Ellen DeGeneres prepares for Coachella with a parody of BBC’s nature documentary series Planet Earth II, in which a David Attenborough-like voice narrates the actions of a drunken festival goer.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea Announces New Memoir, Acid For The Children
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating life story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you’d expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star.
Acid For The Children gets released September 25, 2018, and you can preorder it here.
Footage from DJ Shadow’s home studio in 1995
DJ Shadow, the legendary mixmaster, first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut studio album, Endtroducing…… released in 1996. He has a personal record collection of over 60,000 records, and in this clip, he takes us inside his recording studio.
Here’s Sleater Kinney playing songs from “Call the Doctor” in the back of a record store, 1997
Call the Doctor, the second studio album by Sleater-Kinney, was released on March 25, 1996 to critical acclaim. The album was written in three weeks and recorded in four days. According to singer and guitarist Corin Tucker, the writing was inspired by a “crap” job she had and how people are “consumerized and commodified” by society. Don’t listen for a bass player on the disc, there isn’t one. As Tucker explained, “We started writing songs with two guitars, and we liked the way it sounded. It gives us a lot of freedom to write these lines that go back and forth.”
Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written
The life of one of the world’s most ubiquitous rock n’ roll anthems – the song that every teenager bangs out on their first guitar – stretches far beyond the Kingsmen’s definitive version and “Animal House.” As performed by the Kingsmen, and as it began tearing up the charts “Louie Louie’s” ambiguous lyrics became the target of a lengthy FBI investigation. By this point, its writer Richard Berry had already sold the rights to this soon to be national phenomenon in order to buy an engagement ring. But the song comes back into his life later in a most spectacularly 1980s fashion.
Ever Wonder How Green Day’s “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” Would Sound Like From 1980s? Here You Go.
Johan Olsson takes popular songs and imagine what they would have sounded like had they been made in a different decade. Here, he uses Green Day’s Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and puts it squarely in 1985 and on the Footloose soundtrack.
Beyonce Wins Coachella Social Media, Bieber’s Punch-Out Trending 5.9 Million Mentions of Coachella in Past Week
While Coachella is first and foremost a music festival, the bringing together of so many music and Hollywood celebrities also means that drama can be on the plate. And social media keeps a close eye on Coachella, with more than 5.9 million social posts mentioning the festival over the past week, according to social media analytics firm Talkwalker.
And the clear winner of social mentions during this first weekend of Coachella was Beyonce, with 2.8 million mentions – far outpacing the second most mentioned celebrity The Weeknd with 116K mentions, Talkwalker reported. Beyonce was the first black woman to headline the festival, reflected here in the list of top themes around Coachella.
Beyonce also won the hashtag battle, with #beychella leading all hashtags with 2.4 million mentions, beating out the simple #Coachella hashtag (1 million). In addition #Beyonce was fourth most trending with 61K mentions.
And it doesn’t stop there. Queen Bee also had one of the top trending emojis with the “bee” emoji being the fourth most used in relation to Coachella with more than 81K uses, behind only more generic emojis like crying happy face and fire.
Another music star who got a lot of attention on social media – but not for his singing – was Justin Bieber, who met the Walmart Yodel Kid and punched another man who was reportedly getting violent with a woman at a party.
Bieber was mentioned 114K times.
Overall top celebrity mentions include:
– Beyonce – 2.8 million
– The Weeknd – 116K
– Justin Bieber – 114K
– Vanessa Hudgens – 67.8K
– Maria Carey – 51.7K
Coachella social media wasn’t without its surprises. Among the top surprises of the first weekend were:
– Destiny’s Child reunion – 298.7K mentions
– And that “Yodel kid” didn’t just meet Bieber, but his making a surprise appearance made him a social star for the second week in a row, being mentioned 222.3K times
A Little Help with Carol Burnett: Instagram 101
Netflix has announced that A Little Help with Carol Burnett will premiere on May 4, 2018. Netflix will release all 12 half-hour episodes at once.
Carol Burnett is back. In this funny and endearing series, she will be joined by a group of the most honest and unfiltered people in the world – a gaggle of straight talking, entertaining 5-9 year old kids. These very opinionated “experts” weigh-in on a variety of relatable and humorous dilemmas brought in by everyday adults. Each episode will feature a celebrity contributor brave enough to bring in their own dilemma for the kids to comment on in front of a live audience. The show is co-hosted by comedian Russell Peters.
Celebrity guests include Julie Bowen, Candace Cameron Bure, Mark Cuban, Billy Eichner, Taraji P. Henson, Derek Hough, DJ Khaled, Lisa Kudrow, Brittany Snow, Wanda Sykes, and Finn Wolfhard.
Watch Noel Gallagher’s “Who Built The Moon?” Mini-Documentary
Discogs has teamed up with Noel Gallagher to introduce an exclusive mini-documentary delivering a behind the scenes look at the recording of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 2017 release Who Built The Moon? The mini-doc features Gallagher with Producer David Holmes, Engineer Ernre Ramazanoglu, and Guitarist Johnny Marr traveling with Gallagher as he takes a very different path to recording his third studio album, Who Built The Moon?.
Insight into Gallagher’s affection for FX Pedals alongside Johnny Marr’s tales of meeting Gallagher at Man City matches between breaks from tour humanize both Britpop heavyweights and reveal the determination that Gallagher wrenched in creating Who Built The Moon? with Producer David Holmes.
Andre-Philippe Gagnon Returns to Western Canada With His New Show “The History Of Rock And Roll”
Known as the man of a thousand voices, André-Philippe Gagnon returns to Alberta and Saskatchewan to perform his brand new show “The History Of Rock And Roll”. Gagnon borrows the famous voices of vocalists from around the world to showcase the music of the last sixty years. He brings together artists who have shaped the soundtrack of our lives – including Elvis, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson for one unforgettable evening of music and comedy.
Gagnon has played to sold-out audiences around the world for over three decades. He can perform note-perfect impressions of the signing voices of many of the world’s most celebrated singers. A Quebec native, Gagnon first hit international success in 1985 when he participated in the famed Just for Laughs festival, performing his version of the famine-relief anthem “We Are the World,” doing every singer on the song: 18 famous voices in one composition. It became Gagnon’s signature number, which he performed on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and in sold-out concerts around the world, from New York to Paris to London to Switzerland.
Gagnon has entertained audiences in over 11 countries, performing more than 3,500 shows, in front of over 5 million people. He has broken box office records, toured with Celine Dion and won international critical acclaim. Gagnon also had a decade-long residency at the prestigious Casino Venetian in Las Vegas playing to packed houses six nights a week and being named “Vegas’ Best New Act”.
ANDRÉ-PHILIPPE GAGNON: THE HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL
MAY 24 – SASKATOON – TCU PLACE – SID BUCKWOLD THEATRE
MAY 25 – MEDICINE HAT – ESPLANADE ARTS AND HERITAGE CENTRE
MAY 27 – LETHBRIDGE – ENMAX CENTRE
MAY 30 – RED DEER – MEMORIAL CENTRE
MAY 31 – GRANDE PRAIRIE – DOUGLAS J. CARDINAL ARTS CENTRE
JUNE 1 – EDMONTON – CASINO YELLOWHEAD
JUNE 2 – FORT MCMURRAY – KEYANO THEATRE