The White Stripes has always been one of the most interesting bands to Film Radar, not only for their incredible music but the effort they put in to each music video. Michel Gondry has directed five videos for the band to date, in this video, they cover three of them – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Fell in Love With a Girl, and The Denial Twist. The video talks about how each video was filmed, and how challenging one’s self within constraints often leads to an artist’s best work.
Our synths weigh a ton: Inside Stones Throw Studios with Peanut Butter Wolf and Karriem Riggins
Just imagine what could happen in a studio where Madlib, Dâm-Funk, Egyptian Lover, Karriem Riggins and NxWorries might just pop by? That’s the new Stones Throw Records studio for you.
Table Reading Of “I Am McLovin'” Scene In Superbad Is Just As Funny As The Real Take
A hilarious bit of behind-the-scenes footage from the 2007 still-hilarious commedy Superbad. Watch Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera deliver a table readthrough of the classic McLovin fake ID scene.
Man Beatboxes While Playing Flute For His TEDx Talk
Since the early years of his life, Cosmin Cioca had a special connection with music.
His parents signed him up for flute classes and even though at first it was more of a love-hate relationship, in time he kept getting better and better.
After successfully winning classical music competitions, he decided to let the world know of his gift by participating in the Romanians Have Talent 2015 competition, where he won the Originality Prize.
Connect your sound system and turn up that bass, because this flute beatboxing will leave you breathless. Cosmin, this otherwise shy young man, shows onstage a real talent in mixing his flute performance with his passion for beatboxing, resulting in a skillful, delightful combination.
Motorhead’s Lemmy On Jimi Hendrix Bringing Acid Back To The UK
Back in 2000, Lemmy was the guest on Channel 4’s stripped-down series All Back to Mine. The premise is to talk to musicians in their homes about their favourite records of all time, but this time, it was filmed at a bar table with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.
No less than an achivement of fun interviewing, host Sean Rowley asks Lemmy about his time working with Jimi Hendix.
Lemmy: I was Jimi Hendrix’s roadie, what’d you expect? I mean, he’d come back from America with a hundred thousand tabs of acid, right?
Rowley: Who, Jimi had?
Lemmy: Yeah, and it wasn’t even illegal then. He brought it back in his suitcase. And he gave half of it ‘round the crew. I mean, that’s a lot of acid, you know.
Rowley: And you were part of the crew, at the time, then.
Lemmy: There was only two of us.
Loads of fun.
Watch Robert Glasper Connect Jazz To Hip-Hop
Why do hip-hop producers gravitate toward jazz samples? For a mood, for sonic timbre, for a unique rhythmic component. Swing is a precursor to the boom-bap. “If you’re a hip-hop producer that wants a lot of melodic stuff happening,” pianist Robert Glasper says, “you’re probably going to go to jazz first.”
Glasper has lived in an area of overlap between jazz and hip-hop for more than two decades — and you can hear it in his piano playing, which often drifts into cyclical rhythms akin to a beat-maker’s loops. It’s all one and the same to Glasper: recasting the music of Miles Davis for an R&B audience or rocking live shows with Q-Tip; playing acoustic jazz with his trio or streamlined soul with his Grammy-winning Robert Glasper Experiment.
In this short doc, Glasper identifies three jazz samples, from tracks by Ahmad Jamal and Herbie Hancock, that have served as source material for famed hip-hop producers J Dilla and Pete Rock.
Bird Lands On Singer’s Guitar During a Live Performance
During a 2011 performance at Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s Bluegrass Festival, musician Josh Williams and his band were playing when a bird suddenly landed on Williams’ guitar. At the end of song, as if on cue, the bird flew away.
During this song, a small bird lands on Josh’s guitar while he’s singing. Watch his reaction as he keeps his cool and finishes the song.
I Want This: The Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Vinyl Jukebox
In 1967 The Beatles released the hit album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fifty years on and the LPs immense critical and cultural success ensures it remains a true classic with its influence still felt across genres and decades. Now, Sound Leisure introduces theirown tribute to this most iconic of albums with the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Vinyl Jukebox. The jukebox is officially endorsed by Apple Corps Limited and designed and built by Sound Leisure Ltd under exclusive licence.
The jukebox cabinet features durable printed artwork from the iconic Sgt. Pepper’s album cover which is also referenced inside the cabinet, wrapping around the Vinyl Mechanism and standing atop it to create a visually enticing 3D effect. The custom speaker cloth features the famous drum skin design and the side glasses are screen printed with the Sgt. Pepper’s florets.
Sound Leisure’s unique Vinyl Mechanism is the only vinyl jukebox mechanism being manufactured anywhere in the world. It holds seventy 7” records giving the user the option to select the A or B side (140 selections.) Sit back and watch as the psychedelic swirls spin to life alongside The Beatles in all their Sgt. Peppers uniformed splendour. The revolving title rack allows easy access to your favourite records and Sound Leisure’s Label Magic software gives you a quick and easy way to create and print your own jukebox labels. Track selections can be made directly from the jukebox button bank or via the infra-red remote control which also offers control of the volume, reject, shuffle mode and lighting controls.
The Sgt. Pepper’s Jukebox also incorporates Sound Leisure’s Bluetooth receiver giving you the ability to stream digital music from any compatible device. A great sound is provided from needle to ear via the five way in built speaker system and D4 amplifier which also features an auxiliary input, outputs and connections for additional speakers.
This video shows just a little of the design process and how the jukeboxes are put together in their Leeds based factory. Interested? You can buy it here.
Guns N’ Roses Extends “Not in This Lifetime” Tour Until Summer 2018
Guns N’ Roses love being on the road so much, they just extended their top-grossing Not in This Lifetime tour into 2018 with a series of summer dates. The group reformed last year for the first time since 1993 and, 100 shows later, have reinstated themselves as one of the world’s top live acts. Who would have thought this even 2 years ago?
Guns N’ Roses Summer 2018 Tour Dates
6/03 – Berlin, Germany – Olympiastadion
6/06 – Odense, Denmark – Dyreskuepladsen
6/09 – Donnington, UK – Download Festival
6/12 – Gelsenkirchen, Germany – Veltins Arena
6/15 – Firenze, Italy – Firenze Rocks
6/18 – Paris, France – Download Festival
6/21 – Dessel, Belgium – Graspop Metal Meeting
6/24 – Mannheim, Germany – Maimarktgelände
6/26 – Bordeaux, France – Matmut Stadium
6/29 – Madrid, Spain – Download Festival
7/01 – Barcelona, Spain – Estadio Olympico
7/04 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Goffertpark
7/07 – Leipzig, Germany – Festwiese
7/09 – Chorzow, Poland – Stadion Slaski
7/13 – Moscow, Russia – Otkritie Arena
7/16 – Tallinn, Estonia – Tallinn Song Festival Ground
7/19 – Oslo, Norway – Valle Hovin
7/21 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi Stadium
Bryan Cranston: One Thing All Young People Should Do While They’re Still Young
Travel — and experiencing other cultures — opens your mind. Nobody knows this better than Bryan Cranston, who spent two consecutive years (at 19 and 20) on a motorcycle with his brother, exploring America and figuring out what it was that he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Needless to say he became a major figure in American acting. With pivotal roles in Breaking Bad and Trumbo that—no exaggeration here—have helped reshape not only American television but American masculinity, it shows just how meaningful being purposefully lost can be. That way, you can truly find yourself.