Tag: musician
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New Beatles via AI?
Paul McCartney has announced a final ‘new’ Beatles song, created via AI extraction – but as ever, it seems to be a response to fan-made videos doing the same thing – even the announcement came about a month after Dae Lims very moving Fab Four Artificial Intelligence recreation of a John Lennon demo ‘Grow Old…
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RC 368: Eat The Rainbow Capitalists (Dark 80’s Edition)
Fuck the rainbow capitalists and all that shiz. Taste the Rainbow? I’d rather puke it up all over those who get offended by queer people tbh…or eat the rich….pride was a riot! A dark 80’s edition of the podcast – influenced by Stranger Things and the sad death of Depeche Mode’s Fletch – so many…
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You Sang My Song – Billie Eilish, Dolly Parton, Katy Perry, P!nk
This came around randomly but I LOVE this – artists reacting to fan covers of their songs. Billie Eilish is already someone who is special, really genuine and despite the scary image, nice….as is Dolly Parton, P!nk and Katy Perry. There something reallly wholesome about these, and supportive – and I think we need more…
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YouTuber gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven
Today’s entry in Copycrazy-right? is Marina from The Piano Keys, a musical blogger who does tutorials on how to play pieces on the piano for the last five years. She did a video on Piano Sonata No, 14 aka Moonlight Sonata, playing a piece written by Beethoven in 1801. She then got a copyright claim…
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It’s Okay To Cry – RIP SOPHIE
Can’t believe that SOPHIE aka Sophie Xeon is gone at age 34, apparently Sophie fell while climbed up to look at the full moon in Athens. They had so much to offer and a rare thing: a trans pop adn electronica star – one of the first out transgender artists to be nominated for a…
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…