Death-metal band Dead Territory covers John Cage’s 4′ 33”better than most. It won’t be the last cover of the song attemtped, but the spirit is perfect.
Just Another Bizarre Iggy Pop Interview From 1979!
On July 8, 1979, ABC-TV music program Countdown invited Iggy Pop to appear on the show to perform ‘I’m Bored’. Iggy also appeared on the segment Humdrum, interrupting host Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum in the middle of an album review.
Long live Iggy!
Song Exploder: Rivers Cuomo’s Secret Songwriting Weapon? Spreadsheets
Weezer’s 10th album, the self-titled “White” album, came out April 1, 2016. In this episode, Rivers Cuomo breaks down the meticulous process of making the song “Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori,” through the different demo versions that the track went through, and the array of spreadsheets that he uses collect, analyze, and harvest his ideas.
Herbie Hancock On Miles Davis: “He Didn’t Hear Mistakes, Only Something That Happened”
Herbie Hancock talks Miles Davis and “mistakes.”
“It taught me a very big lesson not only about music,” says Hancock, “but about life.”
Life is improvised. Be prepared.
David Mancuso: “People just want to have a good time”
David Paul Mancuso created the popular “by invitation only” parties in New York City, which later became known as “The Loft”. The first party, called ‘Love Saves The Day’, was in 1970. Mancuso also helped start the record pool system for facilitating the distribution of promotional records to the qualified disc jockey. Elements of Mancuso’s influence can also be seen in the famous nightly scene outside of New York City’s Studio 54, where legendary owner Steve Rubell understood the appeal of selectivity and took Mancuso’s “invitation only” idea and expanded it to ridiculous, and ridiculously effective, extremes. Some nights Rubell would famously keep almost everyone standing outside and only admit 100 patrons or so. The effect was to make admittance to 54 even more sought after, increasing the club’s popularity exponentially over the course of the mid and late 1970s.
From the beginning, your parties were designed to bring people together.
I was very frustrated. A lot of times I wouldn’t enjoy things about going to certain places, from the soundsystem to the door policy. I was able to prevent that, and by having a certain way of doing things, we promoted social progress.
To this day, there’s no dress code. There’s no age control. You don’t have a liquor license. Once you have the different economical groups mixed together, the social progress starts to kick in. You have people from all walks of life coming together.
The music also had a lot of crossover. We had all kinds of music being played, from one end of spectrum to the other, and people found out that, “Hey, I like Led Zeppelin and I like James Brown.”
People just want to have a good time. They want to feel safe and have a good time. That’s always rule number one for a place, to be safe. But it’s more than not just doing things like overcrowding, it extends all the way down to protecting the ears.
Tears For Fears Celebrates “Songs From The Big Chair” With Spotify Performance
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their blockbuster album “Songs From The Big Chair,” Tears For Fears convened in historic LA Studio The Village to perform some of their biggest hits and a surprise Radiohead cover for an intimate audience of 50 superfans.
73 Questions And Answers With Taylor Swift
Vogue’s May cover star Taylor Swift takes us on a tour of her Beverly Hills home and answers all of our questions, including what she’d be doing if she wasn’t a singer, and her best advice for her 19-year-old self.
Tupac Talks Donald Trump & Greed in America in 1992 Interview
Tupac Shakur passionately explains his views on generosity and responsibility, traits he feels some people with extreme wealth like Donald Trump lack, in this MTV News clip from 1992.
“If you want to be successful, if you want to be like Trump. Gimme, gimme, gimme. Push, push, push, push. Step, step, step. Crush, crush, crush. That’s how it all is, it’s like nobody ever stops.”
Street Busker Shreds Acoustic Guitar In Chile
Pablo Hevia-Koch was on the streets of Canete, Chile when he spotted Vargas shredding on a classical guitar.
Kate Bush’s 20-Minute TV Special From 1978 Filmed At A Dutch Amusement Park
On May 12, 1978, the Dutch broadcaster TROS broadcast a 20-minute Kate Bush television special, recorded at the Dutch amusement park Efteling.
How come artists don’t do this kind of stuff anymore?
https://youtu.be/TT6FnLL1Vtw