And Another...

Football hero.

Guitar hero meets Kasabian meets football.

"A clever link between football, music and video games to appeal to a segment which would appreciate each element and the skills involved..."

Nice.

via The Hidden Persuader

Get involved

Whilst crowd-sourcing and music aren't a totally new combination, I love that you can see this music video for C-Mon & Kypski being produced one frame at a time, and contribute to it yourself. Nice..

Ben Harper

Amazing amazing man. This is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a while...

He said something on Nat Geo last night that is so true of music, but also creativity in general:

"There's obviously something mysterious about music. But the moment I try to put it under the microscope it becomes less of that. So I don't even want to know. Im just glad to be inside of it and a part of it and hopefully the slice of it I get in my lifetime is soulful"

Happy morning tune

Love Regina Spektor. (Acoustic of 'My man' is unbelievable).

Particularly love that despite waking up to dark bucketfuls of rain, having missed the train, getting off at the wrong stop and dropping my scarf in a great big puddle... this is all smiles.

She's singing "Hotel Song" with Jack Dishel on the beatbox.

via a cup of jo

Playing for change

Why haven't I heard of this earlier? Apparently everyone else has.

Well, it definitely deserves all the love it can get so I'm going to post it anyway.

Playing for change is an ethnographic mash-up (and holding of hands) if you will. Over 10 years, producer Mark Johnson has created a documentary about the simple but transformative power of music, bringing together musicians from around the world in an attempt to foster a common understanding of humanity through song.

"The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds, music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race."

Powerful. I love this. Here are just two songs that are so very very well worth a listen...

Alice

Similar concept to ThruYou - brilliant piece of music by Fagottron, 90% of which is composed using sounds from Disney's 'Alice in Wonderland'... 

Yep, everything's becoming a big ol' (although evidently, not necessarily drab) remix/re-interpretation/cut-copy-paste/mash-up/recycle of another..

See it on the big screen on yooouuutuuube or here:

We are hunted

BRILLIANT. We are hunted is an online music chart that aggregates based on positive online sentiment, expression, and advocacy across social networks, forums, music blogs, torrents, P2P networks and of course, Twitter.

Discovering new music has to be one of the simplest shortcuts for work-centric, uncultured relief.

Very, very exciting...

via @Markpollard and Mashable

Mashup

Awesome. Check it out...

thanks MollieHill