The documentary, George Michael: Freedom, premieres on Showtime on Oct. 21. This film isn’t a mish-mash of footage, either, as it completed before Michael’s death. The documentary focuses on the years after Michael’s solo breakout Faith, as he recorded and released the 1990 album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1.
Oreo Cookie Made A Vinyl Record Player That Looks Good Enough To Eat
Oreo is famous around the world as the brand that inspires people to see wonder everywhere.
But how about hearing wonder? Introducing Oreo Vinyl!
Yes, that’s right. An Oreo that plays music by replacing the classic embossing with grooves on the cookies surface that work as a vinyl record. The cookie company placed these music embossed Oreos in special Oreo Music Packs. Each cookie in the pack plays the Oreo anthem in a different musical style bringing wonder to their ears.
This is a real deliverable of Oreo Vinyl with Oreo Vinyl Record Player.
The Oreo cookie is tailor made for this project. They embossed the pattern and sound on the cookie to make it a readable one and a real eatable vinyl.
Borrowing the concept and mechanics of vinyl record, the data on the cookie is embossed with a mod which is made with laser cutting and engraving technique. And they wrote a program to transform the music into a pattern. After that, they made it into a laser-engraving friendly format and produce the mod for the Oreo Vinyl production.
A conversation with Archie Shepp about jazz, race, and culture
This is interview and lecture footage of jazz saxophonist and social activist Archie Shepp at Florida State University. Mr. Shepp comments on jazz music trends, poverty, politics, civil rights, culture and society. The interview segment is conducted by newscaster Lucius Gant.
Gene Simmons Says There’ll Never Be Another Beatles
What music moves you the most?
My favorite kinds of tunes are the new pop tunes. I don’t know much of them, I mean Tame Impala is OK, but because there’s no such thing as the record industry anymore, because generations of fans have trained themselves to download and file-share and stream for free, the new guys of the world will never get a chance. So there will not be another Beatles. You can play the game, 1958 until 1988 is thirty years, Elvis, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Madonna, Prince, Jackson, U2, ACDC, maybe Kiss, and from 1988 until today, give me the new Beatles.
Do you stand by your statement a couple of years ago that rock is dead?
I’m going to ask you again, from 1988 until today, who’s the new Beatles?
I think groups like Pearl Jam and Radiohead…
Hold on, hold on hold on hold on. You’re talking to a big fan. If Thom Yorke walked down the street in Pasadena, what would happen?
I think a lot of people would be shocked and thrilled to see him.
I think you’re delusional. I’ve been with Dave Grohl when he was walking down the street and nobody knew, and he’s a big star. No, that’s not what a star is. Prince was a star. You could see him coming from a mile ahead. There are successful artists. Pearl Jam, by any standard, is very successful…how about this: more people would know Mötley Crüe walking down the street than Radiohead. Of course, I don’t mean they are better.
Look, the system is broken, and because the system is broken. New rock bands are very fragile. They’re like babies. You need to give them love and caring and give them a chance to come up with their better stuff so that they start with “Love Love Me Do” end up writing “A Day in the Life.” The same band. They had the time to mature and grow. But if they were living in their mother’s basement and had to work for a living, which is what’s going on today, it’s not going to happen. Yeah, rock is dead. Not that it can’t come back to life, but the business is dead. If the business is dead, rock is dead.
You know what’s not dead? Pop. Lots of pop divas, little girls buy the material. Black music, especially rap, their fans buy the music. Country, yup, their fans buy the music. Rock, no.
Haim Performing “Something To Tell You,” “Nothing’s Wrong” & “Right Now” In New Paul Thomas Anderson-Directed Video
The cool Haim adding drum circle and an intimate short film from Paul Thomas Anderson to do a few songs from their new LP Something to Tell You being recorded.
Behind The Vinyl: “The Cat Came Back” with Fred Penner
Canadian Family Entertainer, Fred Penner, came to the boom 97.3 studios to play “The Cat Came Back” on vinyl! Fred talks about how he found the song in an old Folk Songbook, how he adapted it, the recording of the song, the National Film Board Cartoon and more.
Watch A Young Pete Townshend Basically Playing Himself In 1968 Art-School Film
This is the Royal College of Art student film written and Directed by Richard Stanley, and was part of the UK Student Films at the International Film Festival in 1968. Lone Ranger was shot in South Kensington and Knightsbridge during January and February of 1968. It features a young Pete Townshend playing the part of a musician (basically playing himself), and Townshend who also wrote the films soundtrack in his studio on Edbury Street in Victoria in the same year.
Chilly Gonzales’ The Gonzervatory Is Open For Applications
Grammy Award-winning entertainer and composer Chilly Gonzales is CALLING ALL PERFORMING MUSICIANS! Join him in Paris for an all-expenses-paid trip to study at The Gonzervatory, an 8-day music performance workshop. Six selected students will get the chance to go to Paris for a week of intensive coaching, masterclasses and rehearsals, culminating in a public concert led by Chilly Gonzales himself.
The Gonzervatory is open to every musician 18 or older, from all parts of the globe, who write and perform their own material: composing instrumentalists, singer-songwriters, rappers, producers. Together we will explore Musical Humanism, audience psychology and what it means to be a performing musician in 2018.
Grammy Award-winning entertainer and composer Chilly Gonzales is CALLING ALL PERFORMING MUSICIANS! Join him in Paris for an all-expenses-paid trip to study at The Gonzervatory, an 8-day music performance workshop. Six selected students will get the chance to go to Paris for a week of intensive coaching, masterclasses and rehearsals, culminating in a public concert led by Chilly Gonzales himself.
The Gonzervatory is open to every musician 18 or older, from all parts of the globe, who write and perform their own material: composing instrumentalists, singer-songwriters, rappers, producers. Together we will explore Musical Humanism, audience psychology and what it means to be a performing musician in 2018.
At the Gonzervatory, students arrive to a Convocation Concert at Le Trianon theatre in Paris on Thurs. 26 April, 2018. Their first meeting with Chilly Gonzales will be … on stage! During the week, students will live together in the loft, a musical home created in partnership with Sonos. Each day starts with one-on-one coaching sessions with Gonzo, followed by afternoon masterclasses from special guests selected from his friends and collaborators. Each evening the students rehearse together, learning and practicing each other’s songs for the Graduation Concert also at Le Trianon on Friday 4 May, 2018. The experience, with all its inevitable struggles and triumphs, will be documented and shared with viewers all over the world. Livestreams of both of the concerts, daily video debriefs, as well as an online fanzine of photos, illustrations and essay pieces, will allow audiences to witness personal exchanges in real time and develop an emotional investment in the participants’ musical progress.
Chilly says, “Growing up, I had a complex relationship with studying music; I wanted to be inspired and challenged, not ‘taught’. Technical knowledge came quickly, but I struggled to express my feelings in a direct but playful way. I’ve seen so many trained musicians miss out on instinctive musical joy, while those who are self-taught don’t know how to systematically improve their skills. Musicians shouldn’t have to choose between fun and knowledge, it’s a false choice. The Gonzervatory is a place for young musicians to find and strengthen their musical voice, to journey deeper into the emotions and science of their art.”
Over the course of his career, Chilly Gonzales has pulled back the curtain on how music works.
On stage, his now classic ‘Major-Minor’ routine, where he plays Happy Birthday or Chariots of Fire in a minor key to demonstrate the emotional impact of each key, has the audience laughing and learning all at once. Another routine sees Gonzales select a member of the audience to join him on stage and, in less than 3 minutes, they write a spontaneous piece built on the simple repetition of 3 notes plus 1 tiny variation. His most recent tour saw him breakdown the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby in to its component parts, before using a string quartet as a real-life sampler to show how hip-hop, pop and classical music are not so distant relatives. The success of these concert routines led to production of the From Major to Minor live DVD, an hour-long masterclass concert where Chilly Gonzales deals with the principle elements of music theory, including rhythm (featuring special guests Daft Punk) and melody (featuring special guest Feist).
Chilly Gonzales’ teaching also takes the form of best-selling book Re-Introduction Etudes: 24 easy-to-master, fun-to-play piano pieces specifically designed to unlock musical mysteries for those who gave it up. The book is an antidote to the stale, cheesy, ‘rinky-dink’ repertoire most student pianists are forced to play, and aims to restore some fun into the learning process.
Gonzales’ most recent forays into education are through his Pop Music Masterclasses, in which he breaks down the musical elements of current and classic pop hits (Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie, Shake It Off by Taylor Swift, or Drake’s Hold On…) in 3-4 minute videos which have to date been viewed several hundred thousand times on YouTube, and the Apple Music Beats1 radio show Music’s Cool with Chilly Gonzales where his unique analysis introduces listeners the theory and the fun of entire musical genres through the work of one exemplary artist (Daft Punk for electronic music, Weezer for Indie Rock…) in a 2-hour monthly broadcast.
Through all of these endeavors, Chilly Gonzales gained a reputation as a “musical scientist” in addition to his renown as a composer and performer, penning several newspaper and magazine opinion pieces and being called upon by the likes of Apple Music’s Beats 1, BBC Radio 1 in the UK, 1Live in Germany, and the CBC in Canada to comment upon our ever-expanding musical universe. The Gonzervatory workshop is a result of all of the foregoing for the man whose mission it is to spread Musical Humanism: an ongoing and constant search for the techniques and aesthetics that connect musical eras and genres.
Velcro’s Lawyers Are Very, Very Upset At You. And Here They Are To Sing About It
Velcro Brand Companies legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO trademark correctly – because they’re lawyers and that’s what they do. When you use “velcro” as a noun or a verb (e.g., velcro shoes), you diminish the importance of our brand and our lawyers lose their *insert fastening sound.* So please, do not say “velcro shoes” (or “velcro wallet” or “velcro gloves”) – they repeat, “velcro” is not a noun or a verb. VELCRO is their brand. And you don’t want to make lawyers angry.
