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Soundtrack to a Bromance with Ben Platt and James Corden
Starting out at the bus stop as young boys, James Corden and Ben Platt tell the story of a life-long friendship using 9 different sets and 12 carefully curated songs all captured in one take.
Rescue Dog Rescue with Emilia Clarke
Mother of Dalmatians Emilia Clarke joins Stephen Colbert for a ‘Game of Thrones’ edition of The Late Show’s Rescue Dog Rescue. Each of the pups on tonight’s show is up for adoption – find out more at AnimalLeague.org
Photo Gallery: Colin James with Roxanne Potvin at Hamilton’s FirstOntario Concert Hall
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Marshmello to Headline iHeartRadio FanFest 2019 During Canadian Music Week in Toronto, May 8
iHeartRadio Canada announced today that electronic music producer and DJ Marshmello headlines its unparalleled live concert iHeartRadio FanFest, Wednesday, May 8 at REBEL Nightclub in Toronto. One of the biggest highlights during Canadian Music Week, the third installment of iHeartRadio FanFest also features a stellar line-up of hit-makers including Famba, Lu Kala, Neon Dreams, and THE LAUNCH’s Cassiøpeia and Olivia Lunny. More artists will be announced in the weeks to come.
“After pulling off the most epic prank with Shawn Mendes at the iHeartRadio MMVAs last year, we are thrilled to have DJ Marshmello back on the iHeartRadio Canada stage to perform another killer set,” said Rob Farina, Head of Radio Content, Strategy, and iHeartRadio Canada. “iHeartRadio FanFest is always a terrific night of music and we can’t wait to share it with fans during CMW.”
Fans can listen to CHUM 104.5 and Virgin Radio Toronto for a chance to win their way to iHeartRadio FanFest with the exclusive pre-sale code “iHeartRadio”. Tickets officially go on sale to the public Monday, April 8 at 10 a.m. ET at Ticketmaster.ca. iHeartRadio FanFest is a 19+ event.
Walk Off The Earth and Sarah Silverman release new video, “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Walk Off the Earth, the Juno-award winning, multi-platinum phenomenon known for their chart-topping originals and unique covers, have released the new single, “Video Killed The Radio Star,” featuring Sarah Silverman. “We’ve always loved collaborating with different artists and met Sarah back in 2012. We talked about recording something fun together ever since and now the time has finally come.”
Based just outside Toronto in Burlington, Ontario, their brilliant 5-people-playing-one-guitar interpretation of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” exploded on YouTube, garnering over 180 million views. Since then, the band has released a string of successful original songs including, “Red Hands” (#1 at AAA), “Fire In My Soul” & “Rule The World” (multi-platinum in Canada); sold out venues across the globe, from Red Rocks to Wembley, and collaborated with some of the biggest artists in the world (Keith Urban, Snoop Dogg, Nicky Romero, & Steve Aoki). In 2019 the band won a Streamy Award for Best Cover Song with their interpretation of Maroon Five’s “Girls Like You.” They also released a holiday EP, Subscribe to the Holidays, that charted as the #1 independent release in Canada for the last week of November. Both works are natural fits in the band’s wide-ranging and ever-growing repertoire, and tease their big plans for 2019.
Late last year, the band faced a major and unexpected loss with the sudden death of band member Mike “Beard Guy” Taylor. Mike’s incredible ability behind the keys gave the band a sturdy foundation to soar and create. In the wake of Mike’s passing, and with much difficult consideration, the band decided to move forward and use the opportunity to honor and share the extraordinary legacy Mike left behind.
The continued chemistry between band members Gianni, Sarah, Joel, and Marshall is undeniable. With Joel’s driving and prolific percussion work and Gianni, Sarah, and Marshall’s captivating vocal styling and melodic arrangements, 2019 will be a year full of new and original music from the band. Their independent spirit, unstoppable work ethic, and awe-inspiring creativity has catapulted Walk Off the Earth into new and uncharted waters with only bigger and better things on the horizon.
Walk Off the Earth is embarking on an extensive world tour, including stops at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Wembley Arena.
WALK OFF THE EARTH TOUR DATES
April 26 – Tulsa, OK – Osage Casino Skyline Event Center
April 27 – Tampa, FL – Busch Gardens Gwazi Park
May 14 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
May 15 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
May 17 – Kansas City, MO – VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino North Kansas City
May 18 – St. Paul, MN – Myth Live
May 19 – Milwaukee, WI – The Riverside Theater
May 21 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater & Ballroom
May 22 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
May 24 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
May 25 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17
May 26 – Portland, ME – State Theater
May 27 – Dewey Beach, DE – Bottle & Cork
May 29 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring
May 30 – Boston, MA – House of Blues Boston
May 31 – Mashantucket, CT – The Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
June 1 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
June 25 – Vienna, Austria – Arena Wien Open Air
June 26 – Munich, Germany – Tollwood GmbH
June 27 – Prague, Czech Republic – Forum Karlin
June 29 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
July 1 – Hamburg, Germany – Stadtpark
July 3 – Abenburg, Germany – Burg Abenburg
July 5 – London, UK – Wembley Arena
July 6 – Rock Zottegem Music Festival
July 7 – Stuttgart, Germany – Am Mercedes-Benz Museum
July 8 – Paris, France – L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix
July 9 – Bonn, Germany – KUNST!RASEN GmbH
July 30 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theater
August 1 – Portland, OR – Keller Auditorium
August 2 – Sandpoint, ID – The Festival at Sandpoint
August 3 – Vancourver, BC – Orpheum Theatre
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Photo Gallery: Dream Theater at Toronto’s Sony Centre For The Performing Arts
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, Michelle Phillips, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty Star In Laurel Canyon Doc
Echo In The Canyon, out by May 24, 2019, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to LA to emulate The Beatles and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music.
Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film explores the beginnings of the Laurel Canyon music scene. Dylan uncovers never-before-heard personal details behind the bands and their songs and how that music continues to inspire today. Echo in the Canyon contains candid conversations and performances with Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, Michelle Phillips, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn and Jackson Browne as well as contemporary musicians they influenced such as Tom Petty (in his very last film interview), Beck, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Regina Spektor and Norah Jones.
Why do We Love Bandcamp?
Bandcamp is an entertaining service for both just fans and professional musicians. That means you can either buy content and listen to music or sell it as an author. A wide range of items includes not only digital music and vinyl but also different merch – vintage t-shirts, gifts and souvenirs, tickets or cassettes with glorious historical past. By the way, if you’re a music fan or a musician, come to Chooseonlybest.com to look through the equipment for music listening.
Why Should You Join Bandcamp as a Customer?
It is worth mentioning that Bandcamp is a great idea to support favorite artists. Everybody can donate and buy their tracks with ease. Let’s list some other service’s advantages:
- It’s a great website to find new artists that wouldn’t have been heard yet.
- Bandcamp provides releases in a variety of formats.
- A wide variety of genres are represented on the website and many independent artists are putting their music up on the platform.
- The website is easy to navigate and to make payments.
- The service has plenty of free downloads and demo versions.
- The artists from the whole world can present their creatives and masterpieces.
- You can follow other fans and see their collections to make new discoveries in the music genre you’re interested in.
When the customer ordered a T-shirt or any other item, he/she gets the dispatch note. However, before making a purchase (whether it is music or merch), note that the non-US customers are still charged tax for digital purchases from the USA.
Why is Bandcamp Valuable for Musicians?
Bandcamp lets composers and musicians get to a lot of audiences and give them good money for every payment. 80-85% of each customer’s money goes to the artist as daily payments in their PayPal accounts. They don’t need to wait for money at the end of every quarter as at the majority of other famous platforms. The artists get the reports and notifications about their current income to the email.
The musicians can exercise full control over their business, including pricing and materials. Besides, they have the right to upload whenever they want and gather all their followers in one place. One of the greatest benefits is the possibility to upload content without any permissions and approvals from the platform. The musicians stream their singles directly to the services to create a preordered list. Then they can choose the composition to offer. However, it is necessary to remember that Bandcamp doesn’t accept mp3s.
Benefits for both Listeners and Artists
All the Bandcamp’s subscribers love their high-quality downloads like .aiff, .wav or .flac. Besides, artists and fans have an opportunity to communicate with each other. When a musician gets an email with notification about the payout, he/she can see an avatar and comments of the fan that has made a purchase. Thus, the fans can leave testimonials and the musicians can send them to email to thank.
The platform thrives in the world of online show business. The total musicians’ revenue is $290M a month and more than $7M a day.
100 All Analog In Print Reissued Records You Should Own
Here’s 100 recommended all-analog LP reissues worth owning. The video runs two hours so unless you are masochistic, you might want to watch in shorter segments but covering 100 LPs took time! Plus there are the usual fun stories interspersed throughout.
1) Ellington Masterpieces (Analogue Productions)
2) Duke Ellington: The Feeling of Jazz (Deluxe ORG Music) )
3) Duke Ellington: Indigos (IMPEX) )
4) The Sound of Jazz (Analogue Productions) )
5) Art Blakey: Night in Tunisia (Music Matters SRX vinyl) )
6) John Coltrane: Blue Train (Music Matters SRX vinyl) )
7) Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch (Music Matters) )
8) Larry Young: Unity (Music Matters) )
9) Coltrane’s Sound (ORG Music) )
10) Sonny Rollins “The Bridge” (ORG Music) )
11) Ornette Coleman “The Shape of Jazz.. (ORG 2 45) )
12) Wynton Kelly: Smokin’ At the Half-Note (Analogue P.
13) O. Peterson Trio: We Get Requests (Analog Prod.) )
14) D. Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Analogue Prod.) )
15) Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (OJC)
16) Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster (ORG) )
17) Kind of Blue (Mobile Fidelity) )
18) Miles Davis “Sketches of Spain” (Mobile Fidelity) )
19) Miles Davis “Nefertiti” (Mobile Fidelity) )
20) Miles Davis In A Silent Way (Mobile Fidelity) )
21) LeGrand Jazz (w. M. Davis) (IMPEX) )
22) Gil Evans & Ten (Analogue Productions) )
23) The Individualism of Gil Evans (Speakers Corner) )
24) Charles Lloyd: Forest Flower (Speakers Corner)
25) Desmond/Mulligan: Two of a Mind (ORG)
26) Art Blakey’s Jazz Messeng W. Monk (Analog Spark)
27) Paul Desmond: Desmond Blue (Analog Spark) )
28) The Monty Alexander Trio: Montreux Alex. (MPS)
29) John Lewis & Sacha Distel: Afternoon in Paris (Sam) )
30) Chet Baker and his quintet with B. Jaspar (Sam) )
31) The New Standard: Saft, Swallow,Previte (R.Noise) )
32) Jerome Sabbagh: The Turn (Bee Jazz Records) )
33) Yuko Mabuchi Trio Vols. 1&2 (Yarlung) )
34) Armstrong/Fitzgerald: Porgy&Bess (Sp. Corner) )
35) Billie Holiday: Songs For Distingué Lovrs (Analog Pro) )
36) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the C.Porter Songbk (Analog Spark) )
37) Ella Fitzgerald Ella Swings Lightly (ORG) )
38) Cassandra Wilson: Belly of the Sun (Pure Pleasure) )
39) Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light ‘til Dawn (P. Pleas.) )
40) Ray Charles and Betty Carter (Analog Productions) )
41) Johnny Hartmann: Once in Every Life (Analogue P.)
42) Dean Martin: Dream With Dean (Analogue Prod.)
43) Tony Bennett: At Carnegie Hall (Analogue Prod.)
44) Nat King Cole: Love is the Thing (Analogue Prod.)
45) Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (Analogue Prod.)
46) Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is? (Pure Pleasure)
47) Joe Jackson: Night and Day (Intervention)
48) Judee Sill: Judee Sill (Intervention)
49) Gene Clark: White Light (Intervention)
50) Stealers Wheel: Ferguslie Park (Intervention)
51) The Flying Burrito Bros: Gilded Palace (intervention)
52) Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (mono): Mo-Fi)
53) Grateful Dead: American Beauty (Mobile Fidelity)
54) Aretha Franklin: Aretha’s Gold (Mobile Fidelity)
55) The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (mono) (Analogue Pro.)
56) The Beach Boys: Surfer Girl (stereo) (Analogue Pro.)
57) Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (Mobile Fidelity)
58) Elvis Costello: Get Happy (Mobile Fidelity)
59) Elvis Costello: King of America (Mobile Fidelity)
60) The Crickets: The Chirpin Crickets (Analogue Prod.)
61) Buddy Holly: Buddy Holly (Analogue Productions)
62) Elvis Presley: Stereo ’57 Essential Elvis (Analog Prod.)
63) Jimi Hendrix: Live at the Miami Pop Festival (Exp. Hend.)
64) Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love (Experience Hendrix)
65) Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (WB)
66) Van Morrison: Moondance (WB)
67) Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (Mobile Fidelity)
68) Neil Young w. Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows (WB)
69) Neil Young: After the Goldrush (WB)
70) Neil Young: Harvest (WB)
71) Carole King: Tapestry (Mo-Fi or ORG Music45)
72) The Band: The Band (Mo-Fi)
73) Love: Forever Changes (Rhino)
74) Joni Mitchell: Blue (WB)
75) Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark (WB)
76) Eric Clapton: I Still Do (Surfdog)
77) The Mothers of Invention: Uncle Meat (Zappa F.)
78) The Moths of Invent: Burnt Weenie Sand. (Zappa)
79) Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman (Analogue Prod.)
80) Gillian Welch: Soul Journey (Acony)
81) Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony)
82) Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (Analogue Productions)
83) Peter Paul & Mary: Peter, Paul & Mary (ORG)
84) Shelby Lynne: Just A Little Lovin’ (Analog Product.)
85) Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memph (Analogue Prod.)
86) Phoebe Snow: Phoebe Snow (Analogue Prod.)
87) Samantha Crain: Under Br. &Thorn&Tree (Ramseur)
88) Son House: Father of Folk Blues (Analogue Prod.)
89) Muddy Waters: Folk Singer (Analog Prod.)
90) Ry Cooder/V.M. Bhatt: Meeting By River (Analog P.)
91) Unpopular Music (Various Artists) (Gearbox)
92) OST: TRON (Audio Fidelity)
93) OST: West Side Story (Analog Spark)
94) OST: A Fiddler on the Roof (Analog Spark)
95) D2D: C.Teal Trib. to Ella Fitzgerald (Chas. Dragon)
96) D2D: Syd Lawr. Orch: Big B. Spect.! (Chas. Dragon)
97) BOX: The Kinks The Mono Collection )(Sanct)
98) BOX: Buff. Springfield: What’s That Sound (Atlantic)
99) BOX: Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (Exp. Hendrix)
100) BOX: The Nat King Cole Story (Analog Productions)