Origins: Tommy Tallarico Provides Comic-Con’s Gloriously Geeky Game Soundtrack

In “Origins,”  creators talk about their formative experiences with comics, movies, games and the things that influenced them to pursue lives of professional geekery.

YouTube Radio: YouTube Piano’s Interactive Sequel

From the brain trust behind 2009′s interactive musical play toy YouTube Piano comes YouTube Radio, a medley of YouTube-themed ditties.

MOG Goes Mobile, Includes All-You-Can-Eat Downloads

On-demand music service MOG announced the availability of its iPhone and Android apps this morning. We’ve been testing various builds of the iPhone app over the last few weeks and it blows Pandora and all others out of the water. Music junkies, this is the app for you.

“Video Games Live” Concert Special Coming to PBS

I’ve always believed that video game music forges a special bond with the player. You generally spend so much time with those themes repeating themselves into your head that you can’t help to react to them when you hear them in a different context.

I Kissed A Nerd

Geekleaders Damsels of Dorkington star in I Kissed A Nerd, a spoof on Katy Perry’s annoyingly catchy I Kissed A Girl. The song itself is so-so (like the original), but the geek wear is adorable. Enjoy.

Mobile Music Streaming Service ‘mSpot’ Goes Live on Android

Upload all your music to the web somewhere, then access it on your phone. Sounds simple enough, but legal red tape and spotty network connections have a funny way of impeding progress sometimes. If you’re an Android user, though, you might want to give mSpot a whirl now that it’s out of beta.

Japanese Dude Beatboxes Various Super Mario Themes with Aplomb

The title pretty much says it all but give the video a whirl if you’re into A) music from the Mario franchise B) beatboxing or C) any of the previously mentioned items’ overlapping areas on a Venn diagram.

Google’s Rumored Music Store and Why It Just Might Work

Rumors of a Google-backed music service aren’t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing “multiple music industry sources” as saying “Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.”

Is Microsoft’s Zune Pass Too Expensive?

In an interview with Bloomberg, senior product manager for Zune Terry Farrell apparently hinted that Microsoft might lower the price of Zune Pass. There’s no direct quote in the interview from Farrell, so I’m skeptical of whether or not Farrell even hinted at it. The only direct quote from Farrell mentions how challenging the space [...]

OK Go Attempts to Become Even Awesomer, Play Underwater

You may or may not have seen this already, but let’s all just take a few moments to marvel at the kooky brilliance that is OK Go. At this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, California, the band perhaps best known for their treadmill dance spectacular took their show underwater. Strapped up with snorkel gear, [...]

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Friday, May 21, 2010