The dangers of digital: Brian Eno on technology and modern music
“It’s very difficult, and it’s continually under debate actually,” said Eno. “It doesn’t just apply with African recordings. It’s a problem everybody is having...
Q&A with Rolf Potts, author of the upcoming 33 1/3 on The Geto Boys
Rolf Potts is a journalist, essayist, and travel writer who has reported from more than sixty countries around the world. He is the author...
Madonna Announces 2015 Rebel Heart Tour
The list of Madonna concert dates for her highly anticipated 35-city ‘Rebel Heart’ Tour were officially announced today by Live Nation with the opening...
That time Walt Disney and Salvador Dali made a movie
In 1946, Salvador Dalí collaborated with Walt Disney animators on Destino, a surrealist animation that was storyboarded but scrapped due to budgetary concerns. Destino...
Jim Henson Early Commercials Featuring Muppets And…Coffee?
Long before he found fame with the Muppets, Jim Henson made a name for himself in the world of advertising with Wilkins and Wontkins,...
Amanda Palmer Gets It Right On Being An Artist
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly...
How to mess with your brain with M&Ms
This optical illusion will blow you away. Exactly 200 tiny handcut squares of paper placed at specific points on a checkerboard pattern make for...
U2’s Deal With Apple Pays Off Massively
Annoyed as some Apple customers may have been over being "force-fed" U2's new album last fall, the impact of the free release is still...
Fred Rogers’ Final Message to those who grew up with the Neighborhood
Shortly before he died 12 years ago, he recorded a brief video message to the adults whom he taught and grew up and older...
Leonard Nimoy Explains Origin of Vulcan Greeting
As part of the Yiddish Book Center Wexler Oral History Project, Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan hand signal used by Spock,...
A Rap Battle You Can Only Compliment Your Competitor
Don't Flop Entertainment organizes rap battles...with a twist. As most rap battles are insult-fests, this battle has a twist: you can only compliment your...
Stream “The UK Gold” Soundtrack Featuring Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Ninja, and Elbow’s Guy Garvey
“The UK Gold” follows the dramatic battle of a vicar from a small parish in the London Borough of Hackney as he goes head...
Jimmy Page On The Artist Who Most Changed His Life
Forty years ago this week, Led Zeppelin released the band's monumental sixth album, the double LP Physical Graffiti. This is a great time as...
That Time Dr. Timothy Leary Was A VJ On MTV
In 1987, Dr. Timothy Leary was hied by MTV to be a guest VJ. The good doctor had more than a few things to...
Born deaf, Christine Sun Kim uses technology, performance and drawing to study sound and spoken languages
Christine Sun Kim, deaf from birth, creates art at the intersection of sound, language, and music. From Medium:
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