A WORLD record holding limbo queen thinks she has become the first person to shimmy under a car. Shemika Charles amazed herself and onlookers when she bent over backwards to get underneath the SUV earlier this week. The supple 22-year-old entered the record books in 2010 when she limboed down to an incredible eight and a half inches – the height of a beer bottle. She trains for up to six hours a day to keep her body in peak condition and now travels around America performing with her family. However, regular performances put an incredible strain on her body and she sees a chiropractor once a week to have her hips realigned. Her mother was also a successful limbo dancer in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago but had to give up due to injury.
Video: All The Walt Disney Pictures Intro Logos
This video shows us the logos in front of 39 Disney films, and how they mesh with their subject matter in the later movies.
https://youtu.be/noHhkzBmhRE
Brené Brown’s Animated Lesson That Can Make You A Better Person
You are probably a bit of a blamer – most of us are. But why should we give it up? In this witty sequel to our most watched RSA Short, inspirational thinker Brené Brown considers why we blame others, how it sabotages our relationships, and why we desperately need to move beyond this toxic behaviour.
Rock Band 4 is coming October 6th
It’s been a while since everyone was rocking out on plastic instruments, but Rock Band is about ready for a comeback. It appears that Rock Band 4, the first Rock Band game for this generation of consoles, will be released on October 6th, which is when Amazon lists the game as becoming available for both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It’s worth noting that retailers are sometimes wrong about release dates, but the timeframe seems right — it’d putRock Band in competition with the new Guitar Hero, which is targeted for this fall and will likely receive a proper release date soon.
Via The Verge
Deezer battles Apple Music by offering 3 months premium for 99p
The biggest talking point in the business right now is Apple Music’s three-month free trial – and how much, if any, compensation will make its way back to publishers, songwriters, artists and labels.
But the world’s existing music streaming leaders aren’t sitting on their hands as we await Apple Music’s arrival on June 30.
First we saw a flurry of activity from Spotify; announcing 20m paying subscribers and taking on $526m of fresh investment in preparation to duke it out with Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue et al.
Now Deezer has launched a Europe-wide promotion, offering three-months of premium access to its service for just £0.99 or €0.99.
POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE ANNOUNCES THE 2015 LONG LIST
The 2015 Polaris Music Prize Long List was announced this afternoon in Halifax. Produced in conjunction with Halifax Pop Explosion, the event was held at the city’s legendary club, The Carleton. The event was hosted by Polaris Founder and Executive Director, Steve Jordan. Halifax’s Mayor Savage was on hand to help announce the list of forty titles along with multiple nominee and 2015 Long Lister Luke Doucet of Whitehorse, 2013 Long Lister Old Man Luedecke, and 2010 and 2015 Long Lister Elizabeth Shepherd. Dartmouth’s Joel Plaskett performed “Hard Times” and “For Your Consideration” from his 2015 Long Listed album, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test. The event was live streamed on TFO’s BRBR.
In total, 197 titles made the first ballots of the 196 member jury.
The Short List will be unveiled on July 16 at The Carlu in Toronto, and the Polaris Music Prize Gala will return to The Carlu for the third year on Monday, September 21. Aux.tv will once again stream the gala live.
2015 Polaris Music Prize Long List:
Absolutely Free – Absolutely Free
The Acorn – Vieux Loup
Lydia Ainsworth – Right From Real
Alvvays – Alvvays
Arkells – High Noon
Rich Aucoin – Ephemeral
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul
Bahamas – Bahamas Is Afie
The Barr Brothers – Sleeping Operator
Braids – Deep In The Iris
Steph Cameron – Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady
Caribou – Our Love
Jazz Cartier – Marauding In Paradise
Jennifer Castle – Pink City
Cold Specks – Neuroplasticity
Louis-Jean Cormier – Les grandes artères
Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean
Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
B.A. Johnston – Shit Sucks
Pierre Kwenders – Le dernier empereur Bantou
Lee Harvey Osmond – Beautiful Scars
Jean Leloup – À Paradis City
METZ – II
Milk & Bone – Little Mourning
Tre Mission – Stigmata
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Joel Plaskett – The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Power In The Blood
Elizabeth Shepherd – The Signal
Siskiyou – Nervous
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld – Never were the way she was
Various Artists – Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country, 1966-1985
Viet Cong – Viet Cong
Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots
The Weather Station – Loyalty
White Lung – Deep Fantasy
Whitehorse – Leave No Bridge Unburned
Young Guv – Ripe 4 Luv
Listen to all the Polaris Music Prize nominees of the 2015 Long List playlist here.
Music tourists give £3bn boost to UK economy
Foreign music fans visiting the UK for gigs and festivals boosted the economy by £3.1bn in 2014, a report says.
The report by industry body UK Music said foreign visitors spent an average of £751 and helped sustain almost 40,000 full time jobs.
Across the UK 9.5 million people travelled to music events. Researchers also found a 39% rise in the number of overseas tourists travelling to the UK for music over the last four years.
Via BBC
Ed Sheeran surprises fan in West Edmonton Mall singing ‘Thinking Out Loud’
I love it when artists just happen to be around when they hear of singers singing their song, whether it’s on a street corner or a mall. I’m waiting, though, for that singer to say “Yeeeeah…I don’t really like you or this song, but was forced to sing it for the end of my school program. Who are you again?”
This doesn’t happen here. A young Ed Sheeran fan named Sydney Bourbeau was at the mall for a school fundraiser, singing Thinking Out Loud, when she got a surprise duet partner.
