Canada’s Navy Absolutely Furious Over Sailor’s Parody of Mid-Tier Mötley Crüe Song: “The Ottawa Citizen first reported on the Navy’s failed investigation of the crooner of the navy-tinged Crüe hit. An email chain obtained via an access to information r…
Hail to the Chieftain
I waited a day respectfully to see if President Biden, a big fan, would post here first but Pádraig Ó Maoldomhnaigh Paddy Maloney, founder of The Chieftains and Claddagh Records died on Monday. The Chieftains put Irish Trad on the world stage not leas…
Debby King, 71, Backstage Aide Known as ‘Soul of Carnegie Hall,’ Dies
“She’s the soul of Carnegie Hall,” the cellist Yo-Yo Ma said in a phone interview. “She enables the transition that takes place between a person backstage getting ready to perform and then going onstage to share everything that is important to them. Th…
‘The song I secretly like? Agadoo by Black Lace’: Estelle’s honest playlist
The singer, songwriter and producer on De La Soul, Stevie Wonder and the song that will make everyone dance at a partyThe first song I remember hearingI remember hearing Sweet Mother by Prince Nico Mbarga at a family christening when I was about two or…
Rick Astley and Blossoms review – the ultimate Smiths karaoke shouldn’t work, but it does
Albert Hall, ManchesterWith quiff, microphone twirls and in-ear monitors resembling hearing aids, 55-year-old Astley makes an an eerily good MorrisseyThe idea of the 80s Stock, Aitken and Waterman hitmaker “performing the songs of the Smiths” with Stoc…
I Want the Door to Open by Lala Lala review – ambition and reinvention
(Hardly Art)Lillie West’s third album steers away from lo-fi indie to impressive, light-touch dream popThe voice of London-born, Chicago-based songwriter Lillie West, urgent with the need to be not just heard but understood, is clearer and more articul…
Bobby Gillespie: ‘For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement: that stuff stays with you’
On the eve of the publication of his memoir, the Primal Scream frontman talks to friend and author Irvine Welsh about his working-class upbringing, beating drugs and losing creative partners. Barbara Ellen listens inBobby Gillespie’s memoir, Tenement K…
Don’t feel guilty about the divorce, Adele. And the songs might help | Sophie Heawood
Lyrics on her new album explain the end of her marriage. She wonders how her son will react to hearing themDivorced parents across the country felt a guilty pang of recognition last week as Adele broke five years of silence to talk to Vogue about her n…
‘It was John who wanted a divorce’: McCartney sets the record straight on Beatles split
Rock history has painted Paul McCartney as the man who broke up the band. Now he reveals that it was Lennon who was first to look for a way outIt remains the most analysed break-up in rock history: the one that set the template. When the Beatles split …
Google 検索にチューニングメーター機能が追加
Google が楽器の調律に使用できるチューニングメーター機能を Web 検索に追加した (Android Police の記事、 The Verge の記事、 SlashGear の記事)。
このチューニングメーターはマイクから入力された音声をリアルタイムで認識して音程を表示するクロマチックチューナーだ。認識された音程を基準として入力された音程が正しければ「正しくチューニングされています」と表示され、低ければ「チューニングを上げてください」、高ければ「チューニングを下げてください」と表示される。…