’s discographies) has posted a video where he plays through Foo Fighters’ entire...
The 15 most expensive tours to see in 2015
Forbes has put together a list of the most expensive tours to see in 2015. For their article, the ticket prices are based on...
So there’s a Netflix for vinyl records now
As CD sales and digital downloads continue to decline, vinyl remains one of the bright spots in the music industry—up 52 percent in 2014,...
The most popular metal band names
Using the Metal Archives (with a database of thousands of metal bands), Reddit user darinhq has compiled a list for Data Is Beautiful of...
Which rock bands have the biggest vocabularies?
You may remember a story about data analyst Matt Daniels, who discovered which rapper has the largest vocabulary. Now, Consequence Of Sound found stats...
Spirograph record player hack turns music into visual art
The Dangerous Minds blog recently compiled these videos where clever people use music to create visual art. The process: “Robotic” arms holding pens are...
