Oltedal, Norway musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios created a heavy metal cover of The Simpsons theme song.
Jim Carrey On His Love of Painting, Sculpting and Isolation: “I Needed Color”
When I was a kid, I spent half my time in the living room performing for people. I spent the other half the time in my bedroom by myself, writing poetry and sketching. I was not the type of kid who you could say as punishment, ‘go to your room’because my room was heaven to me. My isolation was welcome.
Dust Off Those Far-Out Platforms With David Hasselhoff And Stan Lee And…Wait…What?
“Guardians’ Inferno” is the song that played over the end credits of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and appears on the soundtrack album. Dust off those far out platforms and enjoy this blast from the past, courtesy of David Hasselhoff and a cameo by Stan Lee.
Under 25s are spending more than 32 minutes a day on Instagram
A year ago today Instagram introduced stories to the social media site. With more than 250 million daily users, stories made Instagram a place for people to share all of their moments – the highlights and everything in between.
Stories has also helped increase the amount of time people spend on Instagram. Those under the age of 25 spend more than 32 minutes a day on Instagram, on average, while those age 25 and older spend more than 24 minutes a day.
From stickers to Boomerang, Instagram have rolled out more than 20 new features within Instagram Stories over the past year, making it even easier to add creativity to any photo or video and instantly share it. To celebrate the way their community has embraced these tools over the past year, they just shared a breakdown of some of the trends they’ve seen on Instagram Stories around the world, including:
Businesses on Instagram Stories:
- In the last month, over 50% of businesses on Instagram produced an Instagram Story
- One in five organic stories from businesses gets a direct message
Top Location Tags:
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- São Paulo, Brazil
- New York, NY
- London, UK
- Madrid, Spain
Top Hashtags:
- #GOODMORNING
- #WORK
- #GOODNIGHT
- #MOOD
- #HAPPYBIRTHDAY
- #TBT
- #LOVE
- #HOME
- #BOMDIA (means hello or good day in Portuguese)
- #RELAX
Most Popular Stickers:
- Vibrant Location sticker
- Digital time sticker
- “Like” sticker
- Hashtag sticker
- Weather sticker
Most Popular Face Filters:
- Puppy ears
- Sleep mask
- Bunny ears
- Love with heart-shaped darts
- Koala ears
Also today, they are rolling out birthday and celebration stickers in stories to give their community more ways to celebrate any milestone with friends and family.
Bandcamp Raises $100,000 For Transgender Law Center, Thanks To Music Fans
Bandcamp’s community of artists, fans, and labels once again stood with the music community to enthusiastically voice a commitment to equal rights for all, and oppose the marginalization of the LGBT+ community when the online site donated their portion of all sales on Friday to the Transgender Law Center.
The retailer wrote Friday night, “With a few hours left to go (the party ends at midnight PST), we estimate that fans will have bought nearly $700,000 worth of music today. All of our share of that (~12%) goes directly to TLC. The remainder goes to the labels and artists, many of whom will be donating their share of sales as well. Artists and labels pledged their support so quickly that it was often difficult to keep up, but we’d like to extend a deep, heartfelt thanks to ANTI-, ATO, Merge, Kill Rock Stars, Sub Pop, Hyperdub, Polyvinyl, Car Seat Headrest, clipping., Frankie Cosmos, 12XU, Bella Union, Caribou, Deathwish, Exploding in Sound, Hardly Art, and the hundreds more who joined us. Your support and commitment is inspiring.
“We did hear from a few individuals who suggested that we “stay neutral” and “just sell music.” To those people we say this: an attack against any marginalized community is an attack against all of us. We believe we have a moral obligation to oppose such attacks, and we will always happily embrace the amazing opportunity we have to rally others to do the same.”
Photo Gallery: Headstones with The Standstills, Say Yes and Crown Lands at Port Colborne’s Canal Days
All photos taken by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Guy Goma Is All Of Us Trying To Stay Cool Under Pressure
I do a lot of TV appearances to speak on various matters of the music industry, and while I’m waiting for the segment, I have this flash of fear for a second or two when see myself in the camera in front of me. I’m always waiting for the moment Guy Goma had – a wrong camera here, a mistaken identity there, and then I’m on the air to being asked about the latest economic or scientific breakthough. It never happens, though, but I’d like to think I *might* be able to fake it for a moment or two.
It’s 10 years since Guy Goma became a celebrity after he was mistaken for an internet expert and interviewed on BBC News TV. The unemployed computer technician had been at the BBC for a job interview. But the graduate from the Congo gained worldwide attention after a mix-up saw him interviewed on air instead of Guy Kewney. It’s worth watching again.
Karen Bowerman: Well, Guy Kewney is editor of the technology website Newswireless. [Camera flashes to Goma, with look of confusion and horror] Hello, good morning to you.
Goma: Good morning.
KB: Were you surprised by this verdict today?
Goma: I am very surprised to see…this verdict to come on me, because I was not expecting that. When I came, they told me something else and I am coming. “You got an interview,” that’s all. So a big surprise anyway.
KB: A big surprise, yeah, yes.
Goma: Exactly.
KB: With regards to the cost that’s involved, do you think now more people will be downloading online?
Goma: Actually, if you can go everywhere you’re gonna see a lot of people downloading through Internet and the website, everything they want. But I think it is much better for the development and…eh…to inform people what they want, and to get on the easy way, and so faster if they are looking for.
KB: This does really seem to be the way the music industry’s progressing now, that people want to go onto the website and download music.
Goma: Exactly. You can go everywhere on the cyber cafe, and you can take…you can go easy. It is going to be an easy way for everyone to get something through the Internet.
KB: Guy Kewney, thanks very much indeed.
In 2016, ten years after Goma’s appearance, the incident was named as one of the BBC’s most memorable interview bloopers, and some outlets noted that Goma’s prediction that more people would be using the internet to download music and other media they want was largely correct. He’s since turned this moment into being a celebrity himself, appearing on GMTV, ITV, CNN and BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
Questlove Can’t Take a Compliment – An Interview with Alec Baldwin
Few musicians can compete with the encyclopedic musical knowledge that Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson possesses—which is great news if you got to be a student of his at NYU. When not teaching music history, the 45-year-old drummer is directing the Grammy-Award winning group The Roots—a hip hop collective that rose from “everyone’s favorite underground secret” in the late 90s to Jimmy Fallon’s house band on The Tonight Show. Whether drumming, DJ’ing, or writing a book on food, Questlove is universally beloved. “The coolest man on late night,” according to the Rolling Stone. But there is one thing this genius of music can’t do: accept that he is one. He talks to Here’s the Thing host Alec Baldwin about a three year exile in London, Jimmy Fallon wooing the Roots, and how meditation saved his life.
Local Music Exchange: Nominate a Minnesota band for a trip to Canada
The Current wants to share great Minnesota music with the world, so we’ve partnered up with Manitoba Music – Winnipeg to swap two bands from each city for the ultimate Local Music Exchange.
In addition to being highlighted on The Current’s airwaves, the four finalists in this Local Music Exchange — two from Minnesota, two from Manitoba — will be booked for a gig in Minneapolis and one in Winnipeg, and new this year, we’ve got a stop midway between the two cities with a gig in Fargo, exposing acts from each city to new and thriving music scenes.
Get your entry in by Monday, August 14, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. Nominate them here.
Blank Tape: Electronic Cassette Culture
A short film about the new wave of DIY labels, producers and artists who’ve found a home for experimental electronic music on cassette.