Ever wanted to pick up and learn how to play an instrument? This video shows what a year working on to play the fiddle will do.
Guy Teaches The Most Insane Guitar Lesson On The Internet
This video is amazing on so many levels. Finger picks, slide and FUCKING INSANITY.
The Inside Scoop On How Pop Singers “Cheat”
Thought autotune is the only thing used to fix singer’s voices? Think again!
Lightsaber Night Has Been Cancelled
That guy Todd had something to do with Lightsaber Night being cancelled at The Hideaway piano bar in St. Louis. Thanks a lot Todd!
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Former CEO Of Ticketmaster Explains Why You Can’t Get The Best Tickets
| “If every ticket in the venue ‘sells out’ at the face value printed on the ticket, that wouldn’t be enough to pay the artist what they are contractually guaranteed by the promoter for the performance. How does the promoter make up the difference? You guessed it: by selling some of the best seats directly in the secondary market, so that artists don’t get flack from you for pricing them high right out of the gate. That means the artist is either directly complicit, or that the artist is taking a massive check for the performance while looking the other way. Goddammit, right?” Nathan Hubbard (who used to be the CEO of Ticketmaster) explains why you can never get good tickets to a major event. |
The Beautiful Relationship Between Physics and Jazz
Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, but he’s also a jazz fanatic whose musical obsession has helped him better understand the world of cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics.
A History of Internet GIFs and How Businesses Profits From Them
The GIF was invented in 1989. And since its beginning, the GIF has been used to make money. At first, GIFs were sold as placeholders for the web of the ’90s and early 2000s. But after web design became informed by professional standards, gifs lost their role as placeholders. Eventually they became tools of expression, turning snippets of video from popular culture into bite size communication devices. Today, a few big tech companies are trying to capitalize on this new use of GIFs, partnering with brands who want their content to be used as communication.
Watch The Rarely-Seen Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” From 1979
Kraftwerk’s Autobahn”, composed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the band, with Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is co-produced by Conny Plank, and was the band’s first track to use sung lyrics. Recorded in 1974, the song is designed to capture the feel of driving on a motorway. A version of the song lasting over 22 minutes was recorded as the title track of the album Autobahn. This was edited to a more modest 3 minute and 28 seconds running time and released as a single, giving the band an unexpected Top 40 hit in the USA, and other countries, the first of their career. A differently edited version, at 3 minutes and 5 seconds duration, was released in the UK, reaching #11, and was later included on the UK compilation LP Exceller 8. The song also reached #12 in Canada and number 12 in the Netherlands.
Nat Hentoff, Longtime Jazz Critic, Dead at 91 – Watch The Trailer For His “The Pleasures of Being Out Of Step” AutoDoc
Nat Hentoff, longtime political columnist, free speech activist and renowned jazz critic, has died at the age of 91.
Nat Hentoff was one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of ‘alternative’ journalism in America. The Pleasures of Being Out Of Step wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act.
At the core of the film are three extraordinary, intimate conversations with Hentoff. Commentary and perspective are offered through additional interviews with such luminaries as Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Floyd Abrams, Aryeh Neier and Dan Morgenstern. Interwoven through it all is the sublime music of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Bob Dylan, along with never-before-seen photographs and archival footage of these artists and other cultural figures at the height of their powers.
This Mysterious Number Appears in Cartoons Everywhere…… and you probably didn’t even know it
It’s hidden in movies and TV shows everywhere. In The Simpsons, The Hunger Games, Avengers, American Dad, Mission: Impossible, Doctor Who. And in every Pixar movie ever. But what does the mysterious “A113” code mean?