These articles brought forth are for a few different reasons:
1. It is relevant music information that pertains to you as a reader, no matter the level of intent or the genre.
2. They are relevant to the music I would be currently listening to or a genre I have put some attention and focus on.
3. I am somewhat patriotic about my Canadian music, so that always comes as a first for me. I enjoy music from all parts of the world respectively, but I still have to promote local if I can. Canadian music rocks!
4. Because it's humourous and we can ALWAYS use a good laugh. Rarely will it be at someone's expense...but then again I am just the guy talking about it. They're the ones causing the comments.
So in closing, I trust you all will not read EVERY single article posted here. But I hope you find something of use here and keep the conversation going by forwarding it onto someone else. Click on each article heading for redirection to the full article. Cheers!
Lou Reed's Friends and Colleagues React to His Death:
"Lou Reed has died. That's terrible news. A huge part of my younger years revolved around him and his music." -Gary Numan (https://twitter.com/numanofficial/statuses/394560050016301056)
"RIP Lou Reed.
you made the world a better place.
we are forever grateful." -Jim James (https://twitter.com/jimjames/statuses/394538186061250560)
"R.I.P Lou Reed - VU was a big influence when weezer was being formed, and Ric Ocasek told us cool stories of his friendship with him." -Weezer (https://twitter.com/Weezer/statuses/394520863493472256)
20 Essential Lou Reed Tracks:
"I'm Waiting for the Man", "Sister Ray", "Pale Blue Eyes", "Satellite of Love", and more.
YouTube Planning Subscription Service - Report:
"We’re always working on new and better ways for people to enjoy YouTube content across all screens, and on giving partners more opportunities to reach their fans. However, we have nothing to announce at this time." -YouTube
How YouTube's Subscription Service Will Benefit Record Labels:
"The YouTube brand is more powerful in people's minds than Google Play at the moment. Maybe the YouTube brand will eat Google Play and build a massive service that would compete with iTunes and iTunes Radio, with a brand that would be as powerful as iTunes/Apple. It would be very, very silly to ask you to pay for one service and ask you to pay again for a second service. You can essentially bet that one will be the same as the other." -Jeremie Varengo (former Universal Music digital-music manager)
Elvis Costello Named Honorary Doctor of Music:
"Elvis Costello can now call himself a doctor of music. On Friday, the ever-restless musician was on hand in Boston to receive an honorary degree from the New England Conservatory, joining a small, illustrious group – Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Quincy Jones – of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers who have been honored by the country's oldest independent school of music."
Dixie Chicks: Canadians show their love for heart string-pulling performance:
"As last night’s packed Rogers Arena date on the Long Time Gone Tour proved, ladies love the Chicks.
The almost entirely female audience was on its feet harmonizing with Maines, multiple-instrumentalist Emily Robison and fiddle player Martie Maguire from the first notes of the opener Wide Open Spaces."
David Bowie Coming to Sirius XM:
"Kicking off on Wednesday, October 30th, and running through November 12th, the network will premiere five unheard songs from Bowie's expanded edition of The Next Day (due out November 5th), as well as rare performances, demos and Bowie covers by Beck, Nirvana, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
Danny Elfman Performs Tim Burton Scores Live:
Michael Jackson Is the Top-Earning Dead Celebrity:
"Madonna was the top earner on our recent Celebrity 100 list, raking in $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013. Not bad for a living person. Her late buddy Michael Jackson easily topped her though, earning $160 million over the past year by our estimate. It’s the third time in the past five years that the top-earning celebrity in the world has come from the graveyard."
Five Finger Death Punch Continue "Trespass America" Tour in 2014:
"How about if we add some different stuff? Something like Volbeat or The Prodigy or Tech N9ne ? Yey - Ney ?"
Against Me! Set 'Transgender Dysphoria Blues' with January Due Date:
1. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
2. True Trans Soul Rebel
3. Unconditional Love
4. Drinking With The Jocks
5. Osama Bin Laden As The Crucified Christ
6. FUCKMYLIFE666
7. Dead Friend
8. Two Coffins
9. Paralytic States
10. Black Me Out
The record arrives January 21st, 2013 via the group's own Total Treble imprint, though the Australian pressing drops via Resist Records.
Evil Dead the Musical - It’s back and it’s bloodier than ever:
“When you start again, you’ve got to get back into the swing of the physicality. It’s not easy hefting that chainsaw about.
It’s been fun here, even though the Philly audiences are not quite as raucous as Toronto. Back home, it’s more like a rock concert than an ordinary musical. A rock concert with a splatter zone.” -Ryan Ward
Slayer To Perform ‘Old School Set’ During Fall North American Tour:
"We're having such a great time rehearsing this 'Old School' set, we've decided to play it on every one of our upcoming tour dates." -Kerry King
"The final set list is still coming together, but we're going to give the fans what amounts to 'decades of aggression.' It's going to be a great night of music and moshing for everyone." -Araya
Slayer's "Old School Slayer Night" set will include tracks from 1983's Show No Mercy, 1985's Hell Awaits, the genre-defining and Gold-certified Reign In Blood (1986), 1988's South of Heaven, also certified Gold, and Seasons.
Kill Devil Hill Debut “Where Angels Dare To Roam” & "Long Way From Home":
Clutch Announce 'Earth Rocker Live':
"CLUTCH has set a November 26th release date for Earth Rocker Live via Weathermaker Music. Earth Rocker Live is a double vinyl picture disc set. The first LP is the studio version of Earth Rocker. The second LP consists of live versions of the same tracks in the same sequence as the original. This is not a live recording of one show. The individual tracks of the live version were recorded at different shows throughout the band’s May 2013 US tour: Houston and San Antonio (TX), Lincoln (NE), Indianapolis (IN) and Fargo (ND). The stunning artwork displays the four Indian heads from the original package in all their colorful beauty: one for each side. This special collectors’ item will be limited to the initial print run and is expected to sell out quickly." -Clutch (via press release)
Sarah Brightman's big budget bash takes audience to a strange place indeed:
"It wouldn't have been a Sarah Brightman show without a little Phantom, the opera that Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is said to have written for her. She did it as a duet with tenor Erkan Aki in front of red nightmare kaleidoscope visuals, backed by a guitarist thrashing like it was the finest heavy metal."
The Who to Embark on Final World Tour in 2015:
"For the 50th anniversary we'll tour the world. It'll be the last big one for us. There are still plenty of places we've not played. It would be good to go to eastern Europe and places that haven't heard us play all the old hits." -Pete Townshend
Update On Tool’s Writing Sessions For Their New Album Available:
“A couple of weeks ago I visited the Tool loft to try and get some kind of idea as to how things were progressing with the writing sessions now that the band was back hard at it. Well, I am happy to report that there has indeed been a lot of progress as far as new material goes, especially with the lengthy so-called “epic’ piece that the guys have been arranging for quite some time now.
Shortly after I arrived, before taking to their respective instruments, Adam suggested that everyone should first have a listen to what they had recorded during the previous session in order to make sure that all were in agreement with certain recently added sections. And listen they did. In fact, to give you some idea – my parking meter expired twice before they were done.
And judging from the smiles on their faces, it seemed that, for the most part, Danny, Adam and Justin liked very much what they were hearing and that after some finishing touches, the ‘epic’ tune would be ready for Maynard to do his thing. (During some of the more melodic passages, I was trying to envision the vocals which, to me, brings it all together.)
After a bit of discussion about some rapid-fire triplets in one section, I asked Danny if he was going to be able to knock out the piece in one take when it came time to track it? His response was to smile and bury his head in his hands, which I will let the readers interpret for themselves. As for the song itself, without giving too much away, it features complex time signatures, interesting harmonic structure and expanding effects processing – similar to what fans of Tool have come to expect – only now, perhaps not surprisingly, the band has taken it to the next level.
Okay, having given you this bit of an update, please note that I am NOT suggesting in any way that the band is ready to go into the studio any time soon. I honestly have no idea as far as any recording timetables go. I am also not sure how many other songs are near completion at this point. Nor do I know at what stage the vocals might be at for ANY of the new material.
All I am saying is that as far as this one particular song goes (albeit, a very lengthy one), it was a LOT closer to being finished (instrumentally, speaking) than the last time that I heard it, and that fans of Tool‘s music will certainly not be disappointed.” -Webmaster (toolband.com)
Daft Punk Details 'Random Access Memories' Box Set:
The box, which is said to be shipping in early December, is covered in cloth and stamped with gold foil. It includes the original double LP, with gold and silver foil labels, plus a bonus 10-inch with an extended cut of Giorgio Moroder's audio interview.
There are two USB drives, one gold and one silver, which include digital copies of the album as well as bonus track "Horizon," the full "Lose Yourself to Dance" video and other promo videos from their album campaign. Speaking of the "Lose Yourself to Dance" video, the box also includes a film strip from that clip.
With the two LPs, there's an eight-page book of lyrics and art. There's also another 56-page hardcover book that includes photos from the album's recording and from some video shoots, plus a foreward from Paul Williams. There are also schematics detailing the design of the robots's heads and bodies.
The Random Access Memories box set will run you $275.
Black Flag Unveil New 'What The...' Album:
1. My Heart's Pumping
2. Down in the Dirt
3. Blood and Ashes
4. Now Is the Time
5. Wallow in Despair
6. Slow Your Ass Down
7. It's so Absurd
8. Shut Up
9. This Is Hell
10. Go Away
11. The Bitter End
12. The Chase
13. I'm Sick
14. It's Not My Time to Go-Go
15. Lies
16. Get Out of My Way
17. Outside
18. No Teeth
19. To Hell and Back
20. Give Me All Your Dough
21. You Gotta Be Joking
22. Off My Shoulders
The album is apparently set to drop November 5th, 2013 via Ginn's SST imprint.
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