Photo Gallery: Simple Plan with Courage My Love, Selfish Things, and The Bottom Line at Hamilton’s FirstOntario Concert Hall
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Mick Fleetwood On The REAL Reason Why He Got The Job In Fleetwood Mac
With your descriptions of what the other bandmates brought to Fleetwood Mac, their contributions and their talents, especially when you’re writing about Peter Green, there was such a tenderness to those words that really stood out to me.
It was. A personal thing, which I hope — and just even saying that, I’m realizing you get it — there would be no band without this chap, Peter Green. He was my friend, and remains so. But we’re not super connected, because his life literally took him away, and the way his life went — and that’s a whole another story.
One of the things that was devastatingly great and mind-blowing was when I was talking to Peter for a few hours, and we transcribed some of the things that were said during, really, nearly three hours of talking with him, which I don’t often do. Among thousands of other things, I did want to ask him — and I thought it was relevant for the book — I said “You know, back in the day, when this all came together, why did you ask me to be at your side playing drums?” In the band that he was forming, you know?
I became his right-hand man, and that story goes on through today, in truth. I didn’t preconceive anything. I thought that he would probably, maybe say “Well, I thought you were a really good drummer.” [Laughs.] And he didn’t — he said “Well, you were so sad. You were so sad, and you had broken up with Jenny and you were brokenhearted, and I thought you needed to do something. And that’s what made my mind up that you, out of the choice of . . . ” — maybe two or three people he’d been thinking of. One was an old buddy of his, who I knew.
He said, “I thought you needed it. You needed to pull yourself together.” And I thought that was such a loving statement. It had nothing to do with playing. He did it as a friend to pull me out of being, you know, blue. And that tied in with this title [of the book], in no uncertain terms. And the irony of the title is, if you jump forward thirty years, the whole legacy of this strange band, is all interwoven with love, really, and dysfunctional versions of it as well.
Steve Albini Auctions 3 Microphones Used on Nirvana’s In Utero
Steve Albini, recording engineer of many seminal records and owner of Electrical Audio, has three microphones he is looking to auction. The microphones, a Electro-Voice PL20 and two Lomo 19A9’s, have gained notoriety as they were used to record parts of Nirvana’s final record, ‘In Utero’. The Lomo 19A9’s were used as overheads for Dave Grohl’s drum tracks. One of the Lomos and the PL20 were used together for Kurt Cobain’s vocal sessions. As all three have become more like historical artifacts, as opposed to utilitarian microphones, Steve has decided to sell them to someone who will cherish and take care of them.
Read more about Steve Albini and the Nirvana microphones here.
It’s Electric! Dave Grohl meets Lars Ulrich on Beats 1
Lars welcomes special guest Dave Grohl for an epic two-part series full of tall tales and tons of laughs.
Photo Gallery: Sleeping with Sirens with White Noise, Palaye Royale, and Chase Atlantic at Toronto’s Opera House
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Audible brings the best in digital spoken-word entertainment to Canada
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word content, today announced the launch of audible.ca, a dedicated service for Canadians. Audible.ca will offer a broad selection of more than 300,000 audiobooks, original programs, lectures, comedy and more, including over 100 new titles from Canadian authors in English and French available at launch, as well as other long- and short-form local content specially curated by and for Canadians. To celebrate the launch, Audible.ca is offering its special edition of Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE, performed by Claire Danes and featuring new content original to the recording, as well as Catherine Leroux’s landmark Quebecois novel LE MUR MITOYEN, performed by Julie Le Breton, free to all Canadians for one month at www.audible.ca/handmaid and www.audible.ca/lmm.
“Honoring Canada’s distinctive literary and theatrical tradition and supporting the creation of rich local content, Audible.ca is a dedicated, authentic, and vibrant multi-language destination for English- and French-speaking Canadian consumers that puts Canadian talent and spoken-word content front and center,” said Audible founder and CEO Don Katz. “Millions of listeners around the world already turn to Audible to enhance the character and quality of daily life, and we look forward to delivering an even richer and more culturally resonant listening experience to our Canadian customers and customers to come.”
“Audible has earmarked $12M CAD over the next three years to invest in Canadian writers and voices,” added Katz.
“Audible’s dedicated Canadian service is great news for Canadian writers of all kinds,” said Atwood. “Artful voice performance enhances text, and Audible gives authors access to a rapidly growing audience for whom listening is a wonderful way to experience gripping narratives and forceful words.”
Audible is celebrating its Canadian launch with an event at Toronto’s Union Station, featuring Katz, Atwood and actress Elisabeth Moss. Moss portrays Atwood’s character Offred in the television production of THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Katz will also make an appearance on September 14, 2017 at Gare Centrale in Montreal with Julie Le Breton and Catherine Leroux.
Among the titles and programs available at launch or shortly forthcoming on audible.ca are:
- Justin Trudeau’s COMMON GROUND, narrated in both French and English, with a new introduction narrated by the Prime Minister
- An unabridged recording of Margaret Atwood’s ALIAS GRACE, performed by Sarah Gadon
- ANGEL CATBIRD, a dramatized, multi-voice production of Margaret Atwood’s graphic novels adapted for audio by the author
- Roz Nay’s suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller OUR LITTLE SECRET
- Barbara Gowdy’s novels MISTER SANDMAN, FALLING ANGELS and WE SO SELDOM LOOK ON LOVE, available for the first time in audio
- THEY CALLED ME NUMBER ONE, written and narrated by Bev Sellers, the author’s personal story of surviving a government-sponsored religious school to assimilate indigenous children
- HELLGOING, Lynn Coady’s short story collection and winner of the 2013 Giller Prize
- 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for French Fiction winner SIX DEGRÉS DE LIBERTÉ by former Canada Reads winner Nicolas Dickner, performed by Atriana Reeves
- Winner of the 11th Grand Prix de la relève littéraire Archambault and finalist in both Le Prix littéraire France-Québec and Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie in 2011, PETITE ET LE VIEUX by Marie-Renée Lavoie
- Jean-Jacques Pelletier’s thrilling mystery BAIN DE SANG, narrated by Jean Brassard
Audible.ca will also highlight Canada’s unparalleled comedic tradition with a catalogue of comedy content captured in leading Canadian comedy clubs.
“It is so gratifying that Audible is providing Quebec authors and actors this powerful medium to showcase their work,” said Leroux. “Quebec has a unique culture and storytelling tradition, and deeply values the arts. I think the Quebecois public will love hearing the works of their favorite Quebecois writers brought to life in this way.”
Beginning in 2017, Audible.ca will also be the exclusive audiobook sponsor of the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
To support its dedicated digital storefront for Canadian customers, Audible recently extended its innovative audiobook rights marketplace and production engine, the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) to Canada. ACX enables individual authors or publishers to work with professional actors and producers to create audiobooks. Since launching in June, ACX has already added almost 500 audiobooks from Canadian authors to the Audible service.