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Gord Deppe of The Spoons and Bill Wood announce acoustic show in Oakville

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Sep 27, 2016

Gord Deppe of The Spoons and Bill Wood announce acoustic show in Oakville

Michael Williams Presents SUNDAY NIGHT is excited to host two exceptional performers — Gord Deppe of The Spoons and Bill Wood of Bill Wood and The Woodies together in a live, acoustic performance on Sunday, October 2, 2016 at Taste of Colombia’s El Salon in Oakville, ON.

With almost 40 years as a singer/songwriter/performer with the The Spoons, Gord Deppe and his band have never stopped performing. Originally from Burlington, Ontario The Spoons were formed in 1979 and, at the time, considered leaders in the New Wave scene during the 1980s. Over the years the band produced hits such as “Romantic Traffic”, “Old Emotions”, “Nova Heart” and “Tell No Lies”. Their most recent album (and the first in 20 years), Static in Transmission, produced two more singles, “Imperfect” and “Tell No Lies”. Deppe will be joining us for an acoustic evening of song and to share the stories behind his latest venture, a new book that actually started years ago as small vignettes and grew over time into SpoonFed.

Singer/songwriter Bill Wood is the front man for Bill Wood and The Woodies. With over 30 years of experience in the music industry his songs have been honed over decades of life experiences. To Wood, the songs are the main event. Wood is also the former lead vocalist of the Juno-nominated pop band Eye Eye. Bill Wood & The Woodies have recently released their new album “Mumbo Jumbo Tumbo” featuring the first single “Blue Plate Special”.

Michael Williams Presents SUNDAY NIGHT is a series of live events featuring both international and local artists performing intimate, informal shows at Taste of Colombia’s El Salon. The evening is hosted by Musicologist Michael Williams whose lifelong passion for music has provided him many roles as producer, journalist, musician, media personality and educator. “I have always wanted a platform to present intimate shows…and have found the perfect venue in El Salon. The plan is to bring in the best artists I know and pair them with up-and-coming local artists.”

Join us at A Taste of Colombia for an evening of great music. The perfect place to relax, unwind, and enjoy a great cup of your favourite beverage.

Ry Cooder Mini-Doc For His Debut Album, Produced By Warner Music’s Van Dyke Parks. Yes, THAT Van Dyke Parks

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Sep 27, 2016

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Ry Cooder Mini-Doc For His Debut Album, Produced By Warner Music’s Van Dyke Parks. Yes, THAT Van Dyke Parks

The name Ry Cooder may be familiar to a lot of you – Cooder was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”, and a 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32. There’s also a Canadian connection – Cooder is referenced in the lyrics of “At the Hundredth Meridian” by The Tragically Hip: “Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy.”

Here’s a 14-minute promotional documentary that Warner Bros. put together for the 1970 debut album by Cooder, put together by singer/songwriter Van Dyke Parks, best known for his collaborations with Brian Wilson and for his contributions as lyricist to the Beach Boys’ Smile project. At this time of this doc, Parks was an employee of Warner Bros. tasked with overseeing the creation of promotional videos for the label’s artists. Working on the studio side left Parks wanting to focus more behind-the-scenes and with lesser-known artists, such as Randy Newman and Cooder, after being unhappy with the aspect of being “typecast” by his songs.

FUZEnation TECH + MUSIC SUMMIT Launches This Week

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Sep 26, 2016

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FUZEnation TECH + MUSIC SUMMIT Launches This Week

FUZEnation’s Disruptors & Game Changers Panel is presented by MODALINA Magazine: an award-winning, luxury lifestyle, fashion and jewellery magazine. Produced and published in the Waterloo region, MODALINA boasts an internationally-recognized team of writers and photographers.

“MODALINA Media Group is excited to partner with FUZEnation on this first ever event. We recognize the importance of showcasing and celebrating our local trailblazers and influencers; sharing their stories and accomplishments through this ground-breaking summit seems naturally fitting. We are honoured to present Disruptors & Game Changers, and celebrate Waterloo as a centre of technological excellence,” says Krista Bozoian, Director of Content and Advertising, MODALINA Magazine.

To coincide with FUZEnation, MODALINA magazine introduces MODALINA, Fall 2016 – The Shift Disturbers Edition which features several of FUZEnation’s Disruptors & Game Changers panelists. “In this issue, we focus on the positive aspects of disruption and change. Industries that shift the perception and direction of our world, and how we operate within it. Individuals who are game-changers, creating a paradigm for others to take heed and follow or risk being left behind. So naturally, when we decided to do something a little unexpected that integrated the worlds of high-tech and high-fashion, we didn’t need to look any further than our own backyard. Through this fusion, ‘Tech Tonic’ was born – – a fashion editorial spread that features CEOs & Founders of local (Kitchener-Waterloo) tech start-ups that are having seismic impact through the global adoption of their product and service offerings. Mix young, smart, bold thinking entrepreneurs with the latest fashion trends in haute-couture and the combination is sure to get noticed,” says Marina Garabetian, Publisher/Founder, MODALINA Magazine.

The speaker list is pretty astounding, with some of the world’s most prolific tech icons as part of FUZEnation’s Speakers Series: STEVE WOZNIAK, Co-founder of Apple Inc., BIZ STONE, Co-founder Twitter, Co-founder & CEO Jelly, and ALEXIS OHANIAN, Co-founder of Reddit. We are also pleased to welcome respected broadcast journalist and Kitchener native LIZA FROMER, who will serve as moderator for Biz Stone’s Q & A.

FUZEnation wraps with a musical celebration at 41 Ardelt Place in Kitchener featuring headliner KYGO, one of the leading EDM artists in the world. Kygo has reached over 2 billion Spotify streams including remixes, a testament to his massive success. Don’t miss the chance to catch this extraordinary talent in an intimate unique setting when he hits the stage at 41 Ardelt Place.

Tickets Available Now at Frontgatetickets.com and FUZEnation Speaker Sessions – $39.50 with the FUZEnation Concert with Headliner KYGO – from $55

MC Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This” Without Music Is Hilarious

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Sep 25, 2016

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MC Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This” Without Music Is Hilarious

Amsterdam-based music agency House of Halo beautifully imagines what the music video for MC Hammer’s 1990 hip hop classic “U Can’t Touch This” would sound like without music.

Music Doc “Discovering Electronic Music” From 1983 Is Glorious And Righteous At The Same Time

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Sep 25, 2016

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Music Doc “Discovering Electronic Music” From 1983 Is Glorious And Righteous At The Same Time

This 1983 documentary film by director and writer Bernard Wilets examines the basics of analog synthesis, digital sampling and sequencing.

“We live in an age of technology in which machines touch every part of our lives. It is not suprising that music has also been influenced by technology.”

My Morning Jacket’s Jim James on Tortoises and Being In A Band For 20 Years

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Sep 25, 2016

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My Morning Jacket’s Jim James on Tortoises and Being In A Band For 20 Years

Rolling Stone: You’re from Louisville, Kentucky, but lately you’ve been living in Los Angeles. What’s that like?

Jim James: There are so many people here trying to make their dreams come true, and it’s incredibly inspiring. I’m renting an Airbnb from an artist who kinda built the place. There are two 40-year-old giant desert tortoises that live here, and they’ve been amazing to live with. They don’t need you, but they also enjoy being around you. They’re so content to do very little, and I’m trying to learn from them: “You’re just gonna climb out of your hole and sit in the sun?” “Yeah, that’s all I’m gonna do today.”

Rolling Stone: You’ve fronted My Morning Jacket for almost 20 years. What have you learned about leading a band?

Jim James: The biggest part, as cliché as it sounds, is just being honest and never carrying a debt with anybody. If someone makes you mad, tell them. Work it out. Don’t carry it around like a burden. The same with love. If someone makes you happy, let them know how awesome they are. You can never say “I love you” enough.

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Jeff Tweedy: “Everybody looks back on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and thinks it was a watershed moment. That’s just ridiculous.”

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Sep 25, 2016

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Jeff Tweedy: “Everybody looks back on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and thinks it was a watershed moment. That’s just ridiculous.”

Faster Louder: I wanted to ask about the Star Wars album as well. Obviously the surprise release of that record was a little bit of a gamble but it created a lot of buzz around the record. I guess it maybe feels, from an outsider’s position, that the last couple of Wilco records have maybe slipped by, like you guys have become victims of your own success and that there’s a consensus of “Yeah, it’s a great record, but it’s just a Wilco record.” Was that the intention to shake up that idea?

Jeff Tweedy: Yeah, I think that the … I don’t know what people are thinking about the band as a whole. From our perspective, people keep showing up just to see us play and people tend to buy our records at a time when not many people are buying records and we feel very fortunate to be in a position where we could do whatever we wanted. I think, that being said, there are a lot of expectations that go along with being a band for a long time and having put out many records. Everything about the release and the way the record was packaged, everything about it, was really an effort to try and subvert expectation and to get people that care about the band to lead the discussion or the dialogue about the record.

With all due respect, I tend to think people like yourself are the ones that look at it like, “Oh, they just put out another record and it’s good.” Fans don’t think that. People that get paid to think about stuff like that think that, because your job is to find something new and be the cool guy that found the new thing. Wilco doesn’t really fit that category as much anymore, so there tends to be a certain amount of, I don’t know … I would never complain that we’re taken for granted but, certainly, within certain professional classes, that would be the case.

I didn’t mean to imply that I’m not excited when a new Wilco record comes out. I’ve been a fan for a long time and I always look forward to a new album. It just feels that there isn’t an explosion of attention and hype now the way maybe it did around Yankee Hotel days.

That’s bullshit. That’s complete bullshit, because, first of all, the internet wasn’t anything close to what it is. There was no social media when Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out and people were telling us that the record was the end of the band for months and when the record finally came out, nobody gave a shit. It did well, but it didn’t do well right away.

Now everybody looks back on it and thinks that it was some sort of watershed moment and the record has sold a lot over this time period because of the story and it’s a good record. The whole idea that, I don’t know, that’s just ridiculous. That’s not what happened at the time. There was a ton of coverage, but it wasn’t social media buzz or anything.

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The Fall’s Mark E Smith Guide to Writing

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Sep 25, 2016

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The Fall’s Mark E Smith Guide to Writing

In 1983, Mark E. Smith gave a talk on Greenwich Sound Radio on the – ahem – proper guide to writing. Who could argue with these tips?

Hello I’m Mark E. Smith and this is The Mark E. Smith ‘Guide To Writing’ Guide.

Day-by-day breakdown

Day One: Hang around house all day writing bits of useless information on bits of paper

Day Two: Decide lack of inspiration due to too much isolation and non-fraternisation. Go to pub. Have drinks.

Day Three: Get up and go to pub. Hold on in there a style is on it’s way. Through sheer boredom and drunkenness, talk to people in pub.

Day Four: By now, people in the pub should be continually getting on your nerves. Write things about them on backs of beer mats.

Day Five: Go to pub. This is where true penmanship stamina comes into its own as by now, guilt, drunkenness, the people in the pub and the fact you’re one of them should combine to enable you to write out of sheer vexation. To write out of sheer vexation.

Day Six: If possible stay home. And write. If not go to pub.

Underworld’s Karl Hyde on the record that changed everything for him

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Sep 24, 2016

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Underworld’s Karl Hyde on the record that changed everything for him

I love Underworld. The second version of them, not the Change The Weather-era, but then, who does? And I don’t mean that as a slight. It’s just their electronic Underworld just happens to be so stunning, it blew anything else they could have ever done in their wake. I’m always fascinated by artists who make a striking move, a dash across a new terrain with bravado, or skill, or fear, just to see what’s on the other side. Karl Hyde did one of those moves.

Do you remember one record that flipped the switch for you guys, something that made you understand this other world of dance music that was going on while you weren’t paying attention?

It was actually house on pirate radio. In the late ’80s, when we were making the second album [1989’s Change the Weather], we were hearing pirate radio. And the pirate radio stations were playing acid house.

Acid house, to me personally, was like the first time I had heard Tangerine Dream, the first time I had heard Hawkwind. These very long, soundscape-y, rhythm-driven, almost electronic orchestral pieces. And that’s what acid house sounded like to us, to me. It was like, “Oh my God, this is like the fruition of all the music I ever loved as a kid.” And it’s a massive movement.

And it’s underground, and yet it’s huge, it’s completely outside a culture. Revolutionary, really. Because it was self-sustaining, it didn’t need the music industry. It was pulling in tens of thousands of people. It was selling really large quantities of records, and yet, it wasn’t even showing up in the charts. It was fantastic.

When we were making that second record, we went to see Adrian Sherwood. And it blew us away, mostly because of what Adrian did with the sound system… you know, turning off the highs and the mids and the lows, and kind of playing with the sound. He was using the sound system like an instrument.

Shortly after that, we were taken to our first rave, and that completely sealed it for us. Because there we were seeing an audience that wasn’t looking at the stage. There were no lights on the DJ, none at all, they were all on the audience. The audience was the main act. And then in other rooms, there were bumper-car rides, and different videos being played… it was like the ultimate Pink Floyd gig. And it just felt like we were completely on one side of it. I wanted to be part of it.

But it was Rick who had finally had enough, when we got dropped the last time [afterChange the Weather] by Sire. He just said, “I can’t [be in this version of Underworld] anymore, I’ve got to follow my heart.” And that’s where he took us, very clearly, into clubland.

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R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on why he hates the music business

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Sep 24, 2016

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R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on why he hates the music business

R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck discusses the band’s extensive archive, his friendships with his fellow members and why he’s happy to be done with major labels.

When the three remaining members decided to break up, Buck marked the occasion by compiling a list of the things he had come to hate, during R.E.M.’s lifespan, about the music business. “It was five pages long,” Buck said.

And what was on that five-page list? “Everything,” Buck replied curtly, sipping orange juice in a bar as his friends the Jayhawks were conducting a soundcheck across the street. “Everything except writing songs, playing songs and recording them. It was the money, the politics, having to meet new people 24 hours a day, not being in charge of my own decisions. But more than anything else, I hate the business, and I didn’t want to have anything to do with it.”

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