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The Rise of Music Streaming Continues

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Jan 16, 2017

Americans consume more music than ever. That’s according to Nielsen’s 2016 U.S. Music report, published last week. Fueled by a further increase in music streaming, overall album consumption (measured in album sales and equivalent digital song downloads and streams) increased by 3.1 percent compared to the previous year.

While CD and digital album sales decreased by 16 and 20 percent, respectively, the number of on-demand music streams increased to 432 billion, up nearly 40 percent since 2015. While nearly 80 percent of music consumption now happens digitally, the most analog of formats continues its surprising comeback. LP sales were up 10 percent in 2016 as vinyl lovers bought 13.1 million albums.

This chart shows how music consumption in the United States has changed in 2016 compared to the previous year.

You will find more statistics at Statista

Louie Perez of Los Lobos At True North Gallery, January 30

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Louie Perez of Los Lobos At True North Gallery, January 30

On Monday, January 30^th, from 5-7pm, True North Gallery – The Music Gallery of Fine Art in Waterdown Ontario will host a VIP reception for acclaimed musician and visual artist Louie Pérez, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the popular multiple Grammy Award winning and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominated band Los Lobos. Louie will be engaging with gallery patrons, media and invited guests at the gallery’s exclusive exhibition of his unique watercolours, as well as performing a few songs.

In addition to Los Lobos, Louie Pérez’ songs have been covered by Waylon Jennings, Jerry Garcia and Robert Plant, and his prose work has been published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, LA Weekly and the New York arts journal BOMB. As a visual artist, Perez has shown his painting and sculpture since 1975 in many prominent galleries and museums including The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Plaza De La Raza-Los Angeles, El Museo Del Barrio-New York, San Antonio Museum of Art, Museo De Arte Moderno-Mexico City, The William Grant Still Art Center-Los Angeles, The Vincent Price Art Museum- East Los Angeles.

Los Lobos Canadian Tour Dates 2017
01.31.17 Burlington PAC Burlington, Ontario
02.01.17 Oakville PAC Oakville, Ontario
02.02.17 FirstOntario PAC St. Catharines, Ontario
02.03.17 Richmond Hill Performing Arts Centre Richmond Hill, Ontario
02.04.17 Grand Theatre Kingston, Ontario

That Time Kirsten Dunst Did A Video Of The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”

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That Time Kirsten Dunst Did A Video Of The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”

At the “Pop Life: Art in a Material World” exhibition that ran at London’s Tate Modern in 2009, and the promo video showcased Kirsten Dunst and produced by legendary Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami.

How Perrier’s Ad Campaign Convinced Americans To Pay For Water

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How Perrier’s Ad Campaign Convinced Americans To Pay For Water

Perrier’s advertising was selling a specific message, and it targeted a specific population: well-to-do baby boomers, born between 1945 and 1965, as they entered adulthood. It sought to assure them that those who partook of Perrier’s sparkling waters were sophisticated, classy, and conscientious. It conferred, in a word, status.

“It was a sophisticated way to go to a cocktail party and not drink alcohol,” says Gary Hemphill, the director of research at the Beverage Marketing Corporation. Unlike soda, Perrier wasn’t sweetened. It was the non-alcoholic, fizzy drink for adults.

The price of the water reflected that clout. Nevins lowered the price of a 23-ounce bottle from $1.09 ($4.30 today) to 69 cents ($2.72 in 2016 dollars) — within the reach of a certain strata of society, but significant enough that buying it still constituted a statement. It rested in that sweet spot of being simultaneously aspirational and accessible.

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Paul McCartney on never feeling confident as a songwriter: “You never get it down”

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Paul McCartney on never feeling confident as a songwriter:

“There is no sort of point you just think, ‘Okay, now I can do it, I’ll just sit down and do it.’ It’s a little more fluid than that. You talk to people who make records or albums and you always go into the studio thinking, ‘Oh, well I know this! I’ve got a lot of stuff down, you know, I write.’ And then you realize that you’re doing it all over again you’re starting from square one again. You’ve never got it down. It’s this fluid thing, music. I kind of like that. I wouldn’t like to be blasé or think, ‘Oh you know I know how to do this.’ In fact I teach a class at a the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys — I do a little songwriting class with the students — and nearly always the first thing I go in and say [is], ‘I don’t know how to do this. You would think I do, but it’s not one of these things you ever know how to do. You know I can say to you: Select the key. We will now select a rhythm. Now make a melody. Now think of some great words,’ That’s not really the answer.”

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Garbage’s Shirley Manson on How The Band Escaped The Nostalgia Game

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Garbage’s Shirley Manson on How The Band Escaped The Nostalgia Game

Why is it, do you think, you have been allowed to tour and grow musically without being pigeonholed into being a nostalgia act?

Manson: I think a lot of bands get really attached to their early success, and they don’t want to let go of that achievement. For me and the boys in Garbage, we have let go of everything in the past. We’ve accepted where our career has gone and we’re not trying to remind people that we once were hugely successful. We have just moved through our career and not really looked back. And some of that is fearlessness and some of that is about freedom. You can get really imprisoned by your early success and a lot of artists make the mistake of holding on to what they once were instead of just being willing to jump into whatever new phase awaits them.

What freed you up enough to say we don’t care if we ever have another “Stupid Girl”?

Manson: For me, it was very strange because it actually had nothing to do with music. It was an incredible teacher I studied acting with who really taught me about what it means to be a creative person in the world. I’d done that TV show [Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles], and I was on hiatus with the band. And I went and studied with this teacher [Sarah Chatten], and I just went to school with her and became a student of her. She basically taught me what it meant to be creative, curious and brave from a creative standpoint. That changed my entire view of my career and what it means to be a musician. I also had this moment, I went to Tate Gallery in London, and I saw a Louise Bourgeois retrospective and at the time I think Louise Bourgeois was something like 92 years old, and I saw this body of work this formidable lady had created throughout her life and I was like, “Oh, I don’t actually have to be an entertainer, I don’t actually have to be on Top Of The Pops, I don’t have to be the most popular artist out there. I just have to concentrate on being an artist and trying to concentrate on doing good work and the rest is in the hands of the gods and it’s out of my control.” And once I realized that I broke all the chains that had been clamped on me.

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Sneaking in some beer into a Turkish football game

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Sneaking in some beer into a Turkish football game

This Turkish football fan was desperate to get some beers into a footy game. So much so that he decided to smuggle 24 of them in. Not 2 in his pocket, or a 4-pack. No, 24 full beers.

https://youtu.be/k3-DSz5f21Q

Henry Rollins Reads Dr. Seuss

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Henry Rollins reads and deconstructs the children’s book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by the acclaimed children’s author Dr. Seuss and points out that maybe one of the places Dr. Seuss needs to go is the 21st century.

Henry Rollins Reads Dr. Seuss from Funny Or Die

Learn The Alphabet In 85 Movies Or Less

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Jan 14, 2017

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It’s as easy as A-B-C.

‘But What If We’re Wrong:’ Chuck Klosterman Looks At How We Will Remember The Now, Later

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‘But What If We’re Wrong:’ Chuck Klosterman Looks At How We Will Remember The Now, Later

NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with author and cultural critic, Chuck Klosterman. His new book But What If We’re Wrong investigates which things we take as certainties might one day be proven wrong.