Songwriting and Production
4. Toronto, Canada I recently hung out with one of Toronto’s heads of Government arts funding. Let’s just say she had an annual arts budget comparable to the salary of an NBA superstar. All of that money went to Ontario-based indie artists to release their own albums. Toronto also has perhaps the highest talent per…
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Source: Iggy Pop interview: “Punk has to have a sense of hopelessness about it”
Actually this is a bullshit article but well worth reading for the perspective it provides or should I say POV. Like all monumental acts of creativity, the artists were driven by an aspiration to transcend their own finitude, to create something of lasting value, something enduring that would live beyond those who created it. Source:…
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I helped set up this show along with 50 other Stage Hands at Budweiser Stage in Toronto. It was the morning the truss fell off the forklift onto my shoulder. Wish I could have afforded to see the show. I like both bands a lot. Note: this is a link to a slide show. Source:…
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…very well done and enlightening documentary on Marc Bolan and his bands. 1:17:00
DO it all with GRATITUDE! and Pink Floyd’s equipment
AFP Relax News•May 13, 2019 Bono, Elton John, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits… The red carpet at Cannes is shaping up to look like a dream rock festival line-up. Not to mention Rihanna and a couple of the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who may yet put in an appearance at the world’s biggest film festival,…
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Excellent advice here (courtesy of MICCO) – 1. Do not send them your entire album Unless you are Billie Eilish, the chances of someone actually listening to your entire album is pretty slim… Even successful artists struggle to get their fans to commit to their entire album so don’t ask a busy curator to listen…
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You like retro? You like this.
IN case you ever wondered what a useful list of music genres looks like, here’s a good place to start. 100s! Source: Music Genre List – A complete list of music styles, types and genres
All 17 videos of these 7/8 songs are available at the link below. It took a bit of fudging to put this together as most of these songs are not completely in 7 beats to the bar, but they do throw a spanner in the works of the toe-tapping crowd. -dg There’s a reason why…
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When the Ukrainian band Brunettes Shoot Blondes came across a vintage broken piano, they decided to transform it into a unique and completely analog hybrid of 20 different instruments that are each connected and controlled by the piano keys. The band prominently featured this wonderful instrument in the music video for their song “Houston”. Source:…
And because I didn’t know it was there, here is a link to my Art Tracks in the form of a YouTube page called a Topic page. I am a Topic now. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwL8zxgkuNCum2S3GI4toNw By Nicholas Salomone February 27, 2018 What is an Art Track on YouTube? One of the most common areas of confusion…
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“We had a little rager with Wolfmother last night,” says Dandy Warhols bandleader Courtney Taylor-Taylor, as he clears empty wine glasses from the large dining table. His bandmate Zia McCabe suns on the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette in the unseasonably hot March sun as a symphony of construction fills the air. The Odditorium, the band’s longtime…
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