Here’s another version of the viral video by OK go. This is the official vid featuring a Rube Goldberg machine.
EMI made an exception to their normal (idiotic) rule not to allow their artists to embed videos. This has already been seen over 6 million times.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
EMI told OK go they weren’t allowed to embed video. EMI are idiots.
So OK go made a second music video of that song that I am able to embed here. Thanks guys! I want to promote your stuff. I’ll post it here, and link to this from Facebook and Twitter.
And I’ll continue to boycott EMI, as much as possible.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
Happy, happy. I’ve got this system running now.
I have only one computer, a laptop, backing up automatically to the cloud using Carbonite. My cost is less than $3.50 / month. Very reliable, though not 100% foolproof.
I am backing-up whenever I connect to the internet. And can restore a file or an entire laptop from anywhere in the world.
My old back-up system I’ve still got running, too: a 1TB hard drive using Time Machine software. I must physically attach the drive with a cable to do this second back-up.
If you don’t back-up, please don’t complain when you lose all your music and photos in a hard drive crash or by theft. You deserve it for not signing up for Carbonite or Mozy.
My pick.
… Black Eyed Peas was ranked 12th at the Billboard’s Decade-End Chart Artist of the Decade. They were ranked 7th in Hot 100 Artists of the Decade.
Click PLAY or watch Boom Boom Pow on YouTube.
The best selling band, as ranked by Billboard, of the last decade was Alberta’s Nickelback.
… Was this the worst decade for popular music? Worse than the 1980s?
Leave a comment if you’ve a different favourite over the last 10yrs.
Another terrific rendition of the Leonard Cohen classic.
Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris on the American Hope For Haiti telethon.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Alicia Keys – Send Me An Angel – was pretty incredible, too.
It was a classy move not identifying the STARS on that charity TV broadcast. Kudos.
Some old dinosaurs are so out of the music scene that they’ve never even heard of Duffy.
… Rockferry was the best selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008. “Mercy” was the third best selling single for the year …
Music video – Duffy performing Mercy.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Gary Brolsma on YouTube.
34 million views
A few months ago he led the half-time show at a Michigan State football game. 75,000 people loved it.
Click through to see that video.
The future is people creating online content for their friends. Kids will be addicted to Facebook. And find commercial TV boring.
Rockin’ linked to this heartwarming children’s version of a modern classic pop song.
The PS22 Chorus is a kids choir of 60 kids from a new york city public elementary school. They are slowly but surely taking over the world…..
This choir has been viewed more than 13 million times.
Click PLAY or watch Landslide on YouTube.
Click PLAY to watch the Dixie Chicks cover on YouTube.
And, of course, the original vocalist, Stevie Nicks acoustic version.
Improv Everywhere (often IE) is a comedic performance art group based in New York City, formed in 2001 by Charlie Todd. Its slogan is “We Cause Scenes.”
The group carries out pranks, which they call “missions” in public places. The stated goal of these missions is to cause scenes of “chaos and joy.” Some of the group’s missions use hundreds of performers and are similar to flash mobs, while other missions utilize only a handful of performers. Improv Everywhere has stated that they do not identify their work with the term flash mob, in part because their site was created two years prior to the flash mob trend. …
Click PLAY or watch a sample “mission”, Frozen Grand Central, on YouTube.
Another sample …
Click PLAY or watch I Love Lunch! The Musical on YouTube.
Improv Everywhere’s videos have been viewed over 78 million times on YouTube and their channel is the 64th most subscribed on the site.
I’ve subscribed to their blog. This is the kind of troupe I would join!
They’ve even got a book out now: Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere
I first heard of them on This American Life.
Growing up in Western Canada, a Country and Western mecca, I’ve always avoided and denied Country music.
I lost my girl. I lost my truck. I lost my dog.
Country music has some wonderful talent (Shania Twain jumps to mind) … but I still see it as the preserve of dumb white people. Simple minded closet racists all endorse both kinds of music, Country and Western.
But times are changing …
… While album sales of most musical genres have declined, country music experienced one of its best years in 2006, when, during the first six months, U.S. sales of country albums increased by 17.7 percent to 36 million. …
… I keep hearing about this guy named Brad Paisley. One of my favourite critics calls his most recent album – American Saturday Night – the best of the year.
The second radio single is “Welcome to the Future” which Paisley said is his favorite song on the album.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I love it. Paisley played it at the White House for President Barack Obama. In fact, he was inspired to write this song by Obama.
Finally a Country star who can sing about big, modern issues. Technology. Racism. People who aren’t descended from Hillbillies.
This song could be covered by U2 or the Black Eyed Peas.
Paisley has signed to join a new hour-long drama TV series called Nashville. If that show is a hit, he’ll have crossed over to yet another huge market.
As Ron and Kate often urge, perhaps it’s time I give Country Music open minded consideration.
Hip Hop and neo punk are in decline.
How many Beyonce clones can I listen to?
Rick McCharles 