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Nellie McKay On Mountain Stage. Fish Listen to Music, Prefer Bach. Goldfish not only listen to music, but they also can distinguish one composer from another, a new study finds.

Fish Listen to Music, Prefer Bach

The paper adds to the growing body of evidence that many different animals understand music. Lead author Kazutaka Shinozuka of Keio University’s Department of Psychology told Discovery News that “goldfish could detect complex properties of sounds, such as pitch and timbre.” For the study, published in the journal Behavioural Processes, Shinozuka and colleagues Haruka Ono and Shigeru Watanabe played two pieces of classical music near goldfish in a tank. An Oral History of the Beastie Boys, on the 25th Anniversary of ‘Licensed to Ill’ Listening to Vampire Weekend in Istanbul. Benjamin Britten albums. There are 13 recordings of The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten on file (This "Discography" was generated by CLOR for THE COMPILER )

Benjamin Britten albums

Hype Williams videography. This list is primary made up of music videos directed by Hype Williams.

Hype Williams videography

List[edit] 1991[edit] 1992[edit] 1993[edit] 1994[edit] 1995[edit] 1996[edit] Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some More. Gimme Some More. Music video[edit] The music video for "Gimme Some More" was directed by Hype Williams along with Busta Rhymes himself, credited as Busta Remo.

Gimme Some More

Canciones para el Fin de Semana. Gigawatt {The Illuminated Mixtapes} Gigawatt {The Illuminated Mixtapes : 2.8} Love Songs for Lamps. Ivan Tchijevsky - Smile Brothers. Ivan Tchijevsky - Smile Brothers (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2010-03-14 The life of hip-hop in the USSR era started with the rise of street breakdancing and festivals which took place all over the country.

Ivan Tchijevsky - Smile Brothers

The first wave came around 1985 but the information on the movement and music was really rare, and the ones which were available became the platform for imitation. A lot of the upcoming breakdance crews slowly started to reform in to hip-hop collectives and the b-boys started to put toghether their own rap bands. Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music. Django Unchained (2012) - FAQ. Old music: Patti Smith – Gloria. "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine …" The first line of Gloria, the first song on what was Patti Smith's first album.

Old music: Patti Smith – Gloria

Smith was a virtual unknown in the UK when Horses was released, having just made one single, a cover of Hey Joe backed with B-side Piss Factory. In an era of prog rock, singer-songwriters and concept albums, Horses became a clarion call for primitive guitar rockers everywhere and its opener Gloria rang like a demand to storm the barricades of a soporific music scene. Smith half talks, half sings as she completely overhauls Van Morrison's earthy anthem, insisting: "People say 'beware! ' Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving. By Maria Popova “When we really see each other, we want to help each other.”

Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving

“It would be a terrible calamity,” Henry Miller wrote in his meditation on the beautiful osmosis between giving and receiving, “for the world if we eliminated the beggar. The beggar is just as important in the scheme of things as the giver. Reprints: In the Jungle by Rian Malan. Introduction Once upon a time, a long time ago, a small miracle took place in the brain of a man named Solomon Linda.

Reprints: In the Jungle by Rian Malan

It was 1939, and he was standing in front of a microphone in the only recording studio in black Africa when it happened. He hadn’t composed the melody or written it down or anything. He just opened his mouth and out it came, a haunting skein of fifteen notes that flowed down the wires and into a trembling stylus that cut tiny grooves into a spinning block of beeswax, which was taken to England and turned into a record that became a very big hit in that part of Africa. Later, the song took flight and landed in America, where it mutated into a truly immortal pop epiphany that soared to the top of the charts here and then everywhere, again and again, returning every decade or so under different names and guises.

Part One: A Story About Music. ‘Boom Boom’ and ‘Hobo Blues’: Great Performances by John Lee Hooker. This Music Is Bananas (Really) Fresh produce has never been hipper.

This Music Is Bananas (Really)

Why Adele's 'Someone Like You' Makes Everyone Cry. Seduced by ‘perfect’ pitch: how Auto-Tune conquered pop music. 32inShare Jump To Close In January of 2010, Kesha Sebert, known as ‘Ke$ha’ debuted at number one on Billboard with her album, Animal.

Seduced by ‘perfect’ pitch: how Auto-Tune conquered pop music

Her style is electro pop-y dance music: she alternates between rapping and singing, the choruses of her songs are typically melodic party hooks that bore deep into your brain: “Your love, your love, your love, is my drug!” And at times, her voice is so heavily processed that it sounds like a cross between a girl and a synthesizer. Sebert, whose label did not respond to a request for an interview, has built a persona as a badass wastoid, who told Rolling Stone that all male visitors to her tour bus had to submit to being photographed with their pants down. Yet this past November on the Today Show, the 25-year old Sebert looked vulnerable, standing awkwardly in her skimpy purple, gold, and green unitard. Sticky TOC engaged! Famous Blue Raincoat.