Magician Criss Angel has directed a video of Dee Snider performing Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” — as a solo piano ballad. The video raises funds for Angel’s charitable organization, which benefits children fighting cancer.
Metallica, Roger Waters booked for Bridge School benefit
Neil Young’s annual Bridge School benefit concert will be headlined this year by Metallica and Roger Waters — in addition to Young himself, with other amazing artists including Willie Nelson, Cage the Elephant, My Morning Jacket, and Norah Jones. The benefit takes place October 22 and 23 in Mountain View, California.
Coldplay and James Corden cover ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’
On Sunday night at the Rose Bowl, Coldplay invited James Corden to join them onstage for a cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” It being Corden’s birthday, the band brought a cake out to give to the TV host after their duet.
How Old Bridges Are Turned into Turntables
There are more than 600,000 bridges in the United States alone. When those bridges can no longer do their job, every ounce of steel can be recycled and reused.
Koko The Gorilla Plays Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea’s Bass Guitar
When Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea was visiting the Gorilla Foundation in Northern California, he loaned his bass to the amazing Koko. “My sweet and true friend Koko rocks a flea bass like it ain’t nuthin'” says Flea, who should be very careful of being replaced in the band.
BBC sells music rights to Luther, Doctor Who and Wolf Hall
The BBC has sold the rights to theme tunes and music from hit shows including Idris Elba’s Luther, Doctor Who and Wolf Hall.
BMG, the music company with artists including David Bowie, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger and Iron Maiden, has snapped up the potentially highly lucrative rights to more than 1,000 copyrights to theme tunes, background music and music cues in BBC shows.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, only looks to sell the music rights to shows once every five or so years when it has built a decent archive of music from more recent shows.
Samsung will close its U.S. mobile music service — Milk Music — next month
Samsung will close its U.S. mobile music service — Milk Music — next month.
Milk Music launched in 2014 as a service that is exclusively for Samsung devices, but has struggled to gain traction in the competitive space of music streaming. It used to include video, until that component was shuttered last year, but the VR element of Milk will leave on.
“We have made the strategic decision to invest in a partner model focused on seamlessly integrating the best music services available today into our family of Galaxy devices. We believe that working with partners will accelerate innovation, enhance device sales and provide amazing new experiences for our customers,” Samsung said in a blog post.
One-Third Of All Canadians – 11.7 Million – Tune Into The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration
Last night, millions in Canada and around the world gathered around screens and radios and at hundreds of public viewing events worldwide to celebrate Canada’s unofficial poet laureates, The Tragically Hip, as they brought down the house in an emotional and historic performance. According to Numeris*, the live, commercial-free broadcast of The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration reached 11.7 million (2+) Canadians across all CBC television, radio and digital platforms as Gord Downie, Paul Langlois, Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay played the final date of their Man Machine Poem tour at Kingston’s K-Rock Centre. The concert special was also streamed 900,000 times in Canada and around the world. The nearly three-hour Saturday evening broadcast attracted an average minute audience of 4.04 million.
The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration was broadcast nationally and streamed globally live and commercial free from 8:35 pm to 11:17 pm ET on Saturday, August 20 on CBC, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio One on SiriusXM Channel 169, CBC Radio 2, CBCMusic.ca/thehip, ICIMusique.ca, CBC Music’s YouTube channel and Facebook page, and the CBC Music app on iPhone, iPad and Android devices and the new Apple TV.
“It was an honour and a privilege for CBC to bring this unprecedented event to audiences across the country and around the world. This is public broadcasting at its very best,” said Heather Conway, executive vice-president, English Services, CBC. “For nearly three hours on a summer Saturday night, an entire nation paused to celebrate and pay tribute together. Thank you to Gord, Paul, Rob, Gord and Johnny for an intimate and unforgettable shared experience.”
The broadcast event was the result of a partnership between CBC, The Tragically Hip and Insight Productions to celebrate the band’s hometown stop on their 15-date sold-out cross-Canada Man Machine Poem tour, making it available to all Canadians and audiences around the world in a live, commercial-free, all-platform broadcast.
Formed in Kingston in the mid-80s, The Tragically Hip have sold millions of records worldwide, managing to enjoy both mass popularity and critical acclaim. The group released their first album in 1987, and have since released 14 studio albums, earning two diamond certifications and 20 #1 hits. The Hip has won 14 Juno Awards and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2005. They have also received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, as well as honorary degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music and most recently Queen’s University.