So there’s this band from Brooklyn called the Gregory Brothers. They have some pretty good songs (check out Bad Habit), and describe themselves as “75% Brothers, 25% Babe.”
But more importantly, they’re really funny. Lately they’ve focused their attention on a series of YouTube videos titled “Auto-tune the News,” where they take banal media from the 24 hour news cycles and set them to auto-tune, changing these otherwise macabre monologues into rapturous, unintentional melodies.
Now you may know the Bros have a particular disdain for artsits who use auto-tune to make shitty music, but this is one group who is using it right.
Case and point:
(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted [...]
What if a deranged Santa Robot decided we all didn’t deserve gifts this year? Mega Man would come and bust ‘em up, that’s what! AceSparks of Sprite Inc. has re-imagined Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol into a Mega Man game where the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Jacob Marley are evil robots [...]
Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario [...]
