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Limited Lenticular Version Of A Charlie Brown Christmas Celebrates The 70th Anniversary Of Peanuts And Vince Guaraldi’s Timeless Holiday Classic Now Available

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Limited Lenticular Version Of A Charlie Brown Christmas Celebrates The 70th Anniversary Of Peanuts And Vince Guaraldi’s Timeless Holiday Classic Now Available

Craft Recordings is pleased to announce a one-time vinyl pressing of the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s beloved jazz and holiday album, A Charlie Brown Christmas, which will include a bonus lenticular print of the original 1965 album cover featuring Charles Schulz’s iconic illustration to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Peanuts.  Immediately available for pre-order or purchase, the LP has been pressed on a range of colors and picture discs for participating retailers.

A Charlie Brown Christmas, certified 4X Platinum by the RIAA in 2016, is one of the best-selling jazz albums in history, second only to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue; and it’s no surprise—Guaraldi’s engaging score to the synonymous holiday television special has introduced generations of children and their parents to the joys of jazz music, with tracks like the instantly recognizable “Linus and Lucy,” and yuletide favorite “Christmas Time Is Here.” The album was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry five years later, and continues to be a perennial favorite, thanks to annual airings of the Christmas TV special.

A native of San Francisco, Vince Guaraldi became one of America’s most successful jazz artists during the course of his lifetime. Though Guaraldi’s legacy is most famously tied to his association with Peanuts, he was already an established, GRAMMY Award-winning artist by the time that producer Lee Mendelson tapped him to score the first of many animated specials based on the comic strip by Charles Schulz. In a 2003 interview, excerpted from the biography Vince Guaraldi at the Piano (Derrick Bang; McFarland Books), Mendelson declared, “There was no doubt in my mind that if we hadn’t had that Guaraldi score, we wouldn’t have had the franchise we later enjoyed.”

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tracklist:

Side A

  1. O Tannenbaum
  2. What Child Is This
  3. My Little Drum
  4. Linus & Lucy
  5. Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)

Side B

  1. Christmas Time Is Here (vocal)
  2. Skating
  3. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
  4. Christmas Is Coming
  5. Für Elise
  6. The Christmas Song
  7. Greensleeves

 

The Tragically Hip And Cineplex Theatres Present The Tragically Hip: The Ultimate Double Feature

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The Tragically Hip And Cineplex Theatres Present The Tragically Hip: The Ultimate Double Feature

Today legendary Canadian icons The Tragically Hip announced that a special double feature of their celebrated films, Long Time Running and A National Celebration, will screen at select Cineplex Theatres across Canada. For the first time ever, starting on September 18th, fans across the country will have the chance to take in both titles at Cineplex Cinemas. A full list of Cineplex Cinemas presenting The Tragically Hip: The Ultimate Double Feature is below.

Tickets for the limited engagement screenings are on-sale now and available HERE

To commemorate the special double bill exclusive merchandise has been created and is available to purchase. Merchandise is available HERE and includes a reprint of the original Kingston concert t-shirt.

Long Time Running is a feature documentary film that follows The Tragically Hip’s iconic 2016 Man Machine Poem cross-Canada tour up until their final concert in their hometown of Kingston. The film is distributed by Elevation Pictures. A National Celebration was the final show of The Tragically Hip’s Man Machine Poem Tour recorded on August 20th, 2016 at the K-Rock Centre in their hometown of Kingston Ontario. The concert was broadcast nationally on CBC to a record-breaking audience of 11.7 million.

Critically acclaimed for more than three decades, The Tragically Hip has been at the heart of the Canadian musical zeitgeist, evoking a strong emotional connection between their music and their fans that remains unrivalled in this country.  A five-piece group of friends including Rob Baker (guitar), Gord Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar) and Gord Sinclair (bass), who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, The Hip has achieved the enviable status of a band that enjoys both mass popularity with more than 10 million albums sold worldwide, as well as peer recognition through 16 Juno Awards – and the fourth-most ever for an artist – picking up their last two in for Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year for Man Machine Poem.  Their studio catalogue includes their self-titled debut album The Tragically Hip (1987), Up To Here (1989), Road Apples (1991), Fully Completely (1992), Day For Night (1994), Trouble At The Henhouse (1996), Phantom Power (1998), Music @ Work (2000), In Violet Light (2002), In Between Evolution (2004), World Container (2006), We Are The Same (2009), Now For Plan A (2012) and Man Machine Poem (2016).  Through their career the band became a cultural touchstone in Canada; receiving the distinguished Order of Canada and even being featured on a set of postage stamps.

Playing at all of the following cinemas:

Check the Cineplex website for dates and times

 

Galaxy Cinemas Nanaimo 
Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
Cineplex Cinemas Langley
SilverCity Mission Cinemas
SilverCity Riverport Cinemas
Cineplex Cinemas Coquitlam and VIP
SilverCity Victoria Cinemas
Cineplex Odeon McGillivray Cinemas and VIP
Scotiabank Theatre Winnipeg
Galaxy Cinemas Lethbridge
Galaxy Cinemas Red Deer
Cineplex Odeon Eau Claire Market Cinemas
Galaxy Cinemas Medicine Hat
Cineplex Odeon Grande Prairie Cinemas
Cineplex Odeon South Edmonton Cinemas
Scotiabank Theatre Chinook
Cineplex Cinemas North Edmonton and VIP
Cineplex Cinemas Normanview (Formerly CPX Regina)
Scotiabank Theatre Saskatoon & VIP
Cineplex Cinemas Sydney
Scotiabank Theatre Halifax
Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane
Cineplex Cinemas Saint John
Cineplex Cinemas Fredericton
Cineplex Odeon Courtney Park Cinemas
Cineplex Cinemas Winston Churchill & VIP
Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas and VIP
Cineplex Odeon South Keys Cinemas
Cineplex Odeon Ajax Cinemas
Galaxy Cinemas Barrie
Cineplex Odeon Eglinton Town Centre Cinemas
Cineplex Odeon Niagara Square Cinemas
Cineplex Odeon Gardiners Road Cinemas
Cineplex Cinemas Queensway and VIP
Galaxy Cinemas Cornwall
Galaxy Cinemas Peterborough
Galaxy Cinemas Waterloo
Galaxy Cinemas Guelph
Galaxy Cinemas Brockville
Cineplex Odeon Aurora Cinemas
Cineplex Cinemas Hamilton Mountain (Formerly SC) 
SilverCity Richmond Hill Cinemas
SilverCity Newmarket Cinemas and XSCAPE Ent. Centre
Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
Galaxy Cinemas Belleville
SilverCity Burlington Cinemas
SilverCity London Cinemas
Scotiabank Theatre Ottawa (formerly SC Gloucester)
SilverCity Sudbury Cinemas
SilverCity Thunder Bay Cinemas
SilverCity Windsor Cinemas
Cineplex Cinemas Mount Pearl
Scotiabank Theatre St. John’s
Cinéma Cineplex Forum
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Ste-Foy
Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Brossard et VIP
Cinéma Galaxy Sherbrooke
Cinéma Cineplex Quartier Cavendish
Cinéma Starcité Gatineau
Cinéma Cineplex Kirkland

Justin Bieber Announces New Single “Holy” Feat. Chance The Rapper, Set For Release September 18

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Justin Bieber Announces New Single “Holy” Feat. Chance The Rapper, Set For Release September 18

Grammy Award-winning global superstar Justin Bieber, officially confirms the release of brand-new music this Friday, as he returns with “Holy” featuring Chance The Rapper, out September 18. “Holy,” and it’s Colin Tilley-directed short film, marks Bieber’s return to the pop arena just months after “Intentions” – his 8X global platinum single featuring Quavo – reached #1 at Top 40 radio in June, his seventh career #1 hit on Billboard’s Pop Songs chart. Justin revealed the cover art and release date for “Holy” via the dedicated website JBSOON.COM.

The Justin Bieber World Tour – presented by T-Mobile – kicks off in San Diego at Pechanga Arena on June 2, 2021 and includes five Canadian dates in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, as well as new arena stops in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago and more. A limited number of exclusive VIP Packages are available; These exceptional offers can include an amazing selection of reserved seated tickets, custom merchandise and much more. Additionally, $1.00 from each ticket purchased will be donated to the Bieber Foundation which is committed to supporting mental health wellness.

CHANGES, Justin’s fifth studio album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in February.  Bieber’s 7th overall #1 album, CHANGES also debuted at #1 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart, a career first for him. Underscoring the global dominance of CHANGES, the album reached #1 in the UK and Canada, and clocked in at #1on Apple Music in 85 countries. CHANGES has sold 4 million album equivalents worldwide.

With over 65 million monthly Spotify listeners, Bieber has become the platform’s #1 most-listened-to artist. He has also recently surpassed an astounding 147 million Instagram followers and over 50 million YouTube subscribers, giving him far-and-away the #1 artist channel on YouTube.

Over the course of his career, Justin Bieber has amassed more than 68 billion streams and more than 68 million album equivalents worldwide.

Elton John’s Greatest Songs

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Elton John’s Greatest Songs

 

Elton John is a musical legend, with a recording career spanning over a whopping 50 years. He is remembered fondly for making plenty of music in genres ranging from soft blues to all kinds of rock.

Some of Elton John songs are etched forever in musical history and are still a part of the cultural canvas that we inhabit today.

Here are a few of Elton John’s most iconic songs in no particular order.

Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters: Honky Château (1972)

This song is from Elton John’s first record album to top the charts in the United States. The song is a lyric that impresses with its directness as well as the soul touching lyrics. The words echo with a feeling about the idea of dreams being nothing more than an illusion, and a reality that must be faced soon.

When Elton John starts the song singing “Now I know Spanish Harlem aren’t just pretty words to say”, he is talking about how he felt when he realized that New York is different from what it is romanticized to be.

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word: Blue Moves (1976)

Elton John made this song one of the most painfully felt love songs when he first sang it in 1976. According to Bernie Taupin who collaborated with Elton John multiple times across the years, this song was the result of Elton John’s casual experimentation with his piano.

The song itself is one of the most powerful expressions in this age especially when it talks about that relatable feeling where one tries to save something despite knowing that it is already long gone. Modern lovers of music continue to listen and be moved by the beautifully expressed pathos in this song.

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart: Single (1976)

This fun song shot up to fame due to its catchy lyrics and a tune that people found that they couldn’t get out of their heads! Its success is marked by the fact that it made its way to the top charts in the United Kingdom and managed to hold that position for a month and a half.

Aside from its unique sound, this song has a fun history. It was written by John Elton and Bernie Taupin under clever pseudonyms made by Elton himself. The song itself was sung as a duet starring Elton John and Kiki Dee.

Bennie And The Jets: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

This song is characterized as a ‘loose rock and roll’ featuring a heavy variety of R;B traits. ‘Bennie and the Jets’ thus allowed Elton John to successfully tap into a different pool of audience.

Thematically, this song is a mixture of science fiction about a futuristic band of ‘rock and roll’ automatons. Being original and intriguing it is not hard to see why this particular song became one of Elton John’s greatest hits.

Candle In The Wind: Live In Australia (1974)

Elton John moved hearts of the masses with this enchanting song, initially written to celebrate the legacy of Marilyn Monroe. After the shocking death of Princess Diana in 1997, this song was rewritten to serve as an incredibly powerful tribute to the late personage.

I’m Still Standing: Too Low For Zero (1983)

This song was an icon of the age, written and performed in the maturity of Elton John’s career. This song has long since served as a mantra for getting back up after being hurt and refusing to give up. The themes are still largely relevant to this day and age, and have been featured in many forms of media ever since.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed this round-up of Elton John’s most iconic hits, as much as we enjoyed putting it together.  Elton John’s songs truly stand apart in terms of originality and artistic merit, and one can’t do anything but listen to them over and over again!

 

Video: When Alice Cooper met Salvador Dali in 1973

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Video: When Alice Cooper met Salvador Dali in 1973

In 1973, Alice Cooper was invited to New York City by Salvador Dali so that he could make a piece centered around him.

Video: Musician Invents 72 Homemade Instruments

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Video: Musician Invents 72 Homemade Instruments

Here’s a virtual tour of the exhibition Instruments de Nulle Part by Musiques de Nulle invented and created by musician and inventor Nicolas Bras.

BAHAMAS announces new album, Sad Hunk out October 9

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BAHAMAS announces new album, Sad Hunk out October 9

The award-winning songwriter and musician Bahamas (Afie Jurvanen), returns with his fifth full-length, Sad Hunk, on October 9, 2020.

While the 2018 release Earthtones saw Bahamas joining forces with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer James Gadson (the rhythm section behind D’ Angelo’s Black Messiah), Sad Hunk was created with past collaborators Christine Bougie (guitar), Don Kerr (drums), Mike O’Brien (bass), Felicity Williams (vocals) and recorded by longtime producer and multi-Grammy nominee Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Jack Johnson, Robbie Robertson). It also features the graceful guitar work of Sam Weber, a musician whom Jurvanen discovered on YouTube. Sad Hunk is the next step in Afie’s virtuosic signature style of restraint as a guitarist.
“Something like ten years ago, I did a photoshoot, and in all the pictures they sent back, I was lit half in shadow, looking all brooding and mysterious,” says Jurvanen. “When my wife saw the photos, the first thing she said was, “Whoa, sad hunk,” and after that, it became sort of a joke among our friends.” It’s a fitting backstory for an album that embodies an undaunted self-awareness, each track graced with Bahamas’ wry wit and unabashed heart.

In sketching Sad Hunk’s delicately composed batch of songs, Jurvanen drew much inspiration from his home life and all the joy and struggle that comes with building a family together. Having recently moved to the coast of Nova Scotia with his wife and two daughters (ages three and five), the Ontario native inevitably imbued the album with the sleepy idyll of his surroundings, even while committing to a sometimes-painful sincerity in his lyrics.

“I definitely use music to work things out for myself,” says Jurvanen. “It’s possible I’m too open sometimes, but I really don’t know any better way to be. If I tried to just go write fun songs about hot dogs or something, I’d probably fail.”

A globally successful touring artist, Bahamas averages over 2.5 million regular monthly listens on Spotify with more than 450 million streams to date. “Lost In The Light,” from 2012’s Barchords, is nearing 100 million streams, while “All The Time,” the lead single from third album Bahamas Is Afie, recently passed 70 million. Nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 2019 Grammy Awards, Earthtones won Adult Alternative Album Of The Year at the 2019 JUNO Awards. Jurvanen also received this accolade for Bahamas Is Afie in 2015, when he was also named Songwriter Of The Year.

1-minute tip for artists: Music Conferences.

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1-minute tip for artists: Music Conferences.

Travel the world’s music industry, without leaving your home.

Icelandic Artist Kahnin Releases Timelier than Ever New Single, “DuckTape”

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Icelandic Artist Kahnin Releases Timelier than Ever New Single, “DuckTape”

With 30,000 streams and rising, Icelandic singer/songwriter Kahnin — Gudmundur Jens Gudmundsson — muses on mistaken identity and answering to authorities in the release of his new single, “DuckTape” — available now!

“‘DuckTape’ is a song that can take on many meanings,” Kahnin shares. “For example, it can easily be associated with all the craziness that is going on in the world today, but mostly, it’s a song about being in the wrong place at the wrong time — kids having fun, sort of thing — mistaken identity, and being interrogated by the authorities in an unethically harsh manner.

“The song’s main mechanics started after I had been watching some CIA conspiracy documentary. I imagined how horrible it would be to be mistaken for some counterspy, and if it would ever be possible to get out of a situation like that.

“But with that said, the song still has a very fun/feel good atmosphere about it!” Kahnin insists. “And the reason behind the spelling of this song ‘Duck’ instead of ‘duct’ is simple: being that English is my second language, I always believed this is how it was spelled. I never really thought, ‘why in the hell would it be named after a duck?!”

Produced by, and featured on accompanying guitar is Arthur Pingrey (Sia, Sting, Norah Jones), with Dylan Wissing (Alicia Keys, Eminem, Drake, Jay Z) on drums and Gudmundsson/Kahnin on vocals and guitar.

“‘DuckTape’ strays away from my previous songs whilst still staying true to my sound,” Kahnin says. “‘DuckTape’ carries a harder pop/rock edge to it and a heavier tempo which differs from my previous songs.

“My philosophy on music is to always try and step away from what is comfortable and experiment with the colours of the music.

“‘DuckTape’ does that for me.”

With Jazz Versions of Nirvana + Feist, Calgary’s AIMEE-JO BENOIT Reinvents The Classics With New LP, BORJONER

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With Jazz Versions of Nirvana + Feist, Calgary’s AIMEE-JO BENOIT Reinvents The Classics With New LP, BORJONER

Calgary, AB’s jazz artist Aimee-Jo Benoit continues to celebrate this year’s release of BORJONER, her stunning new 10-track LP with Trio Velocity exploring songs from her personal journey — available now.

“BORJONER was born in a coffee shop,” Benoit recalls of the album’s earliest days. “I was thinking about the process of growth as an artist, a person, and a mother. The idea of burgeoning soil was all I could think about as I was trying to piece together a project that had been 15 years in the making.

“As a Canadian artist with a French background, I searched for a term that represented the idea of growth and BORJONER was found,” she continues. “It’s an old French term for burgeoning, and it couldn’t be more accurate for how I really do feel. It is as though I am clawing through the soil upwards and downwards, and it’s been a symbol for the entire process of how the album came to be, the recording and subsequent re-recording of it, its release during COVID-19, and its life as its rooted its way into the music community.”

Recorded by Spencer Cheyne at OCL Studios, the album sees Aimee-Jo Benoit and Trio Velocity — Simon Fisk, Robin Tufts, and Sheldon Zandboer — organically lean into songs of importance from the musical journey of the artist, holding space for them to breathe as they morph and are rearranged and reimagined through the connectedness of the quartet.

“We were brought together by the death of a close friend and colleague about four years ago,” she shares. “We held an improvisational performance at his wake, and the energy brought about by our grief exhumed a special connection.

“For each performance of a particular tune, including the recording, we loosely arrange the feel and structure, but listen to each other so intensely that we allow for the song to develop and grow in its own way.”

Among the 10-track LP includes a pull from Nirvana’s catalog in “All Apologies,” a nod to Feist’s “Lonely Lonely,” and a revisit to Snailhouse’s “Repetition” — and so much more.

CBC’s Saturday Night Jazz and JUNO Award-winning artist Laila Biali says, “Aimee-Jo Benoit’s approach to jazz… is heartfelt, whimsical, fresh and creative. She’s an artist whose beautiful humanity and sensitive approach to life cannot be separated from what she brings to the music.”

“I never thought I might be the inspiration for someone,” Benoit muses. “I am so grateful for the weeping and breathing it created…

“The valve release.

“The love that I feel, I want it to be contagious. These are the things that have meaning now… It’s no longer my desire to be respected; now, my only desire is to inspire.”

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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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