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This chart shows which music Democrats and Republicans like

Facebook took a look at social data from each user who liked the page of a political candidate running for Senate, House Of Representatives and governor. Then, the social network looked at other categories—including music, books and TV shows—and found out what Democrats and Republicans like. According to the chart, Democrats are really into the […]

Zooming out from iconic album covers to see the bigger picture

Aptitude, a digital agency in the U.K., have released these tweaked images that give you a bigger-picture, zoomed-out look at the artwork from iconic albums. For instance, you can see what’s going on in the water around the baby from Nirvana's Nevermind or what’s waiting for the Beatles on the other side of Abbey Road. Check […]

This synthesizer turns weather into music

Slate recently ran a profile on musician/electronic wizard Quintron (known as the Weather Warlock), who, using a special synthesizer, is able to transform temperature, wind, sun and moisture into a very relaxing form of ambient music. Below, you can hear a live stream of the weather from New Orleans. Check it out below, and let […]

Here’s how musicians make money in one graph

 A few years ago, the Atlantic ran this really interesting graph that gives you a better sense of how musicians actually make money. The graph looks at everything from physical CD sales to digital downloads to streaming and charts the amount an artist would have to sell to actually earn the monthly U.S. minimum wage […]

This chart shows which music smart people and dumb people like

Software application writer Virgil Griffith has created a new chart of musical tastes that is based on the average SAT scores of different colleges. (The study is old, but the chart is new.) As Consequence Of Sound points out, the chart was calculated by using the average SAT scores of specific colleges and then using […]

NASA released actual recordings from space—and they’re chilling

Okay, before the argument starts: We all know you can’t actually hear sound in space. But! Sound does “exist” in the form of electromagnetic vibrations. You couldn’t hear these sounds if you were, say, near them aboard a spacecraft. But special instruments on vessels like the Voyager space probe are able to translate the vibrations […]

This device lets you scratch cassettes like vinyl

If you have a bunch of old cassette tapes and a couple of players lying around, this could be a fun project. Jeremy Bell has put together a device he calls “the ScrubBoard,” which allows users to “scratch” tape like records. In the YouTube video below, he demonstrates the prototype. According to Engadget, “a pair […]

Famous album covers brought to life as animated GIFs

Metal Insider has brought to our attention this talented artist who creates animated GIF versions of famous album covers. JB, as he refers to himself, has created many animated versions of the covers, with an emphasis on '90s punk, metal,  classic rock and even some rap. Some of the bands featured include Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, […]

Native advertisements now being inserted into old music videos

According to a new report by BuzzFeed, Universal Music Group—the largest record label conglomerate—has hired a tech ad company to “weave advertising campaigns directly into streaming music videos.” Under a new deal with Universal, ad company Mirriad will insert native, in-video advertisements to old both old and new streaming videos. Universal CEO Lucian Grainge said […]

Here’s a list of band names banned from a Christian radio station

Dangerous Minds recently dug up this old list of band names that were banned from a Christian radio station. WSOU is a heavy metal station housed in a Roman Catholic University and does not use the terms “Devil, Satan, God, Jesus” or any Catholic references that can be portrayed in a negative light. The list isn’t […]

Read a 5th grade girl’s diary entry about discovering punk music

Badass Digest recently dug up this amazing note written by a fifth grader named Taylor-Ruth. In the letter, the young girl writes about how she “checked out a bunch of music CDs from the library.” She then noted that a lot of the music has cuss words and the singers “do not like the man.” […]

Here are America's top 40 most musical colleges and what they’re listening to

After analyzing data from their student subscription campaign, streaming music service Spotify has been able to identify the top 40 universities that listen to the most music. The company has also managed to identify distinctive genre, artist and even song preferences of each school’s respective student body. For example, Ohio State’s favorite artist is Childish […]

Fan arrested for posting lyrics to Facebook: “They knew I wasn’t dangerous”

Last week, we heard about James Evans, a music fan in Kentucky who was arrested after he posted lyrics from the Exodus song “Class Dismissed” to his Facebook page. Evans was arrested for ‘terroristic threatening” and released from jail eight days later. “It's surreal,” Evans told Billboard in a new interview. “I didn't think anything would come of it.”  […]

Alternative music fans buy the most merch

AtVenu (via Digital Music News) has released data that breaks down tour merch sales by genre and found that “alternative” and rock music fans buy the most merch. Well, saying they buy the most merch is an understatement; they absolutely kill it, accounting for over 50 percent of merch sales collectively. The company scanned 1,300 […]

Brazilian man has amassed “several million” vinyl records

The New York Times Magazine has ran a profile of Zero Freitas, a 62-year-old businessman from Brazil who owns a São Paulo bus line and has amassed a colossal record collection. Freitas’ collection is estimated to be somewhere around three million LPs and 45s, with many of them being “bargain-bin rejects that had been thoroughly […]

Classic album covers without the deceased band members

After the sad news of iconic drummer Tommy Ramone’s recent passing, an image of the Ramones’ debut LP began circulating with only Tommy on the cover. As Dangerous Minds points out, eventually an image without even Tommy turned up, as the final member on the cover had finally passed. Now, a Tumblr has been unearthed of […]

Goths rejoice: Scientists develop material so dark you can’t even see it

A British company has produced a material so black it absorbs all but 0.035 percent of visual light, which is the new world record apparently. According to the Independent, the “super black” coating is made of carbon nanotubes and is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. To give that some perspective: The […]

Fans willing to pay $6,000 to be buried near favorite musicians

The Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, is dealing with a large number of jazz enthusiasts who want to be buried near such iconic musicians as Miles Davis and Duke Ellington. According to a new report from the Associated Press, the cemetery is currently developing new plots to meet the demand. “With the history […]

There are now public DJ booths in European parks

Dutch company Yalp has put these solar-powered, public, outdoor DJ booths (“Fonos”) in parks throughout the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark and Australia—because every public park needs the tranquil sounds of EDM. As the demonstration video shows below, the table utilizes 14 touchpad surfaces that can control elements like pitch, delay and scratch. The music can be added […]

Here’s what scratched vinyl looks like under a microscope

Vinyl scratching is apparently a hobby—not a worst nightmare!—for electronic musician Nick Zammuto. As endgadget points out, he cuts grooves into his LPs and uses the sonic jump as the rhythm for his unique style of electronica. In the video for his latest single, “Great Equator,” Zammuto uses a scanning electronic microscope to examine the […]
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