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Transmission of technological palimpsests from the Age of Rock and Roll.

"We were forcing acoustic guitars through a cassette player, and what came out the other end was electric as hell."

"We speak on the phone, but where is your body?" Suzanne Fellini sings in "Love On the Phone." You can't push on a string; you can't embrace over a wire. But can the wire embrace us?

Electronic musician James Blake covers the Feist song "Limit to Your Love"�I've been haunted by this track for a couple of days, and I've finally figured out why.

So, this video's got it all: off-the-grid filesharing, subcontinental slum-techno-chic, secret police in steampunk plague helmets, and a plot that remixes District 9 and Children of Men.

The cat organ, also known by its German name Katzenklavier, was a piano-like instrument that replaced the hammering of the traditional percussion piano with a line of cats fixed in place, their tails attached under a keyboard. Every time a key was pressed, a corresponding cat’s tail was yanked, making the unprepared feline shriek out in pain. The cats would ...

I played guitar off-and-on for about ten years, but I gave up my musical aspirations once I realized my fingers just weren’t made for rapid chord progressions. All the practice in the world couldn’t solve my coordination issues, or change the fact that my fingers more closely resemble sausages than most human anatomy should. Some talents you just have to ...

Thankfully not starring Bill Paxton or Helen Hunt, this tornado of rock barrels through anything in its path – especially disco. German artist Trimpin created the Guitar Tornado for the Experience Music Project in Seattle. But this tornado has more than form. It has function. Intermingled within the tornado is guitars connected to robotic musicians which play the guitar on ...

Look man. Owl City is not the first artist to write a song that doesn’t make lyrical sense. Hell, look at most songs from the past 30 years and tell me how many are meant literally. I can think of only one off hand. Great lyrics don’t have to make sense. In fact, some of the greatest lyrics make no ...

Taking a page from the book of KISS, Marky Ramone, former drummer of the primordial punk band The Ramones, has moved into uncharted ground for the punk movement with his newest product launch, Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce. Here’s Marky’s explanation: �You see, I made it with my grandpa; he was a chef at 21 Club. I watched him ...