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Canada’s Music Creation Capital 2016 is Officially Montréal’s Mile End

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Mar 16, 2016

Canada’s Music Creation Capital 2016 is Officially Montréal’s Mile End

After extensive data analysis, SOCAN has determined that Montréal’s “Mile End” is this year’s Music Creation Capital of Canada, with more working, royalty-earning songwriters and composers per-capita in the western area of Plateau Mont-Royal (postal code prefix H2T) than any other region in the country.

The Mile End neighbourhood is bounded approximately by Mont-Royal Ave. to the south, Van Horne Ave. to the north, Jeanne-Mance St. to the west, and St-Denis St. to the east, comprising addresses with the postal code prefix of H2T. Results were derived by tabulating annual royalties of members earning middle-class income for their creative work, the number of songwriters and composers who live in each area, and the total population of each region.

SOCAN is a member-based organization that represents the Canadian performing rights of more than four-million Canadian and international music creators and publishers. SOCAN is proud to play a leading role in supporting the long-term success of its more than 135,000 Canadian members, and the Canadian music ecosystem overall. SOCAN licenses more than 125,000 businesses in Canada, and distributes royalties to its members and music rights organizations around the world. SOCAN also distributes royalties to its members for the use of their music internationally in collaboration with its peer societies.

“SOCAN proudly represents some of the most famous and successful composers and songwriters on the planet, but we wanted to find out where the highest numbers of professional songwriters and composers are clustered,” said SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste. “Even though the majority of our members are not making a full-time living creating music, we want to recognize the importance and value of these music creators and the role that they play in their communities as cultural entrepreneurs. Congratulations to Montréal’s Mile End on being Canada’s Music Creation Capital 2016!”

Montréal neighbourhoods made up an impressive six of the top 10 areas in Canada for music creation, with Toronto regions comprising the balance.

With more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers as members, and approximately $310-million in royalties collected for them in 2015, Canada is one of the most successful countries on earth when it comes to music creation. That Quebec not only boasts the Music Creation Capital of Canada, but six of the top 10 regions in the country is a testament to the strong tradition of and appreciation for artistic expression in the province.

“Musical creation, even when it is the result of one person is always shaped with the help of others, and it’s not that surprising that this area boasts the most successful songwriters and composers in Canada,” said SOCAN member Maxime Morin, who works under the name of Champion and lives in Mile End. “Music is everywhere in Mile End. It’s truly a way of life, not just for a music creator like me, but for just about everyone who lives here.”

Great music-making occurs right across the country and it’s natural that songwriters and composers band together in populated areas that have a thriving arts community, live music venues, recording studios and other parts of Canada’s music ecosystem.

Top 10 Centres of Music Creation in Canada:

1. 1. Mile End, Montréal (postal code prefix H2T)

2. 2. Plateau Mont-Royal North, Montréal (H2H)

3. 3. The McGill Ghetto, Montréal (H2W)

4. 4. Trinity / Rua Açores-Little Portugal, Toronto (M6J)

5. 5. Parkdale / Roncesvalles, Toronto, Toronto (M6R)

6. 6. Petite-Patrie, Montréal (H2S)

7. 7. Outremont, Montréal (H2V)

8. 8. Dufferin / Dovercourt Village, Toronto (M6H)

9. 9. Christie, Toronto (M6G)

10. Plateau Mont-Royal North Central, Montréal (H2J)

SOCAN also determined the most successful songwriting and composng region in each province and territory:

· Alberta – Mount Pleasant / Capitol Hill / Banff Trail, Calgary (T2M)

· British Columbia – NE Downtown / Gastown / Harbour Centre / International Village / Victory Square / Yaletown, Vancouver(V6B)

· Manitoba – River Heights East, Winnipeg (R3L)

· New Brunswick – Moncton Central (E1C)

· Newfoundland & Labrador – Downtown North Central, St. John (A1C)

· North West Territories & Nunavut – Yellowknife (X1A)

· Nova Scotia – Upper Harbour, Halifax (B3K)

· Ontario – Rua Açores “Little Portugal” / Trinity-Bellwoods, Toronto (M6J)

· Prince Edward Island – Charlottetown Southeast (C1A)

· Québec – Mile End, Montréal (H2T)

· Saskatchewan – Regina South (S4S)

· Yukon – Whitehorse (Y1A)

Instagram switching its feed from chronological to best posts first, just like Facebook and Twitter

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Instagram switching its feed from chronological to best posts first, just like Facebook and Twitter

You may be surprised to learn that people miss on average 70 percent of their feeds on Instagram. As the social media network has grown, it’s become harder to keep up with all the photos and videos people share. This means you often don’t see the posts you might care about the most.

To improve your experience, Instagram announced your feed will soon be ordered to show the moments they believe you will care about the most. The order of photos and videos in your feed will be based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting and the timeliness of the post. Quite simply, they’re focusing on optimizing the order — all the posts will still be there, just in a different order.

If your favorite musician shares a video from last night’s concert, it will be waiting for you when you wake up, no matter how many accounts you follow or what time zone you live in. And when your best friend posts a photo of her new puppy, you won’t miss it. This is essentially how Facebook’s feed works, and how Twitter recently reconfigured its feed to work.

As Techcrunch posted, there will be a change in the feel that will take time to get used to. “At the same time, remixing the feed will make Instagram less useful as a real-time content feed because the most recent posts won’t necessarily be at the top. Users will have to worry about making their posts good enough to be chosen by the algorithm or their posts could be de-prioritized. And brands might lose the reach of a previously reliable marketing channel, the same way they did with Facebook Pages.”

By the way, you can follow me on Instagram here.

The Trailer For Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Is Here

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The Trailer For Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Is Here

From visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon the best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience. When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

Four Sets of Twins Perform An Elaborate Time Travel Prank On The Subway

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Four Sets of Twins Perform An Elaborate Time Travel Prank On The Subway

For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, they staged an elaborate time travel prank on a New York City subway car with four sets of identical twins. A man enters a subway car and announces he is raising money to complete his time machine. At the next stop, his future self enters to try to talk him out of it. More and more time travelers convene on the subway car as the train rolls along, surprising the random commuters caught up in the middle.

Nina Simone’s First Televised Performance Of “I Loves You Porgy”

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Nina Simone’s First Televised Performance Of “I Loves You Porgy”

Nina Simone has been in the news recently, with traditional and social media slamming the casting decision of Zoe Saldana in the Simone biopic. Simone’s daughter also criticizes personal vilification of the actor for donning dark makeup and a prosthetic nose to play legendary singer. Paula Patton and Queen Latifah have come to the defense, and this decision process isn’t over just yet. So, a good time to look back.

Here’s a wonderful 1962 performance by Simone of the song that started her career: “I Loves You Porgy,” from the 1935 George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. The performance begins with Simone’s own plaintive version of The Strawberry Woman And The Crab Man from Act II:

They’re so soft and fine
And they’re just off the vine
Strawberries

I’m talkin’ about the food I sell
I’m talkin’ about my devil crabs
Devil crabs

She then transitions into “I Loves You Porgy,” with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally duetted by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan in the 1935 production and in the 1942 revival of the opera, “I Loves You, Porgy” has been recorded as a solo number by a number of popular vocalists and jazz musicians, most notably Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Bill Evans. Nina Simone’s recording of the song (from Little Girl Blue, 1958) was a Top 20 pop hit in the United States in the autumn of 1959. Simone’s version went to number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the R&B charts. Most recently, Christina Aguilera performed the song for 2008’s Grammy live primetime concert special.

https://youtu.be/3hXBR4doJDo

Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ Phonetically Replicated By Twitter Usernames

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Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ Phonetically Replicated By Twitter Usernames

A parodic, profile-punning reinterpretation of Lou Reed’s classic celebration of counterculture, Walk On The Wild Side, is the result of meticulously scouring through the darkest corners of the Twitterverse to phonetically replicate the lyrics (and musical notes) of a song using only the names of Twitter users. Fun stuff.

Think Nathaniel Rateliff Is An Overnight Success? Think Again.

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Think Nathaniel Rateliff Is An Overnight Success? Think Again.

Paste: How long have you been making music now?
Nathaniel Rateliff: [Night Sweats guitarist] Joseph [Pope III] and I have been making music for 21 years we figured out the other day.

Paste: Long time, man.
Rateliff: Yeah, man. We did the college circuit, which is odd thinking about, given my daughter now goes to college [laughs]. We did a bunch of shit touring. But we also did some shows with people that we really loved like Bon Iver, Low Anthem and Tallest Man on Earth. Mumford & Sons. The Lumineers. Dr. Dog. Delta Spirit. It’s cool over the years how many names you rack up. It’s not that big of a world once you travel around and you end up running into people all the time.

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Malcolm McLaren’s son to burn $7 million of punk memorabilia

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Malcolm McLaren’s son to burn $7 million of punk memorabilia

Joe Corré, the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, says he will conduct a public, ceremonial burning of his personal collection of punk memorabilia — valued at $7 million. Corré says he’s protesting the official Year of Punk that’s been declared to celebrate the 40th anniversary of punk. “The Queen giving 2016, the Year of Punk, her official blessing is the most frightening thing I’ve ever heard,” says Corré. “Talk about alternative and punk culture being appropriated by the mainstream.” Corré is inviting other punk fans to add their own memorabilia to the pile he’ll set aflame on Nov. 26, the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the U.K.”

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Jazz FM Presents Music Business Seminars For The Jazz Community

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Jazz FM Presents Music Business Seminars For The Jazz Community

On Sunday, April 10, JAZZ FM will host another of their will-be successful seminar exclusively designed for Ontario’s JAZZ community. It happens from 11:00AM-5:15pm at the Jazz Bistro, 251 Victoria Street, Toronto and with free admission, there’s no excuse if you want to break into the music industry.

This seminar is exclusively designed for Ontario’s JAZZ community, featuring a day of workshops and networking curated to advance your performing, recording and touring careers. Join Top players in the industry, both onstage and behind-the-scenes at Toronto’s fabulous Jazz Bistro where you’ll get the inside track on how to grow and thrive.

After the full day of inspiring and informative workshops and speakers, the Jazz Bistro will host a showcase of young, up and coming artists who will get to strut their musical stuff for industry luminaries.

They’ve lined up some pretty amazing speakers including, Sophie Millman (chanteuse extraordinaire), Richard Underhill (Shuffle Demons), Aaron Davis (Holly Cole), Jane Harbury (one of Canada’s top publicists), Jae Gold (accountant to the stars), Josh Grossman (artistic director, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival) and Brad Barker (JAZZ.FM91 music director, host of Afternoon Drive).

To register for this free seminar, go here.

‘Killing In the Name’ By Rage Against The Machine Covered On A One-Stringed Guitar Made From A Shovel

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‘Killing In the Name’ By Rage Against The Machine Covered On A One-Stringed Guitar Made From A Shovel

Nobody could ever say Rage Against The Machine’s classic Killing In The Name isn’t impossible to cover. Even with a one-stringed, fretless guitar made from a shovel, it it’s still recognizable in the form of angst and anger.