jon favreau on his future making marvel movies

short article with favreau bringing up iron man 2, capt america, thor, and the avengers.

the gist: if you liked what favreau did with iron man, you're in luck.

build your own tube guitar amp

when it comes to tone, nothing beats the warm rich sound of a nice vacuum tube. tube amps can be expensive though - so why not build your own?

this great instructable has all the steps and materials you need do do just that, plus a couple videos of the designer showing off how good his completed amp sounds.

high gas prices putting the squeeze on touring indie bands

from sharing a van with another band to losing your roadies, the escalating gas price is making it harder for your fave up and coming band to come play a small show in your town.

rock and roll acid test - new episode tonight

for those looking to watch some fun tv tonight, tune in to fuse at 10pm EST / 7pm PST and catch our pal mike senese on a new episode of rock and roll acid test. encore presentation at 1am EST / 10pm PST.

preview clip from tonight's episode:

mmc's "let's go" f/ subtitle + eso tre out now & free @ rcrd lbl

the third song from meanest man contest's partially smart ep came out on friday. it's called "let's go" and features subtitle and eso tre of substance abuse. it's available as a free download at rcrd lbl. grab it!



here are some related mp3s for you to enjoy:

meanest man contest - "we wouldn't want it any other way" (débruit remix)
islands - "where there's a will, there's a whalebone" (f/ subtitle & busdriver)
substance abuse - "profitless thoughts" (f/ mf doom)

open source guitar pedal

this pedal concept seems pretty cool.

The OpenStompTM Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor built for guitar players. With the Coyote-1 users can develop custom audio effects in software (like distortion, echo, chorus etc.), mix multiple effects to build "patches", and exchange those effects and patches with the OpenStompTM community.

mmc on epic fu + "sharp drest" is kexp's song of the day

last thursday's episode of epic fu featured the video for meanest man contest's "throwing away broken electronics." watch it and love it!



the fu crew followed up with a nice blog post about mmc. wow, how rad!



also rad: mochipet's "sharp drest" (f/ mmc's eriksolo) is kexp's song of the day today. looove that kexp!

jan terri - can you make fun of someone so sincere?

i was introduced to the weird world of jan terri last night. an early 90s pop singer based in illinois, her homemade videos had the fuzzy look of local car dealership commercials from the early 80s. somehow, it is so hard to not continue watching, waiting for some indication that jan is in on the joke.

check out some of her masterpieces:

lose you tonight (surprisingly catchy, and an eerily familiar vocal production on the recording. my fave)


baby blues (featuring a brown-eyed hunk)

get down goblin (fun and funky)

rock and roll santa (none of these songs really leave much to the imagination)


jan's talent hasn't gone unnoticed, and the easiest way to sum it up might be from her daily show interview a couple years ago:

sneakmove pop-up radio is back

just an fyi to let you know you can once again stream all the good mp3s we've posted on sneakmove, for your listening pleasure, just by clicking that nice "sneakmove radio" link over there in the right column.

james pants interview

i'm enjoying the james pants interview by the folks at xlr8r. he talks about learning of all types of music via his interest in hip-hop and shares some fave jams.

rock and roll acid test - show premiere tonight!

sneaky sneakmover mike senese makes his tv debut tonight on the rock and roll acid test, a new show that mixes mythbusters and good old fashioned rock 'n roll, with four hosts who set out to demonstrate rock in physical terms.

mike is the scientist of the team, and you'll get to see him assemble and explain the technical aspects of the projects and builds the team undertakes. from hovercraft to theremin to exploding manequins, there's something for everyone.

set your televisions for the fuse network tonight at 10pm EST/7pm PST. thanks for watching!

incredible hulk movie review entirely in hulk-speak

i can't comment on the review itself because i haven't seen the movie yet. regardless, it made me laugh.

hulk-style hulk review

swedish company bests google earth at 3d mapping

google earth is amazing, but their current project to laser trace individual buildings is a slow process to give us 3d maps of our urban environments.

leapfrogging ahead of the pack, the swedish company c3technologies gives us a 3d map of the entire city of stockholm, using an algorithm of 60,000 photos. with this process, every building in the city is represented, as well as all of the trees and terrain. to make things more impressive, they've managed to squeeze this into a website that you can access and explore from an ordinary browser. and they made the whole thing happen in just three days!

read more about their technology here.

i've spent days scrolling around this page and am ecstatic at the possibility that this might become a widespread technology. enjoy.

10 songs that saved your life

various dance music luminaries have gotten together with uovo magazine and chosen 10 songs that "saved their lives". you can listen to all the playlists here. among the contributors are munk, chromatics, joakim, and quiet village.
(via, alainfinkelkrautrock.)

moog guitar

check out this moog guitar with crazy sustain and mute capabilities.
here is an article about it.

(thanks, peter.)

radiohead covered by printers, scanners, hard drives

radiohead covers and remixes have gotten so ubiquitous that they're no longer all that noteworthy. this glascow art student's final project takes things to an incredible extreme.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

(thanks, melissa.)

this vid is new to me but has been around awhile. it's addictive in the way the ballmer developers video is.