Scrap Wood City transformed a cheap tennis racket into a fully functional 3-strong electric guitar. John McEnroe would love this!
25 Bass Guitars, 1 Solo…Wait…What?
Here’s musician Davie504 playing 25 different bass guitars from his collection to form a single, cohesive bass solo. Stick around for #24…
LEGO Women of NASA Hit Store Shelves Around The World Today
We are beyond excited to officially launch the LEGO Ideas 21312 Women of NASA to store shelves around the world.
The 231 element set designed by Maia Weinstock (20tauri) features 4 inspiring women of NASA as well as vignettes depicting their important contributions or areas of expertise in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The 4 women include astronomer and educator Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist and entrepreneur Margaret Hamilton, astronaut, physicist and entrepreneur Sally Ride and astronaut, physician and engineer Mae Jemison.
You can get your copy of the 21312 Women of NASA set from the LEGO Shop today for a recommended retail price of USD 24.99 / EURO 24.99* / GBP 19.99.
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real Set To Release New Studio Album “The Visitor” December 1
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real will release their new studio album The Visitor on Friday, December 1, 2017 in stores and via all digital music retailers. The vinyl edition will follow on on January 5, 2018. The digital pre-order grants an instant grat download of the new track “Already Great.”
When Neil Young entered Shangri La Studio with the band Promise Of The Real a few months ago, there were a lot of images and feelings careening around his soul. The country was heading in a direction Young had never seen, even though up until then he thought he’d seen it all. But something different was happening, and it had gotten inside his music. “I’m a Canadian by the way and I love the USA,” he sings on the first song “Already Great.” The ethos of The Visitor can be summed up in the refrain of “Already Great” where Young insists, “Already great, you’re already great. You’re the promise land, the helping hand. No wall. No hate. No fascist USA. WHOSE STREET? OUR STREET.” From those words, Neil Young was ready to take a musical journey on his new album The Visitor like he had never taken before. It was one where he’d even surprise himself, always the mark of a creative leap. By the end of the recording sessions, he knew he’d made his most diverse album going all the way back to Harvest in 1972, when America was also in the throes of becoming unhinged. Neil Young didn’t blink then, and he is not blinking now.
Listen below for “Already Great.”
The Visitor is an intriguing and always exciting peek into the mind and heart of one of rock & roll’s true seekers. Neil Young has wandered a wide path since coming to Los Angeles from Canada over 50 years ago. During those many decades he has established an immediately apparent individualism that cannot be predicted. Young has often said that when things become ordinary, he’s ready to shake things up and head for new ground. It has always been what marks Young’s music. His new songs, whether it’s a mashup of spoken word and rock & roll on “Fly By Night” or the heart-stopping beauty of “Forever,” once again ask listeners to stay open and ready for whatever comes through the open channels of the man and his unstoppable band.
Listening to an album like The Visitor is not unlike taking off on a cross-country trip without a map. There is no way to tell where the destination will lead or what will be encountered. At one moment the savage rock of “Stand Tall” lead into Caribbean and Latin musical strains rising through on “Carnival,” only to turn around to embrace the blues on “Digging a Hole.” There is also the modern funk-rock of “When Bad Got Good,” the anthemic “Children of Destiny” and the spirit-tugging strength of “Change of Heart” to ensure the musical travels remain full of wonder. With the unlimited ability of Promise of the Real, featuring Lukas and Michah Nelson along with Corey McCormick, Anthony Logerfo and Tato Melgar, the passionate power of their playing pushes the songs to maximum expression. There are very few rock bands now who can go to as many places as this outfit and always deliver their own distinct identity.
The closing song on The Visitor feels like a prayer for today and tomorrow. In “Forever,” Neil Young sings “Earth is like a church without a preacher, the people have to pray for themselves.” These lines, and everything else on this landmark release point to the future in a way that sounds the alarm for troubled times but at the same time offers hope that, once again, music can help lead the way to understanding and hopefully a better place.
Today Neil Young walks in his own footsteps, just as he has done since his first days venturing into neighborhood clubs in Canada when he was still a teenager. He has a guitar, he has a voice and he has songs that express a unique way of looking at the world. And once again he is ready to tell us where we’ve been and just maybe where we might be heading. By listening we can join together and share the challenges and find a way forward together. Once again.
See the full tracklisting below.
In 2015, Neil Young + Promise Of The Real released The Monsanto Years. It bowed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200, #4 on the Billboard Rock Albums Chart, and #2 on the Billboard Folk Albums Chart. It received acclaim from Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and more. They followed up The Monsanto Years with 2016’s live album, Earth. The Visitor is the next step on their collective journey together.
The Visitor Tracklisting:
Side 1
1. Already Great
2. Fly By Night Deal
3. Almost Always
4. Stand Tall
Side 2.
5. Change Of Heart
6. Carnival
7. Diggin’ A Hole
Side 3
8. Children Of Destiny
9. When Bad Got Good
10. Forever
A Charlie Brown Christmas On 180-Gram Vinyl Out November 17
Craft Recordings, the Catalog Division of Concord Music, is pleased to announce a high-end vinyl reissue of the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s beloved jazz album, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Due out November 17th, the LP will be released on 180-gram vinyl, and housed in an old-school style, tip-on jacket, featuring the rarely seen artwork from the original 1965 album. Lacquers for the album were cut by George Horn and Anne-Marie Suenram at Fantasy Studios, while the vinyl was pressed at Quality Record Pressings.
A Charlie Brown Christmas, certified 4X Platinum by the RIAA in 2016, is one of the best-selling jazz albums in history, second only to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue; and it’s no surprise: Guaraldi’s engaging score to the synonymous holiday television specialhas introduced generations of children and their parents to the joys of jazz music, with tracks like the instantly recognizable “Linus and Lucy,” and yuletide favorite “Christmas Time Is Here.” The album was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry five years later, and continues to be a perennial favorite, thanks to annual airings of the Christmas TV special.
A native of San Francisco, Vince Guaraldi became one of America’s most successful jazz artists during the course of his lifetime. Though Guaraldi’s legacy is most famously tied to his association with Peanuts, he was already an established, GRAMMY Award-winning artist by the time that producer Lee Mendelson tapped him to score the first of many animated specials based on the Charles Schulz-penned cartoons. In a 2003 interview, excerpted from the biography Vince Guaraldi at the Piano (Derrick Bang; McFarland Books), Mendelson declared, “There was no doubt in my mind that if we hadn’t had that Guaraldi score, we wouldn’t have had the franchise we later enjoyed.”
Track List:
Side A
1. O Tannenbaum
2. What Child Is This
3. My Little Drum
4. Linus & Lucy
5. Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)
Side B
1. Christmas Time Is Here (vocal)
2. Skating
3. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
4. Christmas Is Coming
5. Für Elise
6. The Christmas Song
Photo Gallery: Roger Daltrey at Niagara Falls’ Fallsview Casino
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What Do Kids Think About Disco Music? Here You Go!
It’s time for another segment from The Fine Brothers’ “Kids React” series! In this edition, a group of kids, ages 6 to 13, share their thoughts on classic disco hits from the 1970s. Can you dig it?
Thor: Ragnarok Gets A Low Budget Treatment Starring The Cast Of…Thor: Ragnarok
James Corden enlists the cast of “Thor: Ragnarok” to crash a screening of the film and perform a live-action rendition starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeff Goldblum.
Ozzy Osbourne Announces His Final World Tour
Five decades. 18,262 days. More than 2,500 shows. On his upcoming farewell world tour, Ozzy Osbourne -Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy winning singer and songwriter- will celebrate more than five decades as a performer (both as a solo artist and as lead singer of Black Sabbath which formed in 1968). This tour, expected to take OZZY around the world with dates into 2020, will mark the end of global touring for the legendary artist, though he will continue to perform select live shows.
“People keep asking me when I’m retiring,” OZZY says. “This will be my final world tour, but I can’t say I won’t do some shows here and there.”
The tour will kick off in 2018 with a show in Mexico, before heading to South America for OZZY solo shows in three countries. Next up, a six-week European leg of headlining solo dates and festival performances that’s set to launch Friday, June 1, 2018 in Moscow, Russia The beloved rock icon will subsequently headline a North American concert tour produced by Live Nation, details of which will be revealed in 2018.
His touring band will include guitarist Zakk Wylde, bassist Rob “Blasko” Nicholson, drummer Tommy Clufetos and keyboardist Adam Wakeman.
Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Tour Dates
5/5, Mexico — TBA
5/8, Santiago, Chile —TBA
5/11, Buenos Aires, Argentina — TBA
5/13, São Paulo, Brazil— TBA
5/16, Curitiba, Brazil — TBA
5/18, Belo Horizonte, Brazil — TBA
5/20, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — TBA
6/1, Moscow, Russia — Olympiisky
6/3, St. Petersburg, Russia — Ice Palace (Ledovi Dvorets)
6/6, Finland — TBA
6/8, Solvesborg, Sweden — Sweden Rock Festival
6/10, Donington, UK — Download Festival
6/13, Prague, Czech Republic — Airport Letnany
6/15, Paris, France — Download Festival
6/17, Italy — TBA
6/20, Halden, Norway — Tons of Rock Festival
6/22, Copenhagen, Denmark — Copenhell Festival
6/24, Dessel, Belgium —Graspop Metal Meeting
6/26, Krakow, Poland — Impact Festival
6/28, Oberhausen, Germany — König-Pilsnet Arena
6/30, Madrid, Spain — Download Festival
7/2, Lisbon, Portugal — Meo Arena
RIAA Announces 2017 Mid-Year Latin Music Revenue Statistics
Revenues from Latin music in the United States for the first half of 2017 were $115 million, up 44% versus the prior year. Latin music revenues comprised 2.9% of the total U.S. recorded music market, which totaled $4 billion in the first half of 2017. Streaming accounted for 82% of total revenues for the Latin market. Revenues from ad-supported streaming sources made up a disproportionately higher percentage of total revenues, while those from unit-based sales such as digital downloads and physical product indexed lower.