Road contractors engineered an ingenious and melodic way to encourage drivers to obey the speed limit.
He Earned It: The Weeknd Reaps an Impressive Five Wins at The 2016 JUNO Awards
It was a victorious weekend for The Weeknd, who earned an outstanding total of five JUNO Awards during Canada’s 45th annual music awards in Calgary. The alternative R&B sensation scooped up two statuettes for Single of the Year and Album of the Year* during CTV’s live broadcast of THE 2016 JUNO AWARDS, Sunday, April 3 at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Having already won three awards for Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year* and R&B/Soul Recording of the Year during Saturday night’s JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards, he took home the most wins of any artist, as well as the most nominations, making him the JUNO juggernaut of 2016.
The Weeknd’s five JUNO Awards top off an exceptional year for the artist. The multiplatinum-selling artist also graced the broadcast stage on Sunday to perform a mesmerizing two-song medley of never-seen-before tracks “Aquainted” and “Might Not”, with surprise guest Belly.
Also during the broadcast, Alessia Cara was named Breakthrough Artist of the Year following major international success with her hit songs “Here” and “Wild Things”, which she performed to open the live show and mark her JUNO stage debut. Ontario’s multitalented five-piece band Walk Off The Earth was awarded Group of the Year.
Saturday night’s double-winner (Aboriginal Album of the Year, Contemporary Roots Album of the Year) Buffy Sainte-Marie took part in the broadcast with a unique spoken word performance, Breakthrough Group of the Year winners Dear Rouge performed “I Heard I Had”, and Whitehorse, winners of the Adult Alternative Album of the Year, delighted fans with their song “Tame as the Wild Ones”.
After snagging a big win for Country Album of the Year for his record Gypsy Road, Dean Brody also graced the stage with a special performance of “Bring Down the House”.
The JUNO Fan Choice Award went to Justin Bieber with just over six million votes cast.
Emilie-Claire Barlow won her 2nd JUNO Award in the Jazz Album of the Year, Vocal, this time for her Clear Day release.
One of the most celebrated artists in Canadian history, Burton Cummings was welcomed into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and honoured with a special closing tribute performance which featured eight-time JUNO Award winner and co-host Jann Arden, performer Shawn Hook, internationally recognized JUNO Award winning vocal group The Tenors, and classic rock tribute band – and long-time Burton Cummings backing band – The Carpet Frogs. Cummings himself also took part in the special performance.
Taylor Swift vs The Treadmill. The Treadmill Wins
Taylor is all of us on the treadmill. Check out this fun ad for Apple Music.
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Watch Kurt Cobain’s pre-Nirvana band, Fecal Matter playing live at Evergreen State College in 1988
Fecal Matter was a short-lived punk rock band from Aberdeen, Washington. The group was formed in 1985 by Kurt Cobain, the future front man of the grunge band Nirvana, along with Dale Crover of The Melvins and drummer Greg Hokanson. Melvins members Buzz Osborne (also known as “King Buzzo”) and Mike Dillard appeared in a later version of the band during rehearsals the following year.
Songs from group’s sole recording session were issued as the Illiteracy Will Prevail demo tape. With the exception of the song “Spank Thru” the tracks from this session remain unreleased officially. A re-recording of “Downer” was also released on the first Nirvana album, Bleach. Illiteracy Will Prevail is the earliest documentation of Cobain’s songwriting in circulation, and helped Cobain to establish himself as a composer and performer among his peers in the underground rock scene in Washington state.
Rare home movie of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty as The Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.
During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each other’s solo records:
- Lynne and Petty worked extensively on Orbison’s final album Mystery Girl (1989). Harrison also contributed acoustic guitar to one of the album’s tracks and vocals to another.
- Lynne produced and played on the Petty solo album Full Moon Fever (1989). Harrison also appeared on one track on guitar and backing vocals, and Orbison sang backing vocals on another.
- Harrison played on Dylan’s Under the Red Sky (1990).
- Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne’s Armchair Theatre (1990).
- Lynne produced Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers‘ album Into the Great Wide Open (1991)
- Lynne and Petty co-wrote a song with Del Shannon for Shannon’s album Rock On! (1991), which Lynne produced. This spawned rumors that Shannon would join the group.[9]
- Harrison and Petty appear on Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration album (1992), and perform “My Back Pages” with Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Eric Clapton and Neil Young.
News Footage Of The Funeral For Ivor Novello In 1958
David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.
He was born into a musical family and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was “Keep the Home Fires Burning”, which was enormously popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit. After the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows. He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the librettos of Christopher Hassall.
The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello’s memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer. A scholarship in memory of Novello was established at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in 1952 a bronze bust of him by Clemence Dane was unveiled at Drury Lane. In St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, known as the actors’ church, a panel was installed to commemorate Novello, and in 1972, to mark the 21st anniversary of his death, a memorial stone was unveiled in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
