You Can Now Have Your DNA Buried On The Moon
From CNBC:
A British company has launched a £600,000 ($1 million) Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to get to moon and drill into its surface, with punters...
DJ Shadow Soundtracks A Chevy Ad
When you obsess over perfection, elevate form and reinvent a category, you attract a lot of attention. That's why Chevrolet is the most awarded...
Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time
Cut Video found three grandmas who had never smoked pot and gave them an opportunity to try it for the first time. Then they...
1% of recording artists earn 77% of recorded music revenue
From The Atlantic:
Because the most-popular songs now stay on the charts for months, the relative value of a hit has exploded. The top 1...
How music education influenced Google CEO Larry Page
From Fortune:
As Google CEO Larry Page looks backward, he’s realizing how much his musical education inspired critical elements of Google—especially his impatience and obsession...
Twitter now lets you search for any tweet in history
From Wired:
This morning, Twitter began rolling out a search service that lets you search for any tweet in its archive.
Outside services have long offered...
Kate Bush, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Leif Garrett On This Thing Called “Punk”
Kate Bush, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Cliff Richard, Peter Gabriel, Paul Cook, John Lydon, Meatloaf, and ummm...Leif Garrett putting in their two cents on...
Questlove gives some of the best advice for bands you’ll ever hear
Wait until the 40 second mark for some great advice for bands from Questlove.
http://youtu.be/85tyZNiSyTk
Infographic: Make your next Facebook contest explode
One of the best way to gain new fans is through a Facebook contest, as long as you narrow down the true fans, rather...
Barry Manilow announces he’ll hit the road One Last Time
Barry Manilow announced today that he is going to “hit the road” and perform concerts across North America ONE LAST TIME! The music legend...
Canada’s Country Music Stars come together for the CCMA Holiday Special
The Canadian Country Music Association is pleased to present the CCMA Holiday Special, airing on CBC-TV on Monday, December 15 at 9 p.m./9:30 p.m....
Famed Celtic Fiddlers Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy Present “A Celtic Family Christmas”
With decades of musical experience, tremendously successful solo careers recognized around the world and over 10 years of marriage and six beautiful children, Natalie...
Taylor Swift and American Express Brings Fans First-Of-Its-Kind Experience For “Blank Space” Music Video
There's been a lot of talk about Taylor Swift recently, and let's just do a quick recap. This morning, Time magazine editor Nancy Gibbs...
Watch A Harlem Globertrotter Break a world record
Thunder of the Harlem Globetrotters completely shattered the Guinness World Records® record for farthest basketball shot made backwards. With a distance of 82'2", Thunder...
Conan O’Brien Visits ‘The Jon Stewart Show’ in 1994
The short-lived MTV talk show The Jon Stewart Show aired for only two seasons, but at one point, it was only second in popularity...
Steve Albini’s full speech on The State Of The Music Industry 2015
Steve Albini is the producer (he prefers the term “recording engineer”) behind several thousand records, as well as being in his own band Shellac....
