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Watch New York-based salsa band Los Hacheros bring the NPR Music house down

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Sometimes it’s necessary to get back to basics. In the case of Los Hacheros, that means returning to the deep groove of Afro-Caribbean music that provides the source material for modern salsa and all of its permutations.

As you’ll see in this video, Los Hacheros’s dedication to authenticity is masterfully executed with a serious dose of sabor. In fact, the band was so swinging, it was impossible to sit on the sidelines and pass up my own chance to jump in during “Bambulaye” and perform with the band myself. So clear out the furniture and turn up the sound on this video to create your own dance party.

AJJ’s ‘Goodbye, Oh Goodbye’ Parodies OK Go Video In Unspectacular Fashion

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The music video Goodbye, Oh Goodbye by AJJ from their album The Bible 2 is exactly like OK Go video for The Writing’s on the Wall, except, you know, all the spectacular events and scenes.

How Sarah McLachlan Saved Run-DMC’s Darryl McDaniels’ Life

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“Angel” is a piano record—dark and heavy. Right then and there, cruising through the bustling city, just home from Europe, I felt that song speak to me like no other. It felt like Sarah McLachlan had recorded that song specifically for me and I was meant to hear it at that very moment. I woke up the next morning with my wife at my side. “Hey, honey, you heard of Sarah McLachlan, that song ‘Angel’? I really like it.” I mentioned it to her because anything I say that I like, my wife likes to get it and surprise me. Sure enough, the next day I had the whole Sarah McLachlan album. Over the next year, that was the song I listened to every day, “Angel,” all day, on repeat. I listened to all the other songs on the album, “Building a Mystery,” this and that. Then I went out and bought everything she’d ever recorded.

For a whole year, every day I listened to “Angel” for almost the entire day. Wherever I was and whatever I was doing, the song was with me. Sometimes, I didn’t even want to leave my house for listening to that song.

— Darryl “DMC” McDaniels in Ten Ways Not To Commit Suicide

 

Bo Burnham gives some great inspirational advice

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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.