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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s something you might have missed if you only read legitimate news sources….
Rockers are reportedly dumping the guitar and switching to the ukulele.
The uke shows up on recent recordings by artists such as Jack Johnson, Andy Partridge, Nickel Creek and Jens Lekman. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder has recorded an entire album of ukulele music.
Even [...]

It’s the holidays - so we thought we’d look for something nice on YouTube to get us in the Christmas spirit. But instead of finding some nice and cheery Christmas videos, all we found were disturbing ones.
So….we’ve collected the most truly disturbing Christmas videos for you as a cathartic exercise. We feel better, and [...]

It’s WTF Friday, and we’d thought that we’d take a break from lurid “music” stories that are really about sex, porn and hookers, and show you how you can have some good, clean fun with just your own two hands, instead!
Yes, we’re talking about manualism - the seldom seen art of playing music by squeezing [...]

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a Symphony world-tour featuring music from blockbuster video games. The music is performed by some of the finest, world-class orchestras and choirs. All concerts take place in classy, prestigious venues. Graphics on large screens suspended above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games.
The concert [...]

Is your band the worst in the world?
Take this quiz to find out:
1 How long is your drummer’s solo?
a) He doesn’t get one.
b) A couple minutes is all, and it’s very funky.
c) Which of our drummers are you talking about?
2 What is the secret of your success?
a) Inspiration.
b) Perspiration.
c) Butchering old soul classics in a [...]