CraveTV Guiness World Record Attempt

Hey, check out this short doc that I may have mixed:

Also, check out that view count! WOW!

Star Trek stabilized mashup

I don't think I will ever not watch any sort of Star Trek mashup video.

Also check out this subreddit.

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TV Feeds My Family: Rogers takes full control of air we breathe, water...

TV Feeds My Family: Rogers takes full control of air we breathe, water...: So, say the Leafs make it to the Stanley Cup finals in 2015. Please, stay with me.

Hypebot: Breaking Bad Was Very, Very Good For Badfinger

Breaking Bad Was Very, Very Good For Badfinger's

Spoiler alert.

Simpsons Robot Chicken Couch gag

I thought this was pretty good:

New Michael J Fox show trailer

This... actually looks pretty awesome. So meta it could be in danger of eating its own tail though.

I hope it does well. Plus, Bunk is back!

TV Feeds My Family: Arrested Development Season Four trailer

TV Feeds My Family: Arrested Development Season Four trailer: That's right, Season Four trailer. The Bluths are back and Netflix has 'em. You can start streaming all 15 episodes May 26...

Wooooooooooooooo!

I hope they didn't put all the money clips into the trailer... then again there's a whole season coming out at once so we can be pretty sure there's lots more where that came from.

Trailer sounds like it was mixed in the editing program... I *would* notice that sort of thing though.

Nine Inch Nails on Hard Copy

My brother points me to this clip from Hard Copy, where NIN and Trent Reznor are involved in "The Case of the Mysterious Video Tape". I'm guessing it's from around 1992 since we hear "Suck" from Broken around 3:14 into the piece.

Jeff poses the question - "Are happenings like this still possible?" - I'd say if this type of event happened today it certainly wouldn't warrant 10 minutes on a major tv program, maybe five seconds of most people skimming over a link.

I love these long lost artist mythology-building pieces. Neither this show nor NIN were on my radar at the time, but now it's fascinating to look back and see how the mainstream media at the time handled one of my now-favourite artists.

Hey, the Grammy awards were on las-zzzzzzzz......

In one of the few categories I actually cared about, "Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media", the winner was the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, which is excellent. One of the best all-around categories, I thought.

2013 Grammy winners

New Lonely Island - "YOLO"

From SNL this past weekend, it's the best Lonely Island song since "Boombox", and maybe their best one ever. Great production, that's a super catchy beat.

It features an Adam Levine-satirizing Adam Levine, and Kendrick Lamar with a performance that bests the two live performances he put in on the same show.

A song that transcends the 'comedy song' label and is in fact, simply, a great song.

2013 Oscar noms are up

Whenever the Oscar nominees are announced, the first I thing I do is check the Best Song, Score and the sound editing/mixing categories. I guess I haven't been keeping up with my films this year cause I haven't seen any of these. Skyfall is at the top of my list though.

I figure Adele will take Best Song on the extensive marketing campaigns alone. When the song first debuted there were countless stories about how it was "the greatest Bond song ever", when that just isn't the case. It's good, but doubtful it's the best ever, and it's even harder to just make that statement before the song has even been released to the public.

As for the other categories, I have no idea whatsoever. Alexandre Desplat has done some good scores, so maybe his track record gets him the award this year.

I'd vote for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, but I'm heavily biased.

The modern sound engineer

Not far from the truth, I imagine...

Born Ruffians in Ottawa

Here's a show I mixed on last year which has made its way online. I quite liked this one. Gotta catch these guys live some time.

Breaking Bad Season 5 music

While checking out the Breaking Bad Reddit thread, I came across links to all the music used on the show. That would have been pretty handy when the show was airing... Guess I'll be doing that when the show returns in July.

Carly Rae Jepsen - On Tour

If this sort of thing is your bag, check out this Carly Rae Jepsen show I mixed for Much last month.

10 Ads that Killed Dubstep

The first one in the list is also creepy.

[via Daily Swarm]

Latest from the shop - MuchMusic specials

Here are a few shows I've done post audio on lately at the shop. All of these are part of New.Music.Live., the daily show on Much.

No embed links are available for either of these two, for whatever reason:

NML - LA Complex On Set

Hedley On Tour

There it is. Now you can tell your friends that whine about MuchMusic 'not playing music anymore', you can tell them they're wrong, cause there is indeed music on the channel... if you don't dig what they're doing these days, you're probably not in their target audience.

Song from Breaking Bad Season 5 Ep 2 - Whitey's "Stay on the Outside"

Breaking Bad continues its streak of stellar integrations of pop songs into the show. There's not much on Whitey's allmusic or Wikipedia pages... Discogs has the best overview of his work. Looks like I'll be losing a few more bucks from my chequing account this week.

Take a listen even if you haven't seen the show... my best comparison would be LCD Soundsystem meets Faithless.

Galaxie gets an update

Not the Quebec band I so admire, but the cable/satellite music channel service, which as I learned writing this post, is no longer run by the CBC.

If you haven't checked those channels in a while, they've finally brought the service into the new millennium by setting each channel to a rotating been bunch of stock photography shots.

I dig that they've finally refreshed the stale visuals (or lack thereof), but the 'next song' updates have killed my little game of guessing the next track in rotation.

In any case, that was a nice surprise for my between-program channel flipping. The new owners got around to doing what the CBC probably couldn't fit into their budget.

Prototype 2 Game Trailer, featuring a song by Johnny Cash: Colour me bored.

Sorry for the link bait in the title. Haven't had a 'hit' in a while.

As for the TV ad I'm referring to... I'm so tired of it being played ad nauseum. Doesn't make me want to play at all. The web trailer is way worse though, and I'm venturing into cranky old man territory when I say "is this the kind of crap that passes for games these days?" A topic for another day, for sure.

In any case, the TV spot, which has been playing during ad breaks on sports shows lately, features Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt".

Check out a great live rendition of the original here - best enjoyed in full screen:

^ that was a killer tour.

It's also not the first time that Johnny Cash has lent himself to a commercial.

Reminder: this was a real, actual thing that aired on television, and not a comedy sketch.