Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
McDonald’s has partnered with MySpace to bring you the Big Mac Chant-Off, a competition that lets you mash-up the music from their audio kit, or lay down a track of your own, with the winning remix appearing in the next McDonald’s commercial.
The only rule: You still need to use the original lyrics.
Say it with me now: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Apparently someone in Weezer knows a thing or two about viral marketing, because their video for Pork and Beans, which features many of the Internet’s most famous viral video stars doing what they do best, has been passed around the Internet like the plague this past week. In case you missed it:
Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier conducted an online poll to find out what types of music people are most annoyed by. The list includes:
After compiling this list, they then took all of the styles and lyrical subjects and combined them into a single track, called simply “The Most Unwanted Music”.
Can you survive a listen?
[Via: Wired]
Muxtape is “a simple way to create and share mixtapes”.
It’s goal is to bring back the joy of laboring over a mixtape for hours to get everything just right, and does so by only letting you create one mix per account, and limiting your mix to just 12 songs. (Each no larger than 10 megabytes.)
When you’re done, the music is then streamed through your browser, so it’s not exactly a file sharing service, but since the only way Muxtape prevents copyrighted music from being uploaded is with a meek little warning: “By uploading a song you agree that you have permission to let Muxtape use it.” I’m guessing Muxtape is going to be dealing with a few high priced lawyers in its near future.
Regardless, it’s a nice (and simple) service that has some potential to help undiscovered artists get their start, and it relies on the “sharing is caring” motto, so I hope some sort of agreement is made to keep Muxtape around.
[Muxtape]
South by Southwest (AKA SXSW) is an interactive, film, and music festival that takes place every year in Austin, Texas.
Because many of the bands that perform there each year are trying to make it big and break into the scene, they release an official torrent with most of the music from the festival for you to download and enjoy.
This years torrent contained 763 tracks, and played end to end, would be nearly 48 hours of continuous music.
If that sounds like a lot to go through to find what you like, that’s because it is, so Paul Ford decided to listen to them all and give you a kind of cheat sheet for finding the music that you like.
His chart ranks each of the songs on a one to five scale, and gives each a six-word review, making it easy to find the good stuff.
If you’re looking to be on the cutting edge of the music scene, then head on over to the download link and fire up your favorite torrent downloader, because it doesn’t get much rawer than this.
Looking for something a bit “different” to add to your music collection?
Then check out a set of compilations called Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music for the Masses.
Featuring “unique cultural and geographic” spins on the classic sound, it’s meant to fuel “a range of emotions from lust to disgust”.
Can you dig it?
[Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music For The Masses - Volume One]
[Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music For The Masses - Volume Two]
[Via: Random Good Stuff]
DJ Earworm’s United State of Pop is an incredibly impressive mashup of the 25 most popular songs of 2007. (According to Billboard.)
Besides saying that it’s amazing, it’s hard to describe, so just give it a download and see what you think. (But prepare to be united.)
Here Comes Another Bubble was a fantastically viral video about the Web 2.0 bubble that was taken down recently by a San Francisco photographer’s DMCA take-down notice over her ’stolen’ image.
Thankfully, that photographer’s photo has been removed, and the video is back as v1.1:
Unfortunately for The Richter Scales, the group behind the video, their 15 minutes hasn’t exactly been profitable:
I guess DMCA notices don’t necessarily need to be correlated to lost compensation!
[The Richter Scales - Announcing "Bubble" Version 1.1]
[Via: TechCrunch]
Proving that a strange voice, a stranger song, and a video on YouTube can turn you into an instant celebrity, Tay Zonday is back, and this time, he has remixed his Chocolate Rain hit to help promote Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper.
With an over the top music video accompanying his second single, this is sure to be the talk of the water cooler for the next day or two at least, so prepare yourself:
If the music industry spent as much time innovating as they do interrogating, they might actually start selling some CDs.
Take, for example, the packaging that Rethink created for Vonnegut Dollhouse. By turning the package into a piece of art, they managed to create something that can’t be replicated by a digital download.
Suddenly, paying for the CD doesn’t seem like a bad proposition after all.
If only all companies thought this way.
[Rethink]
[Via: The Serif]
