The Life of a Teen Beauty Pageant Host Has Zak Slemmer found his calling? He’s not sure. He loves Korea and politics, teaching and comedy—but he’s really, really good at hosting Miss Teen pageant contests. Laura Shin shadowed Slemmer for Narratively. It’s the rehearsal for the New York City Miss Teen pageant. Read the story Like this: Like Loading...
♫ Tony-b Machine ♫ James “Blood” Ulmer, Guitar Activist James “Blood” Ulmer is one of the most distinctive and important guitarists of the past 50 years. His music highlights the through line from traditional blues to free jazz. In this episode of Expandable Sound, the singer and guitarist discusses his approach to the unwritten law of guitar harmolodics, Jimi Hendrix, and what it means to be a guitar activist. Born in St. Matthews, South Carolina in 1940, Ulmer got his start in music singing in a spiritual group led by his father. Ulmer has released numerous recordings that range from explorative free improvisation to unadorned traditional blues.
ButtonBass Make Music online. Play the Virtual Piano With Your Keyboard. Roscoe Mitchell Live at Pioneer Works In October 2015, Pioneer Works presented legendary saxophonist, composer, educator, and founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Roscoe Mitchell, in a unique quintet with Scott Robinson (woodwinds), Thomas Buckner (baritone), Tani Tabbal (drums), and Gerald Cleaver (marimba and drums). The concert is one of many special events marking the 50th anniversary of the AACM, a music collective that for the past 50 years that continues to be a standard-bearer of innovation, self-determination, and creativity’s power to transcend social and political barriers. At Pioneer Works, the group’s legacy has also served as a unique model in its approach to community based, creative education. Mitchell, an uncanny improvisor and composer of granite conviction, and has been making music since the 60s that defies genre and consistently expands the potentials of the form.
808 Cube The Female Body of Punk December 15, 2015 — A decade after the Sex Pistols were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the once marginal and vilified punk movement has, for better and worse, been thoroughly assimilated as a major aesthetic and cultural force. One welcome effect of this canonizing process has been a recent wave of new memoirs by some of the major female punk and post-punk innovators: a collection of books that allow us better to apprehend some of the possibilities for sex and gender experiment that briefly opened up, and quickly shut down, as punk took form in the US and Britain in the mid- and late 1970s. The movement that had acquired definite shape in London and New York City by the end of 1975 was given its name by the American fanzine Punk. Cofounder Legs McNeil explains that the name for the magazine—and soon, the movement—was an act of reclamation. “On TV, if you watched cop shows … when the cops finally catch the mass murderer, they’d say, ‘you dirty Punk.’
2015's top 100 digital music stories: 61 - 100 Music Ally spent 2015 covering every aspect of the digital music world, from Spotify and Apple Music to YouTube and SoundCloud, taking in crowdfunding, hacking, Shakira and the return (unknown to her or her label) of Jessica Simpson. We’ve rounded up our 100 key stories of 2015, with numbers 61 to 100 below. Scroll down and start at the bottom if you fancy a chart-like climb to number one, but if you’d rather start at the top, click here to get to numbers 1 to 10. 61. In October, Forbes published a chart of the top-earning YouTube stars from the last year, with classical musician Lindsey in fourth place with estimated earnings of $6m from sales and touring. 62. Pandora’s $75m acquisition of Rdio’s assets is covered further up this roundup, but Rdio’s bankruptcy and shutdown deserves its own entry here. 63. 64. Kevin Kadish was partly responsible for one of the year’s biggest hits: Meghan Trainor’s ‘All About That Bass’. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81.
Psy says he has 'no chance' of another 'Gangnam Style' success SEOUL – ‘Gangnam Style” star Psy acknowledged Monday that he could never repeat the phenomenal global success of his 2012 hit, but said he was perfectly happy being “just another” K-pop artist. The South Korean rapper was catapulted to unlikely international stardom after the “Gangnam Style” music video, with its invisible horse-riding dance, went viral. The song — a satire of the luxury lifestyle of residents in Seoul’s glitzy Gangnam district — remains the most-watched video of all time on YouTube, with more than 2.4 billion views. The 37-year-old singer said the success of the song and the expectations that came with it had sometimes been difficult to cope with. “The pressure and stress was simply too huge,” he told a press conference in Seoul ahead of the release on Tuesday of his new album. Asked if he imagined another worldwide hit, Psy shook his head. “No chance,” he said. “The sheer weight of Gangnam was so heavy, I don’t even go to Gangnam anymore,” he joked.
When Does a Medium Die? In my attic sits a cardboard box filled with objects I used to love. In total, they cost me at least $1,000—a sum that’s reflective of the mid-'90s, when my only income was the $20 I made every week from cutting my grandmother's lawn. This box is full of compact discs, and they are now worthless, or very close to it. The cost of physically taking the time to go through the box, or filling up my car to drop them off at the used record store so that they can be someone else's problem, is greater than the pittances I would earn hawking them online. What went for $15.99 at Best Buy in 1995 is now worth exactly one cent on Amazon. The compact disc is, in other words, a dead medium. The death of the compact disc is nothing new. “Human needs remain the same, and as societies we are always trying to come up with new ways of addressing them,” Dr. Conversation about what is lost nevertheless tends to proliferate on the mediums of the day. The two most contentious items on Jennings' list?
Heroines of Cinema: Why Don't More Women Make Movies? Mar By Matthew Hammett Knott | Indiewire March 24, 2014 at 10:53AM Writing this column, my gender makes me well aware that issues relating to women in film can be experienced quite differently in theory and practice. But this is scant insight compared to that offered by New Zealand writer, activist, academic and filmmaker Marian Evans, Wellywood Woman. Traversing the divide between the theoretical and the practical, her Development Project has led myself and many others to some crucial insights concerning some of the many issues facing women filmmakers. 00000144-f486-dfac-a747-fcdf89e60000 Marian Evans, writer Cushla Parekowhai, painter Allie Eagle Outsiders might think that women in film in New Zealand have it good. The Development Project began life as a PhD I got lucky. Madeline McNamara in "Development" When I talked about this, most people pointed to our well-known women filmmakers and denied there was a problem. She began to integrate the analytical with the personal