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Jon Lord, keyboardist of Deep Purple past away of cancer today....

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:53:00 -0400

Jon Lord, keyboardist of Deep Purple past away of cancer today. What are Deep Purple’s best songs?

A great album. How do you rank Frank Ocean’s songs now?

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:51:37 -0400

A great album.

How do you rank Frank Ocean’s songs now?

On Independence Day, Frank Ocean gave us this very poetic note...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:16:44 -0400

On Independence Day, Frank Ocean gave us this very poetic note on his sexuality.

Congratulations Frank.

GoRankem salutes you for your courage.

kissmyessence: 7 years and counting :) #Dedication #TeamBreezy...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:50:07 -0400

kissmyessence:

7 years and counting :) #Dedication #TeamBreezy (Taken with Instagram)

Are you a part of #TeamBreezy? What’s your take on his latest release?

bornreadygeneration: Bassline - Chris Brown Breezy’s...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:45:00 -0400

bornreadygeneration:

Bassline - Chris Brown

Breezy’s got a new album and this is one of the best from Fortune.

“Kiss Kiss” is CB’s highest ranked song but that song is from so long ago!

Is it still his top song?

Blur’s NEW single “Under the Westway” Check...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:28:30 -0400

Blur’s NEW single “Under the Westway”

Check out Blur’s top 10 tracks! Do you agree?

Lupe Fiasco’s new music video “Around My...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:29:44 -0400

Lupe Fiasco’s new music video “Around My Way”

Check out Lupe Fiasco’s top ranked songs!

Do you agree?

Hip-Hop Brawls Are A Thing?

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:00:51 -0400

Seeing as the Chris Brown/Drake club fight occurred last week, it brings up a question: is fighting a common theme within the hip hop community? It’s a no-brainer that beefs between rappers are common place—notable beefs include Tupac and Biggie, Suge Knight and Dr. Dre.

These beefs are spawned from one rapper dissing another in some type of way, but they both garner attention to both artists, so it works as a good marketing tool. Take Kanye West and 50 Cent. When their albums has the same September 11 release date back in 2007, 50 threatened to retire if he was outsold. He was and he hasn’t retired.

As for the Chris Brown and Drake fight at the New York nightclub, the two have been offered to duke it out in a boxing match for $1 million and they’ve managed to get Tony Parker’s eye damaged, prompting him to sue the club for $20 million dollars. The club has also lost its liquor license and is now suing NYC for shutting it down.

Deadmau5 Rants, Claims 'Severe Depression and Anxiety'

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:45:35 -0500

Deadmau5 caused controversy recently with a YouTube clip ranting against the annual electronic Ultra Music Festival held in Miami while seeming to later blame his outburst on ‘severe depression.’

The artist, whose real name is Joel Thomas Zimmerman, posted a 12-minute YouTube on Dec. 30 called, “Ultra Rage About The Ultra Music Festival.” The clip has since been removed as well as the Deadmau5 account the video revolved around the cost of tickets and other issues.

“Ultra to me is the definition of insanity: Doing the same f—-ing thing every year, expecting different results every time,” he said in the clip, following up on his Dec. 24 tweet. “It’s fun and it’s cool, and if you’ve never been, go. But if you are one of those dudes that go every year, it’s like why would you go again?”

“Five hundred and ninety-nine f—-ing dollars for a ticket?” he added about the VIP ticket prices. “Wow, someone is laughing to the bank.”

Another annoyance for Deadmau5 is the festival’s exclusivity contracts with artists which forbid them from playing other non-festival shows in Miami during the event.

“When they used to do it during the conference, it was awesome,” he said. “But then there was some bull—- going down, too. I’m not gonna say anything about anyone. But say you are a headliner DJ dude, Ultra will pay you X amount of dollars to be exclusive to Ultra, which I guess is alright if you are an A-liner… [Winter Music Conference] use to be the Christmas for the f—-ing DJ, because you go to Miami for a week and play up to eight gigs that f—-ing week, easily.”

Deadmau5 also described the festival as a “pissing contest between dudes who played all over the world.” The DJ/producer headlined the 2011 Ultra Music Festival while also performing at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 editions.

“It’s like that for all major North American festivals…Even if you don’t want to, you are competing against the festival programmer, you are competing against the other acts, you are competing against the time slots.”

Since it was removed, Deadmau5 posted a few more thoughts on Facebook. “I’ve been dealing with severe depression and anxiety all year,” he wrote on Dec. 30. “Taking a long time off after my birthday to hopefully get it sorted out before I say or do anything more stupid than I already have.”

A post earlier the same day had him promising to go to Quebec, “show up at the venue 3 minutes before I play, speak to noone, have the time of my life for exactly 2 hours, then immediately run off stage and back to hotel to avoid any other drama before the new year.”

Reps from the Ultra Music Festival, now in its fourteenth year and set for March 23-25, have not commented on Deadmau5’s rant. The festival announced its first wave of artists on Dec. 23 featuring New Order, Tiesto, Kraftwerk, Justice and David Guetta, among others.

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2012 Grammy Nominations!

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:06:00 -0500

Adele, Kanye West, Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars lead the nominations for the 2012 Grammys. Kanye leads the pack with a whopping 7 nominations. To no one’s ultimate surprise, Adele snagged nominations in all of the top categories - Best Song and Best Record for “Rolling in the Deep” and Best Album for “21” with a total of 6 nods. Accompanying the sultry soul singer is Bruno Mars who is also nominated in the Best Song and Record categories for “Grenade” and his album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans.”

Foo Fighters, “seen by many as the last popular gasp for rock music” also got 6 nominations, although only one in the top categories (Album of the Year).

Among the nominees, Lil Wayne and Skrillex each got five nods in the lesser categories. Among his 7 nominations, Kanye is only nominated for one of the top slots in Song of the Year for “All of the Lights”.

Suprisingly, Lady Gaga “only has one chance to compete in a pivotal slot: Album for ‘Born This Way’.”

Here are the all of the nominations we thought you guys might be interested in. For the complete list, click here.

Record Of The Year
Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”
Bon Iver – “Holocene”
Bruno Mars – “Grenade”
Mumford & Sons – “The Cave”
Katy Perry – “Firework”

Album Of The Year
Adele – “21″
Foo Fighters – “Wasting Light”
Lady Gaga – “Born This Way”
Bruno Mars – “Doo-Wops & Hooligans”
Rihanna – “Loud”

Song Of The Year
“All Of The Lights” – Written by: Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West. Performed by: Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie.
“Cave” – Written by: Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston. Performed by: Mumford & Sons.
“Grenade” – Written by: Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters. Performed by: Bruno Mars.
“Holocene” – Written by: Justin Vernon, songwriter Performed by: Bon Iver.
“Rolling In The Deep” – Written by: Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters Performed by: Adele.

Best New Artist
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex

Best Pop Solo Performance
Adele – “Someone Like You”
Lady Gaga – “You And I”
Bruno Mars – “Grenade”
Katy Perry – “Firework”
Pink – “[Expletive] Perfect”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse – “Body And Soul”
The Black Keys – “Dearest”
Coldplay – “Paradise”
Foster The People – “Pumped Up Kicks”
Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera – Moves Like Jagger

Best Pop Vocal Album
Adele – “21″
Cee Lo Green – “The Lady Killer”
Lady Gaga – “Born This Way”
Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans”
Rihanna – “Loud”

Best Dance Recording
Deadmau5 & Greta Svabo Bech – “Raise Your Weapon”
Duck Sauce – “Barbra Streisand”
David Guetta & Avicii – “Sunshine”
Robyn – “Call Your Girlfriend”
Skrillex – “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites
Swedish House Mafia – “Save The World”

Best Dance/Electronica Album
Cut/Copy – “Zonoscope”
Deadmau5 – “4×4=12″
David Guetta – “Nothing But The Beat
Robyn – “Body Talk, Pt. 3″
Skrillex – “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”

Best Rock Performance
Coldplay – “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”
The Decemberists – “Down By The Water”
Foo Fighters – “Walk”
Mumford & Sons – “The Cave”
Radiohead – “Lotus Flower”

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
Dream Theater – “On The Backs Of Angels”
Foo Fighters – “White Limo”
Mastodon – “Curl Of The Burl”
Megadeth – “Public Enemy No. 1″
Sum 41 – “Blood In My Eyes”

Best Rock Song
“The Cave” – Written by: Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston. Performed by: Mumford & Sons.
“Down By The Water” – Written by: Colin Meloy. Performed by:The Decemberists.
“Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” – Written by: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin. Performed by: Coldplay.
“Lotus Flower” – Written by: Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway & Thom Yorke. Performed by: Radiohead.
“Walk” – Written by: Foo Fighters, Performed by: Foo Fighters.

Best Rock Album
Jeff Beck – “Rock ‘N’ Roll Party Honoring Les Paul”
Foo Fighters – “Wasting Light”
Kings Of Leon – “Come Around Sundown”
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “I’m With You”
Wilco – “The Whole Love”

Best Alternative Music Album
Bon Iver – “Bon Iver”
Death Cab For Cutie – “Codes And Keys”
Foster The People – “Torches”
My Morning Jacket – “Circuital”
Radiohead – “The King Of Limbs”

Best Rap Performance
Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look At Me Now”
Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Otis”
Lupe Fiasco – “The Show Goes On”
Nicki Minaj & Drake – “Moment 4 Life”
Wiz Khalifa – “Black And Yellow”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Beyonce & Andre 3000 – “Party”
DJ Khaled, Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne - “I’m On One”
Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey – “I Need A Doctor”
Rihanna & Drake – “What’s My Name?”
Kelly Rowland & Lil Wayne – “Motivation”
Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie – “All Of The Lights”

Best Rap Song
“All Of The Lights” – Written By: Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West. Performed by: Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie.
“Black And Yellow” – Written By: Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen & Cameron Thomaz. Performed by: Wiz Khalifa
“I Need A Doctor” – Written By: Andre Young, Marshall Mathers III, Alexander Grant & Skylar Grey. Performed by: Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey.
“Look At Me Now” – Written By: Jean Baptiste, Chris Brown, Ryan Buendia, Trevor Smith, Dwayne Carter, Jr. & Wesley Pentz. Performed by: Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes.
“Otis” – Written By: Shawn Carter & Kanye West. Performed by: Jay-Z & Kanye West.
“The Show Goes On” – Written By: Dustin William Brower, Jonathon Keith Brown, Daniel Johnson, Kane & Wasalu Muhammad Jaco. Performed by: Lupe Fiasco.

Best Rap Album
Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Watch The Throne”
Lil Wayne – “Tha Carter IV”
Lupe Fiasco – “Lasers”
Nicki Minaj – “Pink Friday”
Kanye West – “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”

Working hard or hardly working? Either way, you deserve a break!...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:36:03 -0500

Working hard or hardly working? Either way, you deserve a break! Check out this awesome video of MGMT’s excellent cover of Bauhaus’ “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.”

Recently, the band was featured in the artist-curated compilation series, Late Night Tales, which includes the song above.

Now, MGMT has posted this music video to go along with the song which features really great animation of some urban British locales that is really cool to look at. It’s one of my favorite music videos in a while. Animation is a wonderful thing.

Late Night Tales and its predecessor, Another Late Night are artist-curated compilation albums released by the Late Night Tales independent record label. The tracks are chosen and mixed by a wide variety of DJs, recording artists and bands who were asked by Late Night Tales to create the ultimate late night mix.

To find out more about Late Night Tales, click here.

Vimeo launches its own music store

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:11:15 -0400

When you hear Vimeo, what comes up? Videos, probably. That’s what they base their name off of (literally, there’s a one letter difference). Vimeo has built itself a strong and stable foundation as the go-to free video sharing website for users, professional or otherwise, hoping to engage with the online film world. You can find high quality videos from people like comedian and music artists Reggie Watts, to someone like Rick Mereki who, along with his two other friends, traveled around the world, exploring what the people (and places) had to offer in his video series entitled “Eat, Learn, Move”.

However, Vimeo is trying to expand its services to include not only video sharing, but also to offer help in video making as well. Vimeo has just launched its own music store where users can choose from over 45,000 songs - for free (thanks to the Creative Commons) - to use in their videos. There are also $2 tracks that people can pay for personal use and $100 licenses users can shell out if they’re expecting their video to make a lil’ profit. However, some of these $100 songs include up-and-coming artists, which isn’t a bad thing (many of those artists have songs that are quite good!) but usually, up-and-coming means “unknown”. Either way, this feature could really help filmmakers accomplish the task of making their film sound just as good as it looks.

What do you think of Vimeo’s new music store? Will any of you guys take advantage of all the features the site has to offer or is it a good idea that wasn’t executed to its full potential?

Introducing Vimeo Music Store from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.

Check out Vimeo’s new music store here.

bottomofmyocean: Coldplay- Fix You (orchestral). One of the...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:25:19 -0400

bottomofmyocean:

Coldplay- Fix You (orchestral). One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.

Everybody listen up!

Chart Toppers

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:23:47 -0400

Here are the top five songs according to Digital Music News.

“We Found Love” - Rihanna
“Sexy and I Know It” - LMFAO
“Mistletoe” - Justin Bieber
“Someone Like You” - Adele
“Make Me Proud” - Drake

Click the songs to watch the music videos!

Make sure to check out these artists on GoRankem where you can rank your favorite songs from you favorite artists, create video playlists and more!

Who’s ready for Halloween? Obviously these guys. Check out...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:42:17 -0400

Who’s ready for Halloween? Obviously these guys.

Check out this amazing animated light show set to the song “This Is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas!

This is totally worth the high power bill these guys are going to have to pay.

R.E.M.’s final song as a band, “We All Go Back Where...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:02:00 -0400

R.E.M.’s final song as a band, “We All Go Back Where We Belong” is available for streaming on Rolling Stone.

It sounds a bit like the closing credits of a movie, a happy ending where the heroes head off into the sunset. As the tune winds down, Michael Stipe sings “Is this really what you want?”

What do you all think? Does this song suffice as a classic band’s goodbye to the fans?

Listen to “We All Go Back Where We Belong” here.

Listen to R.E.M. on GoRankem here.

Today is College Radio Day!

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:13:00 -0400

Here are the top ten artists on the college music charts according to CMJ! Do you agree?

Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Wilco - The Whole Love
Neon Indian - Era Extrana
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Drums - Portamento
Toro y Moi - Freaking Out (EP)
Twin Sister - In Heaven

Find out more about College Radio Day here.

How to make Google Translate beatbox for you:

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:38:58 -0400

1) Go to Google Translate

2) Set the translator to translate German to German

3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch

4) Click “listen”

5) Be amazed.

Want to know how to make your own beatbox composition performed by Google Translate? Here’s the beatboxing breakdown:

Here’s your rudiment/instrument notation

zk = suspended cymbal

bschk = snare

pv = brush

bk = bass

tk = flam1

vk = roll tap

kt = flam2

kttp = flam tap

krp = hi hat tap

pv = short roll

th = better hi hat

thp, ds = instant rimshot.

Viola!

(via.)

jalibella: The guitar is a small orchestra It is polyphonic...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:32:27 -0400

jalibella:

The guitar is a small orchestra
It is polyphonic
Every string is a different colour
A different voice

Colorful guitars for a colorful sound.

Music scores are cool. Exhibit A: Time - Hans Zimmer (from...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:30:00 -0400

Music scores are cool. Exhibit A:

Time - Hans Zimmer (from Inception)