Audio-Technica’s Beloved Headphones Finally Get a Makeover

Audio-Technica’s Beloved Headphones Finally Get a Makeover

Audio-Technica has updated its much-beloved ATH-M50 headphone to make it more mobile-friendly and fashion-conscious with detachable cables and a less-boring color palette.

    



U2’s new song Invisible–which featured in a Super Bowl ad–is free on iTunes until 23:59 EST today

U2’s new song Invisible—which featured in a Super Bowl ad—is free on iTunes until 23:59 EST today to support HIV and AIDS charity. For every download, Bank of America will donate $1 to Red.

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Super Bowl ads: U2 release (RED) Invisible track and Maserati pitches Ghibli

Superband U2 released a free track in aid of (RED) and Maserati pitched a 1-percenter car at the 2014 Super Bowl today, as the keenly-observed commercials made their play during … Continue reading

One Boob Built YouTube: How Nipplegate Changed the Way We Share Video

One Boob Built YouTube: How Nipplegate Changed the Way We Share Video

Think about it this way: If Justin Timberlake hadn’t partially exposed one of Janet Jackson’s nipples during that fateful Super Bowl halftime show, you wouldn’t be able to watch all the nipples you’d like on your computer today.

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Why You Should Never Listen To Ride of the Valkyries While Driving

Why You Should Never Listen To Ride of the Valkyries While Driving

Time is a slippery continuum. Watching the hands on a clock tick will feel way, way different depending on the situation; trying to frantically write something on deadline with five minutes to spare ain’t the same as desperately willing a conference call to finish more quickly. It turns out that music can have an equally brain-bending effect on how we process the days of our lives.

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Listen to the Purring, Electromagnetic Weirdness of Mushrooms

Listen to the Purring, Electromagnetic Weirdness of Mushrooms

I was blown away when I first heard about a project that tried to tap into the electromagnetic communication potential of mushrooms. Using wires, radio waves, and circuits—not psychedelics—the project’s off-kilter quest to find (and listen to) "electromagnetic fungi" was nonetheless more art than science. But who says mushrooms have the right to remain silent?

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This amazing magic eye music video hides fun secret moving images

Remember how frustrating those Magic Eye images were when you were a kid? It seemed like everyone but you could see the hidden message. Until you figured it out and rubbed it in everyone’s face that they couldn’t see it. This video by Young Rival is just like those Magic Eye pictures only it turns the whole hidden message thing into one entire music video. It’s so much fun.

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Forgotify makes it easy to give never-played Spotify songs a little love

In December, Spotify launched an #undiscovered hashtag campaign to draw attention to the songs in its library that have never been played. With it came a massive discombobulated playlist with … Continue reading

Explore Spotify’s Millions of Unplayed Songs with Forgotify

Explore Spotify's Millions of Unplayed Songs with Forgotify

Four million songs on Spotify—a whopping twenty percent of the site’s tracks—have never been streamed. That is a ton of lonely tunes, but thanks to Forgotify they’re going to start getting some listening love; the service queues up stuff that’s never gotten a spin—the non-Biebers, the un-Mileys, the bizarro-Beys—and creates a running playlist of all-but-unknown audio.

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Listen to the fascinating history of sampling songs in music

New music is often just old music put together in different ways. There’s only so many notes you can play, tunes you can sing, words you can string, you know? It’s just how it works, music sampling happens whether it’s acknowledged or not. For an entertaining look at the history of sampling, watch the video above. It’s everywhere.

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