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Don't Ever Look Back: An Interview with Autre Ne Veut. Despite the forward-thinking music he’s made under the Autre Ne Veut moniker, Arthur Ashin still falls behind the times on some things. When I called Ashin via Skype for our interview, I asked him—a resident of Brooklyn—if he had any experience surrounding the cronut fad in New York City. As an Oregon resident, I could not wrap my head around why the hybrid pastry had led many New Yorkers to scheme and scam to purchase and then flip the pastries, as were they characters in a George V. Higgins novel. To my surprise, however, Ashin hadn’t heard of it. However, even though the overhyped pastry had been having a field day with local news stations and social media outlets prior to our interview, it is pretty easy to understand why the story had yet to get to Ashin. Autre Ne Veut’s sophomore LP, the beyond-brilliant Anxiety, dropped in February, and since then he’s toured the record extensively—with European dates set for late summer—including stops at big festivals like SXSW.

Yeah. How We Discover New Music Today [INFOGRAPHIC] With big-name summer albums such as Born Sinner, Yeezus, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Collapsible Lung, Random Access Memories, Hall of Fame, Halcyon Days and many, many more dropping, maybe now's a good time to re-evaluate how we discover and consume our music — or at least take a gander at how other people do it. Headphone maker Sol Republic made an exclusive infographic for Mashable that breaks down some of the recent trends in music discovery, including social listening and streaming services. Scope it out below to see how Millennials and others listen to their music, the effect of positive recommendations on sales and how mobile is changing music consumption.

Update: A previous version of the above infographic stated that Rdio had approximately 18 million tracks in its catalog; however, Rdio has more than 20 million. The infographic has been updated to reflect this change. Image, infographic courtesy of SOL REPUBLIC. Does Reworking 'Hey Jude' Into a Minor Key Make It Better? What if the Beatles had lived in an alternative universe, and the group's 1968 megahit "Hey Jude" was not intended to cheer up John Lennon's son Julian, but to sound like a funeral dirge? That's just what you'll get with this version of "Hey Jude," mashed down into a minor key that feels completely different, especially to those of us who've grown up with the Beatles and their groundbreaking music. Its creator, apparently dipping into the wonders of Auto-Tune for this version he released in late January, agrees.

He says on the video's YouTube page, "I reworked it to minor key, and it became almost entirely new song. " The mashup artist, whose group goes by the name "The Rumbeatles," might have taken an uplifting song and made it sadder. He added, "Sad, beautiful, melancholic — embodying what all of us feel about this outstanding phenomenon of The Beatles, and the fact that it will never happen again. " What say you, readers? Photo via Getty Images, Hulton Archive. Comment les entreprises de médias ont propagé le Harlem Shake à leur profit. Le mythe du Harlem Shake raconte que cet objet viral s’est propagé sur le Net spontanément, comme un soulèvement populaire et désintéressé et non en raison d’intérêts financiers. Sur le site Quartz, Kevin Ashton casse l’ambiance et remet en cause cette version spontanéiste du succès du Harlem Shake.

On connaît désormais la chronologie exacte des événements postés sur YouTube: 30 janvier 2013 Filthy Frank danse comme un possédé en combinaison rose intégrale sur le morceau Harlem Shake du DJ Harry Rodrigues, alias Baauer => ce sera le Harlem Shake, version 1 2 février Cinq surfeurs australiens reprennent l’idée et l’adaptent en fixant la forme actuelle et désormais cadenassée du Harlem Shake (un personne danse seule avec un casque sur la tête, puis tout le monde danse), de jeunes skaters américains les imitent dans la foulée => Harlem Shake V.2 3 février Or c’est à partir de cette troisième version que le phénomène décolle sur YouTube. Source: le blog de Social Flow publicité Devenez fan sur. Sociologie des tendances.

Comment expliquer ces focalisations du désir, par lesquelles des individus si différents les uns des autres, sans s’être concertés, formulent les mêmes envies ? À lire les médias qui accordent une attention grandissante à ces phénomènes, tout se passe comme si les choix du plus grand nombre — du prénom de l’enfant jusqu’à la forme des gâteaux — étaient désormais régis par une autorité aussi puissante que capricieuse : la mode.

Sous leur apparence frivole, les tendances posent quelques-unes des questions les plus sérieuses de la sociologie. Car comprendre les tendances, c’est percer les mécanismes de l’imitation, de la diffusion des goûts et du rôle de marqueur social qu’ils peuvent jouer. C’est surtout analyser l’articulation entre l’individu et le corps social. Page 1 à 4 Pages de début Page 9 à 9 Qu'est-ce qu'une tendance ? Page 29 à 45 Une brève histoire des tendances Page 46 à 65 L'origine des tendances : l'essentialisme et ses limites Page 66 à 91 Le mode de domination des tendances. The 10 Most Incredible Bernadette Peters Performances.

La destination musicale de Radio-Canada. Vin Diesel Singing Rihanna's 'Stay' Is The Best Thing Ever. The Irrepressibles Lead Singer Talks About Being Gay and the Men He's Loved. Jamie McDermott, out singer of The Irrepressibles, discusses his new album, his influences, and being gay in the music industry now. Jamie McDermott of The Irrespressibles Jamie McDermott, lead vocalist for the chamber ensemble The Irrepressibles never felt the need to hide who he was. Though the music industry may not always be the most accepting towards gay people, he felt it was such a strong part of him it couldn't, and shouldn't be repressed. After releasing the video for their latest single, Two Men in Love, which shows two men falling in love, and all of the affection that comes along with that, Jamie sat down to discuss his band's latest album, Nude and, amongst other things, being gay in the world of music. Where did the name The Irrepressibles come from?

Its about breaking boundaries in music and being honest about being gay in music. How would you describe the new album, Nude? It's a story about being a gay man. How have you found being an openly gay singer in the music world? Alexandre Tharaud and the Violons du Roy perform Bach and Mozart.