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Indie Fridays are back at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto

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Indie Fridays are back at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto

YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE (YDS) is proud to present Indie Fridays, the free concert series that will kickstart the weekends in the heart of the city from June 24 – September 2 starting at 8pm.

Join the summer fun every Friday night (with a break on Canada Day) at YDS for an eclectic mix of live performances curated by the programming team at Massey Hall, covering diverse musical genres from reggae to hip-hop and sultry soul to Latin world beats.

On Friday, June 24, with support from Canadian Reggae World, the legendary Canadian reggae band Messenjah opens Indie Fridays with their progressive roots sound; with special guest Exco Levi, winner of four consecutive JUNO Awards for Best Reggae Recording.

On Friday, July 8, Halifax indie-rocker AA Wallace instills wicked wit into his lo-fi electro-pop songs; with special guest vocalists, Liz Loughrey whose voice belies her youth and channels soul and jazz masters, and Jordan Alexander performing heartfelt and catchy tracks from her debut album.

On Friday, July 15, in association with Franco-Fête de Toronto, Mehdi Cayenne brings his funky, melodic francophone pop to the stage; with special guest Mélanie Brulée, whose voice dances on the lines between sultry pop star and classic cabaret singer.

On Friday, July 22, with support from Good Kind Productions, Radio Radio, the Montreal-based electro hip-hop band, break down language barriers with their eclectic French-Acadian lyrics and contagious hip-hop beats; with special guests Herencia de Timbiquí who mesh the musical traditions of their tiny home village on Colombia’s Pacific coast with the sounds of the city they now inhabit.

On Friday, July 29, JUNO Award-winning vocalist/producer Boogat unleashes his world beat and tropical bass vibe; with special guests hip-hop crew Los Poetas, who make it their duty to preserve their Latin roots through beats and rhymes.

Indie Fridays continue through September 2 with Ben Caplan (Aug 5), The Heavyweights Brass Band (Aug 12), The Massey Hall Band (Aug 19), Pierre Kwenders (Aug 26), and more.

SOCAN Unveils Royalties Analysis Dashboard

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SOCAN Unveils Royalties Analysis Dashboard

With the launch of leading-edge proprietary service Royalty Guru, SOCAN is enabling its members to use high-quality, flexible analytics tools to assess and monitor their royalties.

An integral part of SOCAN’s strategy to leverage and deploy digital tools to lead the global transformation of music rights and designed specifically for songwriters, composers and music publishers, Royalty Guru’s analytics capabilities allow SOCAN’s more than 135,000 members to visualize their data in a variety of easy-to-use ways to help them manage their business and career in music.

SOCAN is believed to be the first major performing rights organization to offer such a royalty-analysis business intelligence tool to its creator and music publisher members.

SOCAN’s exclusive Royalty Guru services run on any web browser and enable SOCAN members to understand better the trends in royalties earned when their music is played live, on radio, television and streamed on the Internet. The service will be accessible in English and French through the secure members’ portal at socan.ca.

The tool simplifies royalty analysis, doing in seconds what otherwise would take hours, days or even weeks to determine using complicated spreadsheets.

“Data and effective data analysis are more than ever keys to success in the digital music economy,” said Michael McCarty, Chief Membership & Business Development Officer at SOCAN. “Royalty Guru is the latest career and business advantage that SOCAN brings to its members as SOCAN continues to broaden our role as the world’s leading and most transparent music rights organization.”

SOCAN’s Royalty Guru is now available free to all SOCAN members, and the company will continue to maintain and develop the application going forward, enhancing the service with members’ needs in mind.

Check Out Steven Tyler’s Isolated Vocals And Joe Perry’s Isolated Guitar From “Walk This Way”

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Aerosmith’s classic hit “Walk This Way” appeared on the 1975 album Toys in the Attic. Famously remade with Run-DMC in the mid-80s (on which the original guitar riff played by Joe Perry was also heard), the orginal track rose to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

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How Shaq spent $1 Million in one day

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Money doesn’t cry for you. You make it, you spend it, and it doesn’t care if you end up in debt. Shaquille O’Neal says he sought financial advice so he didn’t end up like “all the other athletes”

A Man With No Arms And His Blind Friend Plant Forest In China

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A Man With No Arms And His Blind Friend Plant Forest In China

In the village of Yeli, China, two men have formed an unlikely team to improve their community. Sixteen years ago, Jia Haixia lost his eyesight. His best friend, Jia Wenqi, lost his arms as a child. Together, the two have planted 10,000 trees around their village and have become an inseparable duo.

Ariana Grande’s Isolated Vocals For “Focus”

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Ariana Grande’s Isolated Vocals For “Focus”

Still don’t believe Ariana Grande is the real deal? Check out the isolated vocals for Focus, the lead single on her 2015 Moonlight album. The track went to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and features a rap part by Jamie Foxx.

Performing Bach On A Giant Forest Xylophone Will Blow Your Mind

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Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is the most common English title of the 10th and last movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 (“Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life”), composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1716 and 1723.

Recently, deep in the woods of Kyushu, Japan, a team of filmmakers built a massive xylophone running down a long, steady slope. They took a ball, and rolled it down the instrument, creating a mind-blowing sound, even if it’s a phone commercial.

And here’s the making-of video, showing it just didn’t happen in the first try.

Sia to embark on North American “Nostalgic for the Present” Tour

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Sia to embark on North American “Nostalgic for the Present” Tour

International icon, five-time GRAMMY Award nominee, and multi-platinum selling artist/songwriter/hit maker Sia today announces her North American Nostalgic For The Present Tour, her first ever arena tour and return to the road in five years. The 22-city tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks-off on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at Key Arena in Seattle, Wash. with special guests Miguel and AlunaGeorge and includes stops at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

Citi card members will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, May 17 at noon local time through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets for the general public go on-sale beginning, Friday, May 20 starting at 10 a.m. ET on www.livenation.com.

The unprecedented trek will bring her powerhouse vocals across the continent, offering fans a chance to experience elements from her critically-acclaimed Coachella performances which were heralded as “one of the greatest moments in Coachella’s 17-year history” by Yahoo! Music. “Her set was freakin’ legendary…will blow your goddamn mind” stated Buzzfeed and Time Magazine anointed her performance as “one of the festival’s best.”

Sia released her new album THIS IS ACTING (Monkey Puzzle Records/RCA Records) earlier this year to much critical acclaim. The New Yorker described it as “the Platonic ideal of a modern pop album,” with rave reviews across the board from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Fader and many more. The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 Chart, peaked at #1 on the ITunes chart in over 50 countries, and charted Top 10 in 8 countries worldwide, including #1 in her native Australia and #3 in the UK. Currently, Sia’s single “Cheap Thrills” is Top 5 on Spotify globally and is #1 on Shazam’s Global Chart for three consecutive weeks.

Grammy Award-winning recording artist, producer and songwriter Miguel first hit the mainstream in 2010 with his infectious first single “All I Want Is You,” and “Sure Thing,” which hit #1 on Billboard’s Hip-Hop/R&B chart. His critically-acclaimed, four-time Grammy Award nominated sophomore album Kaleidoscope Dream, featured the intoxicating “How Many Drinks?” as well as his third US #1 hit single “Adorn,” which garnered Miguel his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Song and resided at #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hip Airplay chart for more than 23 weeks, becoming the longest running #1 in the history of the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hip Airplay chart. Miguel’s critically acclaimed third studio album, “Wildheart,” released in 2015, claimed the #1 spot on Billboard’s R&B Albums chart for the second time and debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. The album was recently nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Urban Contemporary Album category, and its lead single “Coffee,” was nominated in the Best R&B Song category.

AlunaGeorge, which is singer/lyricist Aluna Francis and producer George Reid, have barely stopped since they released their 2012 single “You Know You Like It” followed by their critically lauded debut album, Body Music in 2013. Last year, DJ Snake’s remix of “You Know You Like It” became one of the most streamed songs of all time crossing double platinum in sales with over 85 million YouTube views. The London duo is confirmed to perform at a number of festivals this season including Lollapalooza, HARD Summer, Glastonbury and more. Earlier this year they released the first single, “I’m In Control” featuring Jamaican dancehall artist Popcaan, from the band’s forthcoming sophomore studio album entitled, I Remember, to be released this fall via Interscope Records.

NOSTALGIC FOR THE PRESENT TOUR DATES
*All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
Thursday, September 29 Seattle, WA KeyArena
Saturday, October 1 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
Tuesday, October 4 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena
Wednesday, October 5 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena
Friday, October 7 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay
Saturday, October 8 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Thursday, October 13 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Saturday, October 15 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Sunday, October 16 Chicago, IL United Center
Wednesday, October 18 TBA
Wednesday, October 19 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Friday, October 21 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Saturday, October 22 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Sunday, October 23 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Wednesday, October 25 TBA
Wednesday, October 26 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Saturday, October 29 Sunrise, FL BB&T Center
Sunday, October 30 Orlando, FL Amway Center
Tuesday, November 1 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Thursday, November 3 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
Friday, November 4 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sunday, November 6 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center

Instagram will start showing demographics, post impressions, reach & more

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Instagram is preparing to launch a series of new tools for the businesses and brands using its platform, including business profiles with contact buttons and access to maps and directions, as well as tools for tracking the analytics around posts, and a mobile ad-buying experience. Now we’re able to see what Instagram’s analytics feature looks like in action, thanks to a leak from one of the product’s early testers.

Details of the new analytics feature were first posted on Instagram scheduling toolLater.com’s blog – the same site that first unveiled photos of the forthcoming business profiles, as it turns out.

Note, however, that these screenshots were snapped ahead of the user interface revamp that turned Instagram’s interface from blue-and-white to black-and-white. That means when this feature launches more broadly, it will have a different visual appearance, though the content being tracked will not likely change.

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How music helps the dating world

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Many studies and researches are performed to find what make people fall in love with each other, what traits are most attractive and what kind of profiles on dating sites have more chances to be viewed and will lead to a real date and maybe long-term relationship. Certainly, physiologists and professors do not work hard in vain. Thanks to their effort we know some secrets of how to behave, start communicating and which information to give about yourself. But I guess there is a special group of people who do not care of any findings. The only thing they need know about a person to get along with him/her is music compatibility. These people are music lovers; they cannot imagine their life without listening to their favorite band and singer. In case your music tastes coincide, nothing more matters for them.

I was surprised to know that people loving music so much had sparked interest from scientists and had been studied by them. So, now we have scientific proofs why music lovers are special folks. You can freely use them in arguing with a person saying that music lovers are one-track people (music is meant under the track surely). Let’s see how powerful music is.

Our brain consists of grey matter and white matter. The first one is in charge of emotions, memory, decision-making, speech, self-control, information processing, hearing, seeing and so on. As studies revealed this important substance likes music. Its volume increases thanks to music listening. The older we are, the less grey matter gets. So if your boyfriend/girlfriend is a music lover, you can’t worry about his/her intellectual health in future.
If you spend a lot of time with music-addict partners, you are likely to notice them bobing their head in time with the song. They catch the rhythm easily and fast. This ability is very helpful in learning languages. All you need to do is just to inspire them to learn it. You can be sure their progress in mastering it will be faster than others’ one.
One doesn’t often come up with lovers of classical music. They can boast of higher IQ level than the lovers of rock and pop music. Unfortunately, there is no information about whose IQ is higher, classical musician’s one or a composer’s one. It is reliable known that the last one is more popular with women.
Music is a great healer. Listening to your favorite compositions helps to overcome stress and anxiety. Music is a bunch cheaper than any antidepressants. The positive side effect of music is that it saves money and cares of your health. Music in our ears while we are running boosts our energy and invigorates us. Running with music is faster and better than just outdoor running.
A bonus of living with a music lover who constantly listens to music is faster growing plants. Cows like music too and gives more milk. Surely, the advice to get a cow would be ridiculous, though, the idea to have more plants is quite good.

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