Deadmau5 is the guy who wears the giant mouse head and produces a dynamic combo of new dance, techno, electro and house music. Deadmau5 is also known for collaborating with other popular artists in his genre like, for example, Kaskade and Rob Swire. Once you get passed the giant mouse head and into his music it’s not hard on the ears.
As ice cold winds whipped off the San Francisco bay, no one noticed as the throbbing techno sounds of Toronto’s Deadmau5 emanated from the Bridge Stage of the Bay Area’s Treasure Island Music Festival. The mostly hometown crowd went absolutely bonkers for the music phenomenon’s set.
Deadmau5 has had a whirlwind year any 28-year-old would die for, culminating in that memorable set at the 2010 MTV Awards last month – did you see that mouse-ears-on-crack light show. Nuff said.
This will be the last time we see Joel Thomas Zimmerman in this intimate of setting. The dude is massive. He possesses the ability to get every frat boy, indie chic and flower child immersed in his frantic world of progressive music stylings and high-end light streaming from his signature stage cube. Although Deadmau5’s amped up sets are not that hard to understand, he simply serves up what audiences truly crave – a desperate release.
April Fools day used to be a chance to play a gag on a few close friends. But with the power of the internet, a simple joke can reach the entire globe in the course of 24 hours. Here’s a few of our favorite online gags from yesterday’s mischivities.
Apple Swithes to Veranda (IDSGN)
With all the ongoing buzz about the iPad dropping this weekend, what a perfect time to mess with Apple. Considering that most Mac owners are the create types who immediately know that Veranda refers to a font, this is a gag that hit it’s target demographic.
Deadmau5 Hospitalised Following Fight With Felix da Housecat (Mixmag)
The key to a good April Fools prank is plausibility. Deadmau5 might be the newly crowned prince of American dance music, but rumors of him not being the friendliest rodent have been circulating for a while now. The only flaw in this gag was the off timing. Would it really take 5 days for news like this to hit the internet? Unlikely.
Pitchfork gives MGMT’s “Congratulations” a perfect 10.0 (Hipsterrunoff)
People have been making fun of Pitchfork’s rating system for almost as long as the website has been online. There’s even an entire site dedicated to critiquing Pitchfork’s reviews. Hipster Runoff’s mysterious Carls knows exactly where to prod the indie rock faithful, taking a jab at both their critical bible as well as one of the scenes biggest crossover bands.
Missing Manic Guitarist Turns Up Alive (BBC)
This is probably a clones site and not the actual BBC. Considering that Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards disappeared in 1995 in a presumed suicide, this gag certainly had the element of surprise. But the overall taste of jesting about such a tragedy is questionable.
TextP (YouTube)
Some pretty big companies got in on the fun. Google changed their name to Topeka for the day, but this elaborate YouTube gag offering a system that converts video into a text-based stream to save the company money is both super clever and ultra-geeky.
Today’s bloggin best…
- A new Jay-Z / Dr. Dre song might be dropping this week. 2dopeboyz
- Johnny Marr could play in two bands at Reading Festival. NME
- Madlibs drops bombs with Guilty Simpson and Strong Arm Steady.
- Gorillaz got an online video game. Pitchfork
- If wrestlers were rappers. Complex
- Erykah Badu gets naked and assassinated in new video. SFGate
- Deadmau5 goes Hollywood, guests on Gossip Girl, hangs with Tommy Lee. MTV