Download The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine as a Free, Interactive eBook

in Apple, e-books, Music | December 13th, 2011

A year ago, Apple began sell­ing The Bea­t­les’ cat­a­logue of music on iTunes. Now, twelve months and many mil­lions of down­loads lat­er, Apple is giv­ing away The Beat­le’s Yel­low Sub­ma­rine as a free ebook.

It’s not just any ebook. Based on the 1968 film, this ebook fea­tures ani­mat­ed illus­tra­tions, 14 video clips from the orig­i­nal film, audio func­tion­al­i­ty that mag­i­cal­ly turns the book into an audio book, and var­i­ous inter­ac­tive ele­ments. You can “read” the book (down­load it here) on any iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Our apolo­gies in advance if you use oth­er devices.

The Yel­low Sub­ma­rine will be added to our col­lec­tion of Free eBooks, which fea­tures 250 clas­sics, includ­ing texts by Isaac Asi­mov, Philip K. Dick, Dos­to­evsky, Kaf­ka, Joyce, Nabokov, Austen, Niet­zsche and oth­ers. Also don’t miss our equal­ly large col­lec­tion of Free Audio Books.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Bea­t­les’ Rooftop Con­cert: The Last Gig

Jim­my Page Tells the Sto­ry of Kash­mir

The Bea­t­les Com­plete on Ukulele

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Jazz for Cows

in Music | December 9th, 2011

The French love their jazz. The peo­ple love it. Their cows love it no less.

Here we have The New Hot 5, a New Orleans-style band, bring­ing their act to the pas­tures of Autrans, France, and treat­ing the audi­ence to an Amer­i­can clas­sic, “When the Saints Go March­ing In.” You can learn more about The New Hot 5 at jazzforcows.com.

Speak­ing of France, we have added French lessons by Carnegie Mel­lon and the BBC added to our col­lec­tion of Free Lan­guage Lessons.

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Mari­achi Band Ser­e­nades Bel­u­ga Whale at Mys­tic Aquar­i­um

John Coltrane Plays Only Live Per­for­mance of A Love Supreme

Vin­tage Djan­go

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Philip Glass & Lou Reed at Occupy Lincoln Center: An Artful View

in Current Affairs, Music | December 9th, 2011

Last week, com­pos­er Philip Glass and rock leg­end Lou Reed embraced the Occu­py Wall Street move­ment. Ini­tial video & audio clips cap­tur­ing their appear­ances were shod­dy at best. Now Jean Thevenin (who joined the protest at Lin­coln Cen­ter Plaza) has giv­en us a bet­ter view, pro­duc­ing a short, ele­gant film sim­ply called Vis­i­ble Shape. The accom­pa­ny­ing music is “Protest” from Satya­gra­ha, writ­ten by Philip Glass and per­formed by New York City Opera Orches­tra.

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Ryan Adams Live at the Ed Sullivan Theatre (Free Pass)

in Music | December 7th, 2011

The Live on Let­ter­man con­cert series has brought you Peter Gabriel, Cold­play and Wilco (click to watch con­certs), and now it returns with Ryan Adams play­ing solo at the Ed Sul­li­van The­atre in New York city. Dur­ing the 70-minute con­cert record­ed Mon­day night, Adams per­formed “Lucky Now” from his new album Ash­es and Fire, plus some fan favorites “Oh My Sweet Car­oli­na” and “New York, New York.” Enjoy, and don’t miss Adams on his tour that kicks off Thurs­day in Boston.

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Philip Glass, Lou Reed Speak At Occupy Lincoln Center

in Current Affairs, Music | December 2nd, 2011

Last night, two Amer­i­can icons lent sup­port to the Occu­py Wall Street move­ment, speak­ing at a protest held out­side of Lin­coln Cen­ter in New York City.  After a per­for­mance of Satya­gra­ha at the Met, Philip Glass spoke to demon­stra­tors. Accord­ing to Alex Ross, the music crit­ic for the New York­er, Glass recit­ed the clos­ing lines of Satya­gra­ha (see around 3:00 minute mark in the video above), which come from the Bha­gavad Gita:

When right­eous­ness with­ers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take vis­i­ble shape, and move, a man among men, for the pro­tec­tion of good, thrust­ing back evil and set­ting virtue on her seat again.

He repeat­ed the say­ing sev­er­al times, and the “human micro­phone” ampli­fied the mes­sage for him.

Lou Reed was also in atten­dance and helped some­one crawl over a police bar­ri­cade at one point, then said: “I was born in Brook­lyn, and I’ve nev­er been more ashamed than to see the bar­ri­cades tonight. The police are our army. I want to be friends with them. And I wan­na occu­py Wall Street. I sup­port it.” A not-so-clear audio clip appears below:

via Gothamist and The Rest is Noise

More Occu­py Videos:

Noam Chom­sky at Occu­py Boston

Slavoj Zizek Takes the Stage at Occu­py Wall Street

Joseph Stiglitz and Lawrence Lessig at Occu­py Wall Street

David Cros­by & Gra­ham Nash at Occu­py Wall Street; Echoes of Wood­stock

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All Together Now: Every Beatles Song Played at Once

in Music | December 1st, 2011

The idea is sim­ple, real­ly. Take every Bea­t­les tune, all 226 of them, and play them togeth­er, sequenc­ing them so that they end at the exact same moment. And here’s what you get. The Bea­t­les as you’ve nev­er heard them before … and may nev­er want to hear them again.

h/t kot­tke

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Bea­t­les’ Rooftop Con­cert: The Last Gig

Jim­my Page Tells the Sto­ry of Kash­mir

The Bea­t­les Com­plete on Ukulele

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Iron Mike Tyson Sings “The Girl From Ipanema”

in Music, Random | November 29th, 2011

Once beau­ty, now farce. h/t @opedr

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Getz and Gilber­to Per­form ‘The Girl from Ipane­ma’

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Dave Grohl Rocks the White House, Plays Band on the Run

in Music | November 27th, 2011


Ran­dom thoughts: Has the White House (save last sum­mer’s earth­quake) ever been rocked this hard? And has a rock ‘n roll crowd ever been this restrained? Let’s face it, the rebel­lious­ness of rock and the for­mal­i­ty of high gov­ern­ment make for a fun­ny fit. But that does­n’t take any­thing away from Grohl’s lit­tle gig, and don’t miss my favorite per­for­mance from that night: Elvis Costel­lo singing Pen­ny Lane with a mem­ber of the Unit­ed States Marine band on the pic­co­lo trum­pet.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Bea­t­les’ Rooftop Con­cert: The Last Gig

The Bea­t­les: Why Music Mat­ters in Two Ani­mat­ed Min­utes

The Bea­t­les as Teens (1957)

Jim­my Page Tells the Sto­ry of Kash­mir

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