This guy’s constant pranking is super hilarious (even if his wife doesn’t agree). It’s called “The Forever Pose.” He lets her pose for a picture and, without her knowing, takes a video, which leaves her posing for an awkwardly long time. Like in the old days when nobody smiles in their photos. THAT’s why they don’t smile.
The complete details on Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool physical release
Now that Radiohead’s ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, was released over the weekend for digital download, let’s talk about the physical edition.
A Moon Shaped Pool will be available June 17 for the CD and vinyl editions and September for the special limited collectors edition based on vintage package used for 78rpm releases in the 40s and 50s. The collectors edition will also include a piece of ½ inch master tape from the actual recording sessions of the albums.
The track list:
- Burn The Witch
- Daydreaming
- Decks Dark
- Desert Island Disk
- Ful Stop
- Glass Eyes
- Identikit
- The Numbers
- Present Tense
- Tinker Tailer Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief
- True Love Waits
SPECIAL EDITION IN SEPTEMBER
- Case bound album, inspired by the albums for 78rpm shellac records in the library of La Fabrique, France
- 32 pages of artwork
- The 11 track album on two heavyweight 12″ vinyl records
- Two compact discs: one with the album and one with two extra tracks
- Recording tape belly band applied, This is a piece of a Radiohead ½ inch master tape from an actual recording session. Each loop contains about ¾ of a second of audio – which could be from any era in the band’s recording past going back to Kid A.
VINYL FROM JUNE 17TH
- Gatefold sleeve with silver foil cover
- The 11 track album on two heavyweight 12″ vinyl records
- Card to redeem a 320kbit MP3 or 16-bit WAV download of the 11 track album when you receive the vinyl
CD FROM JUNE 17TH
- Gatefold sleeve with silver foil cover
- 12 page full colour booklet
- The 11 track album on one CD
Meet The Guy Who Makes The Best Cowbells
In The Bronx, there’s a man who builds instruments for the world’s great Latin percussionists: Tito Puente, Eddie Montalvo, Giovanni Hidalgo, Bobby Sanabria. He has no signs, no storefront, no advertising of any kind, but people from around the world call him for work. After all, nothing sounds quite like one of his handmade cowbells.
Calixto “Cali” Rivera’s father was a guitar maker, and his son picked up the tradition of craftsmanship. But Cali gravitated to the drums — he’s a timbale player — and made congas, bongos and other percussion instruments. These days, he specializes in high-quality cowbells of all sorts. He’s in his late 70s, with only his wife for administrative support, yet he cranks out dozens a week.
Jazz Night In America recently visited Rivera at his JCR Percussion workshop to find out how, for nearly 40 years, he’s transformed strong metal into strong bells.
Frank Sinatra on why his mood swings were critical to his success
“Being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat who wrote the song is trying to say. I’ve been there—and back. I guess the audience feels it along with me. They can’t help it.” – Frank Sinatra
Now this is cool: Vinyl Me, Please
A subscription service that sends you one vinyl record every month pressed just for its members. The record also comes with a 12″x 12″ print related to the album and a cocktail recipe so you can start your own party. Gift subscriptions are also available for the music fan in your life. Check out its past releases here.
Maximum Rocknroll wants to create a free online database, and needs your help
Since 1977, Bay Area punk institution Maximum Rocknroll has been producing a radio show, publishing a monthly magazine, releasing records, organizing shows, and supporting worldwide punk projects. As MRR enters its 40th year, they are undertaking theirmost ambitious project ever: creating a comprehensive online database of our record collection and music reviews. The project will also see out-of-print issues of the magazine fully digitized. They’re asking for your help to make it possible through an Indiegogo campaign.
Maximum Rocknroll’s collection is the largest assemblage of punk material history on earth. In addition to records, the archive is home to countless rare and unheard demo tapes, zines, photographs, one-of-a-kind record covers designed by the magazine’s founder Tim Yohannan, and flyers dating back to the genre’s inception, many of which will be digitized for the first time. MRR has been instrumental in punk history and historiography, and the archive and database will be an essential resource for record collectors, historians, and anyone interested in punk, hardcore, and garage rock. Imagine Kill from the Heart on steroids or Discogs for the what-we-do-is-secret crowd.
They have a massive amount of work ahead of them. They write, “We have dedicated volunteers on board to ensure that it gets done right. A professional archivist with years of experience inventorying, cataloging, and preserving media collections is living at the MRR compound in San Francisco to work on the project full-time. We have a programmer on board who has been building the database and a UX designer who will make it easy to use. Over 70 volunteers have already helped out with scanning and transcribing reviews. Our volunteers can make this project happen, but we need your help to cover the costs and guarantee a sustainable future for this essential punk resource.”
Maximum Rocknroll is and will always be a volunteer-run operation. They welcome Bay Area punks who want to help out in any capacity, especially needing volunteers for inventorying the collection and helping with preservation work. To volunteer, email archive@maximumrocknroll.com.
Here’s The World’s First Bar Staffed by Dogs…Wait…Wait?
Kronenbourg 1664, a French beer brand from Alsace, is launching a pop-up bar in London called Bar D’Alsace-tian. Of course, it will, happily, be staffed by Alsatian dogs. UPI reports:
“We’re absolutely delighted to be opening the doors on the world’s first bar staffed by dogs,” Kronenbourg 1664 brand director Ifeoma Dozie said. “It provides customers with a truly unique experience and is the ideal way for us to bring the ‘Alsace-tians’ to Kronenbourg fans.”
https://youtu.be/nTiVnj7g0rA
Instead of tips, customers are encouraged to ask, “Who’s a good boy? YOU are!”
Johnny Depp Producing ‘Muscle Shoals’ Series Based on Rick Hall Autobiography
Heritage Builders Publishing is proud to announce that the Rick Hall autobiography, “The Man From Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame,” is being developed into a limited music drama series by Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil, alongside Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced, Joshua D. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin’s City Entertainment, and IM Global TV.
Hall made music history when he founded FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Hall went on to earn international fame and a GRAMMY for lifetime achievement. In the days when Martin Luther King Jr. was marching for freedom, Hall proved to be a civil rights pioneer through his music. His open collaboration among black and white artists was a revolutionary cultural standard not only to “deep south” Alabama, but to the nation at large. FAME’s colorblind atmosphere, and the raw music it produced, would help shape American culture during its most troubled and tumultuous time.
Today’s Kids Will Never Know…
I love it when Twitter explodes with a fun hashtag like “TodaysKidsWillNeverKnow. It’s a chance for us old people to feel secure in the notion we can explain a pay telephone booth.
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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