There are very few songs I like to put on when the world continues to turn upside-down, or at the end of the year, than What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Raymond Crowe showed off his talents on an episode of the Australian television series, Spicks and Specks, as he performs the song using shadow puppets.
How to Break A Wine Glass Using Only Your Voice
Gus Johnson shows you how to break a wine glass using only the human voice. It’s been done before, but Gus has a different take on it.
Listen To The Final INXS Concert With Michael Hutchence
On the 20th anniversary of the singer’s death this year, hear the last songs INXS’ Michael Hutchence ever sang in public on September 27th, 1997 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Setlist:
Elegantly Wasted
New Sensation
Taste It
Time
Mystify
Heaven Sent
Searching
Disappear
Never Tear Us Apart
Need You Tonight
Mediate
Bitter Tears
Girl on Fire
Kick
Devil Inside
What You Need
Don’t Lose Your Head
Don’t Change
Suicide Blonde.
How’s that for a final song? Actually, so many song titles of INXS seem so eerie now.
Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Here’s 90-Minutes Of Music From K-Mart Radio
A large archive of K-Mart in-store music from the late 1980s and early 1990s has been digitized and put online by a former employee. You can find it here, and below is just a taste of what’s in store. Heh.
Short Cuts: The Best Songs Heard On December 27, 2017 From The Indie World
Nikö Blank
______ – (Pronounced “Blank”)
Nikö Blank is one of electronic music’s most buzz-worthy and prodigious young talents. His unofficial Flume “Never Be Like You” Remix, which reached the #1 spot on Hype Machine, at the time beating out official remixes of the track by Disclosure, Wave Racer and Teengirl Fantasy. ______ is a beautiful piece of work, for your heart, for your mind and for your soul.
Amplified
Location (Acoustic Cover)
A three-time Van’s Warped Tour veteran and perennial international songwriting contest finalist, Amplified has a clutch of compelling solo releases behind him. chalked full of his guitar squiggles and voice. If you dig Jack Johnson and SiriusXM’s Coffee House channel, follow him.
Murray Lake
Is This Goodbye Feat. Jamie Lidell
A few years ago, Murray opened a recording studio in Australia, and have had Theophilus London, Boys Noize, Anderson .Paak, MK & Freddie Gibbs record there. Murray may have taught these artists a thing or two – and this song with Super Collider;s Jamie Lidell leans a bit heavy towards Bowie, but that’s never a bad thing, either.
Jordan Pope
That Way
Jordan Pope is an independent rising rapper and singer from the Bay Area. With a unique background of having two siblings being born with disabilities, he has developed intense compassion for others, and I don’t know if I had to tell you this fact, but now that you do, you’ll take the spiritual and best moments of the song with that much more closeness. There’s nothing out of step here, and the playing on the song is gorgeous, really smooth and sexy.
Aura Blaze
Ripple (Grateful Dead cover)
This is one person? Seriously? Rhode Rachel does this whole song? I’m not the biggest Dead fan, but I’d love to see what he can do with a real freak-out song. He takes you back to the place where The Doors, Pink Floyd, and Strawberry Alarm Clock lived and newer artists like Tame Impala, The Black Angels, and Temples pick up the ball. If you ever meet Aura, he seems like the kinda guy you’d want to talk music with for hours.
Mezmah
X
Straight outta of London, United Kingdom, Mezmah sounds like they’re ready for fame with this personal escape into his real conscious. No outside pressures developing here, this is lit.
Nick de la Hoyde
Hold Me Close
Sydney, Australia based singer/songwriter/rapper Nick de la Hoyde began expressing himself through music when he was 16 while pursuing a professional, football career in Barcelona. Smart move. If he keeps this up, he can buy his own team shortly. Imagine Justin Bieber with The Chainsmokers hosting your party with Drake coming in for a few seconds to drop by.
LOWBORN
CRAZY
Spellbinding track for fans of Hedley, All Time Low, and other dark and enigmatic pop rock band from a punk rock and metal heart. Not quite hardcore, one of the great indie songs to come out this month.
NYT FOXES
Giants
Highly energized electro pop from essentially the solo vehicle for singer/songwriter Ben Lovas. 25 years ago, he would have opened for New Order as his big chance. Now, he can infiltrate the fanbase and let them know he exists, and I can’t wait to see how thrilled and excited they’ll all be.
Quarter From Tha Valley ft. Perelli2 and D Ruck
Believe Me
Straight from the studio to the dancefloor, a song like this gives newly-signed MC Quarter From Tha Valley the step above everyone else fighting for their shot. Contains such an irresistible chorus that we might be looking at him 10 years later, marveling at where it all began.
Edwin
Uncontrollable Pride
Not to be confused with the sometime lead singer of I Mother Earth, this duo has the smarts to get any songwriter back to the books for lessons. All that’s needed from this song are a fee ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ and you’ve got the best song of the summer, a little bit past the due date. Recommended if you like Tom Petty and George Harrison, and quite frankly, who doesn’t?
Listen To One Of The Last People To Play The Glass Armonica, Invented By Benjamin Franklin
Dean Shostak is one of last true masters capable of playing the glass armonica – an enchanting instrument lost to time. First devised in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, the art of “playing glass” began to fade in popularity as musical fashions changed. Today, there are only eight glass armonica players left in the world. Along with the revival of the armonica, Shostak is also reintroducing an entire family of glass instruments, including the glass violin, the crystal hand bells and the French Cristal baschet.
A history of hip-hop mapped out to the circuit diagram of a classic turntable
The art company Dorothy‘s Hip-Hop Love Blueprint celebrates over 700 MCs, DJs, producers, turntablists, musicians, graffiti artists, b-boys and b-girls who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of hip-hop, from pioneers such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash to present day chart success stories Kendrick Lamar and Drake, and global superstars Jay-Z and Kanye West.
The print pays homage to the godfathers of hip-hop (Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets) but takes its starting point as DJ Kool Herc’s Back to School Jam in August 1973 – a block party in the Bronx, New York which is widely regarded as the birthplace of hip-hop.
The print weaves it way through many different scenes and record labels including early old-school innovators (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Cold Crush Brothers), golden age heroes (Run–DMC, Beastie Boys, KRS-One, Eric B. & Rakim), the collective Native Tongues (De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Monie Love), politically charged hip-hop (Public Enemy, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Lauryn Hill), legendary East Coast artists (The Notorious B.I.G, Nas), legendary West Coast artists (Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre), gangsta rap (Ice-T, N.W.A, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg), hardcore (Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep), Southern rap (Lil Wayne, T.I., Outkast) underground hip-hop (Company Flow, MF Doom, Aesop Rock), turntablism (Invisibl Scratch Piklz, The X-Ecutioners), trip-hop (Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead), UK grime (Wiley, Skepta and Stormzy) and legendary producers (DJ Premier, J Dilla and Madlib).
The print also salutes the b-boys and b-girls (New York City Breakers, Rock Steady Crew) and the graffiti artists who are intrinsically linked to hip-hop culture (Blade, Futura 2000, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink).
Roland MT-80S, The Boombox That Plays Floppy Disks
Mat Taylor of the Techmoan YouTube channel took a look the Roland MT-80S, a portable music player from the late 1990s that plays music stored o 3.5″ floppy disks.
How Fleetwood Mac Makes A Song
A deconstruction of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” off their masterpiece 1977 album, Rumours.
Deaf People Teaches You Bad Words
I’ve been around hearing-impaired people for most of my life. There’s something pure and gracious in their happiness, and until I saw this video, I realized, I’ve never heard or saw a deaf people swear in sign before.