Earl Sweartshirt ft. BADBADNOTGOOD performs Kaleidoscope, Huey and Grief on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
https://youtu.be/3-WyHZuiLZA
https://youtu.be/8XVUBQ_CleQ
Elton John Creates Song Using “Lyrics” On Oven Instruction
In 1997, at “An Audience with Elton John,” actor Richard E. Grant hilariously put Elton John on the spot about his creativity and how he produces songs.
I’ve heard that you write your songs very, very quickly. And I’ve brought some words along and hoped that you could put some music to them. Would you do that?
After a quick facepalm, Elton asks him what the lyrics are. To which Grant replies…
Um, well, it’s from… It’s the… It’s the instructions from my oven.
Challenge Accepted.
Animated Video: The Beastie Boys Discuss Their Fleetwood Mac Influence
“Rumours” or “Tusk,” which Fleetwood Mac album is better? That’s what The Beastie Boys debate in this interview from 2007, where they were promoting their all instrumental album, The Mix-Up.
https://youtu.be/SEck1uRsPQM
John Coltrane on Giant Steps and Being The Force Of Good
“I want to be the force which is truly for good.”
– John Coltrane in 1966, as told Frank Kofsky
One afternoon in November 1966, Frank Kofsky took the train out to Long Island. He was about to spend the day with John Coltrane. Kofsky brought his tape recorder and what we get to hear is the conversation the two men had as they drove through town and made a few stops along the way.
Coltrane had moved to Huntington, New York with his wife Alice and their children in 1964. They lived in a modest house on a quiet, tree-lined street. It was a home to raise a family. Coltrane had just turned 40. He would die from liver cancer less than a year later.
During this episode Coltrane talks about moving to the country, setting up to practice, connecting with the sound of an instrument, Malcolm X, music as means of expressing that state of society, and how he wanted to change the world.
“In any situation that we find in our lives, when there’s something we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better.”
Turn Your Computer Keyboard Into A Drum Kit
This will make your 8-hours on the computer move a bit quicker. typedrummer is an fun web-based drum kit by designer and developer Kyle Stetz that turns letters into beats. Spaces and parentheses also produce different effects, and beats, and soon, you can leave the office and become a world-famous DJ.
How-To Make The Panjolele Cake Pan Ukulele
From MakeZine:
What can you make with two cake pans, 20 toothpicks, some lumber, and a handful of screws? A Panjolele! Whitehall, Michigan-based maker Chester Winowiecki loves to make his own musical instruments. A few years back, Chester wanted to make a cigar box ukulele and had the box and wood, but needed to order the frets and a slotted fretboard. Itching to make, he thought about how to substitute those parts:
“Sweet Georgia Brown” on the Panjolele from MAKE magazine on Vimeo.
Europe Launches Digital Single Market
The European Union has announced that it will be moving towards integrating its 28 countries into adigital single market, with hopes that this process will be completed before the end of 2016.
Right now, all 28 European Union countries have their own set of e-commerce laws, copyright laws and digital media regulations that are applicable to digital content within their borders. With 315 million Europeans using the Internet daily, the European Union believes that the fragmentation and barriers that have emerged through 28 individual national markets are an impediment to growth.
Their policy solution is a digital single market. The European Commission defines a DSM as a market “in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured and where individuals and businesses can seamlessly access and exercise online activities under conditions of fair competition, and a high level of consumer and personal data protection, irrespective of their nationality or place of residence.”
In practical terms, the European Commission believes that taking down national barriers, and creating a DSM, will bring about tangible economic benefits to the European Union as a whole. Their data shows that a fully functional DSM will generate an additional €415 billion for the economy, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and further cement Europe as a vibrant, knowledge-based society.
The strategy to implement the DSM is based on 3 pillars. These 3 pillars collectively include 16 recommendations or next steps that the EC plans to undertake:
- Better access for consumers and businesses to digital goods and services across Europe: This is where the bulk of the work will happen on issues like copyright harmonization, ending geo-blocking, changing VAT rules and administrative burdens.
- Shaping the right environment for digital networks and services to flourish: The initiatives that are more structurally focused – like new audiovisual rules, new telecom rules and e-Privacy directives will be under scrutiny in this section. Importantly, the EU has committed to reviewing the role of online platforms in the marketplace in an attempt to determine their role in eliminating illegal content.
- Creating a European Digital Economy and society with growth potential: These are the more high-level concerns with ensuring that the DSM can drive growth and innovation.
Via CIMA
Spotify: We Were 10% of U.S. Label Revenue in First Quarter
Spotify claims to have represented one out of every ten dollars record labels earned in the first quarter. This bombshell statistic came from Will Page, Spotify’s director of economics, during his Music Biz presentation during the Music Biz Conference in Nashville on Tuesday (May 12).
Page’s claim shows the speed at which subscription services are gaining share of the U.S. market. According to IFPI data, all subscription services accounted for 10.2 percent of U.S. recorded music revenue in 2014. If Spotify had a 10-percent share in the first quarter, it’s safe to say the overall subscription share is well above the 10.2 percent registered last year.
Much of Page’s presentation seemed aimed at Spotify skeptics in the audience. While explaining how streaming “is no longer an outlier in the business,” Page noted Spotify has launched in 32 of the 37 countries where streaming is the primary digital source of revenue. Page also pointed out that Spotify is half of the $1.5 billion global subscription streaming market. In the U.S. market, Spotify made up approximately 90 percent of last year’s growth in subscription revenue, according to Page.
Via Billboard
Apple iOS Beta Update Focuses on Music App
Apple has seeded the third beta version of its upcoming iOS 8.4 update, with most of the new tweaks centered around the music app as the company gears up to launch its Beats-driven streaming service next month.
The current update includes a streamlined look for the Music app, with a new mini-player, a new-look, easier-to-get-to iTunes Radio section and a wider range of results in Music Search. In addition, the Now Playing screen opens as a full screen when you hit play as opposed to just appearing as a bar at the bottom. There’s also a more prominent toggle switch to let you turn off the Cloud and just show the music on your phone.
Via Billboard
Hear What is Jazz?: Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Spoken Word Album
Leonard Bernstein brings us to the core of jazz while he comments on live performances and teaches us the principal features of this classic American music.
https://youtu.be/V3DnZ6rG3vI