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Halloween, the 10 spookiest songs for an unforgettable 31st of October

Forget about classics such as Deep Red, Thriller by Michael Jackson and Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Here’s a playlist of yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s creepiest songs. Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper http://youtu.be/nU5MyNuBdhg Sonic Youth – Halloween https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxu5wlgvsEI Portishead – Machine Gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJeiWYFrio Pink Floyd – Careful With That Axe Eugene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpGdG27K9o Bat For Lashes – What’s A

The sounds of the universe are now on SoundCloud, thanks to NASA

The most popular moments and sounds from space are available on NASA’s SoundCloud page. Let’s explore parallel universes!

10 songs about our love for mountains

10 musicians sing their passion for one of the most fascinating habitats in the world: music and mountains, the highest of couplings.

Women at the wheel: 10 songs that have come a long way

In their videos, or in their art, a combination standing out against the contrasts, tones and words used by these female singers. From Aretha Franklin’s jaunt passing through Lana Del Rey’s and Robyn’s partnerships with Jaguar and Volvo as well as the famous journeys of Nina Persson and Alanis Morrissette to M.I.A’s acrobatics. Aretha

Top-ten one-hit wonders

4 Non Blondes – What’s Up (Bigger, Better, Faster, More, 1992) The La’s – There She Goes (The La’s, 1990) The Knack – My Sharona (Get the Knack, 1979) Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (God Shuffled His Feet, 1993) Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (San Francisco, 1974) Edie Brickell & New

2014 world cup: 10 songs that kick balls

There’s always been a strong link between music and soccer, think about chorus chants. Here are ten songs that, in one way or another, have to do with soccer. From Un’Estate Italiana, the official song of World Cup Italia ’90, to Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes (Italy’s victory emblem of World Cup Deutschland in 2006), from Mas

Virunga, the documentary presented at Tribeca Film Festival

The documentary Virunga by Orlando von Einsiedel tells the story of a group of people who risk their lives every day in order to build a better future in an area of the African continent often forgotten, and to save one of the world’s most important natural habitats. A movie that shows the hard reality within

Once upon a time: the first 10 songs broadcast by LifeGate

Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone ( Highway 61 Revisited, 1965) Ben Harper – Burn One Down (Fight Your Mind, 1995) Santana – Black Magic Woman (Abraxas, 1970) The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony (Urban Hymns, 1997) The Doors – When The Music’s Over (Strange Days, 1967) Miles Davis – Blue

“I feel like singing”. 10 foreign performers deal with Italian songs

Creating Italian versions of British/American songs was quite common among the Italian singers of the ’50’s and ’60s. But there are many other examples in which foreign performers came to grips with Italian lyrics. Here are a few of them. Astrud Gilberto – Una Donna Che Ti Ama (Ennio Morricone) Mike Patton/Mondo Cane

10 Icelandic musicians on Lifegate Radio

Emiliana Torrini Jungle Drums – Me and Armini (2008) http://emilianatorrini.com Ásgeir King and Cross – In the Silence (2014) http://asgeirmusic.com Olafur Arnalds Hands, Be Still – For Now I Am Winter (2013) http://olafurarnalds.com Of Monsters And Men Silhouettes – The Hunger Games: catching fire Soundtrack (2013) http://www.ofmonstersandmen.com Samaris Góða Tungl –

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