A series of geniuses at developer Harmonix and the Rock Band 4 team, including with Audio QA Lead Dave Plante, shows you exactly how guitar solos and vocal tracks come to life.
A New Trailer Gives Clues About ‘True Detective’ Season Two
True Detective Season 2 starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch premieres June 21 on HBO.
Video: B.B. King: “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”
“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” is a blues song recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1927 that became one of his most famous compositions. Son House used the melody on his 1930 recording of “Mississippi County Farm Blues”. Bob Dylan recorded the song for his 1962 debut album Bob Dylan. He recorded it again with the Band, which is included on The Basement Tapes.
But, today, it’s all about B.B. King’s version that is killing me.
Video: Eric Clapton Thanks B.B. King ‘For All the Inspiration and Encouragement’
Eric Clapton remembered his friend and colleague B.B. King in a video posted to Facebook Friday morning, saying he wanted to express his sadness.
“He was a beacon for all of us who love this kind of music,” Clapton said in the video below. “If you’re not familiar with his work, I would encourage you to go out and find an album called B.B. King Live at the Regal, which is where it all really started for me as a young player.”
BB King a dear friend and inspiration to me….
Posted by Eric Clapton on Friday, 15 May 2015
B.B. King Gets Animated in PBS’ Blank On Blank Series
“I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.”
– B.B. King on September 5, 1986, as told to Joe Smith
Mr. B.B. King. The blues legend says he played 300 nights a year for four-plus decades. That’s just ridiculous. We’re talking about nearly 15,000 shows. King turns 90 this year and you still just might be able to see him on stage. So what’s his secret? We heard some keys to living life to its fullest in a 1986 interview that had been unheard until now.
In this animated film created from B.B. King’s interview with legendary music executive, Joe Smith, the musician explains how he approaches an audience, how a fire at a juke joint led to his naming his guitar “Lucille”, why the blues isn’t just being down on your luck, and why compliments don’t mean it’s time to stop practicing or perfecting your craft.
The Thrill Is Gone. 1971.
The Birth of a Name
B.B. is short for “Blues Boy”, part of the name King used as a disc jockey on Memphis radio in the late 40s.
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Marc Maron got heckled by a Canadian baby
When David Letterman retires on May 20, the guild of late night elders will finally cease to exist and the new generation–mostly led by ex-Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchors–will fully inherit the massive iron keys to the late night castle that’s shaped like a microphone.
Long gone are the days when a late night show was about drinkin’, smokin’, lewd stories, cute animals pissing all over the place and the odd magician. The new late night landscape is more about rainbows and lollipops, a place where guests talk about their boring jobs and play dainty little games about hashtags and nostalgia. In honour of Dave and the old guard, this next clip is dedicated to the nostalgia of classic late night, rather than friggin’ TV shows from the 90s.
Here’s comic’s comic Marc Maron telling a funny story about a Canadian baby who heckled him. That’s it. No games, no surprises, just one funny guy telling another funny guy a funny story.
https://youtu.be/TMHzMLcuvzQ
Kid sees payphone for first time. I’m officially old.
https://youtu.be/K98px_-Pj7g
“Is this one of those old fashion phones?”
Squarepusher’s New Music Video is a 360º VR Adventure
Squarepusher‘s latest track “Stor Eiglass” from his Damogen Furies album (Warp) has a virtual reality music video, which you can experience with a Samsung Gear VR headset, Google Cardboard, on phones and tablets, and in YouTube’s 360º platform (embedded above). The fuller the immersion the better.
A collaboration between artists Marshmallow Laser Feast, animators Blue Zoo, and illustrator Rob Pybus, the video itself is a candy-colored jaunt where you get to glance around a 3D world as your travel through it. In a meta-narrativeabout VR, it starts off in a multi-colored utopia where people do star jumps in public, before we journey into a gloomy future where everyone’s hooked on headsets, bodies spasming to the stimulus of a virtual world.
Along the way, if you look directly downwards at your own figure, you’ll notice the protagonist turning from a hardbody into a breasted blob as he trades exercise for the blue pill. The psychedelic journey takes you through all kinds of bizarre landscapes, from shamanic dancing in the desert with laser-eyed stone sculptures to a squalid bedsit.
“The inspiration for the project came from an in-depth chat between ourselves, Rob Pybus and Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher),” explains Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Robin McNicholas. “His new album both celebrates and exposes the ludicrousness of the modern electronic music scene and we saw parallels with the emerging VR scene. So we wanted to create a journey that had a story embedded in it which reflected that.”
The Hulk Gets an Office Job. Hilarity, Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno Ensue
Hulk is the worst office employee ever.
Madonna Makes History With 45th No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs Chart
Madonna is now unequaled chart royalty. Madonna makes momentous Billboard chart history, as she now has the most No. 1s ever, 45, by an act on a singular Billboard chart. She earns her 45th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs, where “Ghosttown” lifts 2-1.
With the coronation, Madonna passes another icon, George Strait, who’s logged 44 No. 1s on Hot Country Songs.
With her 45th leader on Dance Club Songs, which measures reports submitted by a national sample of club DJs, Madonna pulls further ahead of runners-up Beyonce and Rihanna. In fact, Madonna has tallied more No. 1s as they have combined: 22 each. (The chart launched as a national survey in the Billboard issue dated Aug. 28, 1976.)
For titles that spent multiple weeks at No. 1, total frames in the lead are noted in parentheses.)
Madonna’s 45 Dance Club Songs No. 1s
1983, “Holiday”/”Lucky Star” (five weeks at No. 1)
1984, “Like a Virgin” (three)
1985, “Material Girl”
1985, “Angel”/”Into the Groove”
1987, “Open Your Heart”
1987, “Causing a Commotion (Remix)”
1988, “You Can Dance (LP Cuts)”
1989, “Like a Prayer” (two)
1989, “Express Yourself” (three)
1990, “Keep It Together”
1990, “Vogue” (two)
1991, “Justify My Love” (two)
1992, “Erotica”
1993, “Deeper and Deeper”
1993, “Fever”
1994, “Secret” (two)
1995, “Bedtime Story”
1997, “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”
1998, “Frozen” (two)
1998, “Ray of Light” (four)
1999, “Nothing Really Matters” (two)
1999, “Beautiful Stranger” (two)
2000, “American Pie”
2000, “Music” (five)
2001, “Don’t Tell Me”
2001, “What It Feels Like for a Girl”
2001, “Impressive Instant” (two)
2002, “Die Another Day” (two)
2003, “American Life”
2003, “Hollywood”
2003, “Me Against the Music,” Britney Spears featuring Madonna (two)
2004, “Nothing Fails”
2004, “Love Profusion”
2005, “Hung Up” (four)
2006, “Sorry” (two)
2006, “Get Together”
2006, “Jump” (two)
2008, “4 Minutes,” Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake & Timbaland (two)
2008, “Give It 2 Me”
2009, “Celebration”
2012, “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” Madonna featuring Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.
2012, “Girl Gone Wild”
2012, “Turn Up the Radio”
2015, “Living for Love”
2015, “Ghosttown”
Via Billboard