Here’s a wonderfully charming Kate Bush in 1982 appearance to promote The Dreaming on the kids’ TV show, Razzamatazz, with an explanation of how a music video is storyboarded and where ideas come from.
#MoreThanMean – Women in Sports ‘Face’ Harassment
Not Just Sports Podcast made this video with two female Sports reporters, Sarah Spain & Julie DiCaro. Regular guys came in and read tweets that were sent to these two women. It starts out lighthearted and escalates quickly.
Then, it turns ugly. Seriously, what’s wrong with some of you?
JAZZ.FM91 Marks the 50th Anniversary of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds
JAZZ.FM91 will present Pet Sounds: Brian Wilson and the California Dream with Jeff Levenson at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, on Thursday, May 19.
“JAZZ.FM91 is proud of our commitment to promoting culture and education in our community. Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys is one of the most important and beautiful recordings in history and we didn’t want to miss this great opportunity to celebrate its 50th anniversary,” said Ross Porter, CEO & President of JAZZ.FM91.
This unique, multi-media analysis, led by passionate Beach Boys expert Jeff Levenson, will walk audience members through Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys’ pop masterpiece, featuring songs such as Wouldn’t it Be Nice and God Only Knows and their fascinating historical, cultural and musical resonances. Jeff will utilize rare audio and visual footage from studio and stage to share from his vast knowledge of Brian Wilson’s legacy and shed light on one of the Twentieth century’s most influential and enduring recordings.
Tickets for Pet Sounds: Brian Wilson and the California Dream with Jeff Levenson on Thursday, May 19 at the Isabel Bader Theatre are on sale now at www.jazz.fm, priced at $25 each.
Released in 1966 by The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds has long been hailed as one of the best records of all time. Its stunning vocal harmonies, ground breaking production, brilliant musical invention and lyrical sophistication paved the way for subsequent musical innovations, such as The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album. “The big influence was Pet Sounds, Beach Boys … that was the album, flipped me and still does actually, it’s one of my favourite albums of all time. Just cause the musical invention on that, is like wow.” – Paul McCartney.
Jeff Levenson is a record label executive, writer-producer, educator and jazz journalist. His affiliations include posts at Half Note, Sony, Warner Bros, Downbeat, Billboard and The New School for Social Research. He has authored and/or produced events for the NEA, The US State Department, The White House and The Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. His credits include collaborations with jazz’s most noteworthy contributors – Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Branford Marsalis, Bela Fleck, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Konitz and Joe Lovano, among them. His workshops and lectures, “Connecting The Dots: The Business of Jazz,” offer an insider’s view of the real-world considerations students face upon graduation: Career Management, Recording Opportunities; Record Production; Contact Development; Strategies for Managing Press, Publicity and Marketing. He is also a renowned expert on Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys and has presented lectures celebrating their seminal record, Pet Sounds.
JAZZ.FM91 is called “One of the most vibrant and versatile jazz stations on the planet” by Jazz Times. More than just a radio station, the JAZZ.FM91 enterprise is Canada’s only 24/7 jazz broadcaster and registered not-for-profit charitable arts organization dedicated to enriching the cultural, educational and community experience of their audience. JAZZ.FM91 can be heard live on the air at 91.1FM, streamed online at www.jazz.fm, or listened to on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with the free JAZZ.FM91 App and via the JAZZ.FM91 Android App, available for download from the Google Playstore.
My Morning Jacket Release One Big Holiday Completely Remixed & Remastered
My Morning Jacket released a completely remixed and remastered version of “One Big Holiday” from their forthcoming deluxe reissue of 2003’s It Still Moves. The track is offered as an instant download with the album pre-order along with “Golden” and “Mahgeetah“. Additionally, the band has released a trailer comprised of previously unseen footage recorded during the making of It Still Moves. Out May 27 (ATO Records/Cadence Music), the reissue was remixed by frontman Kevin Ratterman with Jim James, and remastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering. Also included are James’ 10 original demos plus three previously unreleased tracks available on 4 x LP 180 gram vinyl and a 2 CD set packaged with new artwork and exclusive photos.
Jim James has always felt that It Still Moves was left unfinished, citing the band’s aggressive touring schedule as a reason. He took the opportunity to dig back in when ATO approached him about the idea of reissuing the album as part of the label’s fifteenth anniversary.
It Still Moves remains one of My Morning Jacket’s most pivotal releases and expanded the band’s early style outward while simultaneously grounding it. This new version of the album still has that shimmering grandeur that lent it such a singular identity, but now with an increased strength and clarity.
It would have been hard to tell back when My Morning Jacket released It Still Moves, but the then-young band’s third album would serve as a conclusion to one part of their story. After its release, the band reconfigured themselves. James and the unstoppable rhythm section of bassist Tom Blankenship and drummer Patrick Hallahan were joined by the keyboardist Bo Koster and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Carl Broemel. They had perfected a version of themselves here, and the only way forward was to dream it up again in a new form. Everything would shift for My Morning Jacket after It Still Moves.
Watch the album teaser below and catch My Morning Jacket on their US tour, kicking off this Wednesday.
Preorder the Album on
Amazon * iTunes * My Morning Jacket Store
Track List
Original Album:
- Mahgeetah
- Dancefloors
- Golden
- Masterplan
- One Big Boliday
- I Will Sing You Songs
- Easy Morning Rebel
- Run Thru
- Rollin Back
- Just One Thing
- Steam Engine
- One In The Same
Bonus Material:
- En La Ceremony
- Grab A Body
- That’s Too Bad
- Mahgeetah (Demo)
- Dancefloors (Demo)
- Golden (Demo)
- Masterplan (Demo)
- I Will Sing You Songs (Demo)
- Easy Morning Rebel (Demo)
- Run Thru (Demo)
- Rollin Back (Demo)
- Steam Engine (Demo)
- One In The Same (Demo)
Tour Dates
4/27 – Oklahoma City, OK at Criterion Music Hall *
4/28 – Houston, TX at Revention *
4/29 – New Orleans, LA at Jazz Fest
5/12 – Louisville, KY at Iroquois Amphitheater #
5/13 – Louisville, KY at Iroquois Amphitheater #
5/13-15 – Atlanta, GA at Shaky Knees
5/26 – Indianapolis, IN at Farm Bureau Lawn, White River State Park *
5/28 – Morrison, CO at Red Rocks Amphitheater ^
5/29 – Morrison, CO at Red Rocks Amphitheater *
8/25-28 – Arrington, VA at Lock’n Festival
* w/ The Barr Brothers
# w/ Twin Limb
^ w/ The Fruit Bats
Jimmy Fallon Pays Tribute to Prince, Telling Of Ping-Pong Match
Jimmy Fallon celebrates the life and music of Prince by sharing a memorable story of when the Purple One randomly challenged him to a game of ping-pong.
4 Prince Albums Hit this Week’s Canadian Charts
The news of Prince’s death last week has now translated into a massive increase in sales and downloads of his music across Canada. According to Nielsen Music, four Prince albums are in the Billboard Canadian Top 200 album consumption chart (which includes track equivalent sales and stream equivalent sales), and last week Canadians purchased 8,000 Prince albums, which is more than twice the 3,250 that were sold in 2016 before last week. 38,000 of Prince’s digital tracks were purchased last week, vs. 15,000 for the rest of 2016.
ON THE CANADIAN BILLBOARD CHARTS:
• Very Best Of Prince is #1
• Purple Rain #26
• The Hits/The B-Sides #61
• Ultimate #131
On the Digital Songs chart, 11 songs entered the top 200:
• Purple Rain #13
• When Doves Cry #20
• Kiss #23
• Little Red Corvette #28
• Let’s Go Crazy #33
• 1999 #45
• Raspberry Beret #48
• I Would Die 4 U #83
• Cream #136
• U Got The Look #165
• I Wanna Be Your Lover #184
Lin-Manuel Miranda raps about Puerto Rican debt crisis
To help explain the severity of Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, John Oliver asked Hamilton creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda — whose is of Puerto Rican descent — to rap about the situation.
Watch Liz Phair and Coldplay perform Prince’s hits
Tributes from music stars continue to roll in for Prince. Liz Phair just performed “Nothing Compares 2 U”, while at a cancer research benefit on Sunday night, Chris Martin (Coldplay) performed “Raspberry Beret” with a band of eighth-graders.
https://youtu.be/MRdHowRiu_w
Ani DiFranco on Prince, ‘one of the most vivid people’ she’s ever met
Former Prince collaborator, singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco reflects on the “stunningly musical” late artist.
DiFranco and Prince worked with each other on many projects over the years, but she says their friendship and partnership began long before they met face to face.
“We had been talking about each other before we talked to each other,” she tells Shad.
She looks back on fond memories of jam sessions at Paisley Park, and a man who was musical at his very core.
“He bounced from instrument to instrument and each one of them he spoke with. It wasn’t like he could just play a beat, it was like he could play drums,” remembers DiFranco.
Mark Zuckerberg In Video Interview From 1991: “I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges. There doesn’t necessarily have to be more, you know?”
It’s still hard to believe Facebook was invented by one guy in dorm room. Back in 2005, when the social networking site was still called “Thefacebook,” creator Mark Zuckerberg gave a candid interview explaining why he started it, without a care for it to be developed outside a campus online directory.
“I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges. There doesn’t necessarily have to be more, you know? A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing, getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.”
If only he knew what the opportunities were. I mean, nobody knew.