Jack White and Jimmy take an intense game of chess to a whole new level.
Best Qualities You Should Look For In A Virtual Assistant
Having a virtual assistant in your company will be a valuable asset especially when you are still starting up where your resources are small and your funds are still limited. Start-up business owners are entrepreneurs who needs to handle their time efficiently and must focus more on the tasks that will increase the development and growth of the business. A virtual assistant plays a critical role in managing valuable time for businessmen by performing non-critical tasks and other functions.
There are countless sources where companies can hire virtual assistants. You can get suggestions from colleagues, friends or by just checking the internet. There are a lot of trustworthy online market platforms and websites that provide expert virtual assistants. Regardless of where they work, be it at home or inside a shared office space, it’s always essential to screen all of the applicants before hiring them.
So what qualifications should a virtual assistant should have?
Reliable
Reliability is one of the best qualities a virtual assistant must have. No matter how great there resume is, your working relationship will not work if you can’t trust your VA. When you give them a task such as buying tiktok followers or getting social media followers at Igreviewhub.org, a VA should be able to answer your questions and report the progress of their work. You should not be the one who is always asking for updates.
Competent
For any kind of project, you need to determine each candidate’s technical and fundamental skills. Fundamentals compose of communication skills, internet proficiency, emailing, and mastery in several software. Technical skills refer to the overall scope of the work. If you want a VA who will handle your social media accounts, you will need to test the candidate with their knowledge in using top social media platforms. A candidate does not have to be the best out there but they must possess a certain level of competence.
Honest
Virtual assistants handle a lot of work that can require managing of private information. This may include managing email addresses to handling credit cards to book for flights and accommodation. When looking for a virtual assistant, it is essential that they display the virtue of honesty during the interview. You can ask them how to handle private information and call some of their references to check out on them before doing a hire.
Own Their Mistakes
A professional VA is never scared to own up to mistakes they have done at work. Having this quality makes it easier to maintain work relationship. A good virtual assistant values their job and their contribution to the company’s success. They must know how to own mistakes so they can be better in the future. Owning mistakes also signifies a person’s accountability which is another great quality you should look for in a virtual assistant.
Attention to Detail
A great VA should be keen to detail. Virtual assistants usually communicate with clients, know how to answer calls and emails professionally, and handle important tasks. You would want someone who spends extra effort on searching and correcting mistakes and someone who goes the extra mile to ensure that all data are right. Of course, humans will commit little mistakes from time to time, however when you hire someone who is keen on details, you won’t have to waste time going back and rechecking all the work.
By: Novo Benaojan
Billie Eilish Announces 2020 Arena Where Do We Go? World Tour
Global, chart-topping Interscope/Darkroom Records artist Billie Eilish has announced her 2020 arena WHERE DO WE GO? WORLD TOUR, produced by Live Nation. Starting on March 8 in Miami, FL, WHERE DO WE GO? tour will take her live show to some of the world’s biggest arenas including New York City’s Madison Square Garden on March 15.
Following the release of her official music video for ‘all the good girls go to hell’ – accompanied with the important call to action on climate change – Billie Eilish continues to set an example by partnering with non-profit organization REVERB for her upcoming tour. To help create and encourage an eco-conscious environment both backstage and for her fans, Billie Eilish will be allowing fans to bring their re-fillable water bottles to the shows, water-stations will be available at every venue for both attendees and crew backstage, plastic straws will not be permitted and a Billie Eilish Eco-Village will be stationed at every show, providing attendees information and resources on ways to help combat climate change and preserve the Earth.
Last month, Billie Eilish earned her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘bad guy,’ taken from her multi-platinum global smash debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
Billie Eilish is officially the first artist born this millennium to achieve both a No. 1 album and single, and is now the third female solo artist in the 31-year history with multiple songs topping the Billboard Alternative Songs airplay chart (alongside Alanis Morrissett and Sinead O’Connor). “bad guy” also hit #1 in the Pop Songs airplay chart after leading the Alternative Songs airplay. Her album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? — released on March 29 — debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, has since returned to the top spot two additional times this year, and is currently 2019’s best-selling album in North America. Recently, Billie Eilish graced the cover of Rolling Stone, V and ELLE, and has amassed more that 17-billion combined global streams to date.
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES*
03/09 – AmericanAirlines Arena – Miami, FL
03/10 – Amway Center – Orlando, FL
03/12 – PNC Arena – Raleigh, NC
03/13 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA
03/15 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
03/16 – Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
03/18 – Capital One Center – Washington, DC
03/19 – TD Garden – Boston, MA
03/20 – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY
03/23 – Little Caesars Arena – Detroit, MI
03/24 – United Center – Chicago, IL
03/25 – Bankers Life Fieldhouse – Indianapolis, IN
03/27 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN
03/28 – Enterprise Center – St. Louis, MO
03/29 – CHI Health Center Omaha – Omaha, NE
04/01 – Pepsi Center – Denver, CO
04/04 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA
04/05 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA
04/07 – Chase Center – San Francisco, CA
04/08 – Golden 1 Center – Sacramento, CA
04/10 – Tacoma Dome – Seattle, WA
04/11 – Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC
LATIN AMERICAN TOUR DATES
05/25 – Arena VFG – Guadalajara, Mexico
05/27 – Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, Mexico
05/30 – Allianz Parque – Sao Paulo, Brazil
05/31 – Jeunesse Arena – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
06/2 – DirecTV Arena – Buenos Aires, Argentina
06/5 – Movistar Arena – Santiago, Chile
06/7 – Movistar Arena – Bogota, Colombia
EUROPEAN AND UNITED KINGDOM TOUR DATES
07/9 – TBA – TBA, Spain
07/10 – NOS Alive (festival) – Lisbon, Portugal
07/13 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam, Netherlands
07/14 – Mercedes-Benz Arena – Berlin, Germany
07/15 – Lanxess Arena – Cologne, Germany
07/17 – MIND (Area Expo) (festival) – Milano, Italy
07/18 – Lollapalooza (festival) – Paris, France
07/19 – Werchter Boutique (festival) – Werchter, Belgium
07/21 – Manchester Arena – Manchester, UK
07/22 – Manchester Arena – Manchester, UK
07/24 – Arena Birmingham – Birmingham, UK
07/26 – O2 Arena – London, UK
07/27 – O2 Arena – London, UK
Ringo Starr Joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in a Toy Instrument Rendition of ‘Yellow Submarine’
Ringo Starr joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform the Beatles hit “Yellow Submarine” with classroom instruments.
The JUNO Awards return to Toronto to Celebrate 50 years of Canadian Music
The JUNO Awards will be returning to Toronto for its 50th anniversary. The 2021 JUNO Awards and JUNO Week will take place March 22-28, 2021 culminating in The 50th Annual JUNO Awards Broadcast at Scotiabank Arena on Sunday, March 28, 2021, to be aired live on CBC.
“50 years ago Walt Grealis and Stan Klees created the JUNO Awards right here in Toronto and it’s an honour to bring Canada’s biggest night in music back home to where it all started,” said Allan Reid, President & CEO, CARAS / The JUNO Awards and MusiCounts. “This country continues to produce some of the most vibrant artists in the world and we invite you to join us in what will be the greatest national celebration of Canadian music ever.”
JUNO Week 2021 returns to Toronto after a decade, with the support of the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto. This will be the 26th time that Toronto has hosted Canada’s most iconic celebration of music, which remained in Toronto for its first 20 years – starting out in 1970 at St. Lawrence Hall, a historic venue that held an intimate 250 people. Since then, the awards show has grown to fill venues of over 15,000 seats and traveled from coast-to-coast, from St. John’s, NL, to Vancouver, BC, honouring the best in Canadian musical talent.
“Toronto is proud to host The JUNO Awards for their 50th anniversary,” said Mayor John Tory. “As the biggest event in Canadian music, this is a great opportunity for Toronto to welcome The JUNO Awards back home to where it all began 50 years ago and highlight the city’s truly diverse yet quintessentially Canadian spirit. We look forward to hosting the best of Canadian music in 2021!”
“Ontario’s amazing artists, industry professionals and emerging talent exemplify that we offer the world in one province,” said Lisa MacLeod, Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport. “We’re ready to share it with the rest of the country by welcoming the JUNO Awards back to Ontario for their 50th anniversary, which will help drive our $25 billion culture sector and contribute to an overall economic footprint of $71 billion dollars when factoring in tourism, culture, and sport.”
Toronto, Canada’s largest city and one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, is known for its vibrant and ever-evolving music scene. The city has produced some of Canada’s most iconic and best-selling artists in the world. Since the JUNO Awards hit the road in 2002, each host city has seen an average of over $10 million in economic impact of the awards broadcast, JUNO Week and surrounding events.
The origins of the JUNO Awards date back to 1970. In that year, Walt Grealis and Stan Klees, publishers of the weekly trade publication, RPM, organized the Gold Leaf Awards, held at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. A year later, the name of the award was changed to honour Pierre Juneau, the first head of the CRTC and responsible for the implementation of the Canadian Content Regulations in 1971.
The 50th annual JUNO Awards and JUNO Week 2021 will be hosted in Toronto, ON from March 22 through 28 with the finale event, The JUNO Awards Broadcast, on March 28 at Scotiabank Arena. The broadcast will be aired live on CBC, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, the free CBC Gem streaming service in Canada and globally at www.CBCMusic.ca/junos.
Watch Bruce Springsteen perform “Born To Run,” “Raise Your Hand” and “Detroit Medley” live in 1978
One of his most famous performances took place on Sept. 19, 1978 in his home state at the Capitol Theatre. The 3,200 fans (now totaling in the million who claim they were there) in the crowd witnessed what many consider to be the best performance of his – or any – career. It was captured on a WNEW-FM simulcast broadcast and filmed with then state-of-the-art video technology. even though it’s a little lacking now. Springsteen performed songs like “Born To Run,” “Detroit Medley” and “Raise Your Hand,” and he was at the absolute peak of his powers and still maintaining the artistic sensibility that runs deeper than those of his era.
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How To Build a Guitar Out of an Old Shovel
Burl of Burl’s Art demonstrates that you can make a pretty …groundbreaking… guitar out of an old shovel. YOU can do this, I can’t, even though Burl shares each step of the process, I would likely break something.
Midge Ure Returns To North America: Songs Questions & Answers Tour
Grammy and Brit Award winning musician Midge Ure returns to the North American intimate venue circuit with his open and honest, Songs, Questions and Answers Tour 2020.
Direct from the hugely successful UK leg of the tour Midge will be playing alongside multi-instrumentalist Tony Solis, performing acoustic versions of his catalogue and taking questions, and maybe the odd song request from the audience.
There is plenty to talk about too while covering a 40 year professional career, Ultravox, Solo work, Band Aid, his Orchestrated album from 2017….and anything the audience can think of to ask him!
This is as close as you can possibly get to the man, his life and his music. An event as real, honest, uplifting and poignant as his songs.
Midge Ure will also be releasing Soundtrack 1978-2019 on September 20th via Chrysalis Records. The 32-song collection encompasses four decades of Ure’s rich and varied career. In addition to many classic Ultravox and Midge Ure solo tracks, this collection also features previously unreleased material. One of these songs is a new remix of 2014’s ‘Dark Dark Night’, co-written and performed with Moby.
The collection also features collaborations with the likes of Kate Bush (Sister And Brother), Sir George Martin (orchestral arrangement on All In One Day), former Japan member Mick Karn (After A Fashion), and Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory (Personal Heaven).
The double CD version also comes with an accompanying DVD. The DVD features video promos from the Rich Kids and Midge’s solo work and collaborations. Later videos by his Band Electronica, and bonus documentaries.
Soundtrack 1978-2019 Tracklist:
All tracks are Midge Ure solo unless stated.
CD ONE
01 Call of The Wild (7” Version) [1986]
02 Answers To Nothing (7” Version) [1988]
03 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (7” Version) [1984] – Ultravox
04 The Gift [1985]
05 Wastelands (7” Version) [1985]
06 After A Fashion (7” Version) [1983] – Midge Ure & Mick Karn
07 Remembrance Day [1988]
08 No Regrets (7” Version) [1982]
09 Marching Men (7” Version) [1978] – Rich Kids
10 If I Was (7” Version) [1985]
11 Fade To Grey (2017 Version) [Originally 1980] – Midge Ure’s Band Electronica
12 Dear God (7” Version) [1988]
13 The Man Who Sold The World [1982]
14 That Certain Smile (7” Version) [1985]
15 Sister And Brother (Alt. 7” Edit) [1988] – Midge Ure feat. Kate Bush
16 All In One Day (7” Version) [1986] – Ultravox
CD TWO
01 Become [2014]
02 Touching Hearts And Skies
03 Glorious [2017] – Midge Ure & Rusty Egan
04 Star Crossed [2014]
05 You Move Me (Radio Edit) [2000]
06 I Survived (Single Edit) [2014] previously unreleased version
07 Personal Heaven [2001] – Midge Ure & Glenn Gregory
08 Beneath A Spielberg Sky (7” Version) [2000]
09 Breathe (7” Version) [1996]
10 Nevermore [2008]
11 Cold Cold Heart (7” Version) [1991]
12 Let Me Go [2014]
13 I See Hope (In The Morning Light) (7” Version) [1991]
14 Let It Rise [2010] – Schiller feat. Midge Ure
15 Dark Dark Night (2019 Remix) [2014] previously unreleased version. – Midge Ure feat. Moby
16 Vienna (Orchestrated Version) [2017]
DVD
01 Marching Men [1978] – The Rich Kids
02 No Regrets [1982]
03 After A Fashion [1983] – Midge Ure & Mick Karn
04 If I Was [1985]
05 That Certain Smile [1985]
06 Call of The Wild [1986]
07 Answers To Nothing [1988]
08 Dear God [1988]
09 Cold Cold Heart [1991]
10 I see Hope (In The Morning Light) [1991]
11 Breathe [1996]
12 You Move Me [2000]
13 Beneath A Spielberg Sky [2000]
14 Become [2014]
15 Let It Rise (Live) [2010] – Schiller feat. Midge Ure
16 Breathe (Orchestrated Version) [2017]
Bonus Videos:
• Feature length Commentary on Promo videos by Midge Ure
• Yellow Pearl/Passing Strangers (Live) [2017] – Midge Ure’s Band Electronica
• Fade To Grey (Live) [2017] – Midge Ure’s Band Electronica
• Vienna (Orchestrated Version) [2017]
• Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Orchestrated Version) [2017]
Bonus Documentaries:
• A Portrait [‘The Gift’ EPK 1985]
• Answers: A Musical Journey [Longform Documentary 1990]
• Orchestrated [The Making of EPK] [2017]
Midge Ure Tour Dates:
January 15 – Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s
January 16 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
January 17 – San Juan Capistrano, CA – Coach House
January 18 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
January 20 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
January 21 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
January 22 – Seattle, WA – Recital Hall @ Benaroya Hall
January 24 – Salt Lake City, UT – State Room
January 25 – Denver, CO – Soiled Dove
January 27 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
January 28 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
January 29 – Chicago, IL – City Winery
January 30 – Hamilton, ON – The Casbah
January 31 – Toronto, ON – Hugh’s Room 1H
February 01 – Pawling, NY – Daryl’s House
February 03 – Boston, MA – City Winery
February 04 – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater
February 05 – Washington DC – City Winery – Wine Garden
February 06 – New York, NY – Iridium
February 07 – New York, NY – Iridium
February 08 – Long Island, NY – My Fathers Place
February 09 – Bordentown, NJ – Man Cave (2 Shows)
AC/DC And Beethoven Aren’t As Far Off As You Think
Musician Peter Bence breaks new ground in showing you a comparison between Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, and AC/DC’s Thunderstruck, two songs you might not have ever sounded the same.
The Legend of 23 Hop: A documentary on the murky origins of Toronto rave culture.
I’m pretty sure I went to 23 Hop a few dozen times. I honestly can’t remember. Which means I was likely there.