Kye Smith, an Australian drummer, mashes all the songs you know and love from Nirvana into five-minute “drum chronology” that includes everything like Blew from the Bleach album to You Know You’re Right.
Watch Kye’s other 5-minute crunches from The Beatles, Blink 182 and Green Day below.
“Humankind seems to teeter between hubris and paranoia: the hubris of our ever-growing power contrasts with the paranoia that we’re permanently and increasingly under threat. At the zenith we realise we have to come down again…we know that we have more than we deserve or can defend, so we become nervous. Somebody, something is going to take it all from us: that is the dread of the wealthy. Paranoia leads to defensiveness, and we all end up in the trenches facing each other across the mud.” – Brian Eno
The Ship, the new album by Brian Eno, will be released on Friday, April 29th, 2016 via Warp Records. The Ship is Eno’s first solo record since 2012’s Grammy-nominated LUX. Originally conceived from experiments with three dimensional recording techniques and formed in two, interconnected parts, The Ship is almost as much musical novel as traditional album. Eno brings together beautiful songs, minimalist ambience, physical electronics, omniscient narratives and technical innovation into a single, cinematic suite. The result is the very best of Eno, a record without parallel in his catalogue.
“On a musical level, I wanted to make a record of songs that didn’t rely on the normal underpinnings of rhythmic structure and chord progressions but which allowed voices to exist in their own space and time, like events in a landscape. I wanted to place sonic events in a free, open space.
One of the starting points was my fascination with the First World War, that extraordinary trans-cultural madness that arose out of a clash of hubris between empires. It followed immediately after the sinking of the Titanic, which to me is its analogue. The Titanic was the Unsinkable Ship, the apex of human technical power, set to be Man’s greatest triumph over nature. The First World War was the war of materiel, ‘over by Christmas’, set to be the triumph of Will and Steel over humanity. The catastrophic failure of each set the stage for a century of dramatic experiments with the relationships between humans and the worlds they make for themselves.
I was thinking of those vast dun Belgian fields where the First World War was agonisingly ground out; and the vast deep ocean where the Titanic sank; and how little difference all that human hope and disappointment made to it. They persist and we pass in a cloud of chatter.”
The album opens with the 21-minute eponymously titled “The Ship” on which Eno’s cyclically sung sea-chant builds in ominous drama, snatches of distant voice and creeping electronics. Listen in a dark room and physically feel the power of this endless sea. “Wave. After. Wave.”
“Fickle Sun” follows in three movements. The first continues where “The Ship” left but with Eno’s voice sounding more upfront, determined, even despairing: “and so the dismal work is done” / “the empty eyes, the end begun” / “there’s no-one rowing any more, abandoned far from any shore” and the refrain “when I was a young soldier..”.
“The poem read by Peter Serafinowicz was created by a Markov Chain Generator (software written by Peter Chilvers) into which we fed accounts of the sinking of the Titanic, some First World War soldiers songs, various bits of cyber-bureaucracy and warnings about hacking, some songs of mine, some descriptions of machinery, and so on. The Generator produced thousands of lines of text from which I extracted a few and then put them into this order.”
The album’s finale is a Lou Reed penned cover of The Velvet Underground’s “I’m Set Free”, a band who were famously credited by Eno as the inspiration behind his early music explorations as an art student.
“Written in the late sixties, Lou Reed’s song “I’M SET FREE” seems even more relevant now than it did then. Perhaps anybody who’s read Yuval Noah Harari’s SAPIENS will recognise the quiet irony of ‘I’m set free to find a new illusion’…and its implication that when we step out of our story we don’t step into ‘the truth’ – whatever that might be – but into another story.”
Coinciding with The Ship’s release, a series of Eno installations will be happening around the World at which you will be able to hear an alternative telling of The Ship in multi-channel 3-dimensional sound installations.
The impact of The Ship album will surely be felt long after these installations are ended; it signals yet another cycle in Eno’s creative career – “This album is a succession of interleaved stories. Some of them I know, some of them I’m discovering now in the making of them.”
Tracklist:
01. The Ship
02. Fickle Sun
(i) Fickle Sun
(ii) The Hour Is Thin
(iii) I’m Set Free
YTV adds a new live action comedy to its set list with Nickelodeon’s highly anticipated series School of Rock, which follows a group of overachieving prep school students who band together and learn to rock out when they meet their new, unconventional substitute teacher. Viewers can catch a sneak peek of the series on Saturday, March 12 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on YTV following Nickelodeon’s 29th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards (day-and-date with the U.S). School of Rock will then premiere Thursday, March 31 at 7 p.m. ET/PT and continue to air in its regular Thursday-night time slot.
School of Rock follows Zack (Lance Lim), Lawrence (Aidan Miner), Freddy (Ricardo Hurtado), Summer (Jade Pettyjohn) and Tomika (Breanna Yde) who learn to take risks and reach new heights thanks to substitute teacher Dewey Finn (Tony Cavalero), a down-on-his-luck musician who uses the language of rock ‘n’ roll to inspire his class to form a secret band. Throughout the school year, these middle-school classmates find themselves navigating relationships, discovering their unknown talents and learning lessons on loyalty and friendships.
The series features guest appearances from Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy), Kendall Schmidt (Big Time Rush) and Kira Kosarin (The Thundermans). Episodes will include musical performances by the cast covering hits “What I Like About You” (The Romantics),“Lips Are Movin” (Meghan Trainor), “The Kids Are All Right” (The Who), “We’re Not Gonna Take It” (Twisted Sister), “Shut Up and Dance” (WALK THE MOON), “Heart Attack” (Demi Lovato) and more.
School of Rock is developed by Jim and Steve Armogida (Crash & Bernstein, Grounded for Life), who also serve as Executive Producers with Jay Kogen (The Simpsons, Henry Danger). The 2003 movie of the same name was written by Mike White. Its director Richard Linklater and producer Scott Rudin serve as series Executive Producers, along with Eli Bush (The Newsroom, Ex Machina).
Little Budi didn’t have the best of starts, rescued from a horrible life in a chicken cage. Proof that we’re all stronger than we think, Budi is having a great life now, never giving up.
This is a seven-hour video, the full-length train ride from Bergen to Oslo, Norway. It’s visually stunning, and would go great in the background at a party, event, or if you have an entire day to blow off.
https://youtu.be/z7VYVjR_nwE
The Ambassador for Record Store Day 2016 is not one person, but four: the four who make up METALLICA.
From the very first Record Store Day, Metallica have embraced the concept, and celebrated the culture of the indie record store with in-store appearances and special releases for both our special April Saturday and Black Friday.
For Record Store Day 2016, the band’s official release is a special live CD, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Metallica! – Live at Le Bataclan. Paris, France – June 11th, 2003, a live concert recording from the Paris theatre that became the focus of the world in November 2015. This release, and the charitable donation of its proceeds to Fondation de France’s Give For France charity, fits into a larger theme for Record Store Day 2016 that highlights the relationship between US record stores and their French counterparts, between Record Store Day and Disquaire Day, between music-and-arts-loving humans in the United States, France and the world.
Entertainment One (eOne) and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Fox) today announced that they will be joining forces on a long-term basis through a multi-territory home entertainment partnership. The companies also announced the launch of a new home entertainment joint venture in Canada.
The partnership builds on the companies’ longstanding home entertainment distribution alliance in Australia and Spain, with the addition of key eOne territories including the UK and Benelux. Fox will manage sales and distribution services on DVD and Blu-ray on behalf of eOne for film, television and family home entertainment titles in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Australia. Fox will also take on the marketing and sales efforts for eOne-marquee preschool brand Peppa Pig exclusively in the US market for physical home entertainment.
Additionally, eOne and Fox will take a significant role in driving the evolution of the Canadian industry through the launch of a joint venture that will handle their combined direct account home entertainment business in Canada. Upcoming home entertainment releases under the new venture include The Hateful Eight, The Peanuts Movie, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip.
“As the industry continues to rapidly evolve, our expanded partnership with Fox marks a significant milestone for our business,” said Steve Bertram, President, Global Film Group, Entertainment One. “Fox is a leader in global home entertainment and we look forward to joining forces to strengthen our relationship with retail and bring our exciting slate to consumers around the world.”
“eOne is a valued partner and a global leader in acquisition, production and distribution of entertainment,” said Keith Feldman, President, Worldwide Distribution, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. “We’re delighted to expand our relationship with them, as they continue to bring top-tier entertainment to market around the world.”
The transition is expected to begin in the near term.
Coloring books capture the imagination of children and provide them with one of their earliest opportunities for creative expression. However, given the proliferation and popularity of digital devices, real-world activities like coloring can seem unexciting, and children become less engaged in them. Augmented reality holds unique potential to impact this situation by providing a bridge between real-world activities and digital enhancements. Disney researchers have developed a method which lets kids (or adults) fill in a coloring book and see their creations mapped into 3D space via augmented reality. It works in real time on an ordinary tablet, and can even account for the curvature of the book’s pages.
Election season is upon us, and history is finally being made. Now that the first primaries have taken place, it’s not enough to be one of the final front-runners to be mentioned in the greatest names in history. Oh, no, dear reader. It’s all about that historic moment when you get to appear on The Simpsons.
X-Files star Gillian Anderson reminisced about superfan Dave Grohl‘s 1996 cameo on the show. “He came to the set for one episode as an extra,” she told Rolling Stone. “He did a cameo; a drive-by. If you blink, you miss him.”
