Canadian Marc Martel wowed the world as the voice of the late Freddie Mercury in the music biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. His latest performance is an intimate rendition of the song Freddie wrote for Mary Austin. There’s a real gravity of the song that makes is enduring.
Techno Meets A Marching Band In This Cover Of Deadmau5’s “Gula”
A rewarding and slick take on the Deadmau5 track Gula, as performed on brass, drums, glockenspiel, by Hamburg, Germany-based techno band MEUTE, while on the streets of Lisbon, Portugal.
Mission Impossible Performed On The Harmonica
A graduate of Hong Kong’s renowned Kings College Secondary School, Cy Ho was for years a mainstay of the school’s Harmonica Band and has subsequently won numerous awards at contests all over Asia as well as excelling at the World Harmonica Festival 2009 in Trossingen, where he gained first place in the youth Solo and Duo competitions. Leo is also lead chromatic player in the VELOZ harmonica quartet, with which he has given several successful European concerts as well as performing in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.
Check out his live cover version of Lalo Shifrin’s classic theme song from Mission Impossible.
Hollywood Walk Of Fame Announce 2020 Inductions
A new group of entertainment professionals in the categories of Motion Pictures, Television, Live Theatre/Live Performance, Recording and Radio have been selected to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the full list was announced today, June 20, 2019 at 12:30 P.M. by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Walk of Fame Selection Committee. The newest honorees were chosen from hundreds of nominations at a selection committee meeting held in June and will be ratified by the Hollywood Chamber’s Board of Directors. Walk of Famer/actress/singer Vanessa Williams, a committee member for the 2019-2020 Selection Committee, announced the new honorees with Rana Ghadban, President & CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
The selections were revealed to the world via live stream exclusively by VARIETY on www.walkoffame.com. The stream begins at 12:30 P.M. PDT.
“The Walk of Fame Selection Committee is pleased to announce our newest honorees to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This year’s choices were particularly unique. We were able to recognize the talents of thirty-five artists who have already built a legacy here in Hollywood,” remarked Selection Committee Chair and Walk of Famer Vin Di Bona. “Also, we were able to celebrate many new talented artists who’ve touched our hearts in film, television, radio and a variety of musical categories” he added.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2020 are:
In the category of MOTION PICTURES: Mahershala Ali, Batman, Ruth E. Carter, Laurence Fishburne, Chris Hemsworth, Spike Lee, Julia Roberts, Octavia Spencer and Lina Wertmüller
In the category of TELEVISION: Christina Applegate, Andy Cohen, Cindy Crawford, Terry Crews, Harry Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford, Nigel Lythgoe, Milo Ventimiglia, Burt Ward, Wendy Williams, Dr. Phil McGraw and Andy Kaufman (Posthumous)
In the category of RECORDING: Elvis Costello, Sir Lucian Grainge, Billy Idol, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Alicia Keys, Andy Madadian, Mo Ostin, Bobby Rydell, Alejandro Sanz, Tanya Tucker and Muddy Waters (Posthumous)
In the category of LIVE THEATRE/LIVE PERFORMANCE: Dave Chappelle and Billy Porter
In the category of RADIO: Susan Stamberg
Photo Gallery: The Outlaw Music Festival at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Creative ways to keep your live music memories alive
Music can be the subject of many great memories. Whether you are creating music yourself, or attending a concert by your favourite artist, these memories can be magical. So, how can you make sure that you keep these memories alive?
Of course, one option is to talk about the concerts you attend, or the music you make, with the people who have joined in the experience with you. Here are some more options that can provide you with inspiration.
Video your music performances
Creating music is a fun and exciting experience. This is why it’s such a good idea to capture your performances on video. It’s easy to do this now as you can simply use the video facility on your smartphone. You may also want to convert film of earlier performances by you, or other members of the family, by getting expert help to transfer super 8 to DVD. You can store these videos online or on DVD and take a look at them whenever you want to.
Make a road trip video
Taking videos and photographs while you are at a concert is often not an option if there are restrictions in place. It’s also often better to simply relax and enjoy the experience rather than be more concerned with capturing it. However, this does not mean that you should miss out on capturing your concert going on video. Why not take a full video of you and your friends on the way to the concert and after the concert has ended.
Create a memory box for each concert you attend
You can create a memory box for many different reasons. One of these reasons can be to store your memories of a concert, or other music event, that you attended. You simply need to find a box that you can use and mark it with the name and date of the concert or event that you are commemorating. Then you need to fill it with all of your memorabilia from the concert including ticket stubs and programs.
If you are short of space in your home, why not think about capturing images of the items with your smartphone and creating virtual memory boxes on your social media accounts.
Join an online forum or fan page
One of the best ways to keep memories alive is to share them with other people. You can do this by joining online forums or fan pages for artists whose concerts you attend. Once you have done this you can take part in discussions about those concerts and share your memories with others who were there.
Keeping music memories alive is important as it helps you to relive all the fun and excitement you felt on the day. This applies whether you are remembering the music you created yourself or the great concerts that you have been to. The tips that are mentioned in this article help you keep those memories alive by retaining items from concerts, capturing your musical performances on video or sharing your experiences with others.
Pros Of Using The Old Style Aloe Toxin Rid Shampoo
The Old style Aloe Toxin Rid shampoo is still the most effective detox hair shampoos today. If you’re using this shampoo for the aloe toxin rid treatment or Macujo methods, you can surely pass the hair drug test. Thus, in this article, you will learn the benefits it provides to its users:
Initial Hair Cleansing
The Old Style Aloe toxin rid shampoo plays a huge role in hair cleaning so you can pass the hair drug test. The hair shaft constitutes of three layers, which are the medulla, cuticle, and cortex. The THC metabolites are found in the cortex, which the cuticle protects.
Meanwhile, the cuticle is the hard layer composed of various cells. It’s said that it’s up to twelve layers. To clean the metabolites in the cortex, it’s best to open the cuticle at first before penetration.
To open the cuticle, it’s best to try the mixture of special formulas like the Old Style Aloe Toxin rid shampoo. In a detailed review, it states that it includes a high propylene glycol that can reduce the cortex’s metabolites.
Designed for People with All Types of Hair
This is a must-use product since it fits people with all types of hair. Men and women of different ages can rely on this product, so you can check this out now at your local stores.
Detox from Various Substances
According to the feedback of many past users, this shampoo can help detox the hair from substances. Examples of these are THC metabolite or marijuana, amphetamine, cocaine metabolites, and nicotine. Moreover, this can also detox your hair from opiates like codeine, morphine, and 6-Monacteyl morphine. This can also clean the hair from ecstasy, phencyclidine, and methamphetamine.
Easy to Use
When you buy the shampoo, it will appear as if it is half full. This was intended to prevent leakage during product shipment. To use it, you just have to wet your hair thoroughly and then apply the shampoo. Massage it into your scalp for ten minutes and work on the lather. Leave it for 3 minutes and then rinse it with warm water.
To achieve the best results, you must apply the shampoo to your scalp, which covers the first 1.5 inches of the hair. Make sure that it’s close to your scalp since the drug tests will test the hair that is close to the scalp.
After using the shampoo, use a new brush or comb. This will help you prevent recontamination. You must prevent contact, or you can clean items like hats, eyeglasses, headrests, hoodies, pillows, and others.
If you think you have heavy hair exposure or thick hair, then you just have to let it sit at your scalp for some time.
Safe for the Hair
In a detailed review, one of the pros of the Old Style Aloe Toxin Rid shampoo is its cleansing formula is safe for your hair. It will gently remove the chlorine, buildup, chemical substances, and hard water minerals. This uses advanced microsphere technology, which ensures that there is a gradual release of metabolites.
Photo Gallery: New Kids On The Block at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
2019 Polaris Music Prize Long List Is Here: Shawn Mendes, PUP, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessie Reyez and more
The Polaris Music Prize, presented by CBC Music, has unveiled the 40 albums on the 2019 Long List. This year’s Long List is presented by Canada Council for the Arts.
The 2019 Polaris Music Prize Long List is:
Tim Baker – Forever Overhead
Tanika Charles – The Gumption
Clairmont The Second – Do You Drive?
Charlotte Cornfield – The Shape of Your Name
Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman
Dilly Dally – Heaven
The Dirty Nil – Master Volume
Dizzy – Baby Teeth
Elisapie – The Ballad of the Runaway Girl
FET.NAT – Le Mal
Dominique Fils-Aimé – Stay Tuned!
Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
Yves Jarvis – The Same But By Different Means
Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated
Kaia Kater – Grenades
Kimmortal – X Marks the Swirl
La Force – La Force
LAL – Dark Beings
Laurence-Anne – Première apparition
Salomé Leclerc – Les choses extérieures
Lee Harvey Osmond – Mohawk
Jean Leloup – L’étrange pays
Shay Lia – Dangerous
Les Louanges – La nuit est une panthère
Loud – Tout ça pour ça
Shawn Mendes – Shawn Mendes
Haviah Mighty – 13th Floor
Operators – Radiant Dawn
Orville Peck – Pony
Sandro Perri – In Another Life
PUP – Morbid Stuff
Lee Reed – The Steal City EP
Jessie Reyez – Being Human In Public
Shad – A Short Story About A War
Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Trapline
Alexandra Stréliski – INSCAPE
sydanie – 999
TOBi – STILL
Voivod – The Wake
Wintersleep – In The Land Of
In total, 233 albums were considered by the 199 member jury for Long List selection.
The announcement took place earlier today at The Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The 10 album Short List will be announced on July 16. The 2019 Polaris Music Prize winner will be revealed at the Polaris Gala on Monday, September 16 at the Carlu in Toronto, and will be live streamed globally at cbcmusic.ca/polaris.
The Polaris Music Prize awards $50,000 to the artist who creates the Canadian Album of the Year, judged solely on artistic merit, without consideration for genre or record sales. Additionally, the nine other nominated acts whose albums make the 2019 Short List will receive $3,000 each courtesy of Slaight Music.
Albums eligible for 2019 Polaris Music Prize consideration must be released between May 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019. An independent jury of music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across Canada determine the Long List and Short List. Eleven people from the larger jury pool are then chosen to serve on the Grand Jury. This Grand Jury convene on the night of the Gala to select the Polaris Music Prize winner.
Past winners of the Prize are: Jeremy Dutcher (2018), Lido Pimienta (2017), Kaytranada (2016), Buffy Sainte-Marie (2015), Tanya Tagaq (2014), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2013), Feist (2012), Arcade Fire (2011), Karkwa (2010), Fucked Up (2009), Caribou (2008), Patrick Watson (2007) and Final Fantasy / Owen Pallett (2006).
Previously unreleased Freddie Mercury song and video “Time Waits For No One” is as great as you hoped it would be
Time Waits For No One” shows Freddie Mercury at his most compelling; a completely stripped-down performance, accompanied by just a piano, showcasing one of music’s most beloved and show-stopping voices.
For the first time ever, after four decades buried deep in the vaults, this previously unreleased version, originally recorded in 1986 by Freddie Mercury for the concept album of the hit musical Time, has finally emerged after two years of work by the globally successful musician, songwriter and producer Dave Clark, a long-time friend of Freddie’s, using the song’s full title, “Time Waits For No One”.
The song was recorded in January of 1986 at Abbey Road Studios. Starting off as a rhythm track, the session recorded 48 tracks of backing vocals (Freddie plus John Christie and Peter Straker), 2 x 24 track tapes locked together – which had never been done before for that amount of backing vocals at Abbey Road – and the final version of “Time” comprising of a huge production of 96 tracks.
Dave Clark had always remembered that performance of Freddie Mercury at Abbey Road Studios from 1986. The original had sold millions, and in his own words “worked”. But the feeling he had during the original rehearsal, experiencing “goosebumps”, hadn’t dissipated over the decades, and he wanted to hear this original recording – just Freddie on vocals and Mike Moran on piano. After much searching through the vaults to find the version without all the backing vocals, he finally retrieved it from his tape archive in the spring of 2018.
Bringing in original keyboardist Mike Moran to record a new piano track, restoring the huge potential of this historical performance at the latter’s studio in Buckinghamshire, Dave, firmly believing “the impossible was possible”, eventually produced the performance he had longed to revive – stripping back the 96 track version to a version with just one: Freddie Mercury.
The video for the song was filmed in three hours at the Dominion Theatre and was quickly wrapped to allow the musical to prepare for that evening’s performance – it had opened earlier that month with Freddie attending opening night. Worried about capturing the full performance, it was a 4 camera shoot, which was cut together quickly in order to turn it around for that week’s broadcast of the UK’s hit music TV programme Top of the Pops. Going straight to video, not the original 35mm film it was shot in, the song was released on May 6, 1986 and the original footage was consigned to the vaults.
Dave used the negatives from the 4 camera shoot and the unprocessed film to create the video for “Time Waits For No One”. A four-day lockdown in a special facility to pore through the negatives with his editor led to the discovery and production of this visual masterpiece, a perfect representation of Freddie’s “magic performance…he tasted every word”.