Category: misc

Jimmy Fallon and The Roots iPhone ringtone remix

Last week Jimmy Fallon and The Roots remixed the iPhone Xylophone ringer during the show.

I had some fun and used their remix to create a ringtone for my own phone from the audio.

Download and enjoy.

To use:

  • Download the file
  • Unzip it on your computer
  • Import the .m4r file into iTunes
  • The file should appear in the Tones section of iTunes
  • Sync your ringtones with your phone
  • Set it as your default or as a special ringer

HT to John Saddington for the original link.

Mister Rogers Remix (B-Side): Sing Together

As a follow-up to Mister Rogers Remixed: Garden of Your Mind, PBS asked another YouTube mashup artist, MelodySheep to create a mashup/remix of his own.

Love it!

PBS is also allowing others to remix the song via Soundcloud. Find out more in the video notes and then visit Soundcloud to hear the submissions.

OK Go helps NPR Move

What do you do to have a big send-off from one HQ to another? Why not get OK Go to take you out in style with a special music video?

Bob Boilen writes:

Earlier this year, we needed to figure out the best possible way to move my Tiny Desk from NPR’s old headquarters to our new facility just north of the U.S. Capitol. We wanted to go out with a bang and arrive at our new space in style, so our thoughts naturally turned to a catchy pop band we love: OK Go, whose unforgettable videos have been viewed tens of millions of times on YouTube.

Bandleader Damian Kulash used to be an engineer at an NPR member station in Chicago, so we figured he’d be up for helping us execute a simple idea: Have OK Go start performing a Tiny Desk Concert at our old location, continue playing the same song while the furniture and shelving is loaded onto a truck, and finish the performance at our new home.

The video includes cameos by Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish, David Greene, Guy Raz, Scott Simon, Alix Spiegel, Susan Stamberg and more.

As a really amazing bit of trivia the entire NPR move took roughly a week, starting with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday as the first to move and be broadcast from the new studios.

On Friday, April 19, while covering the manhunt for Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Morning Edition hosts Steve Inskeep and David Greene finalized the network’s move — while they were on the air. The show started broadcasting that morning in the old studios and continued broadcasting an extended edition surrounding the manhunt. The pair wrapped up the broadcast that day at the new studios.