Calling all Music Technology geeks! My next Music Technology event is a must for anyone who has ever wondered what happens to our brains while we listen to music. Attendees will be active participants in McMaster University LIVELab’s one-of-a-kind interactive music performance at world’s only combination research lab and performance hall. You won’t want to miss [&hellip.. more
The kid would come around like clockwork every Sunday at 2 pm during prime nap time. He set up a CD boombox that blared “Poison” by Bell Biv DeVoe on repeat as he practiced his skateboard moves right in front of our townhouse. Nothing but “Poison” and the clack of skateboard wheels for hours and [&hellip.. more
The Kiki Challenge thing, a dance based on Drake’s “In My Feelings,” just won’t go away. Most of the fan videos have been dumb, dangerous, and even criminal. Others have been…different in a good way. Take the case of 11-year-old Sofia Sanchez who is stuck in a Chicago hospital awaiting a heart transplant. Here’s here [&hellip.. more
I forgot about the MTV Music Video Awards. Yeah, I saw some pre-show hype, but when it came time to actually watch, my mind was elsewhere. Am I the only one? The MMVAs used to be must-see TV. Big stars, unscripted moments, bad language, weird behaviour: it had a reputation as being one of the most [&hellip.. more
From all accounts, the two sold-out Home Shows Pearl Jam performed in Seattle were singular moments in time. Fans lined up for hours before the opener to buy gear, to sort through some of Danny Clinch’s photos, vinyl crate-digging style, and the guys themselves had been working toward the shows for nearly a year. It [&hellip.. more
The Tuman Monastery in eastern Serbia has been around in some form since the 14th century and has an ancient reputation as a pretty pious place. It’s not where you’d expect to find two resident monks covering Iron Maiden. Jeromonah Patar and Monah Teofil got together to run through Maiden’s ballad, “Wasting Love” because…well, why not? [&hellip.. more
There’s a certain amount of voodoo that goes into determining the biggest-selling album of all time. Since 1991, all physical album sales have been tallied by the SoundScan system where a record isn’t counted as sold until its barcode is passed over a scanner at checkout. (Digital albums are counted when they’re downloaded.) Before 1991, [&hellip.. more
Viryl is a vinyl record-pressing facility in Toronto that uses some cutting-edge new technology when it comes to the ancient art of storing music in grooves. On October 5-6, the company will present Vinyl Pressing Experience which will highlight the “art and science of mastering, plating, labelling, and packaging” for an actual vinyl record. Guests will get [&hellip.. more
There’s always wailing about the price of concert tickets on secondary-selling sites as the market tries to settle on the true value of these tickets. All the controversy surrounds prices that go through the roof, but there’s also the flipside of this. Sometimes tickets on the secondary market can be a bargain. It all depends [&hellip.. more
It’s all about the passion, right? (Via Danny).. more
By the end of the year, inflation in Venezuela could hit 1,000,000%. No, that’s not a typo, either. In music news for August 18, 2018… Weekly Canadian music sales and streams vs. this time last year: Total albums, -18.5%; digital albums, -21.1%; physical albums, -16.8%; CDs, -20.9%; vinyl, +45.8%; streams, +51.6% (1.098 billion streams last [&hellip.. more
It’s hard to believe, but the two members of Death from Above have now been back together for more years than they were before the band’s initial breakup. Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger first got together in 2001, and put out their debut EP Heads Up the next year. I don’t know if it [&hellip.. more
The tributes keep pouring in for Aretha Franklin. Her 18-year-old granddaughter, Victorie Franklin, posted this clip of Aretha planing and singing at home several months before her death. Take a look. I have many memories of me coming into her home and she would be playing the piano and singing. Words can’t describe the pain I’m [&hellip.. more
Ever download a song only to find that the album art is missing or that it gets filed on your device under “Unknown Album?” If so, you’ve experience incomplete metadata. Metadata is the information embedded in a digital file that tells you something about the song, everything from the artist and title to the composer, [&hellip.. more
Cameron Gordon at Completely Ignored took a look at the number of celebrity tweets that went out after the death of Aretha Franklin. Here’s what he found. (Click on the graphic to see the whole thing.).. more
The suicides and needless deaths keep coming. Just last week, Huntress lead singer Jill Janus took her own life after battling with mental illness, adding her name to a list that includes Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell, Scott Hutchison, Avicii, Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchence, Ian Curtis, Elliott Smith, Butch Trucks, Brad Delp, Keith Emerson, Mark Linkhaus, [&hellip.. more
What is the guitar really all about? Let’s ask maestro Andrés Segovia. (Via Walter)  .. more
Yes, a metal band populated by dogs. Please enjoy.. more
Aretha Franklin passed away just last Thursday, but over the weekend DJ Gramatik posted what might be the first tribute song to the Queen of Soul. Gramatik has been a big Franklin fan for years, sampling her work dozens of times. Take a listen to his thank you. (Via FYIMusicNews.ca).. more
Dennis Rodman dropped into a Pearl Jam show at Wrigley Field on Saturday night and insisted on talking politics to the crowd. This was a bit weird given that Rodman is a Trump fan, but then again, he did play for the Bulls for a while. Onstage, Rodman held forth on North Korea, saying he [&hellip.. more
This co-headlining tour with Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie isn’t going so well. Zombie has been holding up his end of the bargain, but there have been several shows where Manson has either (a) not been able to perform; or (b) not been able to finish the show. Saturday night was variant (b). At a [&hellip.. more
Artist: Night Surf Song: “Enemies” Album: Enemies EP The title track from their upcoming EP, Night Surf offers a driving, hook-filled approach to pop punk but with a darker twist. Since their debut EP in 2017, Night Surf has found local support in Brooklyn. Listen here. Artist: Ghost X Gardens Song: “Hittin the Bricks” Album: [&hellip.. more
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