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Dear anyone with at least a mild appreciation for paintings: PREPARE TO ARTGASM. This music video is a happy jaunt through some classic and modern paintings that are definitely world reknown and easily memorable. The music and the enthusiams certainly put a smile on my face. (continue reading…)

In case you didn’t know who Rube Goldberg is, he created all these cartoon contraptions that were overly complicated. Now it seems everyone and their dog is making these machines even more delightfully than anything Rube himself had ever imagined. Check out what I mean by watching the video from This Too Shall Pass: (continue reading…)

Action-packed, running from Johnny fat-law and his donut-addiction (who promptly gets run off the road, BOOSH!) and then … what’s this … Bruce fucking Willis makes a cameo as the villain. The video blows me away with it’s sophistication and their new album is great through and through. NPR has the entire album available to stream for free, which is really cool. (continue reading…)

Let me repeat that title: I really, really hope Arctic Monkeys doesn’t sue anybody over this. I say this twice because EarSucker has been the target of the Arctic Monkey lawyers in the past for linking to their music (some Web Sheriff/Sherrif/Sharif nonsense that isn’t worth exploring here), and I know for a fact that mashups are in that very gray zone of copyright law that gets IP lawyers horny.

The fucked up thing is that this mashup is really good and I just wasted a good twenty seconds of your time NOT talking about the music of “The Arctic Monkeys Brush the Dirt Off of Clint Eastwood’s Shoulders” or the other folks on this mashup song thingy. Which just makes me hate lawyers even more and endorse marching them into the ovens (okay that one is probably too far). Anyways, watch this awesome mashup some crazy wacky awesome YouTube guy made without consent from Jay Z, Arctic Monkeys, and Gorrilaz [sic]. If you would like to download the song, the creator says you are allowed (see the box message on the YouTube page). We promote this! Which means this video will definitely get yanked and more lawyers involved. Look at us now bitches, we are so edgy it cuts through diamonds. (continue reading…)

I couldn’t believe it when I saw Kirsten Dunst sing “I’m Turning Japanese” in this video dressed in some kind of crazy hawt anime cosplay outfit, and with blue hair. One thing is for sure: she is extremely fit and I don’t blame anyone who goes full retard (unf unf unf) in the comments after watching this starlet sex-kitten’s out-of-character video about Turning Japanese. (continue reading…)

From the Youtube description:

An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They’ve been married for 62 years and he’ll be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as old as we feel, it’s all attitude. Enjoy! They certainly do

The whole thing really put a smile on my face and I hope it cheers you up as well! Watch the video (continue reading…)

Every so often, we like to thank everyone who helps us at Earsucker and makes this site just get bigger and bigger. We get around 10K visits a day (OMG that’s like a whole stadium full of people). I know this might seem like a stupid idea to some folks who are all like: STFU and burn in a fire, your site actually sucks. Those people aren’t going to like this site no matter what we do, and it’s ridiculous trying to please everyone. But I just want to say thanks! As a bonus, here’s our new ABOUT PAGE!

Who/what is EarSucker? Well, it’s really just the name of this website, which is supposed to evoke a more musical theme. I like to think it’s a good name for the wormy part of your brain that translates auditory sound frequencies into feelings (I love this song!). You’ll have to forgive me if things sound nerdy there, but I’m a cold-calculating robot machine that is trying to learning emotions a bit of a psychologist and enjoy simplifying the human experience.

And speaking of human experience, this site gets about 10,000 people a day (at time of writing, see stats) experiencing some emotion or another. Whether they hate some punk upstart or commercialized pop artist, or they love them, we like to hear about it and serve the human planet earth’s appetite for that news. Are we curing cancer or solving world peace? I guess not directly. Does music usually intertwine with the human experience in solving those problems? Absolutely. So when you read and participate on EarSucker, just remember that in a small way: you are making the world a better place, if only for yourself to later conquer your problems. Try not to be angry human, it doesn’t helpful. Am disappoint.

The robots that run this site We here at Earsucker also invite anyone and everyone to join us in our quest to spread the Earth planet’s love/hate of music sounds and visions to the widest audience possible. Right now the process is tedious and I deal with it, but upgrades are happening on a continuous basis to send the human owners more advertising money to accumulate resources. Some of these resources will go towards alcoholic beverages.

The content on this site is mostly a product of the most influential people, which you are invited to join for free (just ask in the email, an account will be created). You may find individual views creeping into the writing from time to time, but we also value your input comments and helpful participation. Artist interviews happen as anyone is able to get them (that means you should call up Beck and record it, LOL), news coverage happens as you hear about it, music reviews happens as you learn of them. You should participate in this inclusive and free intarweb site to help make it better, there are already a lot of people reading it! Spammers can fuck off, yo.

If you find anything in a post to be factually incorrect or if you simply disagree, please respond via comments respectfully and set the record straight. External links and good-humor will certainly help your arguments.

THANKS THANKS THANKS! I know we are again asking anyone and everyone to step forward and help us make the site even better. It’s just that I like to let anyone get on the microphone and shout their rap out there, that’s how I roll, so if you want to be heard on Earsucker, all you have to do is send email to tips@earsucker.com. Just ask for an account or send your links.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that EarSucker is a Google News Source™ which is supposed to be a BIG DEAL and silly of me to forget mentioning because it means any stupid thing we say gets sent out alongside AP and Reuters, which is really cool when you think about it.

Popsci has a really cool article about Jazari, a drum machine robot thing that Patrick Flanagan built so he could play some drums and other percussion instruments with his Wii remotes:

A musician has harnessed the power of two Nintendo Wiimotes to become a cyborg percussionist with the robo-band Jazari. His playing of one drum machine can evoke an automated response from another, so that he can go around the drum circle in a beautiful display of human-robot improvisation.

The man behind the machine, Patrick Flanagan, is a composer who cites music theory, music cognition, and machine learning as the three “chin-stroking disciplines” that influence his work. He created Jazari with a nod to Al-Jazari, a polymath of the Arab world in the 13th century who supposedly created the world’s first robot band.

I think he built something really cool, but dances like a white guy. Watch a video of the bot in action after the jump. (continue reading…)

It may be the 2010 Olympics, but the music selection for figure skating is clearly trapped in the past. While the athletic skill of ice skating has evolved dramatically over the years (take your double axel laziness and go home, the triple axel standard will eventually herald the quadruple axel kickflip), it seems the music chosen for the skaters to choreograph their routines is “safe” and uninspired. (continue reading…)

Terry Urban and DJ Eloy Kill it on this one! Terry Urban comes with this crazy transition of Justice D.A.N.C.E. and mixes it with Jay-Z “On to the next one”. Now DJ Eloy’s with the video heat makes it looks just as hot as it sounds!

Watch the video after the jump. (continue reading…)

Take video from Sesame Street remixed at speeds matching Slayer’s song Ditto Head and you have something that will teach kids all the right things about life beyond Sesame Street. It’s good old-fashioned thrash metal that really syncs up well with the song choice.

In this classical Sesame Street episode we find Oscar singing Slayers Ditto Head along with Bert and Ernie on the drums and Grover playing Guitar. This the second Sesame Street satire Video that I’ve done if you like this one be sure to check ou[t] the other video of mine “Sesame Street “S” Is For Slayer” very short and funny video.

Embedded video after the jump. (continue reading…)

I had heard K’naan a while back and meant to share him here. K’naan’s writing is extremely powerful and the sound is very complex and uplifting for what is essentially a very depressing subject matter. I’ve been admiring the production on this album for a while, and the overall emotional tone. His song “Wavin’ Flag” is also exceptional in quality. Embedded video and lyrics after the jump. (continue reading…)

I’m guessing this is music related enough to be posted here, since T-Pain is a music artist who will be whoring out the auto-tune party of his for as long as people find it interesting.

Well, I admit, I laughed at this. All the guys sound like girly singers and it is funny because they do not mind! In fact it is encouraged. I KNOW, RIGHT? Well I guess that is funny because it pokes fun at the de-masculinity of men in general today (BAAAAY-BEEEH CAN YOU PASS THE GUACAMOLE-EH. And the fact that it’s being used to sell a light beer, which is beer for men who want to make sure they fit in their sexy skirts. I guess I’ve said my piece on why it is funny, just watch the damn video after the jump. (continue reading…)

I’ve been a Massive Attack fan for a while back now (since before they became so widely known through the theme music to the TV show House, MD… which coincidentally is a song called Teardrop). Does this make me better than you, perhaps not, but it does make me appreciate the journey it has taken to get them their latest album Heligoland. So when they announced that a new album was dropping this year, I was definitely psyched to get some new stuff from them. Video and lyrics of Paradise Circus after the jump (continue reading…)

I know there is a lot of ironic self-deprecating music artists out there who sound dumb as a kind of in-joke with the audience, and then there are genuinely stupid people who just make it big based on being so painfully dumb. What really starts to trip me up is when there’s foreign aspects; add some exotic slang and fashion into the mish mash and I might actually think someone is as stupid as they sound. So when I watched Die Antwoord’s weird ass fashion and talking, I gotta say I thought it was some weird internet joke video.

Until the hook comes in, then you realize how brilliant the gag is. I still don’t know what Die Antwoord or Zef Side is, but I’m curious about what they’ll do next. Watch the vid after the jump (continue reading…)

Featuring Danger Mouse from Gnarls Barkley and James Mercer of the Shins, Broken Bells are giving fans the first look at their new album with this eerie first video: The High Road.

Watch the video after the jump… (continue reading…)

Better-fied: a made up word to describe what we expect things will be like after upgrading to the IntenseDebate comment system. Not to be confused with butter-fried, which is how I like my french toast cooked.

The import says it will take a few hours to retrieve all the old junk from the site, but in the meantime you should be able to just do whatever you were doing before. Tell us if it’s garbage though, we don’t want anyone freaking out and avoiding us like the plague. :’(

UPDATE: Yeah, I see that something is wonky with the comment box being pushed to the bottom of the page. Figuring that out now.

UPDATE 2: Everything is fixed and the import finished, resume commenting!

Los Colorados (yeah, I know… why the hell does a East Europe band have a latin name?) did a cover of Katy Perry’s hit song Hot and Cold. Visually, it’s about as exciting as watching a local polka festival at the local VFW, but when you start listening… it’s made of rainbows and unicorns. (continue reading…)

One of my favorite spoofs of the media/music/pop-culture, the folks who religiously crank out the awesomeness that is Auto-Tune the News have released their sixth webisode, and have finally started getting some media attention to their work. The Village Voice did an interview and it’s amazing that this is essentially a family hobby ( Three Gregory brothers: Michael, Andrew, Evan and his wife, the band’s “official babe” Sarah):

But their role of satirical beltway remixers nevertheless suits the Brothers well. “We make the videos to point out some of the absurdities of the politics-to-media food chain,” Evan says. “The manufactured emotions and self-seriousness, the silly news-show formats, the whole cable news circus is ripe for some jokes. And we like to do that by singing about it.”

Full video after the jump, a healthy skewering of Michael Jackson-mania, drugs… and Sarah Palin. (continue reading…)

I’ve been a fan of the French artist DJ Zebra for some time now, and was pleasantly surprised to get news that he’s been working on an exhaustive mashup compilation — the central theme being Woodstock festival (with a lot of original audio). What makes the whole thing so special is the refreshingly contemporary appeal of the whole project. From an intro by Country Joe Mc Donald that morphs into a chanting beat with Big Soul, Pink and Michael Jackson running through it (F*&k the Hippies) to a culmination with Jimi Hendrix jamming out on the guitar as the Beastie Boys in what is the obvious outlier to the whole set.

Download entire CD, get track list info and listen, all after the jump. (continue reading…)

It seems Portugal’s youth aren’t too keen on Nickelback because someone started throwing rocks at the stage during their set (in what I can only assume was part of a larger concert with bands the Portuguese actually wanted to see).

But I guess someone didn’t appreciate Chad Kroeger‘s remarks to the crowd (“Have we got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?”; crowd seems to say no, or boo; “You guys wanna hear some rock and roll or go home?”; the answer came in the form of a rock to the noggin, at which point Chad rolls out). (continue reading…)

Why is it that even Asian guys dance better than most white guys? While you ponder that, check out this great video of some guy named Mike (no last name, mystery YouTube investigators, help us out UPDATE: Mike Song), and imagine a full set like that during the SuperBowl. I could see that happening.

We love your moves Mike Nolastname Song, please make more!

The wonderful thing about the Internet is that so much stuff is available on demand at any minute, which allows us to see things in videos from years ago that we never quite bothered to look at. They can give a snapshot into a person’s life, like that of back-up singer Paul Rutherford, who’s initial stint as a back-up singer to Frankie Goes to Hollywood never quite put him on the right road to his own fame and success, but told us as much as we needed to know anyways. (continue reading…)