For all you American Idol fans out there, here is what you’ve been waiting for: Kelly Clarkson’s return to the music charts.
Clarkson made history by having the biggest jump in the charts ever. Her latest song “My Life” from the new album “All I Ever Wanted” climbed from the 97th spot directly to No. 1 pushing former champion Lady GaGa to No. 2
Here is the latest ranking:
1. Kelly Clarkson - My Life
2. Lady GaGa - Let’s Dance
3. Beyonce - Single ladies
4. Kanye West - Heartless
5. Taylor Swift - Love Story
6. All American Rejects - Gives You Hell
7. T.I. feat. Rihanna - Live Your Life
8. The Fray - You Found Me
9. Britney Spears - Circus
10. Jason Mraz - I’m Yours
When I first heard the word Sea Organ I thought it’s an organ played under water.
It turns out, it’s actually an experimental architectural object designed to catch the waves and create musical sounds.
The concrete is 70 meters long and has 35 organ pipes built underneath it.
This natural musical instrument can be found in Croatia.
Because of the waves’ unpredictability, the sound being produced by this concrete instrument varies all the time. The pipes’ musically tuned sounds emanate to the surroundings through apertures in the vertical planes of the uppermost stairs.
It’s nice to see that the natural elements of this earth are being harnessed to produce music. The Sea Organ is definitely a work of art. I just wished the Air Guitar lived up to its name.
Daniel Sullivan, 47, is facing 14 years in prison for attacking Noel Gallagher onstage in Toronto last year.
Sullivan was initially charged with assault which carries a maximum of 5 years in prison but has been upgraded to aggravated assault which is 14 years.
The assault left Gallagher with broken ribs when Sullivan came onstage and pushed him while in performing. Oasis cancelled some shows to allow Gallagher to recover.
Sullivan is due in court on March 6 for the pre-trial hearing.
Here is a little japanese girl playing Joe Satriani’s “Always With Me, Always With You”. If this girl is any more cuter I would adopt her and make her play lead guitar in my band. But seriously, this girl is amazing. Even Joe would be proud if he sees this video.
I also don’t know how she can carry that thing, Les Pauls are heavy.
The Parents Television Council is protesting a song from Britney Spears’ new album ‘Circus’ and requesting radio stations to stop broadcasting it because it would violate the broadcast indecency law.
The song is called “If You Seek Amy” which is the thrid single from Spears’ new album. According to PTC president Tim Winter, if you say the words quickly and out loud, it sounds like F–k. “There is no misinterpreting the lyrics to this song, and it’s certainly not about a girl named Amy,” he said.
“It’s one thing for a song with these lyrics to be included on a CD so that fans who wish to hear it can do so, but it’s an entirely different matter when this song is played over the publicly-owned airwaves, especially at a time when children are likely to be in the listening audience,” Winter says.
The song has sold 107,000 digital copies in the US.
The Bandura is a Ukrainian stringed instrument typically played by plucking. The back of the bandura is traditionally carved from solid wood but modern banduras are now produced with fiberglass backs. The soundboard is a type of spruce and the planks and bridge is made from hard woods.
There are 4 main types of banduras that can be found today:
The Folk or Starosvitska Bandura
These instruments typically have some 20-23 strings and are hand-made, with no two instruments being exactly the same.
The Kyiv-style bandura
These are the most common banduras in use today in Ukraine. They have 55-65 metal strings tuned chromatically through five octaves.
The Kharkiv-style bandura
These instruments are primarily made by craftsmen outside of Ukraine. These popular banduras are strung either diatonically (with 34-36 strings) or chromatically (with 61-65 strings).
The Kyiv-Kharkiv Hybrid bandura
Is a hybrid between the Kyiv and the Kharkiv banduras.
The term bandura is generally thought to have entered the Ukrainian language via Polish, either from Latin or from the Greek pandora or pandura, although some scholars feel that the term was introduced into Ukraine directly from the Greek language.
A person who plays a bandura is called a bandurist.
Check out this video of a bandura to hear how it sounds: