How to mess with your brain with M&Ms
This optical illusion will blow you away. Exactly 200 tiny handcut squares of paper placed at specific points on a checkerboard pattern make for...
U2’s Deal With Apple Pays Off Massively
Annoyed as some Apple customers may have been over being "force-fed" U2's new album last fall, the impact of the free release is still...
Fred Rogers’ Final Message to those who grew up with the Neighborhood
Shortly before he died 12 years ago, he recorded a brief video message to the adults whom he taught and grew up and older...
Leonard Nimoy Explains Origin of Vulcan Greeting
As part of the Yiddish Book Center Wexler Oral History Project, Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan hand signal used by Spock,...
A Rap Battle You Can Only Compliment Your Competitor
Don't Flop Entertainment organizes rap battles...with a twist. As most rap battles are insult-fests, this battle has a twist: you can only compliment your...
Stream “The UK Gold” Soundtrack Featuring Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Ninja, and Elbow’s Guy Garvey
“The UK Gold” follows the dramatic battle of a vicar from a small parish in the London Borough of Hackney as he goes head...
Jimmy Page On The Artist Who Most Changed His Life
Forty years ago this week, Led Zeppelin released the band's monumental sixth album, the double LP Physical Graffiti. This is a great time as...
That Time Dr. Timothy Leary Was A VJ On MTV
In 1987, Dr. Timothy Leary was hied by MTV to be a guest VJ. The good doctor had more than a few things to...
Born deaf, Christine Sun Kim uses technology, performance and drawing to study sound and spoken languages
Christine Sun Kim, deaf from birth, creates art at the intersection of sound, language, and music. From Medium:
Can you tell me about the various...
The Official Nintendo Character Manual From 1993
Blake J. Harris from Press The Buttons has offered up a very cool look at the inside of the official Nintendo Character Manual from...
Andy Kim Gets It Right When It Comes To Not Having Any Regrets
Andy, your career has stretched over decades, and you’ve been involved in so much pop iconography its sometimes hard to digest. So for you,...
Calgary to Host the 2016 JUNO Awards
The JUNO Awards “road trip” is saddled up and heading west as The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and broadcast partner...
Sharon Van Etten Gets It Right On Her Rules For Life And Music
Sometimes expressing emotions without holding back at all can be hard, because vulnerability can carry a stigma of weakness. Was that something that ever...
Viewpoint by Frances Moore on the benefits of Global Release Day
According to a statement from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents labels worldwide, a study found that a majority of...
“John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Live in 1967” Features Unreleased Live Recordings Feature John Mayall, Peter Green, John McVie and...
Forty Below Records announces an April 21 release date for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Live in 1967 (Never Before Heard Live Performances), a very...
