Morgan Harris sur Twitter : "Thank you @drivebytruckers for letting me hang out @floydfest - killer set! #music #festival #floydfest #blueridge. Morgan Harris sur Twitter : "@DrDogMusic crushed it at @CvilleJefferson on Saturday! #livemusic #musicphotography... Spotify opens up analytics in effort to prove its worth to doubting musicians. Streaming music service Spotify is hoping to win over its musician critics by launching a new Spotify Artists website explaining how its business model works.
The company is also launching free analytics for artists to get data on streams of their music; announcing plans to help them sell merchandise from their Spotify profiles; and publishing figures on how much musicians can expect to earn as it grows. The various announcements are a response to trenchant criticism from some musicians in 2013. Thom Yorke described Spotify as "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse", while David Byrne criticised streaming as "unsustainable as a means of supporting creative work of any kind". The Spotify Artists website aims to answer musicians' questions about how Spotify calculates its payouts for streams of their music, and convince them that as the company grows, their streaming earnings will make up for any fall in sales of CDs and downloads. Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music: The artist was a rock god. He was also a big nerd.
Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images I first met Lou Reed about 10 years ago, at a benefit in New York.
Reed was sitting next to his partner, Laurie Anderson, and fiddling with a Palm Pilot. He was wearing a grey blazer covered with black furry patches, in a sort of random pattern, and tight blue jeans stuffed into black cowboy boots. I couldn’t help but peer over Reed’s furry shoulder—and his rather imposing mullet—watching him paging through menu screens on the PDA at an impressive clip. I thought of the black-and-white Velvet Underground poster that hung in my kitchen for years, and the image of Reed as a champion of down and dirty minimalism, of raw three-chord rock, and New York cool. Reed was always a tech boffin, a part of his history that often gets glossed over. When I heard that Lou Reed died, I was in London, fiddling with a mobile phone as the streets filled with rain. Reed packed more life into those weeks than most of us ever will.
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Tamarind Jones/Courtesy of Nvidia Musician Mickey Hart in a cap that collects electrical activity in his brain. Peering inside our mind and capturing images of our thoughts has become a preoccupation in much of neuroscience. It's also an unlikely part of the light show at a Mickey Hart Band concert. Yes, the musician best known as the percussionist for the Grateful Dead for more than 20 years jams with a light show powered by his mind. "It's totally captivating," Hart says. Of course he does. "And it's made me overall very happy in my life," Hart says. Hart has a lot to be happy about. "I was just looking at it and watching it fire, and you see the colors moving and the different rhythm patterns and realizing, that's me," he says. But Hart's interest in brain science dates to the '80s.
Hart became convinced that music could be a powerful therapy. Gazzaley is designing similar experiments using music. The Universal History of Music In One Awesome Timelapse Drawing. Eugene Mirman on why The Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” is just the worst. In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
The hater: Though he’s been doing stand-up for years now, Eugene Mirman’s most prominent gig is as the voice of Gene Belcher on Bob’s Burgers. When he’s not wearing a burger costume as his animated alter ego, though, Mirman’s hustling: He’s released three solo comedy albums (2004’s The Absurd Nightclub Comedy Of Eugene Mirman, 2006’s En Garde, Society! , and 2009’s God Is A Twelve-Year-Old Boy With Aspergers), a book (2009’s The Will To Whatevs), and Comedy Central has just released a DVD of his latest special for the network, Eugene Mirman: An Evening Of Comedy In A Fake Underground Laboratory.
Given his predilection for brainy, absurdist humor, The A.V. Club thought Mirman might make a completely left-field pick for his HateSong, and while he didn’t, really, the reasons for his pure, unadulterated abhorrence are plenty smart. The A.V. EM: Exactly.
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