Bud Cole also compared learning cover songs to AI training data in a controversial interview.
Design firm Pen & Pixel was behind more than 20,000 album covers between the early ‘90s and 2000s. They were the go-to for Cash Money and No Limit, creating the gaudy diamond-encrusted covers for Master P’s “MP da Last Don” and Juvenile’s “400 Degreez.”
Music-playing robots are nothing new. It’s been 13 years since Compressorhead went viral, after all. But this DIY project from Reddit user MegCell is still pretty impressive. The melody isn’t hard-coded, either. Instead, the robot can read MusicXML files, meaning, theoretically, it can play almost any song you want.
The author’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, finds humor in difficult times.
Those are the words of John Oliver in The Hollywood Reporter, who has been at the helm of one of the best news shows ever to appear on television. Oliver’s contract just got extended another year. It’s an important life raft for his incisive news program, especially as the Ellison family continues to take over media in this country and threatens to ruin even more institutions.
