“This song is called ‘You Never Loved Me’ — it’s another cheery, optimistic number,” says Aimee Mann, introducing the second of four songs in this Tiny Desk Concert. She has been writing songs on the human condition — more often than not with a strong sense of humor to underpin the inevitable melancholy — as far back as the ’80s, when she was the singer and bassist in Boston’s The Young Snakes. Mann’s newest solo record, the first in five years, is baldly called Mental Illness — clearly, there’s a deep honesty within these songs.
Thousands Of Photos From NASA’s Apollo Missions Are Turned Into An Animated College
In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first man-made object into earth-orbit. 3 years later Yuri Gagarin enters space as the first man in space. The so called “Space Race” seems to be decided. But in 1961 President Kennedy promised to send American Astronauts to the Moon. The Apollo Project was born. A space ship had to be built that is strong enough to escape earth’s gravitation, land on the moon and bring the crew safely back to earth. Motion Designer Christian worked with his brother and Composer Wolfgang for 18 months on this short film. The foundation were thousands original NASA photos, taken from the Astronauts during the Apollo Missions, which were released in September 2015. It is an animated collage using different techniques to bring the stills to life.
LUNAR from Christian Stangl on Vimeo.
Watch David Bowie Perform The Album “Low” For The Last Time In 2002
Here’s David Bowie, live at Montreux Jazz Festival, Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux, Switzerland on July 18 2002. The Low set at the Montreux Jazz Festival was captured on video with high-quality audio and video, and also the final time Bowie ever played the album Low live.
Music Archeology: Reviving the World’s Forgotten Records
For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultural heritage by “digging” for obscure music created by overlooked artists. These music “archeologists” are consumed by a desire to give these records a second chance at being heard and appreciated. In our digital age, these record-diggers also act as music curators and are crucial alternative voices to a contemporary culture often served by computer algorithms.
In addition, MIMS launched several ventures such as 24 Hours of Vinyl, numerous signature events and several music curation projects, including a weekly radio show. For the past 15 years, Alexis has been a pillar of the Montreal music scene as DJ Lexis. He is a music entrepreneur, a music programmer at Montreal’s Phi Centre and tours for worldwide DJ shows and festivals.
A History of Sampling with Chris Read of WhoSampled
DJ/Producer Chris Read gave students a journey into the history of sampling at a recent PB x Ableton event at Point Blank in London, covering the origins of hip-hop through to the use of samples in today’s pop music.
Aziz Ansari on ‘Master of None,’ Hosting ‘SNL,’ and Kanye Studio Session Stories
HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Emmy Award–winning comedian Aziz Ansari to discuss shooting the second season of ‘Master of None’ in Italy (5:00), taking intense Italian lessons (15:00), directing modern Woody Allen moments (24:00), improvising scenes in auditions (29:30), hosting ‘SNL’ for the first time (33:00), stand-up at the Comedy Cellar (38:00), living outside the internet outrage cycle (43:00), working with Lorne Michaels (48:00), the untimely passing of Harris Wittels (53:45), shooting the ‘Otis’ video with Kanye and Jay Z (1:04:00), listening to Kanye albums before their release (1:08:00), Kanye and Jay’s humorous side (1:12:00), the first time meeting Dave Chappelle (1:19:00), and the ‘Girls’ series finale internet controversy (1:25:00).
World’s fastest talking man sings Michael Jackson’s BAD in 20 seconds
John Moschitta, Jr., the world’s fastest talking man sings Michael Jackson’s BAD in 20 seconds.
Rick James’ Super Freak: Metal Edition
Musician and video maker Andy Rehfeldt took the Rick James hit Super Freak and reshaped it from disco funk to hard rock. It works better than you would expect.
Killer Mike Meets George Clinton
The 42-year-old rapper Killer Mike, of Run The Jewels, and the 75-year-old funk legend George Clinton, founder of Parliament and Funkadelic, may be from different generations, but it turns out they have a few things in common: They’ve both created music that seemed commercially risky at first, yet ended up transcending genres and creating a new audience. And they both embrace music as a force for social change.
It also turns out they’ve both owned barbershops — and that’s no coincidence. Both men say the businesses allowed them the financial freedom to take creative risks.
So NPR brought the two of them together at Killer Mike’s SWAG Shop — the Shave Wash And Groom Shop — in Atlanta. They settled in for a wide-ranging conversation that covers everything from barbershop philosophy to the birth of Funkadelic to Clinton’s work with Outkast and other members of the Atlanta hip-hop scene.
Electric Love Blueprint – A History of Electronic Music
Dorthy’s latest print is history of electronic music mapped out to the circuit board of a theremin, one of the world’s first electronic musical instruments.
Their Electric Love Blueprint celebrates over 200 inventors, innovators, artists, composers and musicians who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of electronic music, from the invention of the earliest known sound recording device in 1857 to the present day.
The print loosely groups genres, from the obscure Musique Concrète (Pierre Schaeffer) to the better known Krautrock (Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Neu! and Faust), Synthpop (Gary Numan, Human League and Depeche Mode) and Electronica (New Order, Massive Attack, LCD Sound System and Daft Punk).
Key pioneers featured include Léon Theremin, Bob Moog, Karlheinz Stockhausen, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, John Cage, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and our favourite innovating record labels Mute and Warp.
You can purchase it here.
