…and in the week since this was original posted, PSY racked up another 6 million hits.
Hear a 1,000-year-long-song, and you’re only 15 years too late, but it’s ok
Longplayer is a musical composition that has been playing since the beginning of the year 2000, and will play on, never repeating, until it reaches the point at which it first started, exactly 1000 years later. Longplayer is in effect an everlasting piece of music; its score mirrors a planetary system, six musical events whose orbits come into phase once a millennium.
Until now, Longplayer has only been accessible by visiting a handful of “listening posts” or via an online stream.
This app is the first standalone version of Longplayer, creating the music in real time based on the composition’s thousand-year-long score. It requires no data connection and automatically synchronises itself with every other copy of the app across the globe. With this app, you become part of a community of listeners distributed through space and time, across many lifetimes.
The song was created by The Pogues founder Jem Finer. Without feeling a tad bit optimistic, this song just may crack the charts for the next 51,220 weeks.
Longplayer from Longplayer on Vimeo.
Selena Gomez’s Advice For Wanna-Be Singers
Selena Gomez had a bit of revelation recently when it came to singing, and it’s pretty good advice for any beginning singer or YouTube future star, who keep wanting to hit every note in the scale in the same line all the time. Selena is now hitting her stride, vocals-wise, and she figured how she sounds best and playing to her strengths.
“For ‘Good for You’ I wanted to find my sweet spot, if you will. I know that maybe vocally I wouldn’t be the greatest singer in the world, but I know my strengths now. I know that I can translate emotion and heart, and I’ve written more than I’ve ever written on any album for this record. I have a lot to prove, but I think, for instance, this song is totally in my register. It’s smoky and fun and sexy.”
Quote via Billboard
Tupac Mentions Donald Trump In A 1992 MTV Interview That Was Banned From Airing
Here’s Tupac’s first-ever interview with MTV as a solo artist, and the station banned it from airing.
The Rock Just Posted His Workout Playlist, And It’ll Crush You
We all need music to motivate us through exercising, kicking butt and thinking about destroying our enemies or getting that ex back, right? The Rock is no different. He released his official workout playlist, and just thinking about it makes me exhausted.
The Rock himself said,
Just destroyed our Sunday training session with this playlist I put together this am. Passing it along to ya. That ‘All In a Days Work’ is def something to f*ck with. #OriginOfTheFlow #LifeLongGrind #ClanginAndBangin #EatFirst
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Take Over a Classroom This Fall
Chegg, the Student Hub, in partnership with iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s free all-in-one streaming music and live digital radio service, today launched a social media contest to choose an American college or high school campus to host musical artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis for an exclusive classroom takeover event. Beginning today, high school and college students can vote for their school to win this on-campus experience. The Grammy Award-winning artists will take over the classroom with a live crash-course and Q&A session on their experiences in the music and entertainment industries. To emphasize key teaching points, they will discuss the background and creation process of a selection of their songs, including their new single (released yesterday).
To celebrate the importance of arts in education, Chegg will also award the winning school a $10,000 grant for their music department from Chegg’s David B. Goldberg Music Scholarship fund.
“Music101 Powered by iHeartRadio is an opportunity for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to come together with fans in a uniquely intimate setting and share their love of music and education,” said Zach Quillen, Manager at Macklemore LLC. “Before attending college himself, Macklemore spent time working in a juvenile detention hall where he also had the opportunity to teach and share his love for music with the youth; he found a passion for mentorship, and Music101 is an important outlet to continue sharing his experiences with others.”
Students attending high school or college in the contiguous 48 states can begin nominating their campus today. To do so, students simply visit play.chegg.com/Macklemore, log in to Chegg, and vote for their school. The school with the most student votes will win the visit from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Students can also earn additional votes through downloading the iHeartRadio app. School voting is open today through September 23, 2015 at 11:59PM PT. The classroom-takeover will take place in Fall 2015.
#CheggMusic101 Powered by iHeartRadio represents the next installment in an ongoing series of music classes that Chegg and various artists will bring to students across college and high school campuses nationwide. This season’s contest follows successful programs that Chegg has conducted with top-artists including Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons and U2.
“Connecting with a high school and college student audience poses unique challenges for brands, and artists aren’t excluded from this,” said Mitch Spolan, EVP of Brand Partnerships at Chegg. “Chegg reaches over millions high school and college students, and we’ve proven our ability to help brands establish meaningful connections with students through one-of-a-kind experiences they’ll remember for years.”
To learn more about the contest and nominate a school, visit: play.chegg.com/Macklemore
To learn how to get your brand involved with Chegg, visit collegemarketing.chegg.com.
Questlove On The Greatest Gift He Ever Received
In “The Reflection” featuring Questlove, he speaks on how he fell in love with music, the beginning of The Roots, what it takes to truly succeed, and the greatest gift he has ever received.
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell set to release “So Familiar” on October 30
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell have announced their second studio album So Familiar, due out on Rounder Records on October 30. Produced by the legendary Peter Asher, the album features 12 remarkable new songs that bring the duo’s musical collaboration into fresh creative territory.
Martin and Brickell’s first album together, 2013’s Love Has Come for You, found the two iconoclastic artists making emotionally resonant, effortlessly accessible music that was unlike anything that either had created previously. The album earned critical acclaim, was nominated for two Grammy® Awards and won the Grammy® for “Best American Roots Song” and also inspired their new musical “Bright Star” which was originally staged last year at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. “Bright Star” is now gearing up to open at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on December 17, 2015, to be followed by a Broadway premiere in 2016.
While Love Has Come for You was the beginning of a musical partnership and a step into uncharted territory, So Familiar showcases an organic, evolving relationship that continues to bring out new creative strengths for Martin and Brickell. The new collection’s stirring compositions match Martin’s inventive, expressive five-string banjo work and Brickell’s distinctive vocals, detail-rich lyrics with the sublime music they composed jointly.
“I guess that this is the logical sequel to the first album, but it’s also different in a lot of ways,” Martin states. “It sounds bigger and wider, and it has a lush feeling that I really like. I think that Edie’s voice sounds beautiful with these arrangements, and I love the way the banjo sounds with strings. Peter really had a vision for this record, and he really came up with some wonderful things.”
“What Peter did was so beautiful,” agrees Brickell. “He has a great musical imagination, and he always surprises us. I’m so impressed by his ability to come up with things that feel grand and intimate at the same time. Peter has a really great ability to create something majestic and incorporate that into a traditional-sounding song.”
So Familiar also features a variety of prominent players from the worlds of bluegrass, folk, pop and rock, including seminal banjo ace Béla Fleck, who is featured on the uplifting Heart of the Dreamer, along with session bass legend Leland Sklar, Cobra Starship’s Victoria Asher, Mike Einziger of Incubus, Emmy-award winning composer/arranger Geoff Zanelli, and Martin’s much-acclaimed longtime bluegrass cohorts the Steep Canyon Rangers
Cookie Monster Learns To Wait In ‘When Cookie Met Sally’, A ‘Sesame Street’ Parody Of ‘When Harry Met Sally’
Cookie and Sally are two very different people. Cookie is messy and impatient. Sally is neat and calm. Can Sally get Cookie to wait his turn by playing a game? Can they actually become friends?