Fred Armisen shows Jimmy Fallon his expert skill with impersonating the Beatles and Southern dialects he’s nailed down.
The Most Edited Wikipedia Articles Of The Last Decade
Wikipedia recently celebrated its 15th birthday. The online encylopaedia has grown to over 5 million entries and anybody can edit them. In fact, the English language version of the website has attracted around 808 million edits over the course of its lifespan.
George W. Bush is the most edited Wikipedia topic entry of all time with just under 46,000 edits. (Internal communications pages actually dominate Wikipedia’s list of the pages with the most revisions.) George W. Bush’s page is also the most edited entry in a single year, according to numbers obtained by 538, with people tweaking it 20,894 times in 2005. 2015′s most edited article was a little more obscure. “Geospatial summary of the High Peaks/Summits of the Juneau Icefield” grabbed top spot last year with 7,290 edits.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Double Trouble Drummer Chris Layton on the Ill-Fated Stevie Ray Vaughan-David Bowie Partnership
Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton talks about David Bowie’s partnership with Texas blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Vaughan and Double Trouble were the first ever unsigned act to play the festival and the band nearly exhausted nearly all its shoestring budget getting to Switzerland in the process. On the festival’s first night, the crowd, expecting an acoustic set, booed the band off the stage. It wasn’t the laidback set attendees were promised and they responded accordingly, but Vaughan’s guitar playing did catch the ear of one attendee: David Bowie.
Bowie sent an emissary to the band’s dressing room after the show requesting an audience at the bar frequented by festival performers.
“Oddly enough, Stevie spent just a couple of minutes talking to him, and then he got up and left and never really returned,” Layton says.
Bowie’s proposition to both Vaughan and the band was simple: Vaughan would play on his new record he was working on with Chic-alum Nile Rodgers, then Vaughan and Double Trouble would open up for him on the tour that would ensue – Bowie’s first tour in five years.
In the liner notes of a DVD of the Montreux set, Bowie wrote that he took his “courage in his hands” and asked him, but wasn’t expecting much:
“And as Stevie’s music was such hard core blues I expected and would have understood a polite ‘thanks, but no thanks.’ You can’t imagine how delighted I was when he accepted the offer on the spot and said he’d love to try out a new kind of record just for the experience. When I asked if touring could also be a possibility he again replied in the affirmative, ‘Hell, yeah,’ he said, ‘I tour real good.’”
We’re all glad we have music, but why – WHY – do we have music? That’s a different story.
Music is everywhere, but why? Why do we have it in the first place? What good does it do? Find out in exactly 412 seconds, or about the same length of time of the longest Ramones song.
Video: Everything you wanted to know about movie audio but couldn’t be heard over the noise
One of the most under-appreciated film-related jobs is sound production, and it can turn a movie from horrible to wonderful. This short video shows you how.
Pandora: We give up-and-comers more exposure than landing on radio
Pandora has released a little burst of data demonstrating that landing on a Pandora station gives an artist more exposure than landing on a terrestrial playlist — when the artist is up-and-coming but not there yet.
Here’s the data graphic; explanation follows below:
The mini-study compared number of spins for the #60 song on Pandora’s today’s Country playlist, compared to spins for the #60 spot on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.
As the chart shows, there is a wider difference between #1 and #60 in terrestrial spins — there can be 50 to 100 times more for #1 than for #60. In the Pandora playlist, it’s about five times as many, so the #60 artist gets greater exposure.
The point is laid out like this: “Traditional country radio can be very powerful to a handful of stars while Pandora provides more opportunity for a larger number of country artists to get heard.” Glenn Peoples calls personalized online radio “democratic” in this regard.
The article continues with other case studies, where songs had identical or nearly identical rankings in the terrestrial and Pandora playlists. In those examples, the song got more spins in Pandora.
In all this research, Peoples used the total audience tracked by Nielsen for the terrestrial stations, presumably smoothing out the difference between radio’s one-to-many model, and Pandora’s one-to-one model of track spins.
Rhapsody to rebrand as Napster
The announcement could hardly be more concise, or non-explanatory:
“Napster is coming. No changes to your playlists, favorites, albums, and artists. Same music. Same service. Same price. 100% the music you love. Stay tuned!”
That signals Rhapsody’s un-forewarned announcement that it would consolidate around its subsidiary brand Napster, which it acquired in January, 2012. Napster has been the public-facing brand of the Rhapsody on-demand music service in non-U.S. markets.
Napster, of course, is both famous and infamous as the most celebrated (and reviled) file-sharing network which catalyzed the online music revolution. Apple’s Steve Jobs created iTunes Music Store largely in reaction to Napster, convincing major record labels to dismantle the album into single tracks for purchase, giving consumers a legal and safe way to acquire exactly the music they wanted, unbundled from CD collections. Streaming was a natural evolution the competed both with radio on the lean-back side, and music purchasing on the lean-in side.
Ice Cube cuddles with tha cops
Ice Cube, Lil Jon, and Big Sean are among the hip-hop stars who sanitized their hits for a satirical video on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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2016 Polaris Music Prize Long List Is Here: Bieber, Drake, Grimes, PUP, and more
The 2016 Polaris Music Prize Long List has been announced.
Presented by CBC Music and produced by Blue Ant Media, the 40 Long List albums were unveiled earlier today at the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon in association with the Yukon Film & Sound Commission and the assistance of Music Yukon.
The 2016 Polaris Music Prize Long List:
Art Bergmann — The Apostate
Justin Bieber — Purpose
Black Mountain — IV
Jean-Michel Blais — II
Basia Bulat — Good Advice
Daniel Caesar — Pilgrim’s Paradise
Tanika Charles — Soul Run
City and Colour — If I Should Go Before You
Coeur de pirate — Roses
Dead Obies — Gesamtkunstwerk
Destroyer — Poison Season
Dilly Dally — Sore
Drake — VIEWS
Essaie pas — Demain est une autre nuit
Fred Fortin — Ultramarr
FOXTROTT — A Taller Us
Grimes — Art Angels
Half Moon Run — Sun Leads Me On
Veda Hille — Love Waves
Jazz Cartier — Hotel Paranoia
Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
Junior Boys — Big Black Coat
Kaytranada — 99.90%
Jessy Lanza — Oh No
Majid Jordan — Majid Jordan
Michelle McAdorey — Into Her Future
Nap Eyes — Thought Rock Fish Scale
Safia Nolin — Limoilou
Operators — Blue Wave
Peaches — Rub
PUP — The Dream Is Over
Daniel Romano — Mosey
Andy Shauf — The Party
The Strumbellas — HOPE
Suuns — Hold/Still
U.S. Girls — Half Free
Un Blonde — Good Will Come To You
The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness
White Lung — Paradise
Donovan Woods — Hard Settle, Ain’t Troubled
In total 183 titles made the first ballots of the 192 member jury.
This year’s Long List features 19 returning and 21 new nominees. With their newest nominations Basia Bulat (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016) and Drake (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016) now join The New Pornographers, Joel Plaskett and Patrick Watson as the only acts who’ve ever been Polaris nominated on four separate occasions. This is the third time Black Mountain, Coeur de pirate, Destroyer, Junior Boys, Daniel Romano and The Weeknd have had Polaris nominated albums.
The Whitehorse reveal event was hosted by CBC Calgary’s Katherine Duncan and featured the Honourable Stacey Hassard (Yukon Economic Development Minister), Teslin, Yukon performing artist Melaina Sheldon and Polaris jurors Ben Rayner (Toronto Star) and Sandra Sperounes (Postmedia’s Edmonton Journal) as presenters. Additionally, surprise guest Jean-Michel Blais was on hand to perform music from his 2016 Long-Listed album II.
CBC Radio 2 will feature a special hour-long broadcast celebrating the Polaris Music Prize Long List on Drive with Peter Morey at 6 p.m. (6:30 p.m. NT) today. Local CBC Radio 2 frequencies can be found at cbc.ca/frequency or the broadcast can be streamed online at cbcmusic.ca.
The eligibility period for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize runs from June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2016. An independent jury of music journalists, broadcasters and music bloggers from across Canada determines the Long List and Short List. Eleven people are selected from the larger jury pool to serve on the Grand Jury and they will convene the night of the Polaris Gala to select the 2016 Polaris Music Prize winner. The Polaris Music Prize will award $50,000 to the artist who creates the Canadian Album of the Year. Each of the nine other short listed artists will receive $3,000 courtesy of Slaight Music.
The 10 album Short List will be announced on July 14 at The Carlu in Toronto. The Polaris Gala will be held on September 19 at The Carlu in Toronto and will be streamed live by CBC Music and AUX TV.
Fan At Bob Dylan Show: “FREEBIRD!” Bob Dylan: “Ok.”
Fan At Bob Dylan Show: “FREEBIRD!”
Bob Dylan: “Ok.”
Fan At Bob Dylan Show: OMG!
Here’s video of Bob Dylan’s band on Thursday night, honoring a shouted request for…yes, that song.