Ever wonder why some old songs sound outdated and others sound like timeless classics? Cheddar explains how the invention of the microphone changed the way vocalists sang love songs.
Drumming Great Bernard “Pretty” Purdie Teaches You How To Play The Legendary Purdie Shuffle
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie is known as a groove drummer with immaculate timing and makes use of precision half note, backbeats, and grooves. Purdie’s signature sixteenth note hi-hat lick pish-ship, pish-ship, pish-ship is distinct. He often employs a straight eight groove sometimes fusing several influences such as swing, blues and funk. He created the now well-known drum pattern Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum. Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin’s “Fool in the Rain”, the Police’s “Walking on the Moon”, and Toto’s “Rosanna” (Rosanna shuffle). Purdie plays the shuffle on Steely Dan’s “Babylon Sisters” and “Home At Last”.
The 1970 Television Debut of Kraftwerk Is Still Astonishing
Rockpalast presents for the first time the full-length Soester Concert from 1970, in which Kraftwerk performed as a trio (Ralf Hütter – Hammond-Organ, Klaus Dinger – drums, Florian Schneider-Esleben – flute) and left behind astonished faces. An absolute rarity and a treat for music fans.
Video: Every Place in Beatles Lyrics, Mapped, In Under 13 Minutes
Take yourself on a tour of lyric locations in The Beatles songs. From Eleanor Rigby’s gravestone in Liverpool to Abbey Road in North London, see the locations behind The Beatles lyrics throughout England, France, Russia, India, the United States, and more countries, covering 25,510 miles around the world.
What Those TV Test Patterns Were REALLY Doing
Remember when TV stations stopped broadcasting late at night and when they were off the air, they would commonly display a test pattern? I had no idea until now that each of the graphics were testing something.
Shut Up And Take My Money: The New VW Microbus Is Coming
A new ad for Volkswagen’s I.D. Buzz slated to enter production in 2022 as the long-awaited new version of the VW Microbus. The reference is to their iconic ad from the 60s.
Deepfakes: Imagine All The World Leaders Singing John Lennon’s Classic. Here You Go.
Here is a video of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Kim Jong Un, and other world leaders lip-syncing along to John Lennon’s Imagine. But it’s not. It’s by a company called Canny AI, which offers services like “replace the dialogue in any footage” and “lip-sync your dubbed content in any language”.
See? It’s fun now. But wait until the election year.
https://youtu.be/Lfa5WvqBSq4
Miley Cyrus…Errr.. Ashley O Kinda Covers Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like A Hole”
Watch the official music video for On A Roll, the latest single from best-selling artist Ashley O, or Miley Cyrus by her real life, that sounds a bit like Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like A Hole. Watch more of Miley and Ashley in the upcoming Black Mirror.
https://youtu.be/BTsW30Ur0sg
Paul McCartney Celebrates 10th Anniversary Of The Meat Free Monday Campaign
As the Meat Free Monday campaign celebrates its 10th year, the campaign, headed by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, is launching #MFMCountMeIn – a ‘loud and proud’ way to be part of a growing global movement.
The #MFMCountMeIn anniversary campaign aims to bring celebrities, businesses, not-for-profit groups, educational institutions and individual supporters together, to celebrate what people are doing on the meat free front and inspire even more people to get on board. A host of high profile supporters have already endorsed this, including Ringo Starr, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Joanna Lumley, Paul Rudd, Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Nealon, Ellie Goulding, Alicia Silverstone, David Walliams, Orlando Bloom, Beth Ditto, Alexis Gauthier, Livia Firth, Rosemary Ferguson, Ocean Robbins, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Dr Christiana Palmer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson – and many more are planning to join in the conversation today.
Meat Free Monday has come a long way since its launch in 2009, working with hundreds of schools, universities, restaurants and businesses, making an appeal at the EU Parliament, publishing The Meat Free Monday Cookbook, producing a documentary short, ‘One Day a Week’, etc. But these are critical times and there is still a long way to go.
The link between diet and climate change is now widely known and the science is clear: In 2018, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have just 12 years to stave off a huge climate crisis, with the food system identified as a major problem. Just last month, a stark report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services highlighted how one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction as a result of human activity including animal agriculture and industrial fishing. Young people across the world have been reacting to the lack of political action on climate by staging ‘climate strikes’, international group Extinction Rebellion has called on governments to take action and the UK Parliament has called a climate emergency.
Shopping habits have changed dramatically in the last ten years, with consumer demand leading to many new plant-based products now being available in shops and restaurants. According to research company Kantar Worldpanel, 150 million more meat free dinners were sold in January 2019 compared with the same month the previous year. And 21% of UK households have cut down on their meat intake, a shift due in part to campaigns like Meat Free Monday.
The meat free movement is gaining huge strides outside of the UK too with successful campaigns running in over 40 countries. Sid Lerner, Founder and Chairman of the ‘Meatless Monday’ campaign in the USA said: “Congratulations to Meat Free Monday on your 10th Anniversary! We at Meatless Monday are thrilled to work with a great global partner in our mission to help reduce meat consumption around the world. With our combined strength, we can effectively raise awareness that cutting meat one day week can benefit personal health and the health of the planet. We look forward to the next decade of partnership and growth with Meat Free Monday.”
Mônica Buava, manager of the Brazilian ‘Segunda Sem Carne’ campaign, which is also celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, said: “Brazil is one of biggest meat producers in the world but also has a very strong Meat Free Monday movement. In 2018 alone, 67 million vegan meals were served as a result of our partnership with the government of São Paulo.”
Norio Kojo, a Japanese Cabinet Official and campaigner from ‘Meat Free Monday All Japan’ highlighted how growing tourism, as well as the Olympics and Paralympics being held in Tokyo next year, has led to a growing number of restaurants and hotels offering meat and fish free options in Japan, and the Japanese Government itself is also involved. He said: “The Cabinet Office staff canteen offers a vegan lunch every Monday and Friday, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government staff canteen offers it every Monday. It can be said that such active attitudes of the central and local governments are accelerating private sector movements.”
David Yeung, Founder of ‘Green Monday’, based in Hong Kong, said: “On behalf of the Green Monday organisation, we would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the 10th anniversary of Meat Free Monday. Thanks to the vision and leadership of the McCartney family, this movement has grown globally and is generating enormous impact. We are honoured to be partner of MFM on this global mission, and we sincerely look forward to further collaboration in catalysing more change especially here in Asia.”
Meat Free Monday has a new logo, with a personal touch from Paul McCartney, and hopes its fresh and fun anniversary campaign will inspire people to become part of the movement, or, if already supporting, reduce their meat and dairy consumption even further. Please join in online using the hashtag #MFMCountMeIn.
BTS’ Isolated Vocals For “Fake Love”
BTS’s Fake Love debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 with 29,000 digital sales, becoming BTS’s first top ten entry and the highest-charting song by a Korean group in the US. YouTube’s official tally saw the Fake Love music video garner a total of 35.9 million views within 24 hours of its release, breaking BTS’ previous record for most viewed K-pop group music video within the first 24 hours, and making it the third most watched music video within the first 24 hours in 2018. It accumulated over 3.9 million likes in the same 24 hour period, making it the most liked music video in a single day, beating its predecessors DNA and Mic Drop, which both gained 2.3 million likes each. Fake Love went on to cross 100 million views in just eight days, eight hours and 45 minutes, beating the group’s previous record with DNA, which hit 100 million views after 24 days.
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