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Tokyo Disneyland’s new vinyl LP is AMAZING

Tokyo Disneyland is a curious beast: it's owned by a Japanese company (the "Oriental Land Company") but the company is contractually obligated to use Disney as its sole supplier of rides and designs; historically, TDL has expanded by ordering the very best, most popular rides and shows from other Disney parks, and then paying to ...

Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under”

This is Men at Work's "Down Under" as it was originally released in 1980 as the B-side to the band's self-released "Keypunch Operator" 7". A year later, the band re-recorded it for their Columbia Records debut Business As Usual. The track flew up the Australian charts and hit number one in the US a few ...

Rick Astley releases sad piano version of own legendary hit, Never Gonna Give You Up

Perfect material for a pretentious video game trailer, or the closing montage of a movie where everyone dies.

The official audio for Never Gonna Give You Up (Pianoforte). From the new album The Best Of Me. Buy/Listen: https://RickAstley.lnk.to/BestID Limited edition formats available on Rick's store: https://RickAstley.lnk.to/storeID

It's still not as good as the legendary cover that Slayer performed ...

Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose

Yutaka Hirose is a Japanese composer who was a key figure in that country's ambient/environmental music scene of the 1980s that in recent years has been rediscovered by crate-diggers around the world. Hirose's "NOVA" (1986) is a classic of the genre, a soundscape that Misawa Home Corporation commissioned as a "soundtrack" for the prefabricated houses. ...

Youtube told them to use this “royalty-free” music; now rightsholders are forcing ads on their videos and claiming most of the revenue

'Dreams' by Joakim Karud is a popular track in Youtube's library of safe, royalty-free music, which it supplies to video creators who want to stay on the right side of copyright, but Sonyatv and Warner Chappell claim that the Creative Commons-licensed song contains an uncleared sample from the Kenny Burrell Quartet's 'Weaver of Dreams,' which ...

Watch: 9-year-old girl kills Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’ on drums

Nandi Bushell channels drummer David Grohl as she drums to Nirvana's "In Bloom."

From Ipswich, England, she "has been posting drum covers to her YouTube channel for over two years. She's covered the likes of Beyoncé, Metallica, Joan Jett," according to Mashable. Is she really just nine years old?

Here she is jamming with ...