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Netflix Introducing 5-Minute Videos To Help Curb Bedtime ‘JUST ONE MORE VIDEO’ From Kids

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Parents, get ready for your victory lap because your bedtime-stalling kids just met their match. It’s no secret kids will say everything from the outrageous – “I hate the inside of my eyelids” – to the hard-to-argue-with “I’m starving-dying of thirst-need to pee” excuse to avoid bedtime o’clock. Now, with the help of Netflix and DreamWorks Animation, grown-ups can stop the kids’ shenanigans while making some mischief of their own.

With today’s launch of five-minute-long ‘favorites’ of the hit series Dinotrux from DreamWorks Animation, parents can offer up an ENTIRE SHOW – that’s 300 whole seconds, kids – to motivate little ones to get ready for bedtime, pronto. Kids will think they’re getting away with murder, but parents will get the last laugh when the show ends after just five minutes and the kids are tucked in on time. Parents: 1, Kids’ Bedtime Stalls: 0.

While short on time, the new Dinotrux 5 Minute Favorites are big on kid-approved action. Netflix and DreamWorks Animation engineered the new shows knowing exactly what kids love most: rewatching their favorite scenes. Parents know when kids like a show, they really like it. And ask to re-watch their favorite scenes over, and over, and over again. The three new 5 Minute Favorites, launching today on Netflix, showcase favorite scenes following the rapid adventures of Ty-Rux and Revvit as they demonstrate important lessons of teamwork and friendship – even among the unlikeliest of pairs. To watch on Netflix simply search for 5 Minute Favorites.

It turns out that bedtime stalls are a universal problem faced by parents around the world. Netflix polled parents across seven countries (US, UK, France, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico) and found 61 percent of parents who are in charge of getting their children tucked in at night are dealing with their kids’ creative stall tactics at bedtime. All of that lollygagging adds up to parents spending nearly 20 minutes every single night negotiating with kids to get them into bed.

Dinotrux '5 Minute Favorites' only on Netflix (PRNewsFoto/Netflix)

Alanis Morissette, Meghan Trainor, and Jimmy Fallon Perform ‘Ironic’ As Chickens

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Alanis Morissette, Meghan Trainor, and Jimmy Fallon Perform ‘Ironic’ As Chickens

The Jagged Little Chicks perform an all-clucking rendition of Alanis Morissette’s hit song “Ironic.”

https://youtu.be/IBK8qSnBlHo

Bon Jovi’s Isolated Vocals and Guitars For “You Give Love A Bad Name”

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Bon Jovi’s Isolated Vocals and Guitars For “You Give Love A Bad Name”

Not be confused with “Shot Through the Heart”, an unrelated song from Bon Jovi’s 1984 self-titled debut album, “You Give Love a Bad Name” was a monster hit, the first single from their 1986 album Slippery When Wet. Written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child about a woman who has jilted her lover, the song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 29, 1986 to become the band’s first number one hit. In 2007, the song reentered the charts at No. 29 after Blake Lewis performed it on American Idol. In 2009 it was named the 20th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.

Jon Bon Jovi’s vocals

Richie Sambora’s giutar

…and here’s the full-on glorious ’80s video:

As tours become longer, insurance rates go up for musicians

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As tours become longer, insurance rates go up for musicians

A day after Katy Perry tweeted she had just completed her 151-date Prismatic world tour and that it was “only By The Grace Of God that I made each & every one of them”, One Direction had to cancel their show in Belfast at the last minute due to Liam Payne falling ill.

Insurers and underwriters looking at Perry’s next tour will regard it as low risk. But they will be keeping a closer eye on One Direction, even though the show was quickly rescheduled, and mentally reworking the numbers if more shows get cancelled. Since record sales started to tumble 15 years ago, touring has become the way that most acts make a living these days. The numbers are staggering. Taylor Swift, for example, is grossing $2.93m per night on her 1989 tour, based on from figures published by Billboard. With stakes this high, touring insurance, on the surface an admittedly dry subject, has never been more important.

Acts on the road generally take out three types of insurance: equipment (to protect against damage and theft); public liability (in case an audience member is injured during a show); and non-appearance. The last two are relatively modern developments, but it is non-appearance that is arguably the most critical, especially as tours become longer.

At the start of October, promoter and agent John Giddings spoke at the International Festival Forum and suggested that David Bowie has effectively retired from touring, having performed his last solo British show in 2004 at the Isle of Wight festival (which Giddings runs). There have been rumours that Bowie is not willing to put himself through the exertion of a world tour. Unlike, say, 74-year-old Bob Dylan, who has played between 85 and 112 shows every year this century, Bowie has not played for so long it could be difficult to insure a tour against cancellations.

Via The Guardian

James Franco Talks About Growing Up In California In New Google Animated Video

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James Franco Talks About Growing Up In California In New Google Animated Video

Actor, filmmaker, and artist, James Franco, shares stories from growing up in California, from his bad-boy days in Palo Alto to a brief stint in the UCLA cafeteria. Franco shares the inspiration beneath his many hats as a performer in California Inspires Me, a Google Play x California Sunday Magazine collaboration.

‘Elstree 1976’ Doc Details The Unheard Actors And Extras In ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy

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‘Elstree 1976’ Doc Details The Unheard Actors And Extras In ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy

These people came from a wide variety of backgrounds and went on to have unique careers and lives. This is resolutely not a ‘Making of Star Wars’ documentary. Star Wars is merely the common ground shared by these people and just a starting point for collecting the experiences of this generation of performers. It tells the story of six decades of British theatre, cinema and movie conventions from the perspective of working actors whose characters’ fame often seems to eclipse their own. The film explores the industry, the craft and the acting life. It reflects on what makes and sustains a pop culture phenomenon, how it feels and what it means to be a part of that legacy. Most importantly, it forms a portrait of a generation of performers and the British film industry, which facilitated the rise of the Hollywood blockbuster.

Roger Waters Discusses Pink Floyd Album ‘The Wall’ In The Eponymous Documentary

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Roger Waters Discusses Pink Floyd Album ‘The Wall’ In The Eponymous Documentary

Roger Waters, co-founder and principal songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters The Wall, a concert film that goes well beyond the stage. Based on the groundbreaking concept album, Roger Waters The Wall could be called a concept film: it’ s a state-of-the-art show that dazzles the senses, combined with an intensely personal road trip that deals with the loss Roger has felt throughout his life due to war.

The film will be available for digital HD download November 17 and on Blu-ray & DVD December 1, 2015.

Music PEI Releases Economic Impact Analysis of the Island’s Music Industry

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Music PEI Releases Economic Impact Analysis of the Island’s Music Industry

In 2014 Music PEI embarked on an economic impact analysis of the Island’s music industry. Little Island, Big Voice is the first of its kind and we commissioned Nordicity to complete it. They are a well respected company with years of experience and a history of similar studies for other provincial and national organizations similar to Music PEI.

The study included surveys and focus groups along with comprehensive data collection and analytics. The results provide us with a much needed benchmark we can now use to assess the performance and growth of our industry for future years.

The Music PEI Board of Directors will now use this data and input from membership to create an update to our first Strategic Plan created in 2008. The new strategic plan will map out the course of the organization for the next 5 years.

Sir David Attenborough Narrates Adele’s ‘Hello’ Video

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Sir David Attenborough Narrates Adele’s ‘Hello’ Video

Adele’s Hello video gets the brilliant Sir David Attenborough voiceover treatment on Greg James’ BBC Radio 1 show. As poster remarked, “I think Sir David Attenborough should get an attitudinal knighthood for that video.
Sir Sir David Attenborough. That’s what he deserves.”

Drummer Plays 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes

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Drummer Plays 71 Beatles Songs in 5 Minutes

Starting from 1962 and ending at 1995 (don’t forget Free As A Bird, ya know), Kye Smith, a drummer based in Newcastle, Australia, plays the signature parts of all your favourite Beatles songs. Like, all of them. And he did it on top of a building, a nod to the fab four’s final concert on the top of Abbey Road Studios.

On his Facebook page, Smith writes:

Way before I found out about punk rock or even knew what a snare drum was I spent my childhood playing vinyl records at my grandparents place spinning artists such as Slim Dusty, ELVIS PRESLEY and The Beatles.

This chronology called for some special treatment and got me out of the studio and onto the rooftop of The Great Northern Hotel – Newcastle, Australia for a pretty stunning view of Newcastle, New South Wales in the background.

Thanks to everyone at The Great Northern for letting me make some noise up there and to Eluminate for helping me shoot it and lug heaps of gear up 7 storeys of stairs!

(1962)
0:06 – Love Me Do
0:09 – P.S. I Love You

(1963)
0:13 – Please Please Me
0:17 – I Saw Her Standing There
0:20 – Do You Want to Know a Secret?
0:22 – From Me to You
0:24 – Thank You Girl
0:27 – She Loves You
0:30 – All My Loving
0:33 – I Want to Hold Your Hand

(1964)
0:36 – Can’t Buy Me Love
0:40 – A Hard Day’s Night
0:43 – I Should Have Known Better
0:46 – If I Fell
0:52 – I’m Happy Just to Dance With You
0:55 – And I Love Her
0:59 – I’ll Cry Instead
1:01 – You Can’t Do That
1:04 – I Feel Fine
1:07 – She’s a Woman
1:10 – Eight Days a Week
1:13 – I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party

(1965)
1:18 – Ticket to Ride
1:22 – Yes it Is
1:29 – Help!
1:33 – Yesterday
1:41 – Day Tripper
1:45 – We Can Work it Out
1:47 – Drive My Car
1:51 – Norwegian Wood
1:55 – Nowhere Man
2:01 – Michelle
2:03 – What Goes On
2:08 – Girl
2:10 – In My Life

(1966)
2:14 – Paperback Writer
2:18 – Rain
2:22 – Taxman
2:24 – Eleanor Rigby
2:29 – Yellow Submarine
2:33 – Good Day Sunshine
2:37 – Got to Get You Into My Life

(1967)
2:41 – Strawberry Fields Forever
2:47 – Penny Lane
2:51 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2:56 – With a Little Help From My Friends
2:58 – Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
3:05 – A Day in the Life
3:11 – All You Need is Love
3:15 – Baby You’re a Rich Man
3:20 – Hello Goodbye
3:23 – I Am the Walrus

(1968)
3:24 – Lady Madonna
3:29 – Hey Jude
3:34 – Revolution
3:39 – Back in the U.S.S.R.
3:41 – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
3:46 – While My Guitar Gently Weeps

(1969)
3:50 – Get Back
3:54 – Don’t Let Me Down
3:58 – The Ballad of John and Yoko
4:02 – Come Together
4:07 – Something
4:12 – Octopus’s Garden
4:15 – Here Come’s the Sun
4:19 – The End

(1970)
4:24 – Let it Be
4:32 – You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
4:37 – For You Blue
4:39 – The Long and Winding Road

(1995)
4:50 – Free as a Bird