Looking to Move? Why Not Trade Up to an Iron Maiden House?

Iron Maiden's Steve Harris is looking to unload his house.  This 7-bedroom mansion comes with an indoor pool, a games/cinema room, a bar, a recording studio, a tennis court and its own football pitch.  Situated at the end of a private gated driveway can be yours for about $8.76 million CAD.  Check out the real estate listing here.

When You're Deadmau5, You Get to Do Stuff Like This--Again.

A year after Deadmau5 helped Nokia launch the Lumia 800 phone (video here), he was back in London to help introduce the new Lumia 920.  This happened this week in a square in Southwark.

Fragilest. Single. Ever.

Old-time 78 RPM records were delicate things.  If you weren't careful, they would shatter like china. Even then you were luck to get 125 plays out of one before it wore out.  Flexi-discs, cheap records on thin flexible vinyl, weren't good for more than 35 plays.  

But this single from the Shout Out Louds is easily the most fragile single ever released. It's made of ice. Frozen water.

Merge, the Shout Out Louds' label, has issued exactly ten kits that take you through the process of creating an icy 7-inch single that's apparently playable on a turntable.  Briefly, of course.

The only way to get one of these kits is to enter a contest.  Send your mailing address to merge@mergerecords.com with "Blue Ice Vinyl" in the subject line.  The contest ends December 3.

Here's the song you're playing for.

How to Throw a Metal Christmas Party

Awesome pic by Hemaniscool. Click the image to learn more.A most helpful guide from Examiner.com

In the spirit of the holidays, this Metal Music Examiner connected with 11 Canadian metal bands to find out how you throw a proper metal Christmas party. To be exact, the 11 bands, which represent such different genres as Celtic death metal, thrash metal, heavy metal and nu-metal, were asked 'what would you bring to a Christmas party with the metal industry?'

The excitement varied significantly from band to band. Morgan Rider from Toronto-basedBolero stated, “I wouldn't contribute anything. I don't believe in Christmas.” Spencer Levon from Fatality, on the other hand, was a little more excited about the idea of a metal industry Christmas party; “metal heads are the best party'ers on Gods green earth, man. I would bring condoms, lighters, booze, a blow torch, blow up doll, sandwich meat, yo-yos, wonder woman costume, ice cubes, air guitar, mini trampoline, party hats, adult diapers, false teeth, and a jar of peanut butter.”

Read on.

The Fan-Sourced Radiohead Concert Film

Back in September 2011, Radiohead performed a show at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC.  A whack of fans from the Radiohead-crazy website, Ateaseweb, have put together this multi-camera film of the entire gig.  

The band helped out by giving the editors (whoever they are) a pristine soundboard recording.  The result is pretty damn cool.  (Via Gothamist)