Tom at Music thing shows off how you can use a $1000 Akai MPC1000 to play Pong. Just load an experimental OS and you can play Pong and let the “ball” trigger your samples.
It’s all pretty stupidtastic, until you realize that this could be a fun way to get your glitchtronica on…..
Here’s Aphex Twin’s Aparatus:

Think [...]

It looks like YouTubers are giving up porn for Pachelbel’s Canon in D, based on the number of versions of the popular classic that people have posted.
Exhibit A: Metal Guitar Versions
Every other day, a new dude in some obscure place posts another metal version of Canon in D, as if trashing the Canon was some [...]

Special Products has introduced what must be the world’s girliest iPod dock, the Hello Kitty Stereo Clock Radio/Docking Station for iPod.
Say what you want about the styling – but the dock features a stereo clock radio, video out and charges your nano or mini.
Features include:

Stereo Clock Radio and Recharging Station for iPod Mini and nano [...]

It’s WTF Friday – and you know what that means….we’ve got some f’d-up music news!
Every Friday (except the ones we miss) we look for the strangest music story of the week. We’ve told you about people that want to ban Christmas music, probed a Porn-Soaked Carnal Exploration Of After-Hours Dance Culture, and even brought [...]

We couldn’t believe it when we saw it, but AOL, along with Blender magazine, is now naming the Crotch-Slip of the Year.
Time may have the Person of the Year….but AOL has the Crotch Slip of the Year.
There was stiff competition this year from pop starlet Britney Spears and pop-starlet wannabee Paris Hilton, but the award [...]

A Japanese woman whose loud rock music “inflicted injury” on a neighbor for more than two years will spend the next 20 months in prison.
Miyoko Kawahara, 59, “was accused of causing insomnia and headaches to her next-door neighbor by playing loud dance music almost 24 hours a day on a portable stereo she had pointed [...]

Santa had a really bad day, and decided to put it to song – Trapped in the Clauset.
Note: Not work safe – something to offend everyone – you may blow coffee out your nose – you’ve been warned……

It’s Saturday, and you know what that means at Axehole – we forgot to put up a WTF Friday item yesterday!
Every Friday, Axehole brings you the most unusual music news of the week. Yesterday, we got tied up with Paris Hilton, though, and lost track of time. So here’s a special belated WTF item that [...]