Far too many Americans have been impacted by gun violence. The stories of survivors and families of those taken by gun violence often go untold. Acclaimed director Spike Lee sat down with several NBA All Stars including Steph Curry, Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony, and dozens of members of the Everytown Survivor Network to hear how this issue has affected them – and what they’re doing to affect change.
There’s A Trailer for ‘Dazed and Confused’ ‘Spiritual Sequel’ And It’s Awesome
Booze, babes and baseball abound in the first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, the so-called “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused set to premiere at South by Southwest in March.
Where Dazed and Confused followed a group of students on the final day of school in the Seventies, Everybody Wants Some is set in the Eighties and tracks the antics of several incoming college baseball recruits.
Linklater wrote and directed Everybody Wants Some, which will open the SXSW Film Conference on March 11th. The film boasts an ensemble cast of young performers including Blake Jenner, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, J. Quinton Johnson, Wyatt Russell, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell and Will Brittain.
Via Rolling Stone
The Beatles Are Streaming!
The Beatles’ back catalogue will appear on music streaming services – Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, Microsoft Grooove, Amazon Prime, Rhapsody, Spotify, Slacker, Tidal and Apple Music for the first time on Christmas Eve.
The announcement ends the most high-profile artist holdout from streaming services, and will begin on December 24 at 12:01am local time – here, there and everywhere.
The Beatles’ representative Apple Corps and label Universal Music have opted for broad access rather than signing an exclusive deal with one partner, as they did in 2010 with Apple’s iTunes when Beatles downloads first went on sale.
Via The Guardian
Classic Album Art Replaced With Furbies!
One of the reasons why the internet was created, stop on over to the tumblr blog Furby Living, inserting the beloved fuzzy electronic robotic toy into classic album artwork.
Infographic: The Most Common Christmas Songs In Movies
Which Christmas songs have appeared the most in holiday movies down through the years? According to website FiveThirtyEight who analyzed songs on IMBD, Jingle Bells has appeared in 373 movies. Auld Lang Syne is second, having been listed in 295 holiday movie soundtracks while Silent Night rounds off the top three with 254.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Hell Has Frozen Over. The Kinks’ Ray And Dave Davies Reunite For ‘You Really Got Me’
On December 18, 2015, Ray Davies joined Dave Davies onstage at the Islington Assembly Hall in London to perform ‘You Really Got Me’. Among other musicians they were backed up by Dennis Diken of the Smithereens on drums (he had played drums for a Kinks show in Boston in the early 80s) and Debi Doss, one of the backing vocalists from Preservation Hall and Schoolboys in Disgrace.
Norm Macdonald On How He Recovers From Bombing Onstage
You always seem pretty relaxed. Do you get stage fright?
I get stage fright, but once I get out there I’m all right. I get crazy useless stage fright, actually. I’m just scared all day but I don’t do anything to help it. I just pace and do useless things. It’s better than the other way around. I recently had this comedy club emcee show up at the very last minute all calm and collected — and he sucked. If I had his act, I’d be nervous as hell!
Have you ever bombed on stage?
I used to bomb all the time. Once you’re famous you never bomb. They just forget you’ve been sucking for 20 minutes. They just accept it. When I started, I used to bomb about 90 percent of the time.
How did you recover?
Sometimes the only thing that can save you is if you drink. Because they’re all yahoos in some of these joints you play. So you tell a joke and they don’t laugh and you go, “I’m going to have a drink!” And they go, “Yeeahhh!” You take a gulp of alcohol and they all cheer. So for a while, since I have no tolerance for alcohol, I was having the waitress bring me fake shooters that had nothing in them. I’d down like 20 shooters and by the end of the night I was the biggest hero ever because I wasn’t down on my hands and knees barfing like a normal human would be doing.
China will become one of the world’s biggest music markets by 2020
China will become one of the world’s biggest music markets by 2020, a forecast that prompted a recent consensus among three major international record companies－Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music－as well as QQ Music, a music-service platform under the Chinese Internet giant, Tencent.
The companies declared unanimity about the Chinese market’s potential at a conference in Beijing, where the main discussion focused on music streaming and subscription, the fastest-growing areas in digital music in China, and new business models these generated.
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s 2015 World Ranking report, China ranked No 19 in global trade revenues.
“But we believe that China will rank in the top five or even top three in the world music market in the next five years or even sooner. It’s one of the most important markets in our global strategy,” says Ariel Fung, executive vice-president of marketing of Sony Music Entertainment Asia.
The year 2015 has been crucial for the development of China’s digital-music market, especially with the notice from the National Copyright Administration that online music-delivery platforms had to remove all unauthorized songs by July 31, which has been seen as a major move to fight rampant piracy in the industry.
Via Eastday
Mandy Patinkin Wants Us To Exercise Our Humanity
“The line between good and evil runs through each one of us.” Mandy Patinkin visited The Late Show and has some thoughts on the world, fear and humanity.
