Metallica’s production crew Rob Koenig, Gene McAuliffe and Michael Petite talk about the visual system of the band’s WorldWired Tour at Olympiahalle München.
Second City Toronto and YMCA Academy to provide high school credit improv classes for teens with autism
The Second City Toronto is proud to be teaming up with The YMCA Academy to create a set of customized improv classes for Toronto high school students on the autism spectrum. The program will provide students from the YMCA Academy — an alternative high school for teenagers with learning disabilities — with a structured, professionally-led series of classes to help meet their Ontario high school credit requirements and subsequent graduation.
Throughout the second half of 2018, the Second City Training Centre will host four seven-week classes during school hours, with ten students per class. The sessions will be taught by the Second City Training Centre’s Cassie Barradas, a certified teacher with experience delivering improv to people of all abilities. The innovative method used in these classes has been featured in The Canadian Press and on CBC Radio.
Information About the YMCA Academy
The curriculum will enable students on the autism spectrum to complete the following high school credits: Drama grade 9-11, Integrated Arts grade 9-10, and Creating in the Arts grades 11-12. Over seven weeks, it will create a safe place for students of varying ages to explore the following topics through improv:
• Making choices
• Accepting and building on others’ ideas
• Exploring emotions and creativity
• Developing a positive attitude in class toward peers, teachers and the art form/process
• Heightening listening and focussing skills
The Second City Training Centre: Part of the iconic Second CIty comedy empire, The Second City Training Centre is the foremost school of improvisation-based arts in the world, offering classes for kids through seniors at every experience level. Currently enrolling more than 11,000 students annually at its facilities in Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, and online, the faculty is composed of working professionals in their areas of expertise and alums of The Second City. Past students of The Second City Training Center include Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Keegan-Michael Key, and many more comedy giants.
Guitarist Performs Classical Guitar Cover Of ‘Jurassic Park’ Theme Song While Wearing The Best Costume
And now, here’s Jurassic Park on guitar.
Penn & Teller Give A Lesson In Misdirection In Magic
The Longest-running Las Vegas act in history, Penn & Teller, impresses Jimmy Fallon and the Tonight Show audience with a vanishing chicken and a lot of misdirection.
Video: The Time Michael Jackson’s Friend Closed Down The Entire Mall So He Could Go Shopping
Michael Jackson’s friend who owned a mall had a section of the mall closed for a entire day so he could experience shopping without being attacked by fans. The day was complete with people who would pretend as if Michael Jackson was just another shopper, bringing some normalcy to the pop singer’s life.
Donald Glover and Rashida Jones Team Up For Time’s Up PSA
The Time’s Up movement has released their PSA, aiming to help people understand how they should – and shouldn’t – engage in the workplace. Directed by Rashida Jones, the animated short features Donald Glover as narrator, and teaches just how to act in the workplace.
How Steve Lillywhite Helps KFC Sell 600,000 CDs A MONTH…In Indonesia
Since 2016, renowned British record producer Steve Lillywhite has been running Jagonya Music & Sport, a company that places music in Indonesia’s Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.
KFC Indonesia sells around 600,000 CDs a month, making it a huge player in the Indonesia music industry. Music Ally spoke to him to find out more about this unique story of chicken and music.
How did KFC end up selling CDs?
The family of my boss [Ricardo Gelael, director of PT Fast Food Indonesia] owns all the franchises of KFC in Indonesia. Indonesia is a 90% Muslim country, so there is no pork. Beef is not really part of their tradition, so chicken rules. They know chicken like the French know foie gras. KFC is eight out of 10 people’s favourite fried chicken.
KFC is a destination restaurant here. A lot of the stores have stages for music and a lot of them have kids’ playgrounds. And they have tweaked certain things to go with Indonesian culture: they serve it with rice, they serve a spicy one, as well as the original. They do a whole load of different things, but it is still KFC; it still has Colonel Sanders. Because of the music connection, it has this slight feel of music, cool and chicken.
About eight years ago, my boss’s brother [Fabian Gelael] was running the company and he decided to start bundling CDs with chicken. This was a ridiculous concept, but when you live in Indonesia you get the sense of the ridiculous here. And it really took off. People have said to me, ‘Like Starbucks?’ And I have said, ‘No it is not like Starbuck’s because the point-of-sale person takes your order and says, “Would you like a CD with that?” So it is actually suggested selling.
We have a maximum of 10 or 11 CDs at any one point to choose from. And you can either basically just buy a CD, like in a record store, or you can buy it slightly discounted and bundled with your meal. Around 98% of our CDs are bundled with chicken. It’s not like record stores are coming back, but people now have this incredible connection with KFC and music.
My boss’s brother left the company and then my boss took over both the chicken and the music side. And he realised that two-and-a-half-years ago, when he took over, that we know distribution is king. All the record stores in Indonesia, like the rest of the world, were closing down. So he was the only record store in town. But they were making not a great slice of the pie because they were just distributing record companies’ [music]. So he brought me in to make the company go directly to artists. To make it more like a record company, with its own record stores.
We sell the best music in Indonesia. We are known for the best chicken, so we like to have the best CDs. Other chicken companies, because it was so successful, have started selling CDs. But they sell about 40,000 a month across their stores. We sell close to 600,000 every month. We are the Manchester United of CD sales!
So he [Fabian] brought me in to do deals directly with artists. My team and I decide what CDs are put in the stores. This is a big thing. You can sell half a million or 600,000 CDs of your artist. It is a big chunk of change for the artists with the royalties. Everyone is trying to get me to release their CD and I have to decide what is releasable. I have to think of things for the whole family, which is great fun. I came up as a rock producer, but I am not really releasing any rock albums. All the content is local. I have just introduced DVDs, which are huge. Kids DVDs and I put old movies together and make a DVD bundle. I can have some fun with it.
I go to the artists and I offer them basically a better deal than if they are with a record label. A lot of the big artists are still signed to the big record labels and I am not just talking about Sony. They are on big labels in Indonesia that have been stalwarts of the Indonesian music scene for the last 30 or 40 years [including Musica Studio’s, Trinity Productions and Aquarius Music]. About 50% of my product is the ones that I deal with directly. And 50% is what I pass on from the major labels.
Ray Davies on Kinks reunion, getting shot, history, musical telepathy and Brexit
Even if you don’t remember the Kinks, you’ll know the songs, from Lola to Waterloo Sunset. They’ve been covered so many times and have made Sir Ray Davies one of Britain’s defining songwriters. Still recording aged 74, his latest solo album Our Country: Americana Act 2 is the second part of a musical diary about his love affair with America. Channel 4 went to meet him at his studio today, and just as they started the interview, Ray Davies’ phone rang. It was his old Kinks band mate Mick Avory.
Watch: Robert Plant’s “New World” Featured in Shepard Fairey Video
Artist Shepard Fairey has shared a video featuring Robert Plant’s song “New World,” from his new album, Carry Fire, and images by Fairey and fellow artist Ernesto Yerena inspired by photographs by Aaron Huey.
“Every day our senses are assaulted by the ridiculous,” writes Plant. “It’s not so long ago that today’s plots and wrangles between nation governments would seem too far-fetched to inspire a Hollywood blockbuster. The perversions and struggles leave a shadow over the spirit of the people and the land. It’s not an original sin. Every era bears the burden of chaos and warmongering. Time immemorial.
“‘New World’ is a comment on a recent history of conquest and submission. How fitting that Shepard Fairey, Aaron Huey, and Ernesto Yerena complemented our music in such a way. They are artists of great conscience and sensitivity. I’m most grateful. I’m also pleased to add my support to Honor the Earth.”
The Doors Set For 50th Anniversary Reissue Of ‘Waiting for the Sun’ With Unreleased Songs
The Doors released their third studio album, Waiting For The Sun, in July 1968. It was the band’s third platinum album in less than two years, and the first to top the album chart. Since its debut, the album has sold millions of copies around the globe and contributed to the Doors’ legendary canon, including the #1 smash, “Hello, I Love You.”
To commemorate the 50th anniversary The Doors will release WAITING FOR THE SUN: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION. This 2-CD/1-LP collection features a new version of the album’s original stereo mix on both CD and 180-gram vinyl LP, which has been newly remastered from the original master tapes by Bruce Botnick, the Doors’ longtime engineer/mixer. The set also includes a second disc of 14 completely unreleased tracks: nine recently discovered “rough mixes” from the album recording sessions and five live songs from a September 17, 1968 Copenhagen show.
While going through his archive, Bruce Botnick uncovered a cache of rough mixes from the sessions that hadn’t been played in 50 years. Botnick says: “I prefer some of these rough mixes to the finals, as they represent all of the elements and additional background vocals, different sensibilities on balances, and some intangible roughness, all of which are quite attractive and refreshing.”
When the Doors recorded Waiting For The Sunin 1968, they were among the first bands to use Dolby A301 noise reduction processors, which was cutting-edge recording tech at the time. Similarly, the most advanced sound recording innovations were used to make the anniversary edition of Waiting For The Sun. The new release has been encoded with the MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) process. An MQA disc plays back on all CD players as standard CD quality. But if a conventional CD player is connected to an MQA-enabled device, it can play the same disc back at its original sample rate.
WAITING FOR THE SUN: 50thANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing
Disc One
Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Summer’s Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
The Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, The River Knows
Five To One
Disc Two (All Tracks Previously Unreleased)
Rough Mixes
Hello, I Love You
Summer’s Almost Gone
Yes, The River Knows
Spanish Caravan
Love Street
Wintertime Love
Not To Touch The Earth
Five To One
My Wild Love
Live In Copenhagen
The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
Hello, I Love You
Back Door Man
Five To One
The Unknown Soldier
180g LP (Remastered Original Stereo Mix)
Side One
Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Summer’s Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
The Unknown Soldier
Side Two
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, The River Knows
Five To One