There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
When Apple create its next iPad ad, there’s another word it might want to add another word: Gorillaz. Damon Albarn has recorded the next album for his all-inclusive superband entirely on his Apple tablet, and he’s about to let everyone hear it for free.
By now you’ve probably downloaded Girl Talk’s latest album, All Day, for free. Or maybe you were one of those fanboy detectives who tracked down all 372 of the album’s samples and posted them to Wikipedia within the first couple of hours. (More on TIME.com: Are Girl Talk and Other Mashup Artists Violating Copyright?)
This is entirely unnecessary and a whole lot of fun, in a terrible, terrible way. Enjoy?
Barely more than a year later, and the literary mash-up craze started by Quirk Books has boomed into a monster of its own undoing – or so it seemed. Sifting through piles of Vampires & FILL-IN-THE-BLANK titles rushed onto shelves to entice teenage girls and Twilight-loving moms is something of a daunting task. Thankfully, in [...]
Another classic mash-up from Quirk Books lands in bookstores today. Its latest Frankenbook is Leo Tolstoys’ Anna Karenina, or Android Karenina ($8, Amazon), as written by Ben Winters (Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters.) With Android, Winters has given Tolstoy’s beautiful Russian epic a steampunk edge, filling the book with robots, space travel and yes, [...]
Yes, please!
If the entertainment industry knows how to do one thing, it’s how to beat the proverbial dead horse. (Please see: Spider-Man.)
