Tag: music
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“How To Be Inappropriate” Presents: Grizzly Bear, Michael MacDonald & Daniel Nester
On a boring conference call at work and don’t know what to do? Try this: 1) Listen to Michael McDonald, 2) …who sings on this track by Grizzly Bear (courtesy of Daniel Nester)… 3) …while you purchase copies of Nester’s “How To Be Inappropriate” from indie bookstores for all your friends.
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Antonio Campos’ “Afterschool” Is The Best Movie You Probably Won’t See This Year
Unless you trust me. Is this movie going to make you laugh? Probably not even once. Is it going to make you go out and buy the soundtrack? Nope, there is no music in the movie. So why am I recommending AFTERSCHOOL so strongly? Because in the midst of all the complete fucking shit in…
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Amalie Plays Glockenspiel In My Office
Amalie Bruun came by the office here at MTV in Times Square. She brought her Glockenspiel. She sat on my window sill, we opened some wine (I may or may not have stolen) from Tony DiSanto‘s office, and she played us some songs. Usually, Amalie’s band backs her up. But today it’s just Amalie, her…
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UPDATE: MTV’s Peter Kay Accepts Our Challenge
We asked MTV’s Peter Kay to compose a song for the corner of Thomaston State Prison left when the prison was demolished. It’s a creepy architectural oddity, a stone-faced reminder of harder times, in an open field of Maine grass possibility. Peter Kay accepted the challenge. Today, his blog Twitch premieres a new original composition…
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More From Last Night’s Secret Jay-Z Show In NYC
Props to Courtney Holt for setting up this incredible show last night at the Blender Theater, as MySpace Music hosted Jay-Z. David Saslow, Jason Rzepka, Tuma Basa, Richard Kang and others watched what was supposed to be Hova’s 45 minute set. Instead, it became a warm up for Jay’s 9/11 concert. As Jay put it,…
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Leonard Bernstein Performs Haydn With Almost No Hands
My new friend, legendary conductor Itay Talgam, gave his TED Talk at the Nokia Ideas Camp this weekend. He walked us through the variations in style and technique of the world’s greatest classical conductors, ending, of course, with
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This Kid Named “Foretold” Just Killed It With A Hip-Hop Set Right Here In My Office At MTV
I met Mutaurwa Mapondera (a.k.a. “Foretold“) 2 years ago, when my colleague Zach Papale, who knows more about college bands than anyone ever, played me his music. “Foretold,” as he’s known in hip-hop circles, was a student at UNC–Chapel Hill, and was already blowin’ up inside mtvU’s incubator for emerging artists, “Best Music On Campus.”…
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VP of MTV News Benjamin Wagner Just Performed In My Office
Turns out, when he’s not running MTV News, Benjamin Wagner writes and performs music. In fact, he’s already got a few indie albums out. Benjamin took a break from breaking news and whatnot, and he came over for a visit just now. My meeting was ending, so Ben picked up a guitar and jammed for…
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Amalie Plays Glockenspiel
My friend Jesse Angelo introduced me to this incredible new, unsigned artist, Amalie Bruun, the other night. I’ve been listening to her song, I Feel Sick, all week: I feel sick ‘Cause I had one too many, last night. I couldn’t sleep… So I called up my good friend, the writer He’s in the bathroom right…
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Things People Have Told Me
Dean Kamen told me: “We are in a race between technology and catastrophe.” A friend at work told me: “We are constantly moving toward the perfect body…or total decay.” A Rabbi told me: “It’s not the size of your pencil, it’s how you sign your name.” My boss told me: “What got you here wont…