Look out, the Canadian music industry wants us to pay more for our electronics: Alan Cross
If you’re of a certain vintage, you may remember the hysteria manifested in the Home Taping is Killing Music campaign launched in the U.K. in 1981 that came complete with a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign. The industry blamed weak sales on people who were wantonly recording albums onto blank cassettes and making mixtapes for the car or this new thing called the Sony Walkman.
(Global News)
How a P.E.I. company is cashing in on the vinyl revival
He and Ghislaine Cormier are co-owners of Charlottetown’s Kaneshii Vinyl Press, one of only a handful of vinyl presses to have opened in Canada in recent years. “We realized there was a gap in the market that need to be filled and we jumped in right here on P.E.I.,” Banahene said.
(CBC News)
River and Sky announces partial lineup
The first wave of headliners has been announced for the annual River and Sky music and camping festival, which takes place July 19-22 on the Sturgeon River at Fishers’ Paradise, between Sudbury and North Bay.
(Sudbury Star)
Record Store Day: in Support of Our Local, Independent Music Shops
For music lovers, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of buying music that has been pressed onto vinyl. This April 21, independent record stores all over Vancouver will once again be bustling with vinyl aficionados chasing the excitement. Before the hustle begins, we caught up with some of the city’s main hot spots for record shopping to talk about surviving in the digital era, this year’s special releases, and the advent of the 11th annual Record Store Day.
(BeatRoute)
RIP: Maple Music Advocate, Stuart Jolliffe
Stuart (Alexander) Jolliffe, GM at Marriott Hotels, who helped nurture a strong music industry inside Nova Scotia, as well as aiding many musicians on the road, died April 11 in Toronto. The cause of death is given as a heart attack in his sleep. He was 55.
(FYI Music News)
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Greetings and salutations!
The creator of POWERPUFF GIRLS is interviewed on q this morning.
I will have to share that with my housemate for he was a fan of that show (thank you Benoit)
I’m back! Nice, got my taxes done for a reasonable amount ($45) and, this year, the government giveth back what the government had taken away. Or rather, what the government had asked me to pay in advance, and which I had.
So, not ‘free money’, it was actually mine all along, but fair is fair, and equitable is okay.
Good morning.
Some good bands are coming to Nelson and it is making me rather crazy. Going out to live music is really terrible for me still with all of the concussion symptoms. Great Lake Swimmers and Wolf Parade are two of the most recent announcements. Then of course there is Tiny Lights Festival who has booked Brasstronaut, Rea Spoon, Moontricks and Jasper Sloan Yip to name just a few … and Kaslo Jazz Etc. I am happy for everyone else who gets to soak it up of course. I have joined a book club ….
In lighter news; I am so going to light sparklers from the bottom for ever more!
@Morgana, we can both have FOMO together
I’m trying not to be miserable but thanks for the company.
Which feels worse; FOMO or ROMO?
FOMO means I have a chance of getting there (however slim) but ROMO means that all chances have gone.
So I would say that ROMO is worse (for me at least)
I have just been informed that I can’t have a pet Porg and I’m not happy
Home from making it through errands downtown. We have a very sweet downtown and it quit raining shorty after I stuck out so it was pretty good. I just wish the world would stop moving all around me in such a unsettling and unpredictable way. Come on brain, heal!
PS I have a promo code for Wolf Parade if anyone is interested
I have no idea what a Porg is. Should one be allowed to have one?
Porgs are those mythical creatures invented for the last Star Wars movie, because there were protected penguins where they were filming; so they CGI’d them into Porgs. See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=porg&t=ffsb&atb=v35-2&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fimagesvc.timeincapp.com%2Fv3%2Ffan%2Fimage%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fdorksideoftheforce.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F319%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F10%2Fimage1.jpeg%26c%3Dsc%26w%3D1242%26h%3D995
Penguins don’t get this far north (not without help) they would have been puffins (he says without checking)
A wealth of knowledge as always:)
“Puffins” is correct. https://kotaku.com/the-last-jedis-porgs-are-just-puffins-which-the-film-c-1821485957
Miss you guys!