Kraftwerk Plays ‘Spacelab’ Live With An In-Orbit German Astronaut

By |2018-07-26T16:21:47-04:00July 25th, 2018|Entertaiment, Music, Music News, My House Radio|

July 23, 201811:35 AM ET Kraftwerk performs with ISS astronaut Alexander Gerst. LARS GOTRICH TwitterFacebookTumblrInstagram First things first: Why hasn't this happened, yet? Kraftwerk, thinking about and making electronic sounds for the future since 1970, performed with an astronaut in-orbit live on Friday night. The collaboration, with German astronaut Alexander Gerst — currently on [...]

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Why Are We Moved by Music?

By |2018-07-26T16:21:48-04:00July 25th, 2018|Music, Spirituality, Uncategorized|

Music! Understanding our emotional responses to songs, lyrics, and chords. Music is the shorthand of emotion. –Leo Tolstoy Music has the ability to evoke powerful emotional responses—both chills and thrills—in listeners. And this capacity is universal. Why are we moved by music? How does music evoke emotion and pleasure? The followings describe key features [...]

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What is a radio, anyway? And what’s a smart speaker?

By |2018-07-26T16:21:49-04:00July 18th, 2018|Entertaiment, Music, My House Radio, news, Uncategorized|

James CridlandFollow I am a radio futurologist, at https://james.cridland.net - and I run https://podnews.net — the daily podcast news website. May 27 A radio. Or a smart speaker. Or something. I rather like this tweet, from the UK industry group Radiocentre, which does a very good job of explaining radio’s multiplatform nature:      It’s [...]

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Why You’re Hearing More Borrowed Lyrics and Melodies on Pop Radio

By |2018-07-26T16:21:50-04:00July 14th, 2018|Entertaiment, Music, Music News, New York|

Anne-Marie’s “2002,” Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” and more – inside the new wave of pop interpolation     Anne-Marie’s “2002” is the biggest solo release of her career, a multi-week Top Five single in the U.K. built around a simple, effective gimmick: cribbing lyrics from songs that were hits between 1998 [...]

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Is the internet actually benefiting the music industry?

By |2018-07-26T16:21:53-04:00May 29th, 2018|House Music, Internet, Music, My House Radio|

For some counter-culture genres of music, the digital revolution has been a blessing as well as a curse.   It's 6pm on a cool January evening in Bethnal Green, east London. On the top floor of a nondescript building, a group of young, mostly male, music producers mill around, playing pool and throwing darts. A lot [...]

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Sony to Buy Additional 60% Stake in EMI Music Publishing

By |2018-07-26T16:21:54-04:00May 25th, 2018|Music, My House Radio, New York, news, Uncategorized|

EMI Music Publishing owns or administers more than two million songs, ranging from contemporary artists like Drake to classics by Queen, Carole King, and the Motown catalog.CreditRichard Perry/The New York Times By Ben Sisario Seven years ago, Sony entered a complex deal with Abu Dhabi for control of the EMI Music Publishing catalog, a trove of [...]

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