Ok, I’m fairly obsessed with jellyfish and have always been a big Prince fan, but honestly, I’m not quite feeling this Prince/Jellyfish poser from a recent exhibition by Prince’s designer Anthony Malzone in San Francisco.
Found via World Famous Design Junkies
Oh Bret and Jermaine, say it isn’t so!
I’m still reeling from the news posted on the Flight of the Conchords site yesterday that there will be no season 3, no more episodes, no more Flight of the Conchords. It was our family’s favorite show. Ouch. At least we still have the music. If I could just get my kids to stop singing “Mutha’uckas” at school…
Found via What’s Alan Watching?.
Everyone knows Sesame Street rocks, but here’s a reminder of just how hard. I found this sweet Smokey Robinson clip on one of my favorite music blogs, Soul Sides, and if you think this is as awesome as I do you should definitely take a trip through this comment stream on Soul Strut, where many of the most soulful musical performances from Sesame Street are highlighted.
Stevie Wonder? Herbie Hancock? Dizzy Gillespie? Richard Pryor?!? Trust me on this one, click through now.
It may seem like it’s one big Rock Band party around here, but really we don’t spend *that* much time in the basement jamming to video games. In what I promise will be my last Rock Band post for awhile (I won’t even get into the upcoming Rock Band for iPhone app or how cool the Iggy Pop and David Bowie LEGO Rock Band characters are), I had to point to these totally cool opening and closing videos and interstitial segments from the Beatles Rock Band title that BoingBoing has nicely posted.
As Brandon Boyer points out, these beautiful bits turn the video game into a virtual interactive documentary. I ooh’ed and ahh’ed over the opening video sequence of The Beatles: Rock Band along with the entire internet when it was released a month or two ago, but I like these interstitial segments created by MK12 just as much. Click through to the BB post and watch them all, as well as the intro and outro video sequences if you haven’t seen them yet. If it doesn’t make you put some Beatles music on the stereo, you’re a stronger man than I.
What a week for Rock Band announcements. First we got Flight of the Conchords, pleasing everyone in the household, then today I find out on BookofJoe that there’s going to be a LEGO Rock Band! The 7-year-old definitely approves of this idea, though I remain a bit skeptical and was not particularly enticed by the trailer below. But I’ll still give everyone involved an “A” for effort!
Looking for something to do while you’re waiting for new FOTC episodes or their RockBand tunes to get released? You could always download these free paper model designs of Brett, Jermaine, and Jermaine’s amp.
Paper FOTC Toys
Billy Preston’s dancing makes me smile.
I’m not a big fan of choral music, but I just discovered the Langley Schools Music Project and I’m really enjoying it. They were a 60-voice choir of rural school children from western Canada that performed pop hits in the mid-70s, and the passion of these young singers shines through the low-fidelity recordings (made in a school gymnasium and pressed onto two 12-inch LPs made for the students and their parents!). Their itinerant music teacher, Hans Fenger, was obviously inspired as he leads the kids through rousing versions of standards by the likes of the Beach Boys, the Beatles and David Bowie, all accented with gamelean chimes. You can buy a package that includes the reissued LPs called Innocence & Despair
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