Now this is cool. The Chemical Brothers are still going strong, still burning, still doing things differently, never still, like a moving light, and turning dancers into 3D. In the new Dom & Nic directed video for their song “Wide Open” featuring Beck, a dancer’s (Sonoya Mizuno from Ex Machina) slowly turns into a 3D printed version of herself.
Video: Meet The Man Behind “Schoolhouse Rock!” You Need To Thank For Your Education
Bob Dorough composed the beloved “Schoolhouse Rock!” songs that taught us elementary school math and grammar. The Grammy-winning musician has also worked with Miles Davis and jazz pianist Blossom Dearie. Dorough is 92 years old, still performing and has not forgotten the function of conjunctions.
The 2016 Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund is now receiving applications
Bell today announced the launch of the $1-million annual Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund for 2016. Applications are now being accepted for grants for community-based mental health initiatives improving access to care around the country.
“The Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund is focused on improving access to care for people living with mental health issues through local projects and grassroots organizations in communities all around Canada,” said Mary Deacon, Chair of Bell Let’s Talk. “Over the last 5 years we have seen so many wonderful initiatives that have truly made a difference in the lives of Canadians and we are delighted to invite many more local mental health organizations to apply for grants again this year.”
Since 2011, the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund has supported more than 250 community groups in every region of Canada. Registered not-for-profit organizations and registered charities are invited to apply for a grant to help fund local mental health programs. Applications are reviewed by mental health experts from across Canada. The 2016 application period runs until March 31and 2016 Fund grants will be disbursed before December 31, 2016.
“It is important to recognize that we need to take care of our mental health the same way as we take care of our physical health. However, mental health sometimes gets overlooked,” said the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health. “The Bell Let’s Talk initiative has been successfully opening up the dialogue on mental health in Canada. I congratulate Bell, its partners and Canadians who are sharing their personal struggles with mental illness as a way of encouraging everyone to get involved in finding solutions.”
“Northern Ontarians deserve healthy communities that promote good mental health and well-being, as well as a responsive, culturally appropriate mental health care delivery system. This does not yet exist in all our Northern Ontario communities,” said Dr. Catherine Cervin, Associate Dean, Postgraduate Education, at Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). “With funding from the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund, NOSM is creating Wellness Peer Networks to provide further education to NOSM residents to enable them to protect their own mental health during the stress of their education, while also equipping them with the ability to provide high-quality care to future patients who may be struggling with mental health challenges. We are grateful for the support of Bell Let’s Talk in developing a healthierNorthern Ontario.”
To learn more about the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund and the projects it has funded, or to apply for 2016 funding, please visit Bell.ca/LetsTalk.
The 6th annual Bell Let’s Talk Day is rapidly approaching. For every text message, wireless and long distance call made by Bell Canada and Bell Aliant customers on January 27, or for every tweet using #BellLetsTalk, and every Facebook share of the Bell Let’s Talk Day image at Facebook.com/BellLetsTalk, Bell will donate 5 cents to support Canadian mental health programs. On Bell Let’s Talk Day 2015, a record 122,150,772 calls, tweets, texts, calls and shares resulted in Bell committing a further $6,107,538.60 to Canadian mental health programs.
Bell’s donations are made at no extra charge to Bell Let’s Talk Day participants, though normal long distance or text charges if any, apply.
The Bell Let’s Talk initiative promotes Canadian mental health with national awareness and anti-stigma campaigns, like Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk and Bell Let’s Talk Day, and significant Bell funding of community care and access, research, and workplace initiatives. To learn more, please visit Bell.ca/LetsTalk.
To learn more about the Bell Let’s Talk campaign, and to download the Bell Let’s Talk toolkit to help get the conversation started, please visit Bell.ca/LetsTalk.
CAB CEO Radio Council Announces New Radio Marketing And Advocacy Initiative
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) CEO Radio Council represents more than 500 AM and FM radio stations across Canada, in major, medium and smaller markets, in the French and English languages. The Council brings together radio broadcasters of all types, market sizes and backgrounds to develop common solutions to regulatory, technical, marketing and other challenges facing the private radio industry in Canada.
The Council has recognized the need for a marketing and advocacy arm that will provide the research and marketing information necessary to ensure that radio is well recognized as an essential piece of any advertising solution. To do so, we are pleased to announce that a new version of a radio marketing and advocacy bureau will be established in 2016. A dynamic team will be set in place by the Spring of 2016. The bureau will commission research and develop presentations focusing on radio’s successes in providing efficient results for advertisers.
“The new team will provide information on radio that demonstrates clearly to national, regional, local clients and media agencies the radio advantage” said the Council Chair, and President of Corus Radio, Mario Cecchini. “We know that radio continues to be a most effective means of reaching Canadians of all age groups and delivering audiences to advertisers with enviable results. We know that whether it is a stand-alone medium or part of a multi-platform campaign, radio is an extraordinarily efficient medium.
The membership in the bureau will be open to all private radio stations, both CAB members and others.
Brian Wilson Announces 2016 World Tour With Your Last Chance Ever To Hear ‘Pet Sounds’
Music legend Brian Wilson has announced a 2016 world tour to celebrate and perform the iconic album Pet Sounds for a final time, in honor of its 50th anniversary. Originally released on May 16, 1966, Pet Sounds is universally hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time. With more than 70 dates being confirmed, and several previously announced dates selling out in record time, Wilson and his band will be joined by former bandmates Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin when they kick off the tour this Spring. Concert stops include dates in Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Spain, Israel, and Portugal followed by a full U.S. tour later this Summer and Fall. Fans can expect a live performance of Pet Sounds in its entirety, as well as top hits and fan favorites spanning his 54-year career with The Beach Boys and as a solo artist. Ticket presales begin January 27 with the official onsale January 29 in most markets. Additional dates and special events to be announced. For up-to-date information, please visit www.BrianWilson.com.
In 1965, with the Beach Boys out on tour, Wilson began session work on some of the most deeply personal recordings of his career. Inspired by The Beatles Rubber Soul, he challenged himself to create an immaculate musical masterpiece. A vast departure from the bands’ then commercial sound, the resulting “concept album” Pet Sounds achieved great critical success helping usher in a new musical landscape and hit the Top 10 in the US while topping the charts in the UK.
“It’s really been a trip to sit here and think about releasing Pet Sounds 50 years ago,” says Wilson. “I love performing this album with my band and look forward to playing it for fans all across the world.”
Brian Wilson is one of popular music’s most deeply revered figures, a legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most cherished music in pop music history. For more than half a century, fans have marveled at the sheer beauty of the music that springs forth from his imagination into glorious song. Wilson brings this ingenious vision to his own compositions, as well as to those for which he has collaborated, weaving a lush, vibrant tapestry of intricately nuanced vocal harmonies and instrumental arrangements for himself, his bandmates and others.
Wilson began his career as a teenaged founding member of The Beach Boys, who signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include other themes. Wilson’s innovative vocal and instrumental arrangements for major hits including “I Get Around,” “California Girls,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” and the No. 1 smash “Good Vibrations” made The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s.
Wilson has also achieved great solo success with 11 of his own albums released to date, including his acclaimed 2004 completion of an album he first began recording in the ‘60s, Brian Wilson Presents… SMiLE. The album earned Wilson his first GRAMMY® for a recording, which was followed by his second GRAMMY win for producing The Beach Boys’ acclaimed 2011 release, The SMiLE Sessions. With his own band, Wilson has performed major, sold-out tours in recent years, and with The Beach Boys, he celebrated the iconic band’s 50th anniversary in 2012 with a major international tour and acclaimed studio album, That’s Why God Made The Radio.
In 2015, Wilson released his latest solo album No Pier Pressure (Capitol) and was the subject of the critically acclaimed, award-winning biopic Love & Mercy (Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate). Directed by Bill Pohlad, starring John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of the music legend. Set against the era-defining catalog of the music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. The culmination of these projects produced Wilson’s first Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song (Motion Picture) for his song “One Kind Of Love” featured in the film.
Brian Wilson is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and a U.K. Music Hall of Fame inductee. As a member of The Beach Boys, Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and honored with The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Brian Wilson 2016 Tour Dates
3-26 — Auckland, New Zealand – The Civic
3-27 — Byron Bay, Australia – Bluesfest
3-28 — Byron Bay, Australia – Bluesfest
3-29 — Sydney, Australia – Sydney Opera House
3-31 — Sydney, Australia – Sydney Opera House
4-03 — St Kilda, Australia – Palais Theatre
4-05 — Hindmarsh, Australia – Adelaide Entertainment Centre
4-07 — Perth Australia – Riverside Theatre
4-12 — Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo International Forum
4-13 — Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo International Forum
4-15 — Osaka, Japan – Orin Theatre
4-30 — Austin, Texas – Carson Creek Ranch
5-15 — Bristol, England – Colston Hall
5-17 — Birmingham, England – Symphony Hall
5-18 — Cardiff, Wales – St David’s Hall
5-20 — London, England – Palladium
5-21 — London, England – Palladium
5-24 — Manchester, England – O2 Apollo
5-26 — Edinburgh, Scotland Usher Hall
5-27 — Glasgow, Scotland – Royal Concert Hall
5-29 — Gateshead, England – Sage
5-31 — Liverpool, England – Philharmonic Hall
6-01 — Nottingham, England – Royal Concert Hall
6-01 — Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Festival
6-14 — Burlington, Vt. – Flynn Main Stage
6-15 — Portland, Maine – Merrill Auditorium
6-17 — Boston, Mass. – Symphony Hall
6-18 — Boston, Mass. – Symphony Hall
6-19 — Lenox, Mass. – Tanglewood Koussevitzky Music Shed
7-01 — Las Vegas, Nev. – Hard Rock Casino
7-09 — Phoenix, Ariz. – Celebrity Theatre
7-15 — Elizabeth, Ind. – Horseshoe Casino
7-17 — Council Bluffs, Iowa – Horseshoe Casino
7-20 — Kansas City, Mo. – Muriel Kauffman Theatre
7-21 — St Charles, Mo. – Family Arena
7-22 — Tunica, Miss. – Horseshoe Casino
7-23 — Bossier City, La. – Horseshoe Casino
9-13 — St Petersburg, Fla. – Mahaffey Theatre
9-14 — Hollywood, Fla. – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
9-17 — Nashville, Tenn. – Ryman Auditorium
9-19 — Charlotte, N.C. – Blumenthal PAC
9-20 — Washington, D.C. – The Music Center at Strathmore
9-21 — Red Bank, N.J. – Count Basie Theatre
9-23 — Upper Darby, Pa. – Tower Theater
9-25 — Easton, Pa. – State Theatre
9-27 — Wallingford, Ct. – Toyota Presents at Oakdale
9-28 — Buffalo, N.Y. – University of Buffalo Center for the Arts
9-30 — Detroit, Mich. – Fox Theatre
10-02 — Minneapolis, Minn. – Orpheum Theatre
10-04 — Denver, Colo. – Paramount Theatre
10-07 — Portland, Ore. – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
10-08 — Seattle, Wash. – Paramount Theatre
10-10 — Arcata, Calif. – Van Duzer Theatre at Humboldt State University
10-13 — San Francisco, Calif. – Masonic
10-14 — Bijou, Calif. – Harrah’s Casino
Dave Matthews Announce 2016 Summer Tour, Takes Break for 2017
Dave Matthews Band will perform two full sets nightly on its 2016 summer tour, which will kick off on May 11 at INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, KS. The extensive North American run will include two-night stands in Camden, NJ; Elkhorn, WI; Gilford, NH; Saratoga Springs, NY; Noblesville, IN; West Palm Beach, FL and Berkeley, CA.
The tour will wrap up at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA, where the band has headlined more than 50 shows. Additional artists will also perform during the Labor Day weekend event (September 2-4). Dave Matthews Band, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, will be taking a break from touring in 2017.
An online ticket presale will begin on Tuesday, January 26, at 10am ET at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 19, at 12pm local time. For itinerary, see below or visit http://davematthewsband.com.
“Dave Matthews Band delivered another terrific summertime gem at Blossom…It’s physiologically impossible not to have a great time at these shows,” said the Cleveland Scene in a 2015 live review. “You have to hear Dave Matthews Band live…[they] hit the road with a sound as big and expansive as the outdoor venues they play,” observed the Lexington Herald-Leader. “The two sets were dazzling,” said Examiner.com in a five-star review while The Indianapolis Star noted, “It was an evening of impressive pacing and a large variety of sonic textures.”
“DMB can do no wrong,” observed the Mirror in coverage of the band’s 2015 headline performance at London’s O2 Arena, noting: “Matthews is full of grace from the start and gives off a kind of warmth that makes you feel like he’s a good friend…With each song it felt like we were exploring each band members’ passion for their instruments.”
The band’s first performance of 2016 will be on February 4 at San Francisco’s Pier 70. The sold-out Super Thursday Night event is the first of three concerts hosted by DIRECTV and Pepsi in the days leading up to Super Bowl 50.
Dave Matthews Band has sold more than 20 million tickets since its inception and a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined. It is the first group in history to have six consecutive studio albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – SUMMER 2016 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
Date City/State/Province Venue
5/11 Wichita, KS INTRUST Bank Arena
5/13 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5/14 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
5/17 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena
5/18 North Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena
5/20 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
5/21 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
5/24 Pelham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
5/27 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
5/28 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre
5/29 Maryland Heights, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
6/7 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
6/8 Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
6/10 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
6/11 Hartford, CT XFINITY Theatre
6/17 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
6/18 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
6/21 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
6/22 Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphitheater
6/24 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
6/25 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
6/28 Moline, IL iWireless Center
6/29 Bonner Springs, KS Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
7/1 Elkhorn, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
7/2 Elkhorn, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
7/8 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
7/9 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
7/12 Gilford, NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/13 Gilford, NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/15 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/16 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/19 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
7/20 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
7/22 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
7/23 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
7/26 North Charleston, SC North Charleston Coliseum
7/27 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
7/29 West Palm Beach, FL Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre
7/30 West Palm Beach, FL Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre
8/26 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
8/27 Irvine, CA Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
8/29 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
8/30 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
9/2 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
9/3 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
9/4 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
Bruce Springsteen cancels MSG show due to snowstorm. What does he do? Gives everyone a free concert download
Bruce Springsteen fans who bought tickets for his appearance at Madison Square Garden last night — only to see the show postponed thanks to a massive winter storm — can now have a free download of the January 19th show in Chicago. Heck, you can all have it. But only for the next 24 hours.
The show is notable for the first performance of Take It Easy, in honour of Glenn Frey from The Eagles. It was recorded and mixed by John Cooper. MP3s and CDs and higher fidelity formats will go on sale Wednesday.
Stop reading. Go here to get it.
A Robot Just Solved The Rubik’s Cube In 1 Second. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
By the time you finished reading the word ‘you’ in this sentence, a robot completed the Rubik’s Cube. Software engineers Jay Flatland and Paul Rose demonstrate their Arduino controlled robot using 3D-printed frame, six stepper motors, four cameras AND THE GREATEST BRAIN MAN HAS EVER CREATED.
The trailer for the most Boston movie ever made
“Boston Accent” is a Late Night parody trailer starring host Seth Meyers as every Boston character Hollywood portrays.
Steve Earle Knows His Rock And Roll History
Being a folk singer is being a musicologist. I came up in the coffeehouses, I had the Harry Smith anthology [Anthology of American Folk Music] on vinyl, and I had access to the whole set at the coffeehouse, you could go listen to it. Just like you could at Izzy Young’s Folklore Center in New York City — he kept a copy, and every folkie in the Village in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s knew that anthology, chapter and verse. There is no rock ‘n roll as an art form as we know it without that anthology.
Rock ‘n roll becomes an art form at the moment when Bob Dylan wants to be John Lennon and John Lennon wants to be Bob Dylan. It’s the lyrics that elevated rock ‘n roll to an art form. Rock ‘n roll ends up being a loud form of pop music and staying that way if it hadn’t been for the lyrics being bumped up a level with Bob.
Whenever I sang Beatles and Rolling Stones songs, I thought I was singing them with an English accent, I thought I sounded English when I sang ‘em. But I didn’t, I sounded like I sound. And, by the same token, those [British] guys thought they were doing a very authentic thing, but they were English and they had elements of English folk music in the way they played. The people that took it anywhere were the ones that didn’t try to put themselves in a box. They got some things that we didn’t get.
I don’t think Jimi Hendrix would have been able to get a record deal in the U.S., I don’t think anybody would have gotten it. Rock ‘n’ roll was still segregated and becoming more segregated by the second when Jimi Hendrix comes along, and Jimi Hendrix changes everything. But it took an English bass player turned manager [Chas Chandler] hearing him in Greenwich Village and taking him back to London to record for that to happen. All that stuff’s healthy, it’s all cross-pollination.
Via Billboard