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Rock in Rio 2011 live on YouTube
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
With live streams of concerts like
Coachella
and
Lollapalooza
, and performances from bands like
U2
, YouTube is no stranger to hosting the planet’s big rock fests. So we’re adding another to the list:
Rock in Rio 2011
.
From September 23 to October 2, some of the biggest bands in the world will be live on YouTube performing at the world’s next mega-concert,
Rock in Rio 2011
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The
Rock in Rio YouTube channel
already has an early look at some of the bands in the lineup, including Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Katy Perry, Elton John, Rihanna and more.
We’ll be live around the world in 24 different languages, so if you can’t attend in Brazil, clear your schedule and get ready to rock!
Flavia Simon, Marketing Manager, recently watched “
Cidade do rock 3D
.”
Watch Austin City Limits Music Festival all weekend on YouTube
Friday, September 16, 2011
This year marks Austin City Limits Music Festival’s 10th anniversary, and starting today, we're streaming the festival
live on YouTube
. Check out the trailer for the event:
Looking for big headliners? Rock? Rap? Indie? Electronic? Get your fill of bands including Coldplay, Social Distortion, Big Boi, TV on the Radio, Fleet Foxes, Cut Copy and over 30 more artists. Check out the
full webcast schedule
and mark your calendars—it’s going to be a great weekend of music.
The Dell and AMD-sponsored webcast kicks off today at 11:30 a.m. PT on
youtube.com/aclfestival
. We’ll see you there!
Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched “
Austin Kiddie Limits 2011
.”
Music Tuesday: Lollapalooza, old-school hip-hop and supporting East Africa
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
This week we're recovering from
Lollapalooza
after three days and in the sun and storms of Chicago, IL. We also travel back to the birth of a genre in honor of one of those that made it great. And finally, we showcase a Bob Marley & The Wailers classic, re-released today in support of Save the Children's East Africa campaign.
You'll find all this and more on
youtube.com/music
, where each day we serve you up the tastiest morsels from the world of music video.
Lollapalooza 2011
Twenty years ago Perry Farrell founded the traveling circus of a festival that was Lollapalooza. Now with its roots firmly planted in Chicago, the three day extravaganza continues to grow, mixing the biggest names in music with a dizzying array of bright young stars. This year YouTube brought the festival to the world, live streaming 39 great acts from across the weekend including headliners Coldplay, My Morning Jacket and the Foo Fighters. Check out some highlights in the playlist below.
Old-School Hip-Hop
In music, you gotta know your history and appreciate the artists who laid the foundation for today’s tunes. Today is
Kurtis Blow’s
birthday, which put us in mind of the golden age of hip-hop when rap battles on your front stoop, wheels of steel and gold chains were the rage. To celebrate an era whose influence is still resonating today, we put together a playlist of the best videos of the era from folks like the Fat Boys, RUN-DMC, Slick Rick and the Sugar Hill Gang. The music holds up, and trust us—so does the fashion.
High Tide or Low Tide
A devastating food crisis continues to impact millions of children and their families across East Africa. Today, Save the Children and the Marley family re-release the 1973 song 'High Tide or Low Tide' to raise funds for food, water and medicine. The project is supported by Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Justin Beiber and many others in the entertainment industry, and the video was crafted by Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald.
Tim Partridge, Music Marketing Manager, recently watched "
LisaNova Does Royce da 5'9 Tinie Tempah Foster the People, Ellie Goulding & Mayer Hawthorne
."
YouTube brings you Lollapalooza live all weekend
Friday, August 5, 2011
Here at YouTube we love putting you in the front row of amazing concert experiences, from
Coachella
to
Jane’s Addiction
. Starting at 11:30am PT today we’ll be livestreaming the 20th anniversary
Lollapalooza
music festival with dozens of the best performances, brought to you by Dell and AMD. We’ll also have a host of your favorite YouTube stars on location, reporting behind-the-scenes throughout the weekend.
What can you expect? We kick off the day with British sensations
The Vaccines
, before the Smith Westerns play a homecoming set in their native Chicago at 1:30pm. Don’t miss
Bright Eyes
at 4:30pm and then see a little band called
Coldplay
round up the evening starting at 6:15pm.
All eyes will be on
My Morning Jacket
as Saturday night’s headliners, but keep a hole in your afternoon to watch Walk the Moon at 12:15pm and Beats Antique 5:15pm, who also recorded these videos from the road:
Clear your schedule for Sunday, because it’s a stormer, from opener Imelda May through to the mighty Foo Fighters, via an eclectic lineup including
Portugal. The Man
(3pm) Explosions in the Sky (5pm) and
Damian “Jr Gong” Marley & Nas
(5:15pm).
If that’s still not enough for your eyes and ears, some of YouTube’s popular stars will be on the ground at Grant Park, bringing you behind the scenes reports and interviews with the artists. Subscribe to
ShayCarl
,
NicePeter
,
LisaNova
and
CTFxC
for a true insight into what’s happening off stage.
You can also see the full webcast schedule on the
Lollapalooza channel
, and get updates throughout the weekend via @
youtube
on Twitter.
Tim Partridge, YouTube Music Marketing Manager, recently watched “
Foo Fighters Garage Tour Full Length
.”
Music Tuesday: Lollapalooza Week on YouTube, and more
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Can’t make it to Chicago this weekend to check out
Lollapalooza
on its 20th anniversary? We’ve got you covered. Starting at 11:45am PT this Friday, you’ll be able to watch four festival stages live on
youtube.com/lollapalooza
. The webcast will run all weekend long and feature a few bands you might have heard of: Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Muse, Damian Marley and Nas, Bright Eyes and many more. See the full list of bands participating in the webcast
here
.
To celebrate, we’ve been featuring video premieres from some of the biggest names playing the festival/webcast. On Monday, the Foo Fighters unveiled their affecting “Garage Tour” short film, which follows the band as they play intimate shows in people’s garages across the country. (Warning: the first vignette might make you cry.) Today, we feature headliners My Morning Jacket. We’ll have more premieres from bands playing the webcast through the week; keep checking back to
youtube.com/music
.
My Morning Jacket curation
My Morning Jacket takes to the homepage today with a curation of some of their favorite videos. We’re still over the moon about the amazing clip from a Jim Henson short they chose, which is so beautifully edited it feels like music, even though it’s not. The band also shows a marked predilection for jazz and Marvin Gaye, which is hard to argue with. And in honor of their participation in the Lollapalooza webcast later this week, they premiere their video for “Holdin On To Black Metal” with us today.
Global Ghetto Music
In recent years, we’ve seen urban and electronic music circle the globe and shape-shift everywhere it landed. Miami Bass and old-school hip-hop headed to Brazil and became baile funk; house music headed to South Africa and became kwaito. Dance music trickled down to Angola and became kuduro. A few years ago, M.I.A. grabbed headlines for tapping into this rich vein of global funk. Today we showcase bands who are picking up where she left off, marrying their local sounds to hip-hop and electronic source material.
Toro y Moi “How I Know” video premiere
And last (but by no means least!), we debut a brand-new video from the genre-evading indie/psych/chillwave phenom Toro y Moi (aka Chaz Bundwick). “How I Know” is easily one of the best songs off of Bundwick’s lauded Underneath The Pines, a track that marries his gauzy vocals with damaged Burt Bacharach-esque pop and a palpable sense of longing. Put it together with a video that references movies like Goonies, Poltergeist, Ghostbusters and Victorian ghost stories, and you have pure genius. The video was directed by Jordan Kim, whose wonderful animation work you might know from the hipster kids show
Yo Gabba Gabba
.
Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched “
Toro y Moi - How I Know
.”
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