Cooking Pad Thai has never been this evil…and as one YouTuber so cleverly put it, “HAIL SEITAN!”

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The only cooking show you’ll ever need, kids. WTF indeed.

Here’s an interesting prototype from IDEO called The C60 Music Player, which brings physicality back to the experience of listening to music. The device is based on a concept from Martin Bone and Kara Johnson’s book, I Miss My Pencil. I want one.

Recently, the legendary British singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock opened up about his first band, the psychedelic and lyrically perverse, Soft Boys – easily one of the most underrated of all time.

Here’s an excerpt:

“The Soft Boys came into my head in Cambridge, in the hot, dry summer of 1976 while punk was being conjured up by a small group of artists and villains in London. My idea was to concoct a tribe of translucent, bloodless man-things that had awesome powers but were largely invisible: stalkers of the hypothalamus, erotic guerrillas that would transform people’s thoughts in a different way from the bludgeoning M.O. of UK punk.”

Read the full article entitled “No Chips Alone: The Soft Boys Saga By Robyn Hitchcock” here. Also pick up newly remastered and special edition vinyl versions of The Soft Boys albums A Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight, essentials for any good psych-rock record collection.

Last Friday, while in Copenhagen representing LIV, I ventured over to the Vesterbro and visited CAN – a shop like none other. Named after the experimental German rockers, owner Martin curates the small but fashionable store with limited edition artist apparel and italo disco, art-rock and funk vinyl. There is even a high-end knitted sweater inspired by the cover of the band’s 1975 album Ege Bamyasi and designed by The Inoue Brothers for sale. Check out photos, as well as some classic live footage of the band after the jump…

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Simple. Slow down “U Smile” by 800%. Ah, much better.

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Jason Pierce eat your heart out.

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During its heyday from 1986-1996, “120 Minutes” was the utimate destination to see videos from some of the most vital underground/alternative bands of the time including Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Husker Du, and countless others. Hosts of the show included J.J. Jackson, Downtown Julie Brown (!) and everyone’s favorite foot-wagging, gravel-voiced music nerd, Matt Pinfield. Here’s a great clip with Billy Corgan taking over hosting duties in 1994:

Those days are gone, but lucky for you and me someone has compiled a massive “120 Minutes” archive featuring  playlists with video links, live performance details, interviews and more. See ya next year!

Visit the “120 Minutes” Link Archive.

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Tim Berners-Lee? Larry Page and Sergey Brin? Mark Zuckerberg? Morons. Thankfully, one man (that man being Prince), is here to give us a much needed reality check. He explains to the Daily Mirror the fate of that little useless thing called the Internet:

“You must come and listen to the album,” he says. “I hope you like it. It’s great that it will be free to readers of your newspaper. I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.” He explains that he decided the album will be released in CD format only in the Mirror. There’ll be no downloads anywhere in the world because of his ongoing battles against internet abuses. Unlike most other rock stars, he has banned YouTube and iTunes from using any of his music and has even closed down his own official website.

He says: “The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

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Deliciously EVIL.

and despite the video’s title, it sounds like pure EVIL. This is my new ringtone!

“Scientists at Sheffield University in the U.K. have just released what amounts to a recording of what you would hear if you could stand inside the solar corona — the upper layer of the sun’s atmosphere — and it turns out that what you’d hear is music. The simple symphony that fills the corona not only is beautiful but could also could yield new insights into how the sun operates.

The corona is not just the blast wall of heat and light that it seems to be. Rather, it’s filled with vaguely banana-shaped plasma structures known as coronal loops. Measuring up to 60,000 miles (about 100,000 km) long, the loops help keep the corona turbulent and, like ocean currents that eventually produce tidal waves, give rise to the cosmic fireworks known as solar flares…” [Time Online]

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The creator of modern day drum machines, Roger Linn, has created a new electronic instrument that basically uses the same interaction as the iPad. Looks really awesome though:

The instrument — which Linn calls the “LinnStrument” — can take input from all of your fingers, so you can form chords in addition to sounding individual notes. Each space is pressure sensitive to allow for maximum range of expression. Sliding your finger vertically adjusts the timbre while horizontal motions change the pitch. The final product would take the best elements from the layouts of the piano (chromatic increments) and the guitar (“parallel rows of semitones offset by fourths”). It will look a little different from the prototype, and it’ll be wearable vertically over your torso. You could also just leave it on the table like this prototype, though. (via Mashable)

Watch Linn demoing the prototype version:

For more product specs, visit Roger’s website.