Just For Fun: Heavy metal is no stranger to the cover, and in fact metal covers of non-metal tracks have become a staple of the scene, from Children of Bodom infamously recreating a Brittney Spears song to the full-force awesome of Graveworm covering "I Need A Hero." Going past standard song recreations, Florida based guitarist Eric Calderone has a series cov... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

SONY ’s US PlayStation blog announced this weekend that 2013 will see the release of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 for PS Vita and PS3 , with a a bit of an HD spit and polish. To commemorate this announcement, SONY was nice enough to share some lovely looking HD screenshots for your eyeballs to bathe in. No news on an EU announcement yet, but [...]
Final Fantasy is one of my personal religions. No really, I wrote an article about it and everything. Like all good religions, the classic series of role-playing video games has inspired musician... Continue reading "Top 10 Songs Inspired By Final Fantasy" >
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Pop Culture , The Hit List , Music Appreciation , EDM Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty It's not just the gaming -- the hyper-jumping, mega-blaster shooting, sword-fighting or robot-crashing action -- that makes a great video game. The best video games also have rich characters you feel emotionally invested in, smart plotlines that keep your attention, and, in an area that's constantly underrated, great musical scores. [...]

robbie williams - candy any song that has owen pallett on strings is interesting enough for me! but boy, does robbie look ragged here... http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld

For those who adore the loop pedal stylings of Andrew Bird and Owen Pallett/Final Fantasy , consider Edward Deer as your next assignment. He’s in the “rising star” phase of his career in Sydney, Australia – the phase where a fan’s “Like” still matters and an email address can buy more than just one free song. We love that phase. Deer’s new record About Monsters comes out on September 7. The single “Washed Ashore” arrives today in all its lush, melancholic, lapping tide glory. It's free and you’re [...]

For those who adore the loop pedal stylings of Andrew Bird and Owen Pallett/Final Fantasy , consider Edward Deer as your next assignment. He’s in the “rising star” phase of his career in Sydney, Australia – the phase where a fan’s “Like” still matters and an email address can buy more than just one free song. We love that phase. Deer’s new record About Monsters comes out on September 7. The single “Washed Ashore” arrives today in all its lush, melancholic, lapping tide glory. It's free and you’re [...]
After years of extensive touring in Toronto's electronic outfit Holy Fuck , Brian Borcherdt has embarked on his own side project called Dusted . In the side project, Borcherdt teams up with Final Fantasy's Leon Taheny and creates stripped down, melodic folk tunes. The duo also recently premiered their song "Property Lines" on Stereogum . Listen to their first single "(Into The) Atmosphere" here: Dusted - (Into The) Atmosphere by totallyDusted Dusted's full-length debut album Total Dust will [...]
Posted in General Clickable Play-This-List Dusted are newly formed duo from Toronto, made up of Brian Borcherdt and Leon Taheny. Brian Borcherdt is better know for his work with electronic band Holy Fuck, while Leon is a talented local producer who's well known for his work with the likes of Finaly Fantasy (Owen Pallet) and Bruce Peninsula, as well as [...]

The Waiting Room is, generally speaking, an unenviable place to linger: shuddering gusts pass through its poorly hinged doors incessantly and irksomely; the floor is scarcely discernible beyond a crusty gloss of crud; malingerers squirm atop sticky benches to the left, to the left and to the right. Field Day's newly acquired Stoke Newington haunt of the same name is, however, a rather more inviting environ, its walls embellished with faded tiles and incongruous planks of floorboard. Factor in the fiddler in the basement, of Montreal's unsung superlative Kishi Bashi , and you've suddenly got something the hordes may [...]
Final Fantasy IV was merely a collection of sprites shoved into a 16-bit cartridge. But under the simple exterior was a revolution, a game that helped make the Final Fantasy saga the most domin... Continue reading "Final Fantasy's Majestic Music Comes to Powell Hall" >

These Wildcat! Wildcat! tracks kind of sounds like what indie-orchestra-pop band Final Fantasy would do if they decided to migrate to anthem rock a la M83 or Justice. Both tracks have a solid rock beat that sometimes ventures into hip-hop, are set up in concretely delineated sections reminiscent of a set of symphonic movements, and... yes, are a little bit twee. Not too much, though. Certainly not She And Him territory. "Mr. Quiche" is my favorite. Wildcat! Wildcat! - Mr. Quiche by Wildcat! Wildcat! [...]

Hero Muzik Vol. 1 by K-Murdock Hero Muzik is an instrumental series from producer K-Murdock featuring remixes of the themes of the protagonists of some of his favorite role-playing games. Final Fantasy 6 has always been K's favorite of Square's classic RPG franchise, so he decided to base the first volume of the Hero Muzik series off of the game's 14-playable heroes & heroines. This project aims to pay respect to the timeless music of FF6 composer & video game legend Nobuo Uematsu via K-Murdock's signature "neo sonic" productions!
Song: "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" Artist: Dentl (with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie) Year: 2001 Album: Life is Full of Possibilities In 2001, my interest in music underwent a great and wondrous revival that started with my first listen to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea , continued with my discovery of Modest Mouse and Godspeed! You Black Emperor and by the time the year was over, I was a full-fledged devotee to this [...]

Stories of the Vita failing and a 13% fall in sales from all things games-related leave 2012 off to a bad start. Gamers everywhere are worrying if 2012 will be a good year for the video games industry or not. Let's back-track to last year when the 3DS was released. The sales were disappointing at first, many said the console was going to fail because of its gimmicky 3D and expensive price. There were even reports suggesting the 3D effects made users feel ill! It seems news sites everywhere wanted it to fail but look [...]

Öğle sonrası güneşi gerektiği gibi alçalmıştı gökyüzünde, rüzgar sertleşmeye başlıyordu, kısa soğuk bir öğleden sonrasının ardından çalkalanan umutlar ve tazelenen varlığıyla yaklaşan bir korkunun gelmişlik duygusu vardı ayaz bir Eskişehir akşamında. Bir akşamın üstünden günler geçtikten sonra bile söylenmemiş son sözler aklımdan çıkmadı. Kendi kendime söylendim. "Ben senin çarmıhında değilim, çöp kovan da." Mutlu Pazartesiler... The xx - Open Eyes (Demo) Final Fantasy - This is the Dream of Win and Regine [...]

Swedish duo Korallreven just released a glorious new take on their jam ‘As Young As Yesterday.’ A drawn out affair, the seven-minute tune builds from ethereal whispers and grows into the soundtrack of one of those moonlit balearic nights. Check out the rendition, entitled ‘The Final Fantasy,’ below. Snag An Album By Korallreven over yonder .

Inspired by our Dubstep Remixes of Rock Classics , this time around we're taking our favorite 802s & 902s video games and coiling the shit out of 'em with style . It originally started out as just general remixes of video game themes, but after compiling the majority of them, it turned out to be mainly dubstep. Unfortunately, that led to a few good remixes getting cut for now , most notably a favorite hip-hop Mario mashup of mine. I tried my darndest to get the most memorable classics - such as [...]
Uma ótima semana para os que residem em Toronto, Canadá (ou estão por lá como turistas). O público do Toronto International Film Festival, um dos mais importantes festivais de cinema do planeta, não só assiste alguns dos filmes mais aguardados do ano meses antes de seus lançamentos oficiais (inclusive o documentário PJ20 , sobre o Pearl Jam ) como também presencia um encontro excepcional de músicos: Eddie Vedder recebeu, no palco de uma festa beneficiente no festival, Régine Chassagne ( Arcade Fire ) e Owen Pallett para um cover de My [...]

Ik zou wel graag willen drummen. Of viool spelen. Volgens mij kan je met een viool echt alle harten winnen die je maar zou willen. En als ik dan viool zou kunnen spelen, dan graag zoals Owen Pallett dat doet. Een jaar of twee geleden zag ik hem live in Tivoli de Helling. Hij trad toen nog op onder de artiestennaam Final Fantasy , maar tegenwoordig doet hij het gewoon onder zijn eigen naam. Hij speelt in zijn eentje de hele band. Elk stukje speelt hij in, om het daarna te loopen en een ander stuk [...]