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Jan 7 We complain all the time about how today’s popular country music pretty much all sounds the same, but is this really true from a technical standpoint? That is what one enterprising Audiophile and songwriter set out to illustrate by making a mashup of some of Bro-Country’s biggest singles over the last couple of…
Oct 22 2014Space is the place. Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips (“Houston, we’ve had a problem” and “The Eagle has landed”), you get a lot more. There are rocket sounds, the chirps of satellites and…
THE LAZARUS EFFECT Trailer: Olivia Wilde Comes Back From The Dead To Wail On The Living Stop resurrecting dead folks, guys. It never turns out well. “http://www.youtube.com/embed/BCUeFQ1E1xM?rel=0” frameborder= “0” allowfullscreen=””> On the one hand, The Lazarus Effect looks pretty generic. I anticipated most of the beats in the trailer without knowing a thing about it other than…
Supercut Videos has released a new supercut of people saying “it’s not what it looks like” in movies. A full list of the films, in order of appearance, can be found in the video’s description on YouTube. Another cliché phrase on the silver screen exposed. This week’s video brings us, “It’s not what it looks…
2014 is the year television broke. No, not my TV, that thin black thing that sits and gets dusty while my laptop overheats on my stomach. If you’re looking to grieve, then do so for the television model itself (although you’d have to be a network CEO to not see this death as a blessing)….
Two episodes from “Game of Thrones” will make their IMAX debut later this month. main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) “Game of Thrones” is coming to an IMAX theater near you. HBO announced Tuesday that two episodes from its wildly popular fantasy saga “Game of Thrones” will be getting the IMAX treatment for one week later this…
Those of you who watch a lot of Hollywood movies may have noticed a certain trend that has consumed the industry in the last few years. It is one of the most insidious and heinous practices that has ever overwhelmed the industry. Am I talking about the lack of good scripts? Do I speak of…
plsfield:descriptionTOKYO, Jan. 20 — Sony missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of Sony Corp.’s video-game unit acknowledged Thursday.Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management’s…