Jazzy video game cover band The OneUps just released a new album this week, and the Zelda-themed "I Do It For The Faeries" is a standout track. Be sure to also catch their groovy take on "One-Winged Angel" as well.

For more hit up The OneUps on Bandcamp.

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Turns out there's scientific truth to the proclamation "Music is my drug." The folks at AsapSCIENCE explain how music captivates, stimulates, and keeps us wanting more.

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Indie rockers Fort Atlantic have chosen a novel format for the release of their new self-titled album: an NES cartridge.

No, they're not a chiptune band, and the cartridge isn't actually playable -- it's actually just hiding a USB drive with the album on it -- but it's still cooler-looking than a CD.

The Fort Atlantic cartridge is available in a limited run of 50, but you can also get the music the old-fashioned way: via iTunes.

It's due out May 29.

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In a ruling delivered on Pi Day, a judge dismissed a copyright case alleging that one song infringed on another because they were both composed using the digits of pi, writing that "pi is a non-copyrightable fact."

Lars Erickson, composer of the 1992 "Pi Symphony," sued musician Michael John Blake over his piece, "What Pi Sounds Like," which was released on YouTube in honor of Pi Day 2011.

Although both pieces were created by assigning digits to musical notes, U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon ruled that the two were not sufficiently similar to find infringement — "for instance, its harmonies, structure and cadence are all different."

In his decision, the judge also wrote that "Mr. Erickson cannot use his copyright to stop others from employing this particular pattern of musical notes."

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