Overnight success or decades of effort?
Here’s a cool interactive visual on the careers of the 100 Greatest Artists according to Rolling Stone, and uncovering how long it took them to score their first top 10 hits.
Thundercat: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Thundercat, born Stephen Bruner, is willing and able to shape-shift to fit into just about any box you show him — he just won’t stay in there for long. Whether fusing his talent for jazz while a bassist with punk legacy act Suicidal Tendencies or as a member of Snoop Dogg’s band — maybe running a little too far with a solo here and there — the focus seems to eventually drift his way.
After releasing two brilliant solo albums, he was plucked to work on what eventually became one of the most important works of art released this decade: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. Capitalizing off of the new exposure, he quickly released the EP The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam. That was followed about two years later by Drunk, his most solid project to date.
Colonel Chris Hadfield Announces New Dates for Canada 151 Tour
Coming off an incredible run of his “Canada 150 Tour” in 2017, Canada’s first spaceship commander, Colonel Chris Hadfield will be hitting the road again in 2018 with his ‘Canada 151’ show. The celebration will include Hadfield sharing a selection of stories, images, songs and ideas about the nation he is so proud to call home. By customizing his performance to each audience, everyone is sure to leave with a sense that Canada is truly “out of this world”.
“I am so looking forward to sharing what I’ve seen and learned as a Canadian in orbit, an astronaut looking at Canada and the world. There will be stories, images, videos, music and ideas of this country in its 151st year, plus a chance for Q&A and to meet in-person! ” said Colonel Chris Hadfield. “I am immensely proud of Canada, especially at this moment in history. Please join me for a rare evening of stories, images, videos, music and ideas.”
As one of the most seasoned and accomplished astronauts in the world, Colonel Hadfield offers his unique perspective by looking at the history and future of Canada through its people and the land itself. Performing songs like his fun-living, patriotic single “In Canada,” to his evocative “Beyond the Terra” that looks away from the land to the skies, Colonel Hadfield ties his presentation together with stories of great Canadians and tales from his incredible career.
Through his 21-years as an astronaut, three spaceflights and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation. In 1992 he was selected by the Canadian Space Agency as a NASA Mission Specialist – Canada’s first fully qualified Space Shuttle crew member. In November 1995 while aboard Shuttle Atlantic, he was the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm in space, and to board a Russian spacecraft as he helped build space station “Mir.” In 2001, Colonel Hadfield was the first Canadian to perform two spacewalks and in 2013 he was the first and only Canadian Commander of the International Space Station. While in orbit, Hadfield was a constant presence on social media and produced what is considered to be the first music video shot in space, a version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, which has been viewed over 16 million times.
American Express presale begins on Tuesday, October 31st at 10am EST. Live Nation Member presale begins on Wednesday, November 1st at 10am EST. General public can purchase tickets on Friday, November 3rd at 10am EST.
Tour Dates
February 8, 2018 FirstOntario Concert Hall Hamilton, ON
February 9, 2018 Centennial Hall London, ON
February 21, 2018 Capital Theatre North Bay, ON
February 22, 2018 Empire Theatre Belleville, ON
February 24, 2018 Grand Theatre Kingston, ON
March 1, 2018 Rebecca Cohn Auditorium Halifax, NS
March 2, 2018 Imperial Theatre Saint John, NB
March 3, 2018 Holy Heart Theatre St. John’s, NL
14-minute Doc About The Sound Team For Blade Runner 2049
Here’s a cool 14-minute doc about the sound team behind Director Denis Villeneuve’s, Blade Runner 2049 featuring supervising sound editor Mark Mangini, sound designer Theo Green, re-recording mixer Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett, picture editor Joe Walker and Composers Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch.
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who’s been missing for 30 years.
SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of Blade Runner 2049 from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
John Lennon’s Personal “Butcher Cover” Album With His Original Artwork Is Up For Auction
The term “world class” is probably a bit over-used in describing collectibles. Labeling this unique, rare, and desirable Beatles item as “World Class” is not hyperbole. If anything, it does not do it justice. Offered here is the Yesterday And Today Stereo Prototype “Butcher Cover” that was owned by John Lennon and even displayed on the wall of his Dakota apartment until the point where he had an assistant take it down and deliver it to the Record Plant where he signed it in blue ink: “To Dave from/ John Lennon/ Dec 7th 71“. The recipient was Dave Morrell, a Beatles fan and bootleg collector who was in the studio showing John some of his memorabilia and bootleg material. The Butcher was given in essentially a trade for a reel-to-reel tape of the Yellow Matter Custard bootleg that Lennon desired. Lennon filled the blank back of the cover with an original piece of art in black ink. It fills the cover and depicts a man with a shovel and his dog, both posed in front of a setting sun. Interestingly, he incorporated various tears, stains, and flaws into the picture.
If you have (so far), $100,000 to spend, you can get it here.
Stranger Things Cast Show Us the Last Thing on Their Phones
‘Stranger Things’ stars Finn Wolfhard and Caleb McLaughlin show Wired the last things they did with their phones. What was the last emoji they used? The last text message sent? What was the last thing they searched?
Demi Lovato And DJ Khaled Announce North American Tour
Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum singer and songwriter Demi Lovato today announces her North American tour, with special guest multi-platinum, hip-hop icon DJ Khaled. Produced by Live Nation, the 20-city run kicks off February 26 in San Diego, CA and wraps March 31 in Tampa, FL. Complete tour routing can be found below.
The announce comes off the recent release of Lovato’s critically acclaimed album TELL ME YOU LOVE ME, featuring the RIAA platinum Top 40 #1 smash “Sorry Not Sorry,” DJ Khaled, the GRAMMY® nominated, multi-platinum artist, producer, entrepreneur, and author, had his tenth and most recent full-length album GRATEFUL hit #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. It was certified RIAA Platinum with 1.1 billion streams of the album to date.
To ensure fans gain access to tickets, Fan Registration for the U.S. and Canadian tour dates will be available here through Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program. Additionally, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Fabletics presales begin October 31. JBL and Ulta presales follow on November 1 along with a YouTube presale on November 2.
Tickets for the Demi Lovato tour go on-sale to the general public beginning November 3 at 10am local time at LiveNation.com.
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DEMI LOVATO 2018 TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST DJ KHALED
Date City Venue
Feb. 26 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena
28 San Jose, CA SAP Center
March 2 Inglewood, CA The Forum
3 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
4 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena
7 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
9 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
10 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
13 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
14 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
16 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
17 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
19 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
21 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
23 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
24 Washington, DC Capital One Arena
26 Boston, MA TD Garden
28 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
30 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
31 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
Maroon 5 Announce 2018 Red Pill Blues Tour
Three-time GRAMMY Award-winning multiplatinum band Maroon 5 have announced the first details of their upcoming 2018 world tour produced by Live Nation, which is happening in conjunction with the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, Red Pill Blues. The first leg of the band’s Red Pill Blues world tour will kick off on May 30, 2018 at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, WA. Tickets for the multi-city tour are set to go on sale starting next Saturday, November 4th at 10:00am local time on Ticketmaster.ca.
American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Monday, October 30th at 12:00pm local time (In Toronto, starting Wednesday, November 1st at 12pm) through Friday, November 3rd at 10:00pm local time.
U.S. and Canadian residents who purchase tickets online between October 30th and November 10th will be able to redeem (1) physical or digital copy of Maroon 5’s new album “Red Pill Blues” out Friday, November 3rd, 2017. All albums must be redeemed by Feburary 3rd, 2018 at 11:59pm PST.
Maroon 5’s 6th studio album, Red Pill Blues, is set to debut on November 3, 2017 (222/ Interscope). Executive produced by J. Kash and Adam Levine, and featuring special guest appearances by SZA, Julia Michaels, A$AP Rocky and LunchMoney Lewis, the album will include both a 10-track standard edition, as well as deluxe version. T
Maroon 5 recently debuted the album’s irresistible new single, “What Lovers Do,” which features Top Dawg Entertainment artist SZA. The song has quickly climbed into the top 10 on both the Top 40 and HOT AC radio charts, as well as clocking 143 million streams on Spotify and nearly a combined 75 million views on YouTube. In addition to their new hit single, the band also just premiered two eagerly awaited unreleased songs from the album, the undeniably catchy “Help Me Out,” which features Julia Michaels making a show-stopping cameo, and the cinematic rhythmic track “Whiskey” ft. A$AP Rocky.
MAROON 5 2018 TOUR DATES:
May 30 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
June 1 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
June 2 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center
June 4 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
June 7 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena
June 9 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
June 10 Houston, TX Toyota Center
June 12 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
June 14 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
June 16 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
June 17 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BB&T Center
September 7 Salt Lake City, UT Vivint Smart Home Arena
September 9 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
September 11 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
September 13 St Louis, MO ScottTrade Center
September 14 Chicago, IL United Center
September 16 Milwaukee, WI Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center
September 18 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
September 20 Indianapolis, IN Bankers Life Fieldhouse
September 22 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
September 23 Nashville, TN* Bridgestone Arena
September 25 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
September 27 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
September 29 Pittsburgh, PA* PPG Paints Arena
September 30 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
October 2 Washington, DC Capital One Arena
October 4 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center
October 6 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
October 7 Boston, MA TD Garden
October 10 Hartford, CT XL Center
October 12 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
October 14 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
October 15 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Gord Downie’s New Video Revealed Ahead Of Upcoming Album
In the lead up to the release of Gord Downie’s new double album, Introduce Yerself, Arts & Crafts has shared a video that documents the creation of the album’s closing song, “The North,” courtesy of directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicolas de Pencier. The video is an intimate look at Downie in studio during the album’s recording with producer Kevin Drew, Dave Hamelin, and engineer Nyles Spencer at The Bathouse studio in Bath, Ontario.
“A lot of these I wrote the words in advance,” Downie said at the time of recording. “Like poems. I’d get one or two a day and then I’d have to stop. Because that’s about all… the soul or whatever, would give up. And then, so with music, it becomes pretty easy.”
The twenty-three songs of Introduce Yerself were recorded swiftly over two four-day sessions in January 2016 and February 2017, with the finished album often reflecting first takes. The album continues the collaborative relationship that last year brought the music of Downie’s historic Secret Path to life, with Drew producing and co-writing a number of songs.
Introduce Yerself will be released on CD and digital tomorrow, October 27
Nobody Asked For A Meat Loaf and Miami Sound Machine Mashup. But Thank You, DJ Cummerbund
Swriously, who thinks this would have been a good idea? DJ Cummerbund did, and you’re welcome.