South African LEGO master James Cawood recreates the iconic black-and-white video for Oasis’s Wonderwall without any fighting from Liam or Noel Gallagher in sight.
There’s Now A Stranger Things Monopoly Game
Hasbro and Netflix have released a Stranger Things edition of the popular board game Monopoly:
In this Monopoly game inspired by the Netflix Original Series, Stranger Things, Will Byers has gone missing. Players choose an 80s-inspired token or one “ripped from the Upside Down” to move around the board trying to find him. Pretend to search the town of Hawkins and buy, sell, and trade locations and vehicles from the show. The game includes Walkie-Talkie and Blinking Lights cards, replacing Community Chest and Chance cards, while Forts and Hideouts replace houses and hotels. Who will win the game and avoid getting trapped in the “Upside Down?”
Includes gameboard, 8 tokens, 28 Title Deed cards, 16 Walkie-Talkie cards, 16 Blinking Lights cards, 32 Forts, 12 Hideouts, 2 dice, money pack, and game guide. Ages 14 and up. For 2 to 8 players.
You don’t even have to travel to the Upside-Down to get it here.
Here’s Metallica Doing Master Of Puppets Jazz-Style…Wait. What?
Los Angeles-based musician Andy Rehfeldt adds his own jazz spin on Metallica’s 1986 song Master Of Puppets, and now where is their Pulitzer Prize?
Ellen DeGeneres presents Planet Earth II: Coachella
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