Hey Ontario Music Geeks! We have put together a really cool contest with Dine Alone Records and Auchentoshan Whisky for you this fall. We will be giving away 15 Limited Edition White Vinyl Dine Alone sampler albums! All you have to do to enter the contest is to Tweet a photo of your record player [&hellip.. more
Attention all Music Geeks and Tech Freaks! We are excited to announce our next Music Tech MeetUp event, happening at the legendary Phoenix Concert Theatre on November 21, 2018. This time, I’ll be moderating a panel on the role of technology in education and well-being. The networking and panel discussion will be followed by a [&hellip.. more
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen finally lost a fight with non-Hodgkins lymphoma yesterday, a disease he’d had since 2009, which followed a Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in 1982. He was 65. Bill Gates’ former business partner was also the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers and a big contributors to charities throughout the [&hellip.. more
I’ve been rabbiting on how as a delivery mechanism, streaming is changing the very nature of the music it’s delivering. Output.com sums everything up in seen statements. The data collected from streaming is making songs simpler and less challenging. Social media is making songs more confessional. Songs are shorter. It doesn’t pay to make long [&hellip.. more
If you have eight minutes to spare, take a look at this fast-talking, fast-drawing video from 12Tone about the origins of the term “heavy metal.&#.. more
I stumbled across Squeaky Toy Records through a story in one of my newsletters. I’ll just quote the description for this video verbatim. Over the last 3 years, I have been engaging in a touch-based therapy protocol that I developed in order to heal her emotional trauma. If we think of trauma as stored vibrational [&hellip.. more
Faygo, the chosen beverage of Insane Clown Posse, has been restricted to a couple of different types of soda. Okay, fifty different flavours, but who’s counting? Now, though, Faygo is now a beer. Seven beers, actually, taking the concept of craft brewing to new levels of insanity. According to Food & Wine, seven brews modeled [&hellip.. more
If someone else has mashed up Greta Van Fleet and Led Zeppelin before, I’d never heard of it. Props to DJ Cummerbund for finally doing what all of us have been thinking of for months.. more
Tom DeLonge has been spending is post-blink-182 years working on his To the Stars Academy, an organization dedicated to uncovering the vast government coverup of unidentified aerial phenomenon. The project includes all manner of research along with publishing fiction and non-fiction books on the subject. To the Stars has some pretty heavy-hitters on its staff [&hellip.. more
For a band known for descriptive lyrics and beautiful melodies, there seem to be a lot of murals paying tribute to the Tragically Hip. But it’s not just murals. In Kingston’s Springer Market Square, where 25,000 people gathered to watch the band’s final concert from a nearby arena, there’s a stone inscribed with the lyrics [&hellip.. more
Artist: Sauna Song: “Over” Album: Single Brand new Toronto band Sauna just released their first single. They have a cool, almost post-punk sound with plenty of synths. Listen: Artist: Peter Bjorn and John Song: “Wrapped Around the Axle” Album: Single As they get ready to release their eighth album, Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John [&hellip.. more
It was on this day in October 1970 when Pierre Trudeau enacted the War Measures Act. It was a scary time for Quebec especially and Canada in general. And in music news for October 16, 2018… Canadian music sales and streams vs. this time last week: Total albums, -20.3%; digital albums, -19.3%; physical albums, -20,9%; [&hellip.. more
[Mike Carr has put together a massive volume on Canadian music history entitled Canadian Alternative & Indie Reference and Collector’s Guide. It’s an incredible discography of hundreds of bands. This is the latest excerpt from his book. – AC] Broken Social Scene is an indie rock band from Toronto, a musical collective with as few as six [&hellip.. more
Do you ever read music history and think that you were born too late? If you could go back to experience a musical scene firsthand as it was evolving, which would it be? For example: Elvis craziness Beatlemania The Summer of Love New York punk at CBGB The British punk scene with the Sex Pistols [&hellip.. more
While it didn’t necessarily start when news of Gord Downie’s illness was announced, covers of the Tragically Hip’s music certainly have flourished since then. And why not? These are wonderfully written songs, complete with skilled storytelling and great compositions that feel like stepping into the lives of fully formed characters just waiting to step up [&hellip.. more
In their day, Teenage Head was a force of nature. As one of the biggest Canadian bands to emerge of out of the post-punk/New Wave stew of the middle and late 70s, they were poised for international greatness until bad timing resulting from a car crash derailed their chances. But the band soldiered on, becoming [&hellip.. more
The vinyl resurrection, now in its 11th year, remains so strong that new companies are being created to feed the demand. Viryl Technologies of Toronto, which has been online for a couple of years now, is not only in the business of pressing records, but they’re also manufacturing new pressing equipment. While most record pressing plants [&hellip.. more
[Andrei Chlytchkov was one against dispatched into the photo pit. His assignment? Bring back some photos of Phil Collins in concert at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on October 11. Text provided by L. Benny Sanders and Mayerling Rivera. – AC] Something was in the air tonight (sorry) at The Scotiabank Arena. It was clear that [&hellip.. more
[This was my weekly music column for GlobalNews.ca. -AC] Oct.7, 2008, wasn’t the greatest time to release a disruptive new product. With a worldwide financial crisis getting worse by the day, a Swedish start-up called Spotify AB unveiled a new online platform that allowed instant access to a vast library of songs to subscribers in [&hellip.. more
[Mat Kahansky is back with more music recommendations. I’m posting them because stupid WordPress isn’t working for him. Anyone want to help out with these annoying ERROR_500s? – AC] Artist: SKRAECKOEDLAN Song: “ÄPPELTRÄDET” Album/EP: ÄPPELTRÄDET Hardcore heavy rock with a monumental, grandiose, gothic tone, this Swedish export feels oh so characteristically rugged a.. more
WARNING: There may be Kanye music news ahead. It’s just so hard to avoid him for October 15, 2018. Prince’s estate to Donald Trump: “Cut it out.“ Another Bowie box set? Yes. This one focuses on the 80s. Michael Buble says his son’s cancer scare has prompted him to quit music. Or is this retirement [&hellip.. more
The IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industries) recently took a survey of 19,000 consumers around the planet to see what sorts of music were the most popular. At the top of the list was pop, which was cited as a number one preference by 64% of respondents. Rock was a reasonably close second. And although [&hellip.. more
WIN a Limited Edition White Vinyl Dine Alone sampler album with Auchentoshan Whisky
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