YouTuber, Tube Cody, created a video of a pair of roller coasters in Rollercoaster Tycoon synchronized to Wicked’s, Defying Gravity. Stick with it until at least a 2 1/2 minute mark.
Category: Music
Pop, rock, alternative, classical, indie, folk, lo-fi, any thing with a tempo and a beat and some rhythm
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Setlist.FM changing concerts
Setlist.FM has been around quite a while. For music in concert nerds, it’s an awesome way to follow an artist as they tour. And it’s changing how artist put together their setlists.
For musicians who regularly change their set list, it allows them to check what they last played the last time they were in particular city or the night before. For those that stick to the same set for an entire tour, it’s encouraging a little variety and exposing artist don’t change the set list from night to night.
honestly, if you are a big production – like Beyoncé or Taylor Swift, the setlist really can’t change all that much. But if you’re just a band or an artist with instruments and some lights, why can’t you change every night?
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Lost albums
Steve Hyden goes long on lost albums:
These are the three kinds of “lost” albums I am interested in:
1. Albums that remain unreleased, either by artist’s choice or record-label maleficence.
2. Albums that were unreleased for a time but then came out after they achieved iconic
“lost” status, to the point where even now they still seem “lost” even though they technically aren’t anymore.3. Albums that might not actually exist.
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Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. Then she had to record a love song for him
Karly Hartzman wries an essay about her breakup, yet having to record a love song. It’s full of lyricism and captures a certain feeling.
I filled my Marvin the Martian cup with tequila on our neighbors’ porch next door. While swaying on the wooden porch swing, I ate collard greens with pork-jowl bits that my bandmate Xandy brought to the party. I nursed several pieces of homemade cornbread.
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Everynoise, the music genre explorer
Everynoise, the music genre explorer. You click a genre and get a sample. Selections skew electronic, but still fun.
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Jimmy Eat World’s perfect three album run
The Quietus makes the case that Jimmy Eat World’s three album run from 1996 to 2001 perfectly encapsulates early to modern emo.
Released between 1996 and 2001, Jimmy Eat World’s second, third and fourth albums – Static Prevails, Clarity and Bleed American – bridge emo’s past and present. They illustrate its story as a cultural sensation: how it got swept out of suburban basements, boosted by burgeoning social media, and elevated into a significant force in the music industry. These three albums chart Jimmy Eat World’s mid-90s ascent, major label disappointment, and mainstream breakthrough in chronological order, but they also mirror emo’s journey from a DIY network, to a trend, to an international phenomenon.
Each album has a great songs, while I prefer Clarity, Bleed American is the most accessible.
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1994 Green Day ‘riot’ concert at the Hatch Shell
In 1994, Green Day played a concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston that turned into a riot.
Maybe WFNX Radio didn’t anticipate their catapult onto the charts when they scheduled them for a free concert on the Esplanade. Thirty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1994, Green Day drew between 70,000 to 100,000 fans to the show, which quickly got out of control, The Boston Globe reported at the time.
Green Day headlined at the Hatch Memorial Shell to celebrate college students returning to the city. After the crowd swelled, fans stormed the metal barricades, and bottles were thrown, Green Day lasted about 20 minutes on stage.
More than 100 people were treated for illness and injuries, at least 20 were transported to local hospitals, and least one officer was injured, the Globe reported.
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Lo-fi music with the Hi Chord synthesizer
The Hi Chord synthesizer makes it super simple to create simple songs or samples using only chords. In offers the ability for different keyboard types and a drum machine.
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Guns, anxiety, America
Because it’s so easy to sit and watch. Let the world slip by. See the images on the screen and scream along with the words, nevermind what they mean. We were already afraid. A few years before, we had watched the Satanic Panic sweep the nation, along with a fear of Dungeons & Dragons and serial killers, but it seemed we had not yet learned anything about fear and how it gets inside us. How the 24-hour cycle gives us no respite from the news. Turn to any channel any time of day for breaking news, and now with the internet and social media, we have instant access to stories from around the world, all the killings and kidnappings, all the bullets and bombs.
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AI ruined lo-fi music
AI tools are making it easier to create generic, meditative music. Kieran Press-Reynolds at Pitchfork explores lofi, music, landscape, and the impact of AI.
Fast-forward to now, and the scene has putrefied into a wasteland of the percussive undead. The YouTube search results have warped into an apparent AI breeding ground, crammed with hourlong mixes full of soporific dreck. The channels have similar names and cartoonish Kawaii imagery. Even the comments of the videos, which have millions of plays, brim with what look like fake conversations—pseudoymous accounts prattling on about how the music helped them unlock their true potential in life. Multiple channels repeat the same sentence structure like, “I don’t want much! I just want the person reading this to be healthy, happy, and loved!,” suggesting they’re AI-generated.