Entertainment
A Nervous Breakdown With Live Led Zeppelin
Led?Zeppelin?just got honored by President Obama at the Kennedy Center. Let’s time machine back to see why we even heard of this gnarly english rock band in the first place:
Zep received the american lifetime achievement award this year along … Read the rest
Hung Them On The Line – 420 Funk Mob Style
420 Funk Mob doing the classic Funky Woman….
… Read the restHelp Me Make It – Pretenders Live on TV
Great song, great band, great singer. There’s other good versions of this online but this one when getting inducted has a nice conquering tone to it.… Read the rest
Auto Data
This is very cool tech – GM and OnStar are on the forefront of using the digital sensor data cars now generate to both help drivers and engineers. A Volt driver started a website to compare his Volt driving data … Read the rest
Freestyle Rappers Teach Scientists About Creativity
Now this is a collaboration.… Read the rest
She’s Got It – Aretha Does Opera
Asked to fill-in for (and by) an ailing Pavarotti, the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin does her take on this classic aria.
She had sung it only once, and in another key, before this performance.
Astounding.… Read the rest
At Daryl’s House with Cee-Lo Live
Daryl Hall invites Cee Lo Green to duet on a great Hall & Oates song, funkiness ensues.… Read the rest
Sugar Man Rodriguez Live on TV
Excellent movie about this fella, a must see.
Here he is in a rare radio performance:
… Read the restTwo In The Hand of Live Brides of Funkenstein
Check out the Brides of Funkenstein in full force in this rare find from 1979, featuring the amazing Blackbird McKnight on lead guitars.… Read the rest
The Brand New Heavies Put The Funk Back In It
Happy Turkey Day – BAKAWK!
Turkeys, chickens, I know. But I can never get this out of my head all Thanksgiving day. So I now infect you with it.
Bonus points because that’s his actual parents in the car.… Read the rest
13,000 Records Lovingly Washed and Saved
Here’s a great story about a small record label in Brooklyn that was flooded by Hurricane Sandy. They decided to … Read the rest
Pundit Shaming
These people push propaganda over facts, and have been openly doing it for years.
Shift Toward Minor Key
Pop Music Study Shows Shift Toward Minor Key Melodies Since 1960.
It also shows a slowing of tempo, increasing length, and more juxtaposition of positive lyrics over minor keys or introspective/negative lyrics over major keys.
The lyrical content was … Read the rest
Follow For Now
as The Black Ho’s, doing their thing in 1992. Great band that only got one album out.
Finish What You Start
A Broken Bike Is Such A Drag
I started riding a bike again regularly about 4 years ago. I immediately lost weight, felt healthier, saw my town in a more interesting way, and generally started to turn into a bike nerd — without the spandex!
As much … Read the rest