Since Damon Albarn and Jamie ‘Tank Girl’ Hewlett’s collaborative cartoon band Gorillaz were nice enough to give YouTube an exclusive on the video for their new track ‘Stylo’, YouTube have let their fictional bassist Murdoc Niccols curate a post on their Celebrity Playlist section. The mask slips a little bit, and Murdoc’s voice betrays him as an excitable 40 year old man, rather than a sharp-toothed ego-bass-maniac. Some of the videos are nice, like the clip from Jacques Cousteau’s ‘Silent World’, and others are revealing, like the dressing room rehearsal of “Hip Hop”, by Mos Def and my favourite colliery band/rap mashup group, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (who you should definitely check out on dino-space here). Anyway, here’s the clip – and no, Charlie Bit Me isn’t on there, odd, considering the teeth thing.
You know what time of year it is… and since it’s been a while since we posted anything about Lady Gaga, here’s a Christmas Carol, barbershop version of her song ‘Bad Romance’, from a strange group of people called the ‘Cherry Tree Singers’. Cherry Tree is a sub label of Universal’s whose roster includes Feist, Sting, Tokio Hotel and Lady G, so I’m guessing that these are label employees that have recorded an office sing-song of their more famous client’s releases. Consider this a taster for tomorrow’s upcoming Xmas playlist. [I know. I'm sorry.]
MOG has provided a quick intro to their new music streaming service that will be launching very soon in the USA.
There currently is a lot happening in the music space online, with Spotify delaying their launch in the USA, and Myspace Music possibly moving over to a subscription model. MOG music streaming service only costs $5 per month, which means it could be a great little option away from these other major players.
Search looks to be extremely fast, with intelligent auto-complete. Adding songs from various places in the service is simple (compare to MySpace Music, which is still cumbersome after a year). And users can make the playlists private or public.
YouTube is starting to really push into the live video streaming market, despite saying that it wasnt a viable market for a long time. The Google-owned video website has streamed the Outside Lands concert and an Obama press conference in recent months, but now it’s going to stream the Rose Bowl concert of one of the world’s most popular bands, U2.
The concert will begin at 8:30 PM PT on Sunday the 25th of October and it will be available in 16 countries. The live feed will be available on the U2 Official Channel, and feature a live Twitter feed of chatter about the concert.
The world’s largest video website, in a conference call earlier today, explained that it is seeking to experiment in live video. Clearly, YouTube sees some type of potential in this emerging market, as live video players Ustream, Justin.tv, and Livestream have started to prove the viability of this market.
The latest celebrity to take up the challenge of making themselves the (much, much needed) twelfth man of the England squad for this world cup is both the most surprising and probably the best equipped. If anyone is going to bring back the reputation that England once enjoyed as being a casual sporting nation whose gentlemen believe that nothing beats a good ole friendly game of kick about in the sun, drinking tea and having jumpers for goal post chaps. That were not all beer swilling goons that cause riots as well as fighting each other and love nothing more than a fart joke, then lets face it. Its the Mayall.
England’s powerhouse of comedy is rumoured to be bringing two typically English words together, footballs and Thespians. Rik’s song ”Nobel England” is said to be a genuinely serious song (we’ll believe it when we see/hear it) without any of your usual vindaloo style terrace ranting rubbish. “Football chants are one of the great traditions of following football” says Mayall “…and Shakespeare is also part of our national heritage. It seemed only natural that they should go together.”
Rik and his people have not yet blessed us with its intended release date yet but we do know that it will go directly head-to-head with the FA’s official song which is yet to be released. Closer to the tournament more will be available in the way of downloads or videos for the song. Meanwhile, Check out Rik’s site with a chance to back him, along with the extra added fun of winning dinner with Rik! Yummy! In the meantime, enjoy some of his funniness through song anyway!
All horrendous decisions that Hitler made aside. He has gone and made another one! RouteNote have signed on to the side of the planet that seems to think that the Oasis split a good thing, were starting to feel even better about our decision after finding out that were not in the same camp as the Fuhrer.
The clip was lifted from the 2004 movie ‘Downfall’ which depicts the final days of the Nazi’s leader’s life – as played by Bruno Ganz – with fake subtitles on top.
Please dont be offended, its just a bit of harmless fun.
A new music video that was directed by the late actor Heath Ledger for the Modest Mouse song “King Rat” will premier online today. Ledger presented Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse with an idea to direct a video back in January 2007 while in Australia. Ledger’s intention for the video’s theme was to raise awareness about the issue of whales that are hunted down illegally for commercial purposes off the coast of Australia each year.
The video was fully conceived down to the last detail but unfinished when Heath passed away in January of 2008. The video company The Masses (a film and music company which Heath was a partner in), completed the video in his honor with the full support of Brock.
Proceeds from iTunes video downloads in the first month of release will go toward Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization organization committed to ending the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species.
The Pirate Bay has been in the news a lot lately not always for good reasons. Anyways a Pirate bay fan has now written them a theme song. I have embedded it below, so let us know what you think.
The rumours are true and Universal Music Group and Google have announced their joint venture, Vevo – a video site offering UMG’s music videos, with advertising revenues shared between the two.
The full press release is below for you to digest, and naturally we’ll have more analysis next week.
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND YOUTUBE TO LAUNCH REVOLUTIONARY PREMIUM MUSIC AND VIDEO SERVICE
VEVO – UMG’s Premium Music Service Powered By YouTube To Launch In Coming Months
NEW YORK, NY and SAN BRUNO, CA, April 9, 2009 – Doug Morris, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company and Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc., today announced that UMG and YouTube, a Google subsidiary, are working together to launch VEVO, a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG’s premium video content.
In addition to VEVO, YouTube has renewed and extended its successful partnership with UMG that allows users to continue creating and watching user-generated videos containing UMG sound recordings and Universal Music Publishing Group’s compositions on YouTube through various territories around the world. The two companies will also share advertising revenue on YouTube and VEVO.
Launching later this year, VEVO will be a premium online music video hub built for consumers, advertisers and content owners that will blend UMG’s broad catalog of top artists and content with YouTube’s leading edge video technology and user community. YouTube will provide the technology infrastructure that will power VEVO and host UMG’s extensive library of professionally-created music videos on the new site. On YouTube, this content will be exclusively available through VEVO.com and a new VEVO channel through a special VEVO branded embedded player.
“VEVO will bring the most compelling premium music video content and services to the world’s single largest online video audience,” stated Mr. Morris. “We believe that at launch, VEVO will already have more traffic than any other music video site in the United States and in the world. And this traffic represents the most sought after demographic for advertisers, especially as advertising dollars continue their shift from old media to new. VEVO will be uniquely positioned to monetize this opportunity and a host of others as we grow it to become “the” destination for premium music video content online. For music lovers who want the best in music videos, the VEVO experience will be second to none. At the same time, VEVO will expand the premium video marketplace, generate new revenue streams for content creators, and provide brand advertisers an unprecedented opportunity to get in front of a highly engaged audience. We couldn’t be more excited about the huge potential we see in the VEVO service.”
“Technology has allowed fans to discover music in endless ways while creating new business opportunities for artists and labels alike,” said Mr. Schmidt. “At Google, we are committed to promoting greater innovation and choice and are thrilled to be working with UMG in what will surely be an exciting new service for consumers, advertisers, content creators and the music industry at large.”
At launch, people will be able to access UMG’s entire catalog of premium music video content, including professionally-created and full-length videos on VEVO, as well as artist-generated content and user-generated content hosted on YouTube. VEVO will also serve as a syndication platform, expanding the reach of the VEVO brand. This innovative platform is aimed at providing consumers the very best in digital music content while further extending UMG’s lead in the direct-to-consumer market.
Presently, UMG’s YouTube video channel has more than 3.5 billion views, making the UMG channel the most watched on YouTube.
Now this is the kind of innovation I love to see, especially when it produces something as full of feeling and funk as these tracks from Israeli producer Kutiman. He’s gathered toghether a mass of miscellaneous ‘objets trouvee’ that others have uploaded on YouTube, and made some really varied and fantastic tunes with them. He explains it thus:
And here are the videos themselves, in handy playlist form. Please do watch them all: YouTube must need the traffic after removing all the commercial videos from their site…
Please also check out Kutiman’s own website and sent him some love if you like his work: http://thru-you.com/
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