“We’re tall white guys, we overcame nothing to be here.” Stand-up comedian Bo Burnham gives some great inspirational advice.
Vacuum Cleaner Meets A Harmonica
A vacuum cleaner meets its perfect soulmate in a harmonica and begin to make beautiful, if a bit freaky, music together.
https://youtu.be/5Nt34_zWwEE
Paul Williams Dressed From “The Planet of the Apes” On The Tonight Show In 1973
Paul Williams, best known for his 1970’s hits like Rainy Days and Mondays and Rainbow Connection, also had a role in Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Fresh off the set back in 1973, he dropped by The Tonight Show, in a bit of a different sort of outfit.
https://youtu.be/bE2m355-JRo
I Heard You Like Spider-Man, So Here’s An Hour Of That Background Music From Those 1960s Spider-Man Cartoons
Every piece of music from the original 1967 series, talking parts and sound effects removed as much as possible, pieced back together into complete form. All the Ray Ellis music from season one is here and there’s a lot from seasons 2 and 3 as well.
Jesse Williams Gets It Right On Racism
“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.” – Jesse Williams, on racism during his BET Humanitarian Award acceptance speech
Converse Chuck Taylor Sneakers Are Now Built With Wah-Wah Pedals
Introducing the Converse All Wah. The latest Converse Chuck Hack and first ever fully functional wah-wah pedal in a sneaker, officially road tested by J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.
A breakdown of what The Beatles were worth back in 1966
Sir Paul McCartney has filed suit against Sony/ATV Music Publishing in New York Federal Court, seeking a declaration that he can exercise his termination rights under the Copyright Act of 1976 in order to reclaim the rights to many of his musical compositions for The Beatles. Far from being broke, it’s more of a matter of McCartney knowing he may face an uphill battle in reclaiming his song rights since his original contracts are governed by U.K. law, hence, filing in New York.
So, let’s go back to when he was in The Beatles. Here’s the December 1966 issue of English pop-music magazine RAVE where the writer tries to figure out just how much exactly the Fab Four are worth. Was he accurate? No clue, but it was a lot.
Aziz Ansari On Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family
“Being Muslim American already carries a decent amount of baggage. In our culture, when people think “Muslim,” the picture in their heads is not usually of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or the kid who left the boy band One Direction. It’s of a scary terrorist character from “Homeland” or some monster from the news.”
Aziz Ansari, Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Just Posted 8 Demo Versions Of “Hamilton” Songs
In July 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda read Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton on vacation and, inspired by the book, wrote a rap about Hamilton for the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009, accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. Miranda later said he spent a year writing the Hamilton song “My Shot”, revising it countless times for every verse to reflect Alexander Hamilton’s intellect. By 2012, Miranda was performing an extended set of pieces based on the life of Hamilton, referred to as the Hamilton Mixtape; the New York Times called it “an obvious game changer”. In 2015, Chernow and Miranda received the 2015 History Makers Award by the New York Historical Society for their work in creating Hamilton.
The New Pornographers Will Release New Album, “Whiteout Conditions” On April 7
Whiteout Conditions, the new full-length record from critically acclaimed supergroup The New Pornographers, is due April 7 via Dine Alone Records in Canada. In celebration of the new album, the group is sharing the interactive lyric video for the track “High Ticket Attractions” created by Vancouver-based interactive artist Chris Shier. The song is premiering today on all streaming services. The album is available for pre-order today with a glow-in-the-dark poster.