The enigmatic electronic music duo Daft Punk has released a really interesting compilation of the songs they’ve sampled, naming both artist and title, alongside an example of how they incorporated that sample in their own music. Watch how songs from Sister Sledge, George Duke, Tavares, Little Anthony and the Imperials, ELO and Barry Manilow tranform themselves into different segments of songs.
https://youtu.be/dgKCrbwGKpA
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) today announced the host and performers for the 2017 JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards presented by SOCAN, on Saturday, April 1 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa.
Hosted by Tom Power, host of cbc radio one q, the private industry ceremony will see 34 JUNO Awards given out and, the 2017 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award (Randy Lennox) and the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award (Buffy Sainte-Marie) will be presented to trailblazers in Canadian music.
The 46th annual JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards will also feature live performances by 2017 JUNO Award-nominees Daniel Caesar(R&B/Soul Recording of the Year), Jess Moskaluke (Country Album of the Year), Koriass (Francophone Album of the Year), and William Prince (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year sponsored by National Arts Centre and Indigenous Music Album of the Year sponsored by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network). The event will also feature a special performance by one of the three 2017 Allan Slaight JUNO Master Class winners, Neon Dreams.
Music fans across the country will also get an all access pass to the exclusive event with the JUNO TV live-stream, starting at 6 p.m. ET, at www.junotv.ca.
Whether it’s acting, singing, or appearing on the cover of Vogue, Selena Gomez is doing it all. Instagram’s biggest star invites Vogue in and takes a shot at answering 73 unexpected questions. Selena reveals the last movie that made her cry, the food she can’t live without, and her favorite jingle of all-time.
The surviving members of Queen can say they’ve been honored with their own special edition of Monopoly. Guitarist Brian May announced the upcoming tie-in, telling fans to expect a May release date and adding that they’d been “very secretly developing Queen Monopoly for over a year.” Writing that he’d had “a blast” helping put the game together, May went on to compare the process to making an album and concluded, “We hope you love it! Choose your weapons!”
Elvis Costello: I’ve seen people, quite eminent people, completely lose their mind in his company. I didn’t want to turn up and be kind of bothersome in that way. I wanted to get something good done. Something that justified the invitation.
Paul McCartney: I do get a bit of that in life generally, but I’ve adapted, I’ve developed a way of trying to put people at ease that kind of eliminates the vast majority of this syndrome. With Elvis, I didn’t need to do it. He’s sensible enough to know that. We’d sit around and talk and have a cup of tea. By the time we got down to songwriting, we knew the deal.
We just sat on these couches. Each of us got an acoustic guitar. Sat across from each other. I said to him, “The way I’m used to working with a collaborator is really, mainly with John.” And the way we used to do it is sit opposite like this. And the thing for me that was kind of nice . . . because I was left-handed and he was right-handed, as was the case with Elvis, too, it was as if I was looking in the mirror.
Costello: I was sort of a little startled when he made that reference. I think it’s more to just try to explain the immediacy of the way we worked rather than put me in the same bracket as Lennon. I don’t see myself like that. In terms of the immediacy and just the musical role. . . .
I can’t sing above him so I would naturally harmonize below. Which is often the relationship of Lennon and McCartney’s harmonization. That would draw some comparison. Hey, I sing through my nose some of the time. What can I do?
It was only a few weeks ago Ed Sheeran broke the Spotify record with over 68million streams in one day. Following the release of Drake mixtape/playlist More Life on Saturday (March 18), the Canadian has set two new 24-hour Spotify high-water marks. Drake has officially surpassed Sheeran’s record for one-day streams, clocking up 76,355,041 plays on March 19 alone. Sheeran’s record was set just two weeks before, on March 3, with 68,695,172 streams. Also on March 19, Drake’s More Life racked up the best first day streams for a single album, according to Spotify. The set totalled 61,302,082 streams in the 24 hours, surging past Divide’s 56,727,861 streams on March 3.
Earlier this year, news came down about a three-disc studio album from Bob Dylan, Triplicate, released on March 31, featuring 30 brand-new recordings of classic American tunes and marking the first triple-length set of the artist’s illustrious career.Now, with his so-called Never-Ending Tour approaching almost 30 years running, Bob has announced new dates for North America, including a slew in Canada.
Bob Dylan Tour Dates:
June
13 – Port Chester, N.Y. @ Capitol Theatre
14 – Port Chester, N.Y. @ Capitol Theatre
15 – Port Chester, N.Y. @ Capitol Theatre
17 – Dover, Del. @ Firefly Festival
18 – Wallingford, Conn. @ Toyota presents Oakdale Theatre
21 – Providence, R.I. @ Providence Performing Arts Center
24 – Kingston, N.Y. @ Hutton Brickyard
25 – Syracuse, N.Y. Lakeview Amphitheatre
27 – Kingston, Canada @ Rogers K-Rock Centre
29 – Ottawa, Canada @ Richcraft Live at the Canadian Tire Centre
30 – Montréal, Canada @ Centre Bell
July
02 – Barrie, Canada @ Molson Centre
04 – Oshawa, Canada @ Tribute Communities Centre
05 – Toronto, Canada @ Air Canada Centre
06 – London, Canada, @Budweiser Gardens
12 – Winnipeg, Canada, MTS Centre
14 – Saskatoon, Canada @ SaskTel Centre
15 – Moose Jaw, Canada @ Mosaic Place
17 – Calgary, Canade @ Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
18 – Medicine Hat, Canada @ Canalta Centre
19 – Edmonton, Canada @ Rogers Place
21 – Dawson Creek, Canada @ Encanta Events Centre
22 – Prince George, Canada @ CN Centre
24 – Kelowna, Canada @ Prospera Place
25 – Vancouver, Canada @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
27 – Victoria, Canada @ Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre
This one’s going to hurt for music fans: Former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason took his McLaren F1 GTR race car out for a spin at the Goodwood Circuit yesterday — and suffered a crash on a parade lap, running into a wall and damaging the vehicle. So good to know Nick wasn’t seriously injured. That car is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.7 million, or a few weeks of Dark Side Of The Moon sales.
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