wax&wires

What’s the best thing that could happen in the backseat of a car? You guessed it! Brilliant musical performances!

Sweet covers, ABBA, and a slow-mo diet coke chug… what more could you ask for?

Check out this video of Tim Exile showing off his Reaktor-based live setup.

Here’s a video from Future Music on Imogen Heap’s live rig, including a beautiful custom “piano” of sorts.

Here’s an intimate performance put on by The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova). I hoped the duo would keep this project running after Once died down, and am thrilled to hear some new songs.

So it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from Sufjan Stevens, especially his absolutely impossible 50 States project. Here’s a glimpse into The BQE, the multimedia project he’s been cooking up for some time now.

This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself.

Contemporary art music group Invisible is simplifying “programming” by using homemade physical hardware interfaces rather than computers. It’s a very unique concept, a twist on Nancarrow’s prepared player pianos, that’s executed very well.

While this first video represents one of Beardyman’s more complex songs musically, I’ve been more impressed with his ability to improv songs based on themes that the audience shouts out at him.

Following up on their promise a few months back, Coldplay has now made it official that they will be giving away a live album to all of their concert goers through the rest of their stops this year.

The much anticipated NIN iPhone App is here. Check out Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan and Kevin Rose giving you a quick look at the features here.

A lot has been made the past few days about MySpace Local, the NewsCorp response to sites like Yelp. Here’s how to harness it as a tool to promote your music.

MusicMetric has released a Twitter app called MuZoid, which lets you tweet the name of a band to @muzoid, and within a few seconds MuZoid returns a link to MusicMetric’s file on the band.

The pioneers of shoegazer have added four US tour stops to follow up their April 19th stop in the deserts of California at Coachella.

Here’s an interesting clip from backstage at a NIN concert in Sydney, where the power went out halfway through the show. It’s an interesting and candid look at Trent and the guys.
I mostly uploaded this because it was shot with the new Canon 5D mkII, and the video quality is stunning.
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