Mailbox App Review

By Luke Larsen at 2:00 PM on February 12, 2013

Mailbox is not only the fastest and most simple mail client available, it also introduces some great new features that keeps productivity top of mind.  read more

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Mailbox App Finally Released to App Store (Kind Of...)

By Anita George at 7:00 PM on February 7, 2013

Ever wanted to postpone answering an email until you were good and ready to deal with whatever fresh hell message landed in your inbox from someone in your social network or office?...  read more

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Landfill Harmonic: Amazing Instruments Built from Trash

By Brian Tremml at 12:00 PM on December 15, 2012

Amazing cellos, violins and more.   read more

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Watch Aphex Twin Conduct an Orchestra by Remote Control

By John Barrett at 1:34 PM on November 29, 2011

Richard D. James, better known by his avant-garde electronic music moniker Aphex Twin, has continued to prove he's on the cutting edge of things. Like Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, he recently collaborated with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and was commissioned to compose music for Poland's European Culture Congress — but as Pitchfork points out, James took things a step further while in Wroclaw, Poland, and controlled a full orchestra with a remote control.  read more

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Song Premieres: Peter Gabriel - "Wallflower" and "Mercy Street"

By Tyler Kane at 5:30 PM on October 4, 2011

On Oct. 11, Peter Gabriel will release a new full-length album titled New Blood. The album features Gabriel reworking some of his old songs, this time with an orchestra called the New Blood Orchestra. John Metcalfe arranged the music and Ben Foster conducted. A press release said the idea wasn’t simply to rework old songs, but to pick songs that would benefit from a full-on string treatment.   read more

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