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• Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989), 30 Sep 2019 in Music
• Watch 16 Hours of Historic Live Aid Performances: Queen, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young & Much More, 20 Sep 2019 in Music
• How Eric Clapton Created the Classic Song “Layla”, 13 Sep 2019 in Music
• Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers, 29 Aug 2019 in History
• How Dave Brubeck’s Time Out Changed Jazz Music, 23 Aug 2019 in Music
• Watch John Entwistle’s Bass-Playing Genius on Display in Isolated Tracks for “Won’t Be Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Reilly”, 15 Aug 2019 in Music
• Johnny Knoxville Breaks Down Every Injury of His Career, 12 Aug 2019 in Film
• Why Is Jackie Chan the King of Action Comedy? A Video Essay Masterfully Makes the Case, 06 Aug 2019 in Film
• Deconstructing Brian Eno’s Music for Airports: Explore the Tape Loops That Make Up His Groundbreaking Ambient Music, 24 Jul 2019 in Music
• There’s a Tiny Art Museum on the Moon That Features the Art of Andy Warhol & Robert Rauschenberg, 18 Jul 2019 in Art
• Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860), 12 Jul 2019 in Music
• The Most Disturbing Painting: A Close Look at Francisco Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son”, 09 Jul 2019 in Art
• 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body, 27 Jun 2019 in Art
• Apollo 11 in Real Time: A New Web Site Lets You Take a Real-Time Journey Through First Landing on the Moon, 20 Jun 2019 in Science
• New Interactive “Murder Map” Reveals the Meanest Streets of Medieval London, 13 Jun 2019 in Maps
• Download Iconic National Park Fonts: They’re Now Digitized & Free to Use, 06 Jun 2019 in Design
• Metallica, REM, Led Zeppelin & Queen Sung in the Style of Gregorian Chant, 31 May 2019 in Music
• When John Waters Appeared on The Simpsons and Changed America’s LGBTQ Views (1997), 23 May 2019 in Television
• Pink Floyd Songs Played Splendidly on a Harp Guitar: “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here” & More, 17 May 2019 in Music
• Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece, 09 May 2019 in Music
• Behold the Ingenious Musical Marble Machine, 02 May 2019 in Music
• David Bowie’s Mystical Appearances in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, 25 Apr 2019 in Film
• How the Vietnam War Shaped Classic Rock–And How Classic Rock Shaped the War, 18 Apr 2019 in Music
• The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right, 11 Apr 2019 in Music
• The Amazing Isolated Drums of Dennis Davis, David Bowie’s Master Drummer, Revisited by Producer Tony Visconti, 28 Mar 2019 in Music
• The Case for Why Captain Beefheart’s Awful Sounding Album, Trout Mask Replica, Is a True Masterpiece, 21 Mar 2019 in Music
• Watch an Animated Score for Steve Reich’s Minimalist Piece “Clapping Music“–and Try Your Hardest to Follow Along, 14 Mar 2019 in Music
• Hear Patti Smith’s New Work With The Soundwalk Collective, a Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud, 07 Mar 2019 in Music
• Hear Underground 12, the Earliest Known Case of Musicians Recording While Under the Influence of LSD (1966), 28 Feb 2019 in Music
• Hear the First Musical Composition Created by a Computer: The Illiac Suite (1956), 21 Feb 2019 in Music
• A Six-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study, 14 Feb 2019 in Music
• The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious Sings Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”: Is Nothing Sacred?, 07 Feb 2019 in Music
• The Real Locations of Ukiyo‑e, Historic Japanese Woodblock Prints, Plotted on a Google Map, 31 Jan 2019 in Art&History
• Visualizing the Bass Playing Style of Motown’s Iconic Bassist James Jamerson: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “For Once in My Life” & More, 24 Jan 2019 in Music
• A Virtual Tour of Every Place Referenced in The Beatles’ Lyrics: In 12 Minutes, Travel 25,000 Miles Across England, France, Russia, India & the US, 22 Jan 2019 in Music
• The Art of Creating Special Effects in Silent Movies: Ingenuity Before the Age of CGI, 10 Jan 2019 in Film
• Look How Young They Are!: The Beastie Boys Performing Live Their Very First Hit, “Cooky Puss” (1983), 03 Jan 2019 in Music
• Guillermo del Toro Names Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can the Most Underrated Great Movie of All Time, 27 Dec 2018 in Film
• Every Spider-Man Movie and TV Show Explained By Kevin Smith, 20 Dec 2018 in Comics/Cartoons
• David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs Written Over the Past 60 Years: Stream Them Online, 13 Dec 2018 in Music
• The Strange History of Smooth Jazz: The Music We All Know and Love … to Hate, 07 Dec 2018 in Music
• Watch Queen’s Dragtastic “I Want to Break Free” Video: It Was More Than America & MTV Could Handle (1984), 29 Nov 2018 in Music
• The Making of “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Take a Deep Dive Into the Iconic Song with Queen’s 2002 Mini Documentary, 22 Nov 2018 in Music
• At Folsom Prison: A Mini-Doc on Johnny Cash’s Historic & Career-Changing Concert, 15 Nov 2018 in Music
• A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike, 08 Nov 2018 in Design
• Growing Up Surrounded by Books Has a Lasting Positive Effect on the Brain, Says a New Scientific Study, 02 Nov 2018 in Books
• David Lynch Is Creating a Virtual Reality Experience for Twin Peaks, 25 Oct 2018 in Video Games
• The Serial Killer Who Loved Jazz: The Infamous Story of the Axeman of New Orleans (1919), 18 Oct 2018 in History
• The Origins of the Death Growl in Metal Music, 11 Oct 2018 in Music
• Hear Brian Eno’s Ringtones Composed for Mobile Phones, 04 Oct 2018 in Music
• Brian Eno Reveals His Favorite Film Soundtracks, 27 Sep 2018 in Music
• Hear Nico’s Pre-Velvets Recording, “I’m Not Sayin,” Backed by the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones & Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page (1965), 20 Sep 2018 in Music
• Watch the Sex Pistols Play a Gig on a Thames River Barge During the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and Get Shut Down by the Cops (1977), 13 Sep 2018 in Music
• How Michael Jackson Wrote a Song: A Close Look at How the King of Pop Crafted “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”, 06 Sep 2018 in Music
• David Lynch Muses About the Magic of Cinema & Meditation in a New Abstract Short Film, 30 Aug 2018 in Film
• The Beach Party Film: A Short Appreciation of One of the Oddest Subgenres in Film History, 23 Aug 2018 in Film
• See the First Ever Video of Elvis Costello Performing, Summer 1974, 16 Aug 2018 in Music
• Leonard Bernstein: The Greatest 5 Minutes in Music Education, 09 Aug 2018 in Music
• Van Gogh’s Art Now Adorns Vans Shoes, 02 Aug 2018 in Art&Fashion
• 96-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Fronts a Death Metal Band, 26 Jul 2018 in Music
• Hear Miles Davis & John Coltrane Battle It Out on Their Final Tour Together, 1960, 19 Jul 2018 in Music
• Watch “The Hangman,” a Classic Animated Film That Explores What Happens When No One Dares to Stand Up to Evil, 13 Jul 2018 in Film
• The Thin White Duke: A Close Study of David Bowie’s Darkest Character, 05 Jul 2018 in Music
• Behold an Incredibly Detailed, Handmade Map Of Medieval Trade Routes, 29 Jun 2018 in History
• Read a Huge Annotated Online Edition of Frankenstein: A Modern Way to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel, 21 Jun 2018 in Literature
• Weezer Covers Toto’s “Africa” & Makes a Young Fan’s Dream Come True: The Latest, Greatest Cover of the 1983 Song, 14 Jun 2018 in Music
• The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs: A Streamable Playlist Curated by Consequence of Sound, 07 Jun 2018 in Music
• When Pinball Was Deemed Immoral & Outlawed in Major American Cities, 31 May 2018 in Games&History
• An 82-Year-Old Japanese Audiophile Searches for the Best Sound by Installing His Own Electric Utility Pole in His Yard, 24 May 2018 in Music
• The New Studs Terkel Radio Archive Will Let You Hear 5,000+ Recordings Featuring the Great American Broadcaster & Interviewer, 17 May 2018 in Archives
• The Power of Eddie Vedder’s Voice: Hear Isolated Vocal Tracks from Three Classic Pearl Jam Songs, 10 May 2018 in Music
• Watch AC/DC Rock a Gymnasium Full of High School Kids in 1976, 03 May 2018 in Music
• Doc Martens Boots Adorned with Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”, 26 Apr 2018 in Art
• Download an Archive of 16,000 Sound Effects from the BBC: A Fascinating History of the 20th Century in Sound, 20 Apr 2018 in Archives
• Frank Zappa Debates Whether the Government Should Censor Music in a Heated Episode of Crossfire: Why Are People Afraid of Words? (1986), 16 Apr 2018 in Music&Politics
• When David Bowie Became Nikola Tesla: Watch His Electric Performance in The Prestige (2006), 05 Apr 2018 in Film&Music
• The Fall’s Mark E. Smith’s (RIP) Creates a List of His Favorite Books, Films & Music, Circa 1981, 29 Mar 2018 in Music
• All of the Songs Played on “WKRP in Cincinnati” in One Spotify Playlist: Stream 202 Classic Tracks, 22 Mar 2018 in Music&Television
• Stephen Hawking Picks the Music (and One Novel) He’d Spend Eternity With: Stream the Playlist Online, 15 Mar 2018 in Music
• One Man Shows You How to Play Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” with Just One Synthesizer, 08 Mar 2018 in Music
• Watch Jack Nicholson Get Maniacally Into Character for The Shining’s Iconic Axe Scene, 01 Mar 2018 in Film
• Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972), 22 Feb 2018 in Music
• A One-Man Pink Floyd Band Creates Note-Perfect Covers of “Echoes,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Mother” & Other Classics: Watch 19-Year-Old Wunderkind Ewan Cunningham in Action, 15 Feb 2018 in Music
• Understanding Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, Their Tribute to Departed Bandmate Syd Barrett, 08 Feb 2018 in Music
• Hear a 65-Hour, Chronological Playlist of Miles Davis’ Revolutionary Jazz Albums, 01 Feb 2018 in Music
• Watch Animated Scores to Music by Radiohead, Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Photek & Other Electronic/Post-Punk/Avant-Garde Musicians, 25 Jan 2018 in Animation&Music
• Filmmaker Michel Gondry Brings Classic Album Covers to Life in a Visually-Packed Commercial: Purple Rain, Beggars Banquet, Nevermind & More, 18 Jan 2018 in Film
• The Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde, 11 Jan 2018 in Art&Film
• A Big 44-Hour Chronological Playlist of Rolling Stones Albums: Stream 613 Tracks, 04 Jan 2018 in Music
• The Favorite Literary Work of Every Country Visualized on a World Map, 28 Dec 2017 in Literature
• Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Children–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK (1977), 21 Dec 2017 in Music
• See Ridley Scott’s 1973 Bread Commercial—Voted England’s Favorite Advertisement of All Time, 14 Dec 2017 in Film&Television
• Why So Many People Adore The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made? A Video Explainer, 08 Dec 2017 in Film
• The Codex Quetzalecatzin, an Extremely Rare Colored Mesoamerican Manuscript, Now Digitized and Put Online, 30 Nov 2017 in Art&History
• Watch Classical Music Get Perfectly Visualized as an Emotional Roller Coaster Ride, 23 Nov 2017 in Animation&Music
• Watch Classical Music Come to Life in Artfully Animated Scores: Stravinsky, Debussy, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & More, 16 Nov 2017 in Animation&Music
• Bryan Cranston Gives Advice to the Young: Find Yourself by Traveling and Getting Lost, 09 Nov 2017 in Creativity&Life
• See Mozart Played on Mozart’s Own Fortepiano, the Instrument That Most Authentically Captures the Sound of His Music, 02 Nov 2017 in Music
• Every Academy Award Winner for Best Cinematography in One Supercut: From 1927’s Sunrise to 2016’s La La Land, 26 Oct 2017 in Film
• The Films of Christopher Nolan Explored in a Sweeping 4‑Hour Video Essay: Memento, The Dark Knight, Interstellar & More, 20 Oct 2017 in Film
• Hear 1,500+ Genres of Music, All Mapped Out on an Insanely Thorough Interactive Graph, 13 Oct 2017 in Music&Technology
• The Smithsonian Presents a Gallery of 6,000+ Rare Rock ‘n Roll Photos on a Crowdsourced Web Site, and Now a New Book, 05 Oct 2017 in Film&Music
• A Massive 55-Hour Chronological Playlist of Bob Dylan Songs: Stream 763 Tracks, 28 Sep 2017 in Music
• Musician Taryn Southern Is Composing Her New Album with Artificial Intelligence: Hear the First Track, 21 Sep 2017 in Music&Technology
• Watch a Musician Improvise on a 500-Year-Old Music Instrument, The Carillon, 14 Sep 2017 in Music
• The Top 100 American Films of All Time, According to 62 International Film Critics, 07 Sep 2017 in Film
• Al Franken Provides Comic Relief at the Grateful Dead’s 1980 Halloween Concert: A Tribute to Our Favorite Deadhead Senator, 01 Sep 2017 in Comedy&Music
• Neil deGrasse Tyson is Creating a New Space Exploration Video Game with the Help of George R.R. Martin & Neil Gaiman, 25 Aug 2017 in Astronomy&Games&Science
• Legendary Animator Chuck Jones Creates an Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care (1949), 17 Aug 2017 in Animation
• The Secret Rhythm Behind Radiohead’s “Videotape” Now Finally Revealed, 10 Aug 2017 in Music
• 89 Essential Songs from The Summer of Love: A 50th Anniversary Playlist, 03 Aug 2017 in Music
• Watch the Earliest Known Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (February, 1967), 27 Jul 2017 in Music
• Wes Anderson Names 12 of His Favorite Art Films, 20 Jul 2017 in Film
• Does Quentin Tarantino’s First Film, Reservoir Dogs, Hold Up 25 Years Later?: A Video Essay, 06 Jul 2017 in Film
• The Animated Score for Penderecki’s “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima,” the Horrifying Composition Featured in Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Cuarón’s Children of Men & Other Films, 29 Jun 2017 in Music
• Willie Nelson & Ray Charles Sing a Moving Duet “Seven Spanish Angels”: A Beautiful Bridge That Crosses Musical & Racial Divides, 23 Jun 2017 in Music
• Hear the 20 Favorite Punk Albums of Black Flag Frontman Henry Rollins, 15 Jun 2017 in Music
• Paul McCartney Admits to Dropping Acid in a Scrappy Interview with a Prying Reporter (June, 1967), 01 Jun 2017 in Music
• Beat Club, the 1960s TV Show That Brought Rock Music to 70 Million Kids in Germany, Hungary, Thailand, Tanzania & Beyond, 25 May 2017 in Music
• Everything Thing You Ever Wanted to Know About the Synthesizer: A Vintage Three-Hour Crash Course, 18 May 2017 in Music
• Timelapse Film Shows How the British Library Digitized the World’s Largest Atlas, the 6‑Foot Tall “Klencke Atlas” from 1660, 11 May 2017 in Art&History&Maps
• Watch Queen’s Stunning Live Aid Performance: 20 Minutes Guaranteed to Give You Goose Bumps (July 13, 1985), 04 May 2017 in Music
• Artist is Creating a Parthenon Made of 100,000 Banned Books: A Monument to Democracy & Intellectual Freedom, 27 Apr 2017 in Art&Current Affairs&Politics
• Hear Two Legends, Lead Belly & Woody Guthrie, Performing on the Same Radio Show (1940), 20 Apr 2017 in Music
• Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda Creates a 19-Song Playlist to Help You Get Over Writer’s Block, 13 Apr 2017 in Music&Writing
• Watch Derek Jarman’s Daring 12-Minute Promo Film for Marianne Faithfull’s 1979 Comeback Album Broken English (NSFW), 06 Apr 2017 in Film&Music
• Watch the Trippy Screen Projections Used by Pink Floyd During their Dark Side of the Moon Tours, 30 Mar 2017 in Film&Music
• Watch Janis Joplin’s Breakthrough Performance at the Monterey Pop Festival: “One of the Great Concert Performances of all Time” (1967), 23 Mar 2017 in Music
• The Music in Quentin Tarantino’s Films: Hear a 5‑Hour, 100-Song Playlist, 09 Mar 2017 in Music
• Icelandic Folk Singers Break Into an Impromptu Performance of a 13th Century Hymn in a Train Station, and It’s Delightful, 02 Mar 2017 in Music
• You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes, 23 Feb 2017 in Life&Music
• Take a Break from Your Frantic Day & Let Alan Watts Introduce You to the Calming Ways of Zen, 16 Feb 2017 in Philosophy&Religion
• Browse Every Art Exhibition Held at MoMA Since 1929 with the New “MoMA Exhibition Spelunker”, 09 Feb 2017 in Archives&Art
• Read Prince’s First Interview, Printed in His High School Newspaper (1976), 26 Jan 2017 in Music
• Watch an Epic, 4‑Hour Video Essay on the Making & Mythology of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, 19 Jan 2017 in Apple&Television
• Captivating GIFs Reveal the Magical Special Effects in Classic Silent Films, 12 Jan 2017 in Film
• Watch Orson Welles’ First Ever Film, Directed at Age 19, 05 Jan 2017 in Film
• Watch David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull Rehearse and Sing Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe” (1973), 28 Dec 2016 in Music&Television
• The Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Board Game, Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s Rollicking Novel, 22 Dec 2016 in Games
• From Caligari to Hitler: A Look at How Cinema Laid the Foundation for Tyranny in Weimar Germany, 15 Dec 2016 in Film