Musician Luna Lee performs another awesome cover version on her classic Korean string instrument, the Gayageum, this time taking on Pink Floyd’s 1979 hit Another Brick in the Wall.
Watch Dave Chappelle’s First Appearance On Star Search
Check out these early performances from comedian Dave Chappelle on Star Search in 1993. The then 19-year-old hit the bullseye right from the start, and his second and third appearance on the talent show sees him talk about topics that are still pretty relevant.
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A Brief History of Goth
These days, “goth” can mean anything from wearing an all-black outfits to being overly emotional on social media. But before the Internet happened, goth meant something very specific. This is A Brief History of Goth.
Stop Motion Animation Of The 553 Piece LEGO Beatles Yellow Submarine Set Being Built
LEGO enthusiast Bart van Dijk has created a very smooth stop motion animation of his 553 piece LEGO Beatles Yellow Submarine set being built. The set was released on November 1, 2016, but did anyone really take it out of the box, in hopes it would one day be worth a few hundred dollars on eBay?
Science Says This Song Is The Most Relaxing Ever And Um…It’s….Yawn….ZZZZZZZ
A team of scientists and sound therapists claims to have found the most relaxing song ever. In an experiment with the Manchester band Marconi Union, the scientists were able to create a track more relaxing than Coldplay or, more impressively, Enya. Listen to “Weightless” below and drift away into eternal chill. The track’s 60 BPM is said to trigger “entrainment,” the synchronization of brainwaves and heart rate.
Iggy Pop says Kmart is the original house of glam rock fashion
The first show the Stooges played in New York City, opening for the MC5 at the World’s Fair Pavilion in Queens, is better remembered as the first time Iggy Pop cut himself onstage with the edge of a drumstick. “I was definitely upping the ante,” he said, “It was New York! … I remember wearing a little pair of Levis short-shorts and Minnetonka moccasins and I was doing these long, dangerous stage dives. And the audience was just … [makes a wide-eyed face] … it was uncomfortable, so there was some self-mutilation,” he laughed.
While defining his rock star look, Pop found it all in one place: Kmart. “I was walking around [Kmart] and saw this silver glove on one of the female mannequins and thought ‘this would make me look cool’ … so I’d send people to get boxes and boxes of these Kmart silver gloves I’d wear every night.” The rest of his look was in a different aisle. “I would take a little glass bottle of Johnson & Johnson baby oil, pour it all over my body and face, then cover myself in gold and silver glitter. There was a product called Nestle’s Streaks ‘n Tips that came in black, gold or silver … I don’t see it around anymore.” He laughed.
Patti Smith reads from Oscar Wilde in HM Prison Reading
Singer and artist Patti Smith reads from Oscar Wilde’s 100-page letter De Profundis, which he wrote during his two-year incarceration in Reading Prison.
Celebrities Offer Advice to the Class of 2017
A commencement ceremony is a big deal for students and their families and of course many schools book celebrity speakers like Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton and Will Ferrell all of whom gave commencement addresses this year. But not every school can land an A-list speaker so as a service to those graduates, Jimmy Kimmel and his friends put together an all-star graduation speech that is 100% guaranteed to position you for success.
Stingray wants help to curate their Canadian music channels
Stingray is calling out to music lovers from Coast to Coast to help curate the greatest province-specific Canadian music channels ever heard!
Stingray is proud to be Canadian and share its love of homegrown music. Stingray today confirmed that, amongst all streaming music services, it is the only one dedicated to promoting Canadian talent.
With a reach of 90% of the Canadian market (10 million households), Stingray’s efforts result in incomparable visibility for Canadian artists. Close to 15,000 Canadian artists and bands are broadcast on Stingray Music channels on TV, mobile, and the web.
From May 17 to June 16, 2017, Canadians are invited to join Stingray Music on Facebook and nominate tracks by their province’s best singers, bands, and musicians. Participants will be entered to win one of 10 $150 travel credits offered by VIA Rail.
Starting June 21, 2017, and leading up to Canada Day, Stingray will share one channel a day on Facebook and on the Stingray Coast2Coast web page. The channels will be available for streaming through the Stingray Music mobile app and web player.
For more information, visit the Stingray Coast2Coast web page.
Buzzangle Music Announces Shazam Data Integration
BuzzAngle Music, the leading innovator in music consumption analytics, today announced integration of global data from Shazam, one of the world’s most popular apps. It marks the first time Shazam data is available in a comprehensive analytics platform like BuzzAngle Music. The data provided from Shazam includes the number of Shazams for every song within a given market and country, as well as further breakdowns for age, gender and information regarding user engagement with the track pages.
The importance and value of the Shazam data to BuzzAngle’s users will be in the ability to view the number of Shazams alongside existing consumption data— such as song sales, song streams and song airplay—in all charts, reports and dashboards. The Shazam data is available immediately as a premium upgrade option within the standard BuzzAngle Music service.
“Shazam has been downloaded over 1 billion times and people around the globe are Shazaming 20 million times each day,” said Richard Westover, Head of Music Data Services at Shazam. “Our proprietary data is an unparalleled asset for the industry and in artists’ strategies. We are very excited to be part of BuzzAngle’s advanced platform and help their analytics be even more comprehensive.”
“Programming has always been a balance of science and art,” said Tom Poleman, Chief Programming Officer at iHeartMedia. “The data available at our fingertips is increasingly more sophisticated thanks to BuzzAngle. Having this Shazam data will make it even more powerful.”
“We are excited to partner with Shazam to again provide a first for the music industry. Providing the Shazam data alongside consumption statistics will provide even greater insight into the discovery and popularity growth of songs,” said Jim Lidestri, CEO of Border City Media, the makers of BuzzAngle Music.
Shazam has continued to build upon its global leadership in music discovery and deepen the connections between artists and fans, in addition to its visual recognition and augmented reality features. Through integrated partnerships with leading music companies from around the world, Shazam delivers a complete music experience including videos, lyrics and recommendations. There are also almost 9,000 artists verified on Shazam that are sharing content with their followers.
Since its official launch in May 2016, BuzzAngle has been the leading innovator in music-consumption analytics by being the first to offer daily updates; the first to develop a global platform; the first to develop a dashboard-driven system; the first to show streaming data at a market level; and the first to show both major and independent label and distributor market share based on streaming and total consumption. BuzzAngle is the only platform that allows users to create individualized reports on a daily basis, and in multiple countries. BuzzAngle methodology allows for more than 10 trillion combinations of individualized reports for albums, songs, artists, labels and distributors.
Music consumption, measured by streaming and multiple sales configurations, has become increasingly complicated to track, but BuzzAngle Music provides the tools that deliver meaningful information that the music industry needs immediately. BuzzAngle’s platform provides countless sorting options, such as daily album and song sales, streaming activity, and radio airplay, all of which can be broken out market by market; Determinations on marketing, promotion and live concert tours can be made based on the driving forces of consumption; label promotion staff and station program directors can determine which songs are truly taking hold in a particular market; A&R departments rely heavily on BuzzAngle Music data to identify emerging artists.