we don’t have enough paint-a-wizard-on-the-side-of-your-van music anymore
As someone who has street parked since moving to NYC… please, please, please do this.
The music is pretty good, the visuals are instantly iconic www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
Finished Amadeus & thought about it &
Wolfie - Kermit
Stanzi - Piggy
Salieri - controversial, but: piano, sidelined original Main Guy - Rowlf
Leopold - Sam Eagle
Emperor - Fozzie
Simon Callow - Gonzo
Cynthia Nixon - Janice
May you be an example to everyone
I'm compiling a list of songs whose production and performances are so great that they disguise the fact of extremely boring melodies. So far I have "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees and "Royals" by Lorde.
Thank you @andrewhickey.500songs.com for reading every book about The Band so I didn't have to
The aural skills kids get to sing the Suspensions Song www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/03alr...
Tomorrow in theory we're working on embellishing tones and we get to sing my Embellishing Tones Song www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g6na8...
Yeah, I'm very interested to hear what they come up with.
For their midterm project, I'm having my pop theory kids write a new melody to the instrumental of "Golden" by Jill Scott. I want them to stick close to the changes even though Jill Scott herself doesn't. Just to make things interesting, it's in Eb minor and there's some mode mixture.
Fun fact of the day from the 500 Songs podcast: Otis Blue was recorded in 28 hours, and it would have been less but everyone had to take a break to go play their regular club gigs
New on the pod, a look at "The Weight" by the Band, its roots in Old Weird America, and why it makes such a good R&B/soul cover open.substack.com/pub/ethanhei...
tinker taylor soldier swift
The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't
Same
A Band, with their classic song "The Height" from their album Music From Large Mauve
Music From Large Mauve
Today in theory we were talking phrasing and hypermeter, and I want to present to you the most confusing phrase structure in the history of popular music (not counting prog rock that is trying to be weird and annoying on purpose) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMSh...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The first week of US's war with Iran cost $6 billion, almost the same as the entire annual budget funding all scientific research via NSF
One of Gorillaz’ major legacies is getting white guys in the suburbs to listen to the Native Tongues rappers and I think that’s beautiful
My so-called "career" is in chaos but I feel like I have the dad thing pretty well nailed down
13yo has been homebrewing kombucha, the last batch was grapefruit and rosemary, it was tremendous, I don't know how I got so lucky
This is why we need trains everywhere
You know the bit in Veep when Kent Davison tells (I think) Dan Egan that he doesn't have the "facial gravitas" to pull off a beard?
I definitely believe that study of one can enrich study of the other
I'm writing an academic article about AI in music education and I specifically want people's reaction to the illustration, it's hard to get that without showing the illustration
Jason Moran made a solo piano Duke Ellington album! He even references Duke's playing style. "Black and Tan Fantasy" is wild. jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/jason-...
