Why “The Lady from Ipanema” Is a Richer & Weirder Track Than You Realized

Say what you need about YouTube’s neg­a­tive results (finish­much less soy faces, influ­encers, its devi­ous and fas­cist-lean­ing algo­rithms) nevertheless it has supplied to cre­ators an area by which to indulge. And that’s one of many rea­sons I’ve been a fan of Adam Neely’s work. A jazz musi­cian and a for­mer stu­dent at each the Berklee…

The Experimental Motion That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Tune, “Revolution 9”

As of this writ­ing, the Bea­t­les’ “Rev­o­lu­tion 9″ has greater than 13,800,000 performs on Spo­ti­fy. This has little question gen­er­at­ed first rate rev­enue, even giv­en the plat­for­m’s oft-lament­ed pay­out charges. However com­pare that num­ber to the greater than half-a-bil­lion streams of “Black­chicken,” additionally on the Bea­t­les’ self-titled 1968 “white album,” and also you get an…

We Are Right here for Jimmy Fallon’s Viral Music About Academics

Go away it to Jimmy Fallon to spin our deepest, heartfelt appreciation for lecturers right into a catchy tune that sticks in your head. In his newest viral video, @triviachat options Fallon crooning about lecturers deserving all the pieces from bottomless wine to cucumber spa days. Sure, he went there, and we’re completely right here…

Johnny Money & The Conflict’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Track” (2002)

In 1958, Mer­le Hag­gard noticed John­ny Money play in San Quentin, and went on to sing hon­est coun­attempt songs for coun­check out­legal guidelines. In 1982, future Rage In opposition to the Machine gui­tarist Tom Morel­lo noticed Joe Strum­mer play with The Conflict in Chica­go and went on to play offended proper­eous rock for offended punks….

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Carry out a Rollicking Cowl of the Mary Tyler Moore Theme Track (1996)

?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Initially written by Sonny Curtis and launched in 1970, “Love Is All Round”–in any other case often called the Mary Tyler Moore theme music–has been coated by many acts: Sammy Davis Jr, Hüsker Dü, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, to call a number of. After releasing a studio model in 1996, Jett carried out the…

James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Tune of Myself”

Word: With the unhappy cross­ing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re convey­ing again a put up from our archive–one fea­tur­ing Jones learn­ing two nice Amer­i­can poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whit­man. These learn­ings first appeared on our website in 2014. For all its many flaws the orig­i­nal Star Wars tril­o­gy nev­er strayed…