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Toronto’s R&B Newcomer Malachi Releases “Son Of A Gun”, New Single And Music Video Out Now

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Nov 1, 2019

Toronto’s R&B Newcomer Malachi Releases “Son Of A Gun”, New Single And Music Video Out Now

Toronto-based artist, MALACHI today releases his new single and official music video, “Son of a Gun” via 21 Entertainment/Universal Music Canada/Republic Records. Penned by MALACHI with production by KidThePro [Locals Only Sound], the track is the first official release off his forthcoming mixtape, Bread Winner, slated for release later this year.

“On ‘Son Of A Gun’ I’m just more in tune with my frustrations,” says MALACHI. “We had fun with that in the video, playing off the western theme and the juxtaposition of a serene, deserted ranch for the setting of a hip hop video.”

Filmed in the relaxed, sandy plain backdrop of rural California, the picturesque video follows MALACHI and KidThePro through the desert as they encounter a secluded ranch. Directed by Tyler Macey, the video perfectly captures the raw energy of MALACHI’s performance.

“Son of a Gun” arrives as a follow up to MALACHI’s earlier 2019 releases, “We Don’t Mind” and “San Fernando Wine”, as well as his debut single, “Right Now”.

Growing up on the outskirts of Toronto, 21-year-old rising artist MALACHI, spent his childhood surrounded by music of all kinds. From his Trinidadian-born father’s reggae career to his mother’s favourite R&B singers like Mary J. Blige, Aaliyah and Destiny’s Child, music was always part of his environment. MALACHI began actively participating in music when his grandmother had him join her church’s gospel choir at the age of 4. Over the last three years the emerging artist has been in the studio bringing his songwriting to life. Now, he’s ready to release the outpouring of creativity and share it with the world.

African-Canadian Artist Lavi$h Releases Vibrant Visuals For Debut Single “Sunset Blvd”

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Nov 1, 2019

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African-Canadian Artist Lavi$h Releases Vibrant Visuals For Debut Single “Sunset Blvd”

Today, African-Canadian artist Lavi$h releases the music video for “Sunset Blvd”. “Sunset Blvd” is the debut single off Lavi$h’s upcoming EP and was released in September via Public Records Inc and Universal Music Canada.

Taking inspiration from the track’s title, the video was shot in Los Angeles and features all the aspirational hallmarks of a Californian lifestyle. From the sunset strip to the ocean, the ease of sunny LA provides the perfect backdrop for an upbeat track about a mental release.

Directed by Elliot Clancy Osberg (Anders, Roy Woods, Langston Francis) the video showcases Lavi$h’s infectious positive energy, he tells us “the song had a certain energy that was important to capture.”

In Lavi$h’s words: “Sunset Blvd starts energetically and continues to build. We wanted to capture the pace of the track visually and filming in California was the only way that made sense. The scenes are spliced together rapidly, day/night, beach/canyon, it’s all part dream part reality. Capturing the feeling of being in a place where the possibilities are endless.”

Produced by Milano, Sunset Blvd is an upbeat track with bounce that effortlessly blends staples of hip-hop, rnb and pop. An introduction to his range of talent, Lavi$h is an artist on the verge of global success. Lavi$h is currently working on his second single due out later this year. Additional details to be announced at a later date.

Lavi$h’s sound blurs the lines between hip-hop, r&b & pop music, creating a unique rhythmic fusion which he’s become known for. A young rapper/singer/songwriter, Lavi$h, is one of the most exciting talents to emerge from his class.

Recently relocating to Toronto, Lavi$h was born in Lusaka, Zambia and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He began recording & songwriting throughout his school years and after gaining some initial traction within local circles, Lavi$h began to really hone in on his sound & developing his craft. After a few singles and a joint album with Kingsley (Sweeter Life), Lavi$h had begun building a loyal fanbase locally in earnest.

In 2017, Lavi$h brought on a team of producers & management to further accelerate his career. With the release of his Sweeter Life mixtape, a slew of live shows & festival performances, Lavi$h emerged as one of Winnipeg’s most promising talents. Continuing to release music – Lavi$h’s growing popularity allowed him to share stages with artists like Bhad Bhabie and 88 Glam. In Oct. of 2018, Lavi$h partnered with RIFF for a headline show in Winnipeg which amassed an audience of 400+, leaving fans with an unforgettable experience. This show was the last major local performance for Lavi$h prior to relocating to a bigger market, in Toronto.
Independently releasing a number of singles this year, including “Savage” and “G.O.M.F.” – Lavi$h has been working hard to create new opportunities for himself. A young man whose career is on the rise, Lavi$h recently signed to Public Records Inc/Universal Music Canada to release his next singles. With his first Public Records powered single coming out in September 2019, the excitement is growing for this truly global talent.

Chantal Kreviazuk Announces Christmas Album And Holiday Tour

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Nov 1, 2019

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Chantal Kreviazuk Announces Christmas Album And Holiday Tour

Chantal Kreviazuk – one of Canada’s most recognizable voices – has announced the release of her first Christmas album, the 10-track “Christmas Is A Way Of Life, My Dear,” due out November 15. The title track as well as a jubilant cover of the classic “Walking In A Winter Wonderland” are available at all digital retailers and streaming services today. The album features five brand new original songs, plus Chantal’s spin on classics such as “Silent Night,” “Blue Christmas” (a duet with husband Raine Maida, AKA MOON VS SUN) and “Wonderful Christmas Time” (featuring the debut of son Sal Maida).

“The world could use the Christmas spirit all year long,” says Chantal Kreviazuk. “The kindness, gentleness and thoughtfulness that goes with the season is so healthy. The world could benefit from living by the values that radiate during Christmas.”

Along with the album, Chantal will be touring across the country for holiday shows, beginning November 23 in Edmonton. A full list of dates can be found below.

Chantal has spent the last year touring in support of her collaborative project with husband Raine Maida, MOON VS SUN. Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas” has always been a favourite for the family during the holidays so choosing a song to perform together was easy. “We both grew up in households that listened to a lot of Elvis,” says Chantal. “We are inspired by his ever-present vocal harmonies.”

Sal Maida, Raine and Chantal’s 11-year-old son, joins his mother on Paul McCartney’s iconic “Wonderful Christmas Time” and a brand new song, “The Christmas Train.” “Sal joining me for ‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ was so natural. The kids are in and out of the studio all the time so he was in one day singing along with his high harmonies and I said, ‘oh you must record that!’ Sal loves Christmas so much, he wishes for Christmas in the summer, so this year his wish came true! We decorated the studio with Christmas trees and snow shakers.”

The experience of recording with Sal was so gratifying, Chantal wrote him an entire song, “The Christmas Train.” “Now Sal has a full solo on the album all to himself. He was quite a natural in the vocal booth, it was adorable.”

Chantal Kreviazuk is a platinum-selling, three-time Juno Award-winning artist from Winnipeg. In 2016, she returned with her sixth album “Hard Sail” after a nearly seven-year break from recorded music. During that time, she was focused on raising her three sons with husband Raine Maida, as well as her other musical passion, crafting songs. Chantal has written for Drake, Pitbull, Kendrick Lamar, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Josh Groban and countless others.

In 2014, Chantal and Raine became members of the Order of Canada, recognizing their efforts to raise awareness and support for numerous causes including human and animal rights, mental health, education and the environment. Chantal has been an ambassador to War Child for nearly two decades and one of the organization’s founding artists. Raine and Chantal released their first collaborative album together as MOON VS SUN, “I’m Going to Break Your Heart,” as well as an accompanying documentary, earlier this year.

TRACK LIST:
1. Shine*
2. Christmas is a Way of Life, My Dear*
3. Walking in a Winter Wonderland
4. Blue Christmas (featuring Raine Maida/MOON VS SUN)
5. Wonderful Christmas Time (featuring Sal Maida)
6. What Child Is This
7. I Wanna Be an Angel*
8. Over Thinking*
9. Silent Night
10. The Christmas Train (featuring Sal Maida)*

*=original song

TOUR DATES:
November 23 / Edmonton, AB / Century Casino
December 4 / Mission, BC / Clark Theatre
December 5 / North Vancouver, BC / Centennial Theatre
December 8 / Winnipeg, MB / Club Regent Events Centre
December 9 / Kenora, ON / Knox United Church
December 11 / Regina, SK / Casino Regina
December 14 / Belleville, ON / Empire Theatre
December 15 / Sarnia, ON / Imperial Theatre
December 16 / Hamilton, ON / FirstOntario Concert Hall
December 17 / London, ON / The Aeolian
December 18 / London, ON / The Aeolian
December 19 / Midland, ON / Midland Cultural Centre

Photo Gallery: The Interrupters with Skinny Lister at Toronto’s Rebel

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Oct 31, 2019

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Photo Gallery: The Interrupters with Skinny Lister at Toronto’s Rebel

All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com

Photo Gallery: Sabaton with Hammerfall at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall

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Oct 30, 2019

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Photo Gallery: Sabaton with Hammerfall at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall

All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com

Brits Prefer Going to the Uk Music Festival Instead of a Holiday Abroad

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Oct 30, 2019

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A music festival in the UK is a community-oriented event towards the live performance of singing that is often presented with a theme. One of the reasons why festivals provide an ethereal feeling to many is because of their design. The designers of these events have the ability to make a world that is not like everyday life.

Whether its playing new mobile slot games or using the new payment methods while travelling, young people in the UK are the first ones to follow these new trends. Keep reading to know why the music festival is so popular among the Brits.

The Popularity of Music Festivals

According to a new study, one in five music fans has admitted that they will happily drop their idea of going on an abroad trip for a music festival. There are various reasons for this change, such as increasing costs of trips, better summers in the UK and uncertainties around Brexit. And of those with a ticket to the UK music festival in 2020, three in ten say it is their main trip this year. Most of them opt for a holiday because it has everything that they want in one place.

Unique Experiences

Each individual music festival in the UK offers a unique experience. Organisers and designers of these events spend a massive amount of time planning and curating ideas that will give them a unique selling point. Due to this, individuals attend more than one music festival each year. Whether it’s an amazing glamping opportunity or a rain zorbing experience, each festival has something a little different way to be enjoyed.

These live events are no longer just about music, but about finding new ways to have fun and make memories. Whether it’s taking a yoga class or seeing a comedian, attendees can get all types of unique experiences in a single place. Festivals have become a cultural rite of passage and they continue to support a wide range of interests. As these entertainment hubs offer so much to do and see, Brits consider putting off a trip abroad in favour of some festival fun.

Top Reasons Millennials Opt for a Music Festival

The study of 2000 event-goers in the UK revealed that a fifth feel that festivals are a rite of passage, with almost half of them believing everyone should attend one at least once in a lifetime.

34 per cent think going to a music festival is a great way for young people to enhance their social skills and 31 per cent believe it can help in building confidence. Almost one in four also feel that festival is the perfect place to broaden your mind and almost one fifth find the live event offers more opportunities for discovery than any other cultural event. 25% also favour festivals for making memories with their loved ones.

Musicians on Musicians: Billie Joe Armstrong & Billie Eilish

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Oct 30, 2019

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The teen-pop superstar asks her hero about early Green Day, staying sane in the industry, and that time he got into a fight with a guy in the audience.

My Next Read: The Beautiful Ones By Prince

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Oct 29, 2019

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My Next Read: The Beautiful Ones By Prince

The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of Prince, one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death

Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of “Paisley Park.” But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era.

The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince’s early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince’s evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book’s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain—the final stage in Prince’s self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey.

The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months—a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he’d so carefully cultivated—and annotations that provide context to the book’s images.

This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image—his undying gift to the world.

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Video: “Do They Know It’s Halloween?” Featuring Beck, Elvira, and Arcade Fire from 2005

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Oct 29, 2019

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Do They Know It’s Halloween? was released on October 11, 2005, in Canada on Vice Records by a cast of rock artists and other performers under the name “North American Halloween Prevention Initiative” (NAHPI). It reached number four on the Canada pop chart.

Like its inspiration “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, it is a charity song, with all proceeds being donated to UNICEF. According to the official press release, the song “stems from a frustration with other benefit songs’ misguided, somewhat patronizing attitude, and Western-centric worldview.”

The contributors include: Win Butler & Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, Beck, Buck 65, David Cross, Liane Balaban_ of Dessert, Devendra Banhart (with Noah Georgeson, Jona Bechtolt & Luckey Remington_), Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Feist, Gino Washington, Syd Butler of Les Savy Fav, J’aime Tambeur of Islands, Malcolm McLaren, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Peaches, Dntel, Jenny Lewis & Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley, Roky Erickson, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Asya & Chloe of Chaos Chaos, Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Russell Mael of Sparks, Subtitle, Steve Jocz of Sum 41 Tanya Tagaq, Anna Waronker of That Dog, Dan Boeckner & Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

My Next Read: Flea: Acid for the Children: A Memoir

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Oct 29, 2019

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My Next Read: Flea: Acid for the Children: A Memoir

Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you’d want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star.

In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man. His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friends, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Acid for the Children is the debut of a stunning new literary voice, whose prose is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself. It’s a tenderly evocative coming-of-age story and a raucous love letter to the power of music and creativity from one of the most renowned musicians of our time.

You can get it here.