Tag: music
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Vintage Album Covers From Yugoslavia Are Amazingly Awkward
Music was a great source of unity for the Yugoslavs, with people enjoying genres from folk to disco and heavy metal performed by artists from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds. Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Bosnians and Montenegrins shared the stage to create beautiful music, alongside soulful Roma and Albanian artists who brought even…
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Vinyl Record-Inspired Bathroom Sinks Will Have You Dancing While Brushing Your Teeth
If you have a love of vinyl and are feeling nostalgic for those record consoles of years gone by, Gianluca Paludi has designed something useful for Olympia Ceramica that will also keep your musical memories in check. Vinyl is a bathroom collection that’s a mix between 70’s consoles and DJ setups with recessed sink basins…
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Queen Songs Turned Into Vintage Comic Book Covers By Butcher Billy
Brazilian designer and illustrator Butcher Billy has created a fictional comic series called 'Planet Mercury comics', and you guessed right – we will be seeing a lot of the legendary band Queen's charismatic frontman Freddie Mercury! To make it even more exciting, the artist used excerpts and titles from Queen's songs and created each comic…
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Listen To This 230 Foot Organ That Uses The Sea To Make Haunting Music In Croatia
In a mesmerizing collaboration between mankind and the elements, this 230-foot sea-organ in Croatia harnesses the energy of the winds and waters of the Adriatic sea to create random but soothing and harmonized notes. The sea-organ, or “morske orgulje” as it’s know in Croatian, was designed by Croatian architect Nikola Basic and opened to the…
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Behold The Music Typewriter From The 1950s, Only A Handful Are Left Today
Woody Allen said he has written all of his scripts and The New Yorker pieces on a typewriter. That’s 60 years. And it worked for him just fine. In fact, typewriters are making sort of a comeback today. And arguably one of the most desired ones is the Keaton Music Typewriter. And for an interesting…
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Lady Gaga’s University ‘Friends’ Had A Facebook Group Dedicated To Shaming Her For Trying To Be Famous
One of the things that A Star is Born has taught us is that no one becomes great without going through some sort of adversity. And this story from Lady Gaga’s personal life only proves it. When she was only starting out her career, her haters created a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, you will…
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Amazing Images Of Freddie Mercury With His First And Only True Love, Mary Austin
“The only friend I’ve got is Mary and I don’t want anybody else,” Freddie Mercury once said about the ‘love of his life,’ Mary Austin. While the legendary Queen singer’s relationships were always in the media spotlight, including in the recent, wildly popular movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the one that truly mattered probably received the least…
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Woman Started Drumming In 1920 And She’s Still Got What It Takes At The Age Of 106
Musicians rejoice! Because legendary percussionist Viola Smith may have discovered the secret for a long and healthy life: energetic drumming and the moderate consumption of good wine. Now aged 106 and actively drumming until recently in a Costa Mesa band called Forever Young Band: America’s Oldest Act of Professional Entertainers, Viola’s remarkably long career has…
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The Most Awkward Metal Band Photos That Are So Bad They’re Good
Rock stars are supposed to be charismatic. The gig requires being able to a) get up in front of people and perform convincingly, b) create compelling songs that evoke emotions, c) have a sense of style your fans would want to emulate, and, of course, d) be sexy. That’s a lot of requirements, and some…
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Mongolian Band Plays Heavy Metal with Traditional Folk Instruments and Throat Singing
Over in Mongolia, a folk metal band called The Hu have been inventing what they call “Hunnu Rock,” a style combining Western headbanging with instruments like the horsehead fiddle (morin khuur) and Mongolian guitar (tovshuur). “It also involves singing in a guttural way,” Katya Cengel points out at NPR—no, not like this, but in the…