Haunting, poetic and definitely far out are just a few of the ways to describe the first music video actually sung and recorded 240 miles from Earth in outer space.

The Star Man would be proud.

During his five-month orbit, real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield filmed himself singing the vocals to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” inside the International Space Station. “Ground control to Major Tom,” he croons eerily while our marbled blue planet drifts by behind him, and, “Here am I sitting in a tin can,” as he literally floats weightless inside the cylindrical capsule.

So he can pilot a space station. But even more incredible, he’s actually a good singer. Is there anything astronauts can’t do?

Turns out Hadfield sings in several bands down here on terrafirma. And it doesn’t hurt to have an actual former Bowie band member, Emma Gryner, backing him up. She and a producer, filmmaker and Bowie himself were in on the project before Hadfield launched into space, according to British publication The Independent.

“CHRIS HADFIELD SINGS SPACE ODDITY IN SPACE! ‘Hallo Spaceboy…’”, Bowie tweeted this week.

Watch the video below and if you like it, store it in your MyMusicCloud video library. Our cloud-based music delivery service plays your videos and music on nearly any device, anywhere (except maybe space).

Want more songs about spacemen? Check out our cosmic playlist here.

If the thought of singing ABBA hits like “Dancing Queen” and “Waterloo” alongside lifesized holograms of the blonde supergroup fills you with glee, then the new ABBA museum is your disco-dancing dream.

ABBA groupmember Bjorn Ulvaeus is the mastermind behind the new pop music wonderland, which features their glittery costumes, a ‘70s disco dance floor where you can practice your moves, a recording studio where you can audition to be a “fifth” member, and a special red telephone set up just to accept surprise calls from real-life ABBA members.

This week, Bjorn, who also helmed the super-popular musical “Mamma Mia!”, showed off the permanent ABBA exhibit to reporters at its new home in the Swedish Music Hall of Fame. That’s right, the ABBA museum is located in Stockholm, ABBA’s hometown.

Named after each of the singers’ first initials, ABBA formed in 1972 and began churning out hits like “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”, “Fernando,” “S.O.S.”, “Take a Chance on Me” and “Super Trouper” for nearly a decade.  But the seemingly happy group was plagued with heartbreak. Bjorn married and divorced fellow singer Agnetha Faltskog, and Benny Andersson split with partner Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad.

Yet somehow their harmonic hits always seem to exude joy and optimism. Got a favorite ABBA song you love? You can find all their hits in our MyMusicCloud music store. But here are a couple of our favorites …

Coachella 2013’s sweaty two-weekend launch in a Southern California polo field officially kicked off this year’s summer music festival season.

While it didn’t boast a Tupac Shakur hologram or even a much-rumored cameo by electronic dance music faves Daft Punk, this year’s Coachella still delivered. The trippy music marathon featured rhythmic shows by 60 performers such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Baauer, Blur, British electro-pop unit Disclosure, the Stone Roses, and Phoenix.

There was even a Wu Tang Clan reunion, a new EDM tent featuring Bassnectar, and a musical collaboration by Fall Out Boy and 2 Chainz. So where were the helmet-wearing lads of Daft Punk? Brooklyn apparently. Phoenix’s ultra-hyped surprise guest turned out to be crooner R. Kelly instead.

Despite that, the most viral video to come out of Coachella is a Jimmy Kimmel stunt mocking hipsters who pretend to know made-up bands like “The Chelsea Clintons” (see bottom of post). But for music fans, there’s still plenty of “authentic,” live concert fun coming up around the country.

Here are 5 of this summer’s best U.S. summer music festivals with some of their headliners. (Europe’s top 5 to come in an upcoming post.) So grab your body paint and check out:

Bonnaroo (June 13-16 in Manchester, TN) Bjork, Billy Idol, Japandroids, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Mumford & Sons, Of Monsters and Men, Tame Impala, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Wu-Tang Clan. http://www.bonnaroo.com/

2013 CMA Music Festival (June 6-9 in Nashville, TN) Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Kelly Clarkson, Hunter Hayes, Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, The Band Perry, Keith Urban, Zac Brown Band. http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-music-festival/2013/home

Electric Daisy Carnival (May 17-18 in Flushing, NY, May 24-26 in Chicago, IL, & June 21-23 in Las Vegas, NV) Various electronic artists including Afrojack, Armin Van Buuren, Bassjackers, Calvin Harris, Empire of the Sun, Kaskade, Eric Prydz, La Roux, Zeds Dead. (Check cities for lineups.) http://electricdaisycarnival.com/NewYork/

Lollapalooza (August 1-2 in Chicago, IL) Steve Aoki, Azealia Banks, Baauer, The Cure, Ellie Goulding, Icona Pop, The Killers, Lana Del Rey, the Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, The Postal Service, Tegan and Sara, Thievery Corporation, Vampire Weekend. http://www.lollapalooza.com/

(JAY-Z’s) Made in America (August 31-Sept. 1 in Philadelphia, PA) 2 Chainz, Beyonce, Calvin Harris, DeadMau5, Imagine Dragons, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Nine Inch Nails, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age, Wiz Khalifa. http://www.madeinamericafest.com/

Now, Watch Jimmy Kimmel’s Spoof of Coachella Hipsters …

The Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.”  Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”  Taylor Swift’s “Trouble.” Isn’t it funny that years after MTV abandoned music videos, they’re bigger than ever on YouTube?

If you grew up in the “I-Want-My-MTV” ‘80s, your favorite childhood songs are probably fused with those memories and more from Madonna’s “Vogue” or Journey’s “Separate Ways.” Now, you can share those and more with your kids (See, kids? This is what videos looked like in my day, heh.)

A super-cool, traveling art exhibit is giving music videos their due by showing over 300 of them along with props from some of the most iconic and outrageous.

The ship from Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight Tonight”? Yep.  Even the drawings from A-Ha’s 80s anthem, “Take on Me,” are all on display in “Spectacle: The Music Video.” And we can only imagine what the interactive “exhibits” by Radiohead and Björk contain.

“Spectacle: The Music Video” is now showing through June 16 at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, New York. It started in Cincinnati and is curated by Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells of the programming collective Flux.

So what do you think are the best music videos ever? Here are some groundbreaking ones, selected by our cloud-based music delivery service, MyMusicCloud, where you can store and play your favorite music and videos across almost any device.

Blackeyed Peas “Rock That Body”

Guns N Roses “November Rain”

Madonna “Vogue”

OK Go “Here It Goes Again”

The comedians at Barely Political are taking aim at top 40 music hit “Thrift Shop,” the silly and addictive song  by Seattle artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis about shopping for cheap clothes. The original video, featuring Macklemore and Ryan in fur coats, has been viewed on YouTube more than 210 million times. 

In this hilarious parody called “Pet Shop,” Barely Political mocks Macklemore’s appearance and mission as the singer goes shopping for pets, which are played by puppets.  Yes, puppets. “I’m gonna pet some cats and I got Snausages in my pocket,” he sings.

“Pet Shop” is April’s MyMusicCloud choice in our ongoing Viral Video Alert series. It’s fun for pet-lovers, puppetry fans and people just plain sick of Macklemore.

Speaking of viral videos, Korean YouTube sensation Psy released a new single this week, called “Gentleman.” The techno-heavy song includes puzzling new lines such as, “I am a party mafia!” and the refrain, “I am a mother father gentleman.” The music video is expected to drop any minute.

Did you know you can upload and store your own videos on our MyMusicCloud site? Make your own music parodies in any format, hit the Upload link on our dashboard and then watch them on your phone, tablet or notebook wherever you are.

Thanks for reading and enjoy Barely Political’s “Pet Shop” …

Were you excited — or just kinda meh — about the big Facebook Home announcement? To recap, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a super-sized, new Facebook phone app called “Home” with lots of new chat and home-screen features and a nifty, pre-loaded HTC phone you can buy for $99 on April 12.

It’s all super news for Android-based phone owners. But what about Apple, Blackberry, Windows and other non-Android-based OS phone users? Urm, hello? (Cricket. Cricket.)

“The core bits are just not possible,” Adam Mosseri, Facebook Home’s director of product, told reporters inquiring about Home’s iPhone compatibility.

Hmm. It’s rather like if our cloud-based music delivery system said, “Okay, all you Beliebers (Justin Bieber fans), you’re welcome to store, share and stream your fave Bieber tunes on our servers, but you Claymates, Maggots, Little  Monsters, TH Family, Parrot-Heads and everybody else? You’re on your own.”

Talk about a party-crasher.

Because we believe in a musi-ocracy, MyMusicCloud enables you to sync your music across all your devices, regardless of brand. Android, Apple, Blackberry, Microsoft — as long as it has a hard drive, you can share your music on it.

Start playing Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” on your Google tablet at home (I wear your granddad’s clothes, I look incredible…), pause it on the drive to your local vintage store, and then hit play on your iPhone and pick it up right where you left off (I’m in this big ass coat, from that thrift shop down the road …).

We’re guessing you probably like the phones, tablets, and other media-playing devices you already own, and don’t necessarily want to commit to one single platform for everything.

That’s why our apps sync it all across nearly every device. Listen for yourself Try MyMusicCloud out with 2 gigs of storage space – on us.

April Fool’s Day is Monday (you’re welcome, pranksters) and in honor of this illustrious holiday we’ve collected more of your Funniest Misheard Song Lyrics for the second installment in our LOL series.

In our first post, MyMusicCloud readers came up with misunderstood lyrics like See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen…  for Abba’s “Dancing Queen,” and Michelle ma belle, some say monkeys play piano well for The Beatles’ “Michelle.” (Read it here.)

This time, we received some even funnier phrases like, Some nights I stay up cussin’ in my bathtub, for Fun’s “Some Nights” and, Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, some with cankers, some with goiters, for Elton John’s “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters.”

But even if you’ve never sung, She was a fax machine, she kept her modem clean, to AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long,” you can still use the lyrics-finding feature on our amazing, cloud-based music delivery service to learn the words to your favorite songs.

Want to know what Justin Bieber’s really saying when he sings, I could be your Buzz Lightyear, fly across a goat? Just hit the Lyrics button while listening to the song on MyMusicCloud.com and it fetches the correct words for you instantly. Plus you can play, pause and re-start your music across nearly any device.

Without further ado, here are more of our readers’ Funniest Misheard Song Lyrics. (Share your own in the comments section at the bottom and we’ll publish it next time.)

10 Funniest Misheard Song Lyrics

10. BILLY JOEL “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Wrong Lyric: We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning, said the worst attorney.  Right Lyric: We didn’t start the fire, It was always burning, Since the world’s been turning.  – From Kandyce

9. FUN “Some Nights” Wrong Lyric: Some nights I stay up cussin’ in my bathtub.  Right Lyric: Some nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck – From Amanda

8. STEELY DAN “Hey Nineteen” Wrong Lyric: The Queer Won’t Go, To Find Colombia, Make Tonight a Wonderful Day  Real Lyric: The Cuervo Gold, The fine Colombian, Make tonight a wonderful thing  – From David

7. MAROON 5. “Moves Like Jagger”  Wrong Lyric: I got the moves like dragons! Right Lyric: I got the moves like Jagger!  – From Eeyoraus Earthmuffin

6. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER BAND “Bad Moon Rising” Wrong Lyric: There’s a bathroom on the right Right Lyric: There’s a bad moon on the rise … — From Howard

5. RIHANNA. “S&M”  Wrong Lyric:  ’Cause I may be fat, but I’m perfectly good at it… Right Lyric: ‘Cause I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it… – From Lisa

4. MEN AT WORK “It’s a Mistake” Wrong Lyric: It’s Summer’s Dayyyy. Right Lyric: It’s a Mistaaaake  – From Joe M.

3. CULTURE CLUB “Karma Chameleon” Wrong Lyric: Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on, Corneliaaaa! Right Lyric: Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon – From Julie

2. ELTON JOHN “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”  Wrong Lyric: Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, some with cankers, some with goiters  Right Lyric: Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, sons of bankers, sons of lawyers. – From Allen

1.  COLDPLAY “Paradise” Wrong Lyric: “He threw a paira paira paira dice.” Right Lyric: She’d dream of Para-para-paradise – From Alex G.

Psst — that whisper is the sun and sand calling your name. Time to dig out those bikinis and neon Ray Bans. Spring fever is here and with it that annual rite of passage for teens, twentysomethings and the perennially immature at heart – Spring Break.

So whether you’re headed to a sandy beach, white-water-rafting in Costa Rica, or just paddling around your home pool, enjoy your favorite music on the go thanks to our cloud-based music delivery service, MyMusicCloud.  Store 2 gigs of music free of charge in our cloud and play, pause, and replay your tunes seamlessly across almost any device, laptop, iPad, or smartphone.

Not sure where to start? We’ve gotten a head start on your Spring Break Song Playlist and compiled some of the sunniest pop and dance numbers burning up the charts. From Icona Pop’s beat-happy “I Love It” to Taylor Swift’s “Trouble.”  And of course, it’s not a party without a guy dancing in a motorcycle helmet to Baauer’s “Harlem Shake.” floating on an inner tube down a lazy river

Here’s our Spring Break Song Playlist countdown …

10. “Dancing on My Own” – Robyn

9. My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)  —  Fall Out Boy

8.  “I Love It” — Icona Pop

7. “Thrift Shop” — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz

 6. “Heart Attack” — Demi Lovato

5. “What Makes You Beautiful”  — One Direction

4. “Harlem Shake” — Baauer

3. “Troublemaker” –  Olly Murs featuring Flo Rida

2. “Sweet Nothing” — Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch

1.  “Trouble” — Taylor Swift

Austin’s annual barbecue and music brouhaha, South by Southwest 2013, is happening this week, and MyMusicCloud has your 3-minute highlights.

Rocker Dave Grohl delivered the music festival’s keynote speech, an honor previously held by legends like Bruce Springsteen, and in it, the Foo Fighters frontman dropped about 40 f-bombs, reflected on Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain’s death (“I was lost”) and declared: “‘Gangnam Style’ is one of my favorite effing songs of the last decade.”

Alrighty then.

Sick, tight, epic?  Whatever music superlatives you prefer, the list of bands playing SXSW is all of those, including Brit band Alt-J, Camera Obscura, the newly sober Green Day, cult favorites Haim, rapper Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Lion, Tegan and Sara, Iggy and the Stooges, Vampire Weekend and more. A hooded guy from the ‘80s (Prince, is it?) also announced he’s bringing the funk to SXSW on March 16.

But fueling much of the pandemonium at SXSW 2013 is Justin Timberlake’s retooled, artist-launching pad, MySpace, which has been hosting surprise, free concerts all week showcasing musicians like Flying Lotus, Kid Cudi, and Sleigh Bells.

For those of us not enjoying rhymes and ribs in Austin, here are 5 bands to add to your MyMusicCloud playlist and enjoy on your phone, tablet or any other device:

Icona Pop: For the ladies, this Swedish synth-pop duo is behind that pivotal dance floor scene in HBO’s trend-setting “Girls.”

Fear of Men:  U.K. band for those who enjoyed the jangly ditties of the Cranberries.

Fakuta: Chill out with Chilean Pamela Sepúlveda’s brand of dreamy space pop.

Kosha Dillz: This mad-skilled L.A. rapper kicks rhymes Hebrew style, yo.

Sleigh Bells: Grinding guitars and breathy female vocals packaged in a sexy Tarantino-esque duo.

Remember when singers were predictable and gave fans at least six months notice before releasing new music? Not anymore! There’s a new album release game afoot in 2013 apparently and it’s not for the snoozy.

We’re barely into March and so far Drake, David Bowie and Justin Timberlake have all announced surprise new music. MyMusicCloud is bringing you all the details here to keep you in the know:

Drake: This week, everyone’s favorite Canadian rapper announced on Twitter the release of the second track, “5 AM in Toronto,” from his upcoming album due out sometime late summer. On the Grammys red carpet in February, where he won Best Rap Album for Take Care, Drizzy also casually revealed the title for the new album, Nothing Was the Same.

David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust took the Webiverse by surprise in January when he announced on his Website that he’d be releasing his first album in 10 years called The Next Day. “Today he definitely has something to say,” his website read, revealing the single “Where Are We Now.” Bowie’s The Next Day comes out March 11 in the U.K. and March 12 in the states.

Justin Timberlake: After making the cryptic announcement, “I think I’M READY,” on Twitter Jan. 10 before posting a link to a YouTube video which showed him walking into a studio, his new album, The 20/20 Experience, finally drops on March 19. But first, JT is hosting “Saturday Night Live” again this weekend, March 9, on NBC.

Could that mean another surprise spoof video with “SNL” alum and music video collaborator Andy Samberg? Justin has actually won four Emmys for his “SNL” appearances, and his wild parody videos with Andy, like “D*** in a Box,” “J*** in My Pants” and “Mother Lover,” are always a hit on YouTube. See his funny “SNL” promos below and tune in Saturday night to find out.