Apple announced today that Johnny Cash’s Guess Things Happen That Way was the ten billionth song legally downloaded & paid for via iTunes. Here it is pro-YouTube-o:
Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Ten Billion High and Rising
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Via Avinash Kaushik: the Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead, wherein is discussed the Dead forerunning the sharing culture and social networking, the social science research thereon, and its applications in the modern business world.
The Winterland 1977 show is fucking tight — double-bump recommend, esp. for fellow ‘hedz.
New Cypress Hill
Saturday, February 13th, 2010Via Daz’s Buzz:
Cypress Hill is back!
Life Just Got A Little Better
Thursday, February 4th, 2010This is just a straight-up repost. Die Antwoord rules (and so does their site):
[Also Jack Parow (no relation):]
Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles. If you missed (or loved) The Grey Album you might want to peep this:
DJ Tom Caruana comes with 2010’s first online underground megahit mashup. Google around — it ain’t hard to find — or hit me up for linkage (thx Yams).
Poisoning Orion
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Music videos are where you look for the future of film…
… Or maybe the past?
With a four week production schedule and a love song of sorts, we travelled back in time to the late seventies and joined a cult of psychonauts to make a video about alien panther love, ontology, and inter-dimensional space travel.
Good luck, Orion Tait. I dig your video styles.
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010I’ve taken to drinking straight espresso. While enjoying one this afternoon reviewing photos with Karen a song hit the system:
The barista said: It’s Zungguzungguguzungguzeng by Yellowman.
There’s a sound there, the organ, which reminds me of a sample used in KRS-ONE’s Criminal Minded — Remix for “P” is Free, but it could just be the same progression.
Merry Christmas From The NBA
Friday, December 25th, 2009Sounds like KRS-ONE (ft. Kobe and LeBron) and references Criminal Minded’s “The Bridge is Over” (one of the original hip hop diss tracks):
Muppets bring the ruckus. Apparently there’s a whole series of Puppet LeBron commercials.
Fashion Without Art is Just Clothes
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009I read somewhere that Lady Gaga wrote songs by, first, picking the outfit she would perform them in. Some glossy rag sampled her thusly: “Fashion saved my life.”
Here’s her latest joint, “Bad Romance” via BB (click through for video of Gaga rocking a talent show in her NYU days). Check the outfits:
Gaga’s is the first pop act that’s come along in quite a while — basically since MJ’s Thriller days — that I enjoy, and her style has much to do with that. Her music is take-it-or-leave-it, but as a platform for her personality it works. I like how her work is quietly obsessed with eyes, vision, seeing.
The title of this post is a Pharrell quote. The video is from InterScope-Geffen-A&M’s official YouTube channel — thank you, IGA, for making embedding easy.
The Infinite Dub Machine
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009I’ve lost the link in my ocean of tabs, but this is also via 43f, possibly the single greatest use of the internet yet envisioned, ThruYOU, the YouTube remix project.
Here’s track two, a reggae dub. Dub is impossible without electronics*, but it’s not high-tech. I find it a very appropriate style here, and love the use of my fellow Caucasian baldhead — there’s a point at which it’s not colonialism, just love:
Also included: Hip hop, funk, and electro R&B. The songs are good, but the videos are integral: YouTube runoff filtered into pure-sounding art-recyke (which, I think, pays some light homage to Chris Cunningham/Aphex Twin). RZA once said that with a well-textured beat any sample could be used in any song, regardless of time signature — there’s at least one example of that here (the flute in “Just A Lady”).
* No, not really. It’d just be a lot of effort otherwise.