Posts tagged: Music
Free Downloadable Spooky Music
By DIY Maven
Candy? Check. Decorations? Check. Costumes? Check. Creepy music? No. No?! Not to worry. Here's some sites where you can download free songs and sounds to up the Halloween creep factor.
3rd Ward’s Green Bikes Birthday Block Party
By 3rd Ward Brooklyn3rd Ward’s Green Bikes Birthday Block Party, May 3, 2 to 8 p, FREE admission & Colt 45
Good things come in threes. So for our 3rd Anniversary in Brooklyn, we announce Green Bikes! Starting in May, when you sign up for a 3rd Ward membership you get a free bike!
www.3rdward.com/greenbikes
To celebrate, we're throwing a massive block party right outside our door. We’ve taken over Stagg Street for a day filled with:
Live Music from The Wil » READ MORE
An Exquisite Example of Stop Motion Photography
By DIY Maven
I may behind in posting this video, but I'm gonna do it anyway, because I've fallen a little bit in love with it. The tune (superb in its own right) is Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie. The photography was done by Eyal Landesman and it was directed by Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan. It's a stunning example of stop motion photography. » READ MORE
Guitar Hero 3 Crocheted Scarf
By DIY Maven
Craftster meekssandygirl whipped up this incredible scarf that just happened to be her husband's idea. He's a big fan of Guitar Hero 3 and Muse, so she embroidered the music for their tune Knights of Cydonia on a length double crochets (6 rows in black acrylic, 70 to 75 inches in length). » READ MORE
ZOOZOOM presents Fashion Wars Live Manhattan
By ZOOZOOM 
EVENT :: FASHION WARS LIVE presented by ZOOZOOM MAGAZINE
DATE :: Thursday, Jan 29th
TIME :: 9 PM - Late
VENUE :: Ultra Lounge (http://www.theultranyc.com), 37 West 26th Street, New York (6th Ave. / Broadway) » READ MORE
How To: DIY Speaker Wall Mounts.
By Chrisjob
Whether for your new 5.1 surround sound system, your cramped media room, or when just wiring your home to fill it with music, it's best to get speakers off the ground, furniture, and other resonant surfaces, and up to ear level. And since non-powered speakers are actually not heavy at all, with less than $2.00 in materials and an hour of work, it's surprisingly simple to create custom brackets for mounting them on walls and ceilings.
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After Work Election Hoedown
By 3rd Ward BrooklynWatch the votes roll in and the Bushes roll out at 3rd Ward's After Work Election Hoedown!
After work on election day, from 6 pm till the country turns blue, come to 3rd Ward for live election coverage projected 10 ft. x 10 ft.
We'll have DJs, drinks, eats & "pork barrels" and Brooklyn Royalty will be LIVE screen-printing Obama t's.
Plus, compete to support your candidate and be awarded, 3rd Ward
style. We're looking for cheers, impersonato » READ MORE
How To Create An Album Art Wall on the Cheap.
By Chrisjob
In my wife's (then, girl-I-was-gonna-marry-but-hadn't-yet) first post-college apartment, we filled the entire area over the sofa with album covers. We used sticky-tack, but the jackets were heavy, they fell often, and it ruined the surface of many of them.
This technique is much more brilliant. It's as simply as l-shaped screws. Of course. No harm to the jackets, and it allows the artwork to be interchanged as the modd strikes you. Excelle » READ MORE
Guitar hero's rejoice
By michaelfoulyThe guys at slicksticks.com have done it again.
This is by far a one of a kind wall graphic. If you're into music at all or love guitars, this is definitely a must have. Apparently there is a whole series of popular guitar decal styles coming out. Fender Strat, a cool Ibanez Bass, and a flying V guitar. Totally rad.
This should be huge hit with the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video game crowd. Now this is a wall decal!! Just thought I'd share a » READ MORE
Free Stuff: Unity Mashup
By Ken Hoyt
DJ Earworm is a mashup artist; he's rather like a musical poet/conductor melding other artists into a unique new piece. I love his work.
His latest: Together as One is a combination of One by U2, Come Together by the Beatles, Someday We’ll be Together by Diana Ross and We Belong Together by Mariah Carey. His deft handling of the collection turns it into an anthem for concord. Not a bad message in our frazzled, fearful world.
You can downloa » READ MORE
Free stuff: An earful of style
By Ken Hoyt
Lately, it seems, very chic people have taken to hiring other stylish people to keep themselves au courant. Or, at the least, keeping them wardrobed, primped and styled perfectly.
In my long career I've styled both people and homes, and generally I loved both. I will admit, however, that houses almost never suffer from insuperable pretensions.
I've written about DJ Earworm before. He's a genius at MashUp and has the golden ear for making sexy sou » READ MORE
A Merry Talk Box Christmas.
By ChrisjobCheck out this marvelous video, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" via the Talkbox. A talkbox is a device that takes the music generated by an instrument, and feeds it through a tube into one's mouth, wherein one "mouths" or whispers the lyrics, allowing the shape of the mouth to affect the timbre of the instrument. The most famous example of this effect is Peter Frampton's "making the guitar talk." (This was also responsible for the vocal » READ MORE
Free Holiday Music Downloads.
By ChrisjobThe internet is a mighty fine thing when compared to the terrible holiday mix of your local soft-rock radio station. RetroThing points us to several alternative options for fun, rockin', and kitschy holiday tunes: "FaLaLaLaLa.com is releasing new music every day to count down to the holiday - I like the recording of the Sammes Singers taking a break from their usual stint as background singers for commercials. Hi-Fi Holiday has put up several f » READ MORE
WOXY: The Ultimate Modern Rock Holiday Mix!
By ChrisjobAndy Williams not doing it for you this year?
Scootch your way over to WOXY.com for the WOXY Holiday Mixer. WOXY.com is the latest incarnation of one of the country's most successful underground/alternative rock radio stations: "97x - Bam! The Future of Rock and Roll!" as famously quoted by Dustin Hoffman in Rainman.
The WOXY Holiday Mixer offers seasonal hits from Indie Rock heavyweights like Grandaddy, the Decemberists, and Sufjan Stevens, as w » READ MORE
House Tunes: DIY Your Own Party Soundtrack
By Ken Hoyt
Ever notice that the best parties and clubs have the greatest music? Whenever I put together a party I like to create a soundtrack. On bigger events I’ll hire a DJ to build an entire evening… starting with hot and flirty music for cocktail hour… moving on to environment sweetening* tracks for dinner. I like to finish the evening with music that is quiet and sleepy (cue the parking valets). Sounding like you’re cutting edge is important for » READ MORE
Musical Furniture
By DIY Maven
This is a very cool idea indeed: furniture on which you can play music. The artist behind Musical Furnishings is the rather dishy Tor Clausen. Tor makes tables, chests and outdoor furnishings that you can take a pair of mallets to and bang out some tropical tunes marimba style. Individual pieces are priced from anywhere between 300 to 3500 bucks, and each includes a pair of mallets and a song book.
Before The Cleanup
By RustIndyThis is just a sample of the horrendous mess I live in every day. The desk is way too large and is in a poor working place, the workout equipment is crowded by clutter, and the music stuff is scattered from one end to the other.
So why am I not cleaning it up? Because it's time to completely rearrange the place! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! Too much stuff, too little space.
I need help finding an arrangement that lets these two adjoined rooms c » READ MORE
Smart storage of CD's and LP's?
By Northernstar Anybody out there with an idea on how to make a smartlooking storage of CD's and LP's(Vinylrecords)? I am aware that it is a dinosauric thing to love your old albums, but I do. The number in question is aprox. 1700 LP's and 1000 CD's.DIY Vinyl LP Coasters
By Chrisjob 
These are by no means an original idea. I saw them on all sorts of websites when shopping for unique Christmas gifts. However, $20-45 for six or eight coasters seems like a bit much. For the same investment [for the hole saw], you can make these guys by the thousands, and by picking out your own LPs, you can select from the choicest of colors and label designs.
And while you're feeling LP-tastic, check this out!
Supplies:
12” vinyl albums (raid th » READ MORE
Building DIY speakers, Part 2: What you need
By jonhdahlIn part one of this series, I introduced the concept of building DIY speakers. The lowdown is this: it isn't really that hard, and for (say) $300-$800, you can have a pair of speakers that will outperform anything at Best Buy or Circuit City, and will be better than about 75% of the stuff sold in high-end audio stores. And you'll end up paying maybe 20% of what you'd pay if you bought excellent speakers at retail.
So where to begin? Well, there » READ MORE
