I’m not gonna lie. I’m pretty excited that Toronto is getting it together with more electronic music festivals. Last year was the first mainstreaming of multi-day electronic music festivals with pretty big names coming to entertain hundreds. Digital Dreams and VELD are the big ones. And I’m glad they exist.
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Impolitical: Friday night
Fave song of the week. Nice mix of emotion in this one. It’s from one of Avicii’s recent sets that now has over 1.2 million listens in the past 20 or so days. Wow. A great hour if you like this kind of music. And shhhh, don’t tell anyone…it’s my
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Fave song of the week. Nice mix of emotion in this one. It’s from one of Avicii’s recent sets that now has over 1.2 million listens in the past 20 or so days. Wow. A great hour if you like this kind of music. And shhhh, don’t tell anyone…it’s my
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: Neighbourhood Watch
Happy Friday! Today’s band is Thornhill’s Neighbourhood Watch. Embarking on their third year together, the band has honed a colourfully guitar driven, suburban rock style unlike any other local indie acts. With upbeat tempos and a plethora of harmonious synth and guitar melodies, Neighbourhood Watch delivers an energetic live show
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Schubert, Piano Trio in B-flat major, 1st mvt.
A big thank-you to Steven Malinowski for producing the graphical score you see below. The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life.[1][2] It
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: Patrick Watson
Hello readers! This time I’ve decided to feature a band not so unheard of, but one that has owned so much play time in my headphones over the last several days. Montreal’s Patrick Watson has a prolifically beautiful and articulate way of musically flirting with a marriage of classical and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Misty Mountains
This is from the Hobbit an Unexpected Journey when the dwarves invade poor Bilblo’s house and then, after awhile, sing melancholic songs about their lost home. I’m scouring the net looking for arrangements of this song so I can put together a singable piece for my choir. Lyrics: Far over
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: NOT Offended By Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s “Accidental Racist” Lyrics
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week “Accidental Racist”, the new duet by country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J made a lot of people uncomfortable. Angry even. It caused an online backlash. A pop music critic with the Toronto Star said: ‘Accidental Racist’ makes Brad Paisley and LL Cool
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Rita MacNeil Passes Away
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Cape Breton’s first lady of song, Rita MacNeil. on.fb.me/15kgXcS— Rita MacNeil (@TeaRoomRita) April 17, 2013 This appeared on Rita’s website this evening, as pointed out on Twitter. CBC doesn’t have a story up as I’m posting this. Her Wikipedia
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Eliminating clubland: Planning for the right dance & social spaces in the city
Eliminating clubland: Planning for the right dance & social spaces in the city I’m going to respond to this article from an Urban Planning point of view, but also from a Feminist and “dance-positive” point of view [2]. This month I have been dreading my move back to Vancouver –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – J.S Bach Motet BWV 227
Jesu, meine Freude is a motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The work, which takes its title from the chorale by Johann Franck on which it is based, is also known as Motet No. 3 in E minor, BWV 227. The stanzas of the chorale are interspersed with passages from
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Django; The ‘D’eath Is Not Silent
Watched “Django Unchained” [7/10], and realized that bodies were exploding because it was a Tarantino movie. It went about as expected. Some parts should not be watched, or it will cause trauma; Like the dogs ripping someone apart. However, I was pleasantly surprised to hear this Jim Croce song. Before
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante (“Elvira Madigan”)
Elvira Madigan is the nickname of Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major,” which he wrote in 1785 within a space of 4 weeks. It is one of Mozart’s most popular piano concertos, and has three movements. The concerto was penned for a series of Lenten subscription concerts given
Continue readingRob Maguire: The New Rockstar Philosophy:a marketing bible for DIY musicians
Every musician and their dog knows that the music industry ain’t what is used to be. Heck, it’s not even what it was ten years ago when I was still packing gear into rusted-out Econolines and pulling red-eye shifts along the Trans-Canada. So how do emerging artists get noticed these
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: Fire/Works
Good Friday, readers! Today’s Band of the Month is Montreal’s Fire/Works. Motivated by the marriage of rhythm and ambiance, this French-Canadian progressive folk duo take a unique spin on organic acoustic instrumentation by adding a tasteful layer of patiently explosive effects to acoustic guitar and banjo. Lead by sweetly engaging
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude: Virtual Choir Live
Back when the internet was just starting, there were many, how can we put this politely, ‘optimistic’ predictions in the vein of bringing the world together, unbounded communication, openness, a giant leap forward for mankind – blah blah blah. Unfortunately, what we got was a commercialized, sectarian echo chamber that,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Forward Together #UofR: Buffy St. Marie – Live Blog
Buffy St. Marie tackled the subject of Aboriginal peoples’ self image. What has been the basis for it? In many cases in popular culture, it’s from philosophers in Europe who never met the First Peoples in their life! #Buffy event at #FNUniv is almost full 10 min to start. http://t.co/TNO8jZ4K0a—
Continue reading350 or bust: Trust & Vulnerability: A New Business Model For Music Industry?
For TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, Amanda Palmer shares a revolutionary way to approach the music business. Paradigms are shifting all over the place, folks!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major – Book I of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 862
The Well-Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier),[2] BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical
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