Tag: music

  • Cannes 2013: My Conversation On Creativity With OK Go Lead Singer Damian Kulash

    As part of Viacom’s trip to this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I sat down for a conversation with Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go. Last year, Damian and the band won 7 Cannes Lions, 4 of which were gold. Here’s an excerpt from our chat: Also check out OK Go’s new…

  • J.Viewz Covers Massive Attack’s Teardrop With Salad

    Music isn’t dead. It’s just getting started… For more of Brooklynite J.Viewz, click here. (Props to Scratch’s Jennie Rossello for the heads up on this one)

  • Bjoern Ewers’ Berlin Philharmonic & The Vast Expanses Of Benny Chan

    We spent yesterday afternoon having brunch at Nancy and Michael’s house, talking with our friend, photographer Benny Chan.  More about Benny, later, but something in the scale of his thinking, particularly his older compositions of the LA Philharmonic… …and the Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center: — remind me of  this print campaign for the Berlin…

  • Your Final Status Update

    Just before she died of Cystic Fibrosis, 25 year-old Eva made a video saying goodbye to all the friends and family who had loved and supporter her.  It’s as difficult to watch as you’d imagine.  So are the thousands of videos just like it.  And those are from people we don’t even know. When someone we…

  • Blasting The New Album By “Fore” This Morning

     It’s Tuesday morning, I’m in the office blasting tracks 25 year-old Mutaurwa Mapondera, a.k.a. “Fore” (formerly “Foretold”), just sent me from his underground debut called GOING BACK IS NOT THE SAME AS STAYING. Fore, born in Zimbabwe, describes it as “an album about Distance. Distance from the people and places you love, and Distance from the life you feel you should be…

  • M.I.A. Bad Girls

  • The Madonna Genre Graph By MTV Hive

    From our brothers & sisters at MTV Hive:

  • “Sleep No More” Isn’t Content, It’s User Experience

    I spent half the day today with the leaders of our digital music group, at the space where Sleep No More is running.  An inspiring background for us, as we planned some crazy shit for later this year. (Take an interactive tour of the space, here) It gave me a chance to consider what we’re trying…

  • MTV Hive Presents: Zambri

    Last year, the band Zambri performed a live show in my office.  Now check them out on MTV Hive!  And they just hit the MTV Music Meter! Zambri “Glossolalia” EP by kaninerecords From MTV Hive: Just because Jessica and Cristi Jo Zambri share a last name doesn’t mean the sisters are always on the same…

  • RECORD COLLECTING FOR GIRLS, By Courtney Smith

    Former MTV music snob (in a good way), Courtney Smith’s new book, RECORD COLLECTING FOR GIRLS, comes out today. Why buy it?  For starters, Courtney knows her shit.  Girl’s got a music library (bigger than your ipod’s) in her head and in her heart, and a trigger finger so intuitive it just knows when to push…