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Guy Goma Is All Of Us Trying To Stay Cool Under Pressure

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Aug 6, 2017

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

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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

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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

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A short film about the new wave of DIY labels, producers and artists who’ve found a home for experimental electronic music on cassette.

Billy Crudup Teaches You How to Juggle

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Hollywood’s most talented everyman teaches you the two-ball action.

Cass McCombs on songwriting

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Cass McCombs is a critically acclaimed American songwriter. Blending genres such as rock, folk, psychedelic, punk, and alt country, his ninth album, Mangy Love, was released last year.

You mention that music-making isn’t as hard as it used to be. What changed?

When you’re young, you make anything hard on yourself. Anything. Everything. Your relationships are so fucking hard, and when they fall apart you’re so destroyed. Now I’m old and I don’t care anymore, you know? It’s bad, too. It’s a bad feeling sometimes, to not care as much. I was talking to a friend the other day, a friend who’s very adept at meditation, entrenched in zen. He’s totally entrenched in zen. We were talking about frustrations with other people. It can be anything. It can be a taxi driver snapping at you, or just how we interact with other people walking down the street, and the anxiety it gives us. What is tolerance? What would the yogis suggest we do with our intolerance? Where do we shove it? I think it was interesting even to just survey the topics of frustration with other people. Because even just talking about it is somehow soothing and makes it lighter. Everyone is so tightly wound these days, but you don’t know where the other guy is coming from. If some guy snaps at you for no reason, what if he just found out something terrible happened to someone he loved? You don’t know. Be nice. We’re all volcanoes at some point.

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The Manager For Twenty One Pilots Explains Why Discovery On Social Media Sometimes Beats Radio

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The Manager For Twenty One Pilots Explains Why Discovery On Social Media Sometimes Beats Radio

“We knew early on that the power of discovery was something that we were fortunate to have – and that true discovery cannot be found in three minutes and 30 seconds of a song on radio,” Chris Woltman, founder of Element 1 and the manager of the hottest rock band of 2016, Twenty One Pilots reasons.

“Discovery could be in an image on Instagram that makes a potential fan ask ‘what’s that all about?’, a video on YouTube or a friend sharing a band that they just discovered – [things] that were not what the industry has traditionally viewed as being the key to success.

“The most significant way of discovery is when a band delivers such a powerful live experience that people come back next time and bring their friends. It’s been the anchor to the greatest rock bands in the world.

“We knew the [Blurryface] songs could end up on radio but we had the power of discovery so much on our side that we couldn’t not give it time.

“That process requires much more discipline and patience than just running a single to radio and then finding out in five or six weeks whether or not you’re going to stay around.”

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As The Years Go By …: Conversations With Canada’s Folk, Pop & Rock Pioneers

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As The Years Go By …: Conversations With Canada’s Folk, Pop & Rock Pioneers

Anyone who grew up in Canada in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, knows how amazing Canada’s music scene was in those magical decades.

Etched in the musical memories of millions of Canadians are great tunes, television appearances and live shows featuring The Diamonds, Lighthouse, Steppenwolf, Mashmakhan, Patsy Gallant, Skylark, Bobby Curtola, Edward Bear, Susan Jacks, The Paupers, Moxy and Michel Pagliaro, among many others.

In their 10th book, As The Years Go By …: Conversations With Canada’s Folk, Pop & Rock Pioneers, best-selling authors Mark Kearney and Randy Ray compile in one place, newspaper articles they wrote in the mid 1980s to the early 1990s about hundreds of Canadian music personalities who years earlier had chased musical stardom. Many of the stories have been updated or offer web links that provide current information about the performers.

Based on interviews with musicians, managers, producers and promoters – and just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday party – As The Years Go By offers readers an inside look at the trials and triumphs, good times and bad encountered by performers, managers and producers, including many who hit the big time on the international stage.

Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With ‘Orange’

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Eminem Proves There Are Plenty Of Words That Rhyme With ‘Orange’

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the only word that perfectly rhymes with “orange” is “sporange,” an uncommon botanical term for a part of a fern. But that just gets Eminem all riled up, like a door hinge.

Eric Hutchinson Has A GREAT Idea Called Songversations, And He Created A Game About It

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Eric Hutchinson Has A GREAT Idea Called Songversations, And He Created A Game About It

The best part of social media for me is getting to ask silly and sometimes deliberately thoughtful questions and read through the answers. Eric Hutchinson is taking the art of conversation, juggling it with music, and has a wonderful idea. But first, a bit about Eric.

He’s is an international platinum recording artist, songwriter, and music lover, and best known for his 2008 hit single“Rock & Roll. Hutchinson’s albums include Sounds Like This; Moving Up, Living Down; Pure Fiction; and Easy Street, and he has appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Conan, and has toured with artists such as Kelly Clarkson, Jason Mraz, and OneRepublic. So you know he breathes and lives music.

Songversations: Conversation Starters about Music and Life is coming out September 5 though Abram Books. Each of the 50 record-shaped cards in this conversation deck is printed with a music-themed question on each side (100 questions total). The questions range in format: some invoke songs that are tied to memories (name a song from your school dance); others prompt you to choose an ideal soundtrack for a hypothetical situation (if you were a major league baseball player, what song would blast when you’re up to bat?); some cards aim to get people comparing their favorite (and not-so-favorite) music moments. Created expressly to start a conversation about the music people love and the personal insights that their favorite songs evoke, Songversations is the perfect gift for serious audiophiles, casual listeners, and everyone in between.

Get it before the holiday rush starts!