Month: August 2015
Recording Academy Establishes Hi-Res Audio Guidelines
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing recently announced the creation of a series of Hi-Res Audio Production Guidelines. The new guidelines are a key step to ensuring that real high-resolution music is produced and sold to the public. While the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing is most well known for producing The Grammys, […]
August 24, 2015
Nobel Prize Medal Sells for $765,000
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to 889 Nobel Laureates. Recipients receive a gold medal. Yet, even though 889 gold medals have been presented, very few have ever been offered for sale. In May, Leon Lederman auctioned his 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, which he received for the discovery of the muon neutrino, […]
August 17, 2015
Late Night Show Features a New Type of “Star”
Forget Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman. There is a new rising star on late night — astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This spring, National Geographic debuted StarTalk, a late-night talk show devoted exclusively to science. “There’s no monologue and no band,” Tyson told the Washington Post. “But it’s a talk show on at 11 p.m. — […]
August 10, 2015
Yoko Ono Takes Center Stage at New MoMA Exhibit
After forty years, Yoko Ono has finally made her official debut at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971” opened on May 17 and runs through September 7, 2015. While Yoko Ono is most well known as John Lennon’s widow, she is an accomplished avant-garde artist in her own […]
August 3, 2015