Hye Yeon Nam is a visual and kinetic artist living in Atlanta, GA and originally from Seoul, Korea.  She’s a designer and artist who is inspired by her “personal experiences, emotions, and in-between state.”
At one point in time she asked herself the question “What if we no longer had the use of our hands to [...]

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I’ve got 2 large boxes completely full of old cassette tapes (remember those?) in my closet. There are probably over 400 tapes sitting there, degrading, losing their magnetic information, slowly dissolving into silence, or perhaps more correctly, white noise.
Will I ever listen to any of these again? Probably not. Heck, I don’t [...]

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Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is definitely one of the funkiest songs on the planet – It was released way back in 1972 on the Talking Book album and climbed up the UK charts quickly. Stevie came up with the song by playing the original funky drum beat that starts the track and humming a melody over [...]

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I love having music with me everywhere, so I always have my iPhone full of music. Of course the problem is that I don’t always have something to plug it into. I’ve seen little portable speakers designed specifically for this purpose, but the small ones sound absolutely terrible and the ones that do [...]

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I’ve seen a ton of band name generators on the net, but here’s something that is a LOT more fun.  With a little bit of randomness, Wikipedia, Flickr and  Quotationspage can name your band and come up with a name and cover art for your new album!
Here’s how it works:

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We’ve gotten some great feedback on our new forums, and in an effort to encourage even more people to participate, we’ll be giving away a really cool prize every couple of weeks.
All you need to do to have a chance of winning is to participate in our forums and you’ll be automatically entered. We’ll [...]

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Our “featured Band” series is meant to introduce you to fantastic music that you might not yet have heard. Rarely has an “unknown band” had such a tremendous impact on me as these guys, so everyone – meet Cymande!
Cymande came to being in 1971 in London, England, formed mainly by musicians from Jamaica and [...]

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Just a reminder to everyone who wanted to enter our “worst song in the world” remix competition: There are just 2 weeks to go!  We’ve got over $1000 worth of prizes to give away, and even if you don’t win we’ll still publish your entry.  
All entries need to be in before April 1st.  We’re really [...]

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