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Canadian Music Week adds The Dandy Warhols, Yukon Blonde, Tasha the Amazon, Jess Moskaluke, and more

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Apr 6, 2017

Canadian Music Week adds The Dandy Warhols, Yukon Blonde, Tasha the Amazon, Jess Moskaluke, and more

With less than two weeks until the return of the 35th edition of Canadian Music Week (CMW), the festival is pleased to announce even more programming. Portland rockers The Dandy Warhols, Canadian indie darlings Yukon Blonde, Toronto producer Tasha the Amazon, Juno award winner Jess Moskaluke, country fan favourites James Barker Band and more join the previously announced line-up including Big Sean, Melissa Etheridge, and Wolf Parade. We figured it’s time to break down the can’t miss showcases for you, the homegrown talents, and exactly what your festival wristband will give you access to. The festival, spanning over six nights April 18-23 at venues all across the city, truly has something to offer everyone. The full schedule is now online here: https://cmw.net/music/schedule/

CMW is also pleased to host a number of showcases, with this year’s highlights including late night programming from BUNZ, Complex Canada presents Earl Sweatshirt, the SIRIUSXM House at The Great Hall, Exclaim! Presents at the Baby G, The Indies presented by Jim Beam with Indie88, KX Country and Boots & Hearts at Phoenix Concert Theatre, as well as label presented shows from BUZZ Records, Dine Alone, Six Shooter, and Mint Records. Lineup and venue information listed below.

This year, Canadian Music Week hosts a country spotlight on France, with a showcase presented by the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in Canada , Institut Français and Bureauexport France at The Rivoli on Wednesday April 19 with featuring performances from Tété, Cleo T, Caspian Pool and other French exports. The festival will also welcome thousands of delegates from around the world, with highlighted showcases from Italy and Taiwan. Further details on the international program at CMW 2017 can be found below.

Getting the most out of your singing lessons

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Getting the most out of your singing lessons

If you want to learn to sing, the best way to do that is with New York City expert singing lessons with an experienced singing teacher. Individual, private singing lessons are the most effective way of learning how to sing, but there can be an intimidation factor that can be hard to overcome. Here are some top tips for getting the most out of your singing lessons and not letting yourself be intimidated by singing in front of someone else.

Start with the right teacher

This is important. If you don’t gel with the teacher, you’re never going to feel comfortable with him or her. Find at teacher whose personality and teaching style meshes with your personality and learning style, and you’ll be off to a good start. Always look for an experienced teacher, too. They will be able to identify your strengths and weaknesses and help you to learn how to harness your voice. Your teacher should challenge you and motivate you, not intimidate or overwhelm you.

Come to the table ready to learn

Just as you wouldn’t go to school without paper and pen, you shouldn’t come to your singing lessons without your most important tool: your willingness to learn. Make a list of questions you’d like the teacher to answer so they will know you are keen to learn, which will make them keen to teach!

Practice, practice, practice!

You know what they say: Practice makes perfect. One of the best ways to benefit from any type of lesson is to practice. To get the most out of your lesson, it’s imperative that you practice what you learn while at home. The more you sing and practice the techniques you’ve been learning, the better the singer you’ll become.

Be patient!

You won’t learn to sing overnight. Bear that in mind. But anything worth doing is worth doing well, so give yourself the time you need to hone your skills. A good teacher will be able to break down the process of learning to sing into small, manageable steps that you can easily follow. You probably won’t suddenly become a virtuoso after the first lesson, so give yourself the time you need to improve your craft. Before you know it, you’ll be singing a very different tune!

Have fun!

This is the most important part of learning any new skill or hobby. Relax and have fun! After all, if what you’re doing isn’t fun, why do it? Relax and enjoy the process and the rest will follow naturally.

If you want to learn how to sing, taking some professional lessons can help you get off to a great start. Keep these tips in mind if you want to get the very most out of your lessons. Don’t feel intimidated! Have fun!

“I Am Heath Ledger” Doc Trailer Is Here

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From filmmaker Derik Murray (I Am Chris Farley) comes a documentary about the late actor Heath Ledger. A born director. A fearless actor. An unforgettable artist. I Am Heath Ledger premieres May 17th on Spike.

Band Names You’ve Been Mispronouncing This Whole Time

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Band Names You’ve Been Mispronouncing This Whole Time

Back when radio airplay was basically how everyone found out about new music, it was hard to mispronounce a band’s name. DJs introduced the songs and who performed them, so unless your local radio station was run by total dopes, you knew what was up. But in today’s streaming free-for-all, plenty of music fans read a ton of band names without ever hearing them spoken out loud. It’s not like Spotify has a “pronounce this band” feature… but they totally should. Not every band is as easy to say as, say, Smash Mouth or Oingo Boingo. So, unless you’re one of the musically-informed elite, here are a few band names you’ve probably been saying wrong this whole time…

Watch Mike Oldfield Perform Tubular Bells Part 1 In 1973

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Watch Mike Oldfield Perform Tubular Bells Part 1 In 1973

Tubular Bells is the first album by English musician Mike Oldfield, recorded when he was 19 and released in 1973 when he was 20. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company’s success, hence the catalogue number V2001.

And now, check out this 1973 BBC broadcast, featuring Mike and his bandmates as they perform all 25-minutes of the esoteric prog rock creation Tubular Bells Part 1, best known for its use in the horror film The Exorcist.

https://youtu.be/l7MY_cdUL1E

Mick Fleetwood on the Luck of Fleetwood Mac

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Mick Fleetwood on the Luck of Fleetwood Mac

Here’s a preview of an upcoming episode of Sammy Hagar‘s Rock & Roll Road Trip. This one involves the Red Rocker and Mick Fleetwood talking about how Fleetwood Mac have been able to bounce back so many times over the years.

“[Do] you feel like the luckiest man in the world to have so many shots and have disastrous things happen and come back and come back?” Hagar asks in the clip above. “God is just shining on you”

Fleetwood agrees, telling Hagar, “If you read a manual or a blueprint, you would say, ‘This is actually not possible, and it’s all lies. It could not have … happened like that, and if it did, the people, the players in the play, would not have survived. Somehow, the band has survived really against hopeless odds, mostly, in truth, created by ourselves.”

The Beatles Release Track Listing For ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 6-CD Box Set

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The Beatles Release Track Listing For ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 6-CD Box Set

The Beatles will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with several reissue packages arriving May 26th. A new stereo mix of the album will be available as a single CD and as part of every other package. An expanded deluxe edition will be released digitally, as a two-CD set or two-LP vinyl package. A super deluxe six-disc box set will also be available.

CD 1:
New stereo album mix.

CDs 2 & 3:
33 additional recordings from the studio sessions, most previously unreleased and mixed for the first time from the four-track session tapes, sequenced in chronological order of their recording dates.
A new stereo mix of ‘Penny Lane’ and the 2015 stereo mix of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’.

CD 4:
Direct transfers of the album’s original mono mix and the ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘Penny Lane’ singles.
Capitol Records’ U.S. promotional mono single mix of ‘Penny Lane’.
Previously unreleased early mono mixes of ‘She’s Leaving Home, ‘A Day In The Life,’ and ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ (a mix thought to have been erased from a tape in 1967, but discovered during archive research for the anniversary edition).

Discs 5 & 6 (Blu-ray and DVD):
New 5.1 surround audio mixes of the album and ‘Penny Lane’ by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus their 2015 5.1 surround mix of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’.
High resolution audio versions of the new stereo mixes of the album and ‘Penny Lane’ and of the 2015 stereo mix of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’.
Video features: 4K restored original promotional films for ‘Strawberry Fields Forever,’ ‘Penny Lane,’ and ‘A Day In The Life;’ plus The Making of Sgt. Pepper, a restored, previously unreleased documentary film broadcast in 1992, featuring insightful interviews with McCartney, Harrison, and Starr, and in-studio footage introduced by George Martin.

TRACKS
BLURAY
1 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 With A Little Help From My Friends
3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4 Getting Better
5 Fixing A Hole
6 She’s Leaving Home
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8 Within You Without You
9 When I’m Sixty Four
10 Lovely Rita
11 Good Morning Good Morning
12 Sgt. Peper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13 A Day In The Life
14 Strawberry Fields Forever
15 Penny Lane
16 The Making Of Sgt. Pepper
17 A Day In The Life – 2017 Audio
18 Strawberry Fields Forever – 2017 Audio
19 Penny Lane – 2017 Audio
TRACKS
CD1
1 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 With A Little Help From My Friends
3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4 Getting Better
5 Fixing A Hole
6 She’s Leaving Home
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8 Within You Without You
9 When I’m Sixty Four
10 Lively Rita
11 Good Morning Good Morning
12 Sgt. Peper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13 A Day In The Life Remastered
TRACKS
CD2
1 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 1
2 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 4
3 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 7
4 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 26
5 Strawberry Fields Forever – Stereo/Giles Martin Mix
6 When I’m Sixty-Four
7 Penny Lane – Take 6
8 Penny Lane – Vocal Overdubs and Speech
9 Penny Lane – Stereo / Giles Martin Mix 2017
10 A Day In The Lif e- Take 1
11 A Day In The Life – Take 2
12 A Day In The Life – Orchestra Overdub
13 A Day In The Life – Hummed Last Chord
14 A Day In The Life – The Last Chord
15 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Take 1
16 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Take 9
17 Good Morning Good Morning – Take 1
18 Good Morning Good Morning – Take 8
TRACKS
CD3
1 Fixing A Hole – Take 1
2 Fixing A Hole – Speech And Take 3
3 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
4 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! – Take 7
5 Lively Rita – Speech and Take 9
6 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Take 1 And Speech
7 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Speech
8 Getting Better – Take 1
9 Getting Better – Take 12
10 Within You Without You – Take 1
11 Within You Without You – George Coaching The Musicians
12 She’s Leaving Home – Take 1
13 She’s Leaving Home – Take 6
14 With A Little Help From My Friends – Take 1
15 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) Speech and Take 8
TRACKS
CD4
1 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 With A Little Help From My Friends
3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4 Getting Better
5 Fixing A Hole
6 She’s Leaving Home
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8 Within You Without You
9 When I’m Sixty Four
10 Lively Rita
11 Good Morning Good Morning
12 Sgt. Peper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13 A Day In The Life
14 Strawberry Fields Forever
15 Penny Lane
16 A Day In The Live – First Mono Mix
17 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Original Mono Mix
18 She’s Leaving Home – First Mono Mix
19 Penny Lane – Capitol Records Mono Mix
TRACKS
DVD
1 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 With A Little Help From My Friends
3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4 Getting Better
5 Fixing A Hole
6 She’s Leaving Home
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8 Within You Without You
9 When I’m Sixty Four
10 Lovely Rita
11 Good Morning Good Morning
12 Sgt. Peper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13 A Day In The Life
14 Strawberry Fields Forever
15 Penny Lane
16 The Making Of Sgt. Pepper
17 A Day In The Life – 2017 Audio
18 Strawberry Fields Forever – 2017 Audio
19 Penny Lane – 2017 Audio

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Season 3 of Live at Massey Hall Launches with 30-Minute Concert Films From Owen Pallett, Peaches, Rheostatics, and More

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Season 3 of Live at Massey Hall, the signature concert and concert film series, is now streaming for free at liveatmasseyhall.com. Watch 30-minute concert films from Owen Pallett, Peaches, Rheostatics, Tanya Tagaq, The Weather Station, Alejandra Ribera, Amelia Curran, Chilly Gonzales, The Hidden Cameras, and Bahamas.

Multiple JUNO Award winner Bahamas makes his Massey Hall debut performing songs from throughout his acclaimed catalogue including the premiere of a new song, “Alone” for Live at Massey Hall.

Chilly Gonzales, the Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer, is known as much for his intimate piano touch as for his showmanship and composition for award-winning stars. It’s all on display in his triumphant Massey Hall headline debut, accompanied by the celebrated Kaiser Quartett.

In a completely improvised performance with her long-time touring bandmates and a 50-voice choir, Polaris Music Prize winner and recent member of the Order of Canada Tanya Tagaq makes her ferocious Live at Massey Hall debut.

A decade ago, under the moniker Final Fantasy, internationally acclaimed musician and composer Owen Pallett was the recipient of the first ever Polaris Music Prize. Here, in a show that celebrated ten years of Polaris, Owen Pallett makes his solo Massey Hall debut and highlights his incredible musical catalogue.

The globetrotting singer and songwriter Alejandra Ribera performs material from ‘La Boca’ including her award-winning “I Want” in a very special Live at Massey Hall performance.

As she celebrates the release of her new album Watershed, JUNO-winner and the pride of St. John’s, NF performs “The Mistress,” “Somebody Somewhere” and other favourites Live at Massey Hall.

In her highly anticipated Toronto homecoming concert, the one and only Peaches tears the roof off of her Live at Massey Hall debut. Featuring collaborations with Feist and Joel Gibb (The Hidden Cameras), she performs material from The Teaches of Peaches through to her latest, Rub.

The Hidden Cameras, the Toronto-based collective led by Joel Gibb, celebrate the launch of their latest album Home On Native Land with an energetic performance that features guests Ron Sexsmith and Feist.

Canadian rock luminaries Rheostatics reunite on the iconic Massey Hall stage for the first time in nearly a decade, performing fan favourites including “Claire,” “California Dreamline” and more.

Bill Hader’s Impression That Never Made SNL

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Bill Hader’s Impression That Never Made SNL

Bill Hader and John Mulaney wrote a particularly great sketch that never aired.

John Mayer on Songwriting, Playing, And Fame

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John Mayer on Songwriting, Playing, And Fame

John Mayer is a seven-time Grammy award winner who has sold more than 30 million records worldwide. He has shared the stage with guitar greats like B.B. King, Carlos Santana, and Eric Clapton, who calls Mayer a “master” guitar player. Mayer returns with his first album in four years. It is called “The Search For Everything.”