Archive for the 'Music' Category

The Losers, Official Trailer

No Commented March 4 2010
Categorized Under: Comics, Geek, Media, Music

Based on the DC Comics title, the film centers upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team–Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar–find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. [...]

30 Years of the Clash

No Commented January 6 2010
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, History, Media, Music

Just in case you forgot, or weren’t around yet, yesterday was the 30 year anniversary for The Clash’s album London Calling. In short, The Clash was the definitive group in the punk movement. The intensity and sheer passion in which they played was, in my opinion, unmatched. They incorporated a sound that was definitely punk [...]

Musical Geek

one Commented December 2 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Hardware, Media, Music, Science, Web, funny

Finally music geeks can really call their own. This is the Super Mario Brothers Theme played on a Solid State Musical Tesla Coil built by Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves and the Austin, TX Chapter of The Geek Group

Eye-Pod by Dr Grymm

2 Commented November 17 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Gear, Geek, Hardware, Media, Music

No kidding, this really is an iPod. From DrGrymmLaboratories.com, this remade iPod is actually functional. In writing about his Eye-Pod, Dr. Grymm said: The piece was handcrafted using various metal pieces from old typewriters, formed brass and steel, leather and quartz crystals. The magnifier is an acrylic half sphere and it is tinted a sepia [...]

Funny Man Ken Ober Takes Last Curtain Call

2 Commented November 17 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, History, Media, Music, TV

Mostly remembered for emceeing the 80′s game show, Remote Control on MTV (Back when MTV still showed mostly videos). Ken Ober died this past weekend. No other details are being released about his death. Aside from Remote Control, a game show that gave starts to other comedians like Adam Sandler and Denis Leary, Ober worked [...]

Happy 40th Sesame Street!

one Commented November 10 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, History, Media, Music, TV

I don’t know about you guys but when I was 4 Sesame Street was it, the pinnacle of television broadcasting. I was enthralled by these muppets. They were every bit as real to me as my own parents. While watching them learn to read and count they still managed to deal with real world problems. [...]

Google Music Search

2 Commented October 28 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Media, Music, Techonomics, Web

Google has made their music search official according to the Google Blog. 2 out of the ten top searches done on the search engine are music related, either for the files themselves or for lyrics etc. From the blog: “And of course, the best way to know you’ve found the music you were looking for [...]

Metallica Needs to Find a Girl: Offers $50,000

one Commented October 27 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Music, Web

Metallica is offering $50,000 to find Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. She went missing October 17 from the Metallica concert in Charlottsville Virginia. Morgan is 5′ 6″, 120 lbs. She was wearing a black ‘Pantera‘ T-shirt, black skirt, and black boots. She did not have a mobile or her ID with her. Morgan was last [...]

Playing For Change: Stand By Me

one Commented October 20 2009
Categorized Under: Music, Web, video

Apparently I missed this one the first time around.  Someone just pointed me to it one Facebook. “Stand By Me” has always particularly moved me, but this rendition is stunning, both musically and the vision behind it.

Music for My Friends, Icelandic Edition

No Commented October 6 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Media, Music

The first Icelandic musician I liked wasn’t Björk. In all honesty I’m still not really familiar with her work. No, the first Icelandic musician to hit my radar was Sigur Rós. Namely their song Starálfur from the The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Soundtrack. Oddly enough this coincided with my fascination with Iceland in general. [...]