The luxury watches brand Hublot is set to make its own contribution to the global water-saving movement that is being actively supported by many eco-minded fashion labels like Giorgio Armani, H&M and Levi’s to name a few. The brand has teamed up with the legendary electronic music band Depeche Mode to benefit the non-profit organization charity:water by raising funds to bring drinking water to the poorest countries.
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Red Bull, known for its deep connection with contemporary music, is launching an accelerator Red Bull Amplifier created to aspire musicians. The programme is open to the EU residents and doesn’t involve any financial support for the participants—rather, they get an access to the Red Bull’s global audience on social media channels and the brand’s properties. The brand handles this project in collaboration with incubator innovation consultancy Sidekick Studios.
Red Bull examines the Internet’s influence on music in web-episodes entitled H∆SHTAG$. The series, created by Red Bull Music Academy, includes six documentaries, which will be streaming from January 30 through March 6 exclusively at www.redbullmusicacademy.com. The episodes star a bunch of experts, who explain how the deep integration of web has changed the contemporary music culture and continues to introduce new game-changing approaches, platforms, technologies, which rocket the industry to the next level.
Björk’s Biophilia album, which was launched back in 2011 as the first-ever multimedia album with an array of iPhone and iPad apps, is about to get a second life on other platforms. The artist has created a project on the Kickstarter platform, asking the global community to support the development of the apps on the Android and Windows 8 operating systems to make it easier (and cheaper) to use it within the Biophilia Educational Program. The minimum donation is just £1, and the expected amount is at least £375,000 (the deadline is February 27).
After seven long months of anticipation and constant checking out the black ‘beta’ version, today one of the earliest social networking pioneers MySpace has relaunched with a new fresh and sleek design, revised concept and irresistibly handsome co-owner Justin Timberlake in a suit and tie on the landing page of the website, exclusively presenting his new namesake single ‘Suit & Tie’ from the new album.
Not many people have an opportunity to see the behind-the-scenes, backstage life of great music stars, and in fact this life is full of difficulties, hard work, search for inspiring and more. The new TBWA\Chiat\Day’s campaign #TheWorldIsListening for the Recording Academy’s 2013 GRAMMY Awards telecast revolves around the quiet moments of self-reflection of the megastars and emerging performers, their work beyond the stage.