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The Ultimate Christmas Gift For The Music Fan And Reader

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The Ultimate Christmas Gift For The Music Fan And Reader

33 1/3 is a brilliant series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Celine Dion and from J Dilla to Neutral Milk Hotel. Each album covered in the series occupies such a specific place in music history, so each book-length treatment is different. Jonathan Lethem, Colin Meloy, Daphne Brooks, Carl Wilson and Gina Arnold are just some of the authors who have contributed to the series so far. Widely acclaimed by fans, musicians and scholars alike, 33 1/3 celebrated its 10th anniversary with the publication of the 100th volume in September of 2014. This boxed set includes the first 100 volumes published in the series and is a must-have for all serious music lovers and record collectors. I counted today, and I have 65 of them, so this has my seal of approval and consider it the Greatest Hits of Greatest Hits.

You can buy it now for under $1500.00 here.

Listen To Kanye West’s lyrics and Queens of the Stone Age’s riffs for charity

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Producer ToToM combined Kanye West’s lyrics and Queens of the Stone Age’s riffs – where do I sign up? If you love the next President Of The United States, you can download the album for free, but ToToM will donate any proceeds to charity.

<a href="http://totom.bandcamp.com/album/kanye-of-the-stone-age">Kanye of the Stone Age by ToToM</a>

Here’s John Lennon Singing Something Hilarious On “Think For Yourself”

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The audio is taken from the recording sessions for The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, as reported by Rolling Stone, while the band was working on the song “Think for Yourself.” On his way to the bathroom, he riffed the melody of an earlier Beatles ditty, “Do You Want to Know a Secret?,” but he changed the lyrics to, a private part.

Via Death And Taxes Magazine

Dar Williams Gets It Right On The Music Industry

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Dar Williams Gets It Right On The Music Industry

“The sale of music paid for the production of the product and for a portion of my living as a touring artist. That’s the way it works. When the sale of music goes away, gigs alone will not pay for the tour bus, equipment, tour managers, and touring bands (if you pay them decently).

Already I can hear one of those angry music bloggers (the ones who have never toured or tried to make a living in music) saying, ‘Stop your whining and get back on the road!’ Then they crush their empty beer cans and throw them at my car.

They’ll say we musicians need to be lean, mean, touring machines. They’ll say to replace publicists with selfies. They’ll tell John’s girlfriend to learn Pro-Tools so his band doesn’t have to hire George Martin.

One journalist said he thought I would like this ‘DIY’ world. There’s a difference between having the final artistic say on who I hire and the new normal of not hiring anyone at all.

The Attitude of Gratitude will not fix what’s happened here.”

– Dar Williams, on the changing economics of touring, American Songwriter

Via FYI Music

Celebrities Reading the Lyrics to Drake’s “Hotline Bling” Can Only Mean One Thing

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Few music videos in 2015 caused as much of a stir as “Hotline Bling” by Drake, the cover star of the latest issue of W Art. Watch, as Bryan Cranston, Amy Schumer, Kristen Wiig, Seth Rogen, and more celebrities, try to top the song that spawned a thousand memes with a dramatic reading of the megahit.

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A Bad Lip Reading of Star Wars

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Here’s the latest in the hilarious Bad Lip Reading, this time featuring Star Wars. Darth Vader keeps texting Leia, while Ben continues his quest for the Pickaxe of Cortez. Listen for the voices of Jack Black, Maya Rudolph, and Bill Hader, too.

Here Are The 100 Biggest-Selling Albums Of All Time

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This week, Michael Jackson’s Thriller crossed the 30 million-mark in the US, edging out longtime sales rival, The Eagles. Unless something changes in the Don Henley-Glenn Frey camp, this could be the leader for a while. Fun Fact: In 2009, Thriller was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, the first music video ever selected.

Via Digital Music News

Live Music Measures Up: An Economic Impact Analysis of Live Music in Ontario

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This month, Music Canada released the first comprehensive study of the live music industry in Ontario. Live Music Measures Up: An Economic Impact Analysis of Live Music in Ontario provides critical data and information that will help guide decision-making within the sector, in government and other allied stakeholders.

“This report provides a comprehensive picture of the benefits live music brings to Ontario. In fact, it only enhances our understanding of data collected in our 2012 economic impact study, and cements what we know about Ontario as a powerhouse for the music industry. It shows that a vibrant music scene drives value in many important ways, including job creation, tourism development, brand building and artistic growth. With the new data from this study, we now have the necessary benchmarks to measure and support its growth. Live Music Measures Up allows us to look at live music through a new lens, and to better understand how critical it is to the entire music ecosystem.” says Graham Henderson, President of Music Canada.

The economic profile is organized into four key areas: revenue, audience, economic impact, and future outlook. The key takeaways are as follows:

Revenue: Live music companies in Ontario generated $628 million in revenue from live music activities in 2013 as well asprofits of $144 million. Artist management revenue from Canadian artists totalled $34 million in 2013, 54 percent of all artist management revenue, and Canadian artists generated $75 million in ticket sales.

Audience: In 2013, 558 festivals across Ontario sold a total of 15.7 million tickets, representing 7 million unique visitors. Ontario’s 616 venues have a combined capacity of 3.6 million. The 775 promoters operating in the province in 2013 promoted 81,600 shows, which sold a combined total of 5.4 million tickets.

Economic Impact: The total economic impact of live music in Ontario’s economy is $1.2 billion. Live music companies in Ontario were responsible for $484 million in total expenditure in 2013 and contributed $432.4 million in taxes to all levels of government combined. The economic impact of live music companies includes 10,500 full-time equivalent jobs, and tourism activity accounts for an additional 9,520.

Future Outlook: Survey respondents reported that access to tax credits and other forms of government funding, along with the availability of local Canadian talent, were the factors that most positively impacted their company growth. And 83 percent of live music companies in the province expect revenue growth within the next two years.

You can download the report here.

What does ‘perfect sound’ look like? Inside the bizarre science of concert hall design

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What does ‘perfect sound’ look like? Inside the bizarre science of concert hall design

There are all kinds of theories about what makes a room sound good. One of the leading researchers in the field compares concert hall acoustics to tasting wine: some characteristics are easyily classifiable, but perception and taste are part of the equation, too. Another has suggested that understanding the way sound reflects in a room, not the shape of it, is the critical component to good concert hall design.

But the craziest theory comes from a researcher named Zackery Belanger. He thinks that acoustics is primarily a geometric problem, a theory so radical that he was forced out of his Ph.D. program because his advisor disagreed with it.

“Most people think you just do some computer simulations and out comes the answer,” he told me. “It’s as if we started off with a plane that flew really well and we didn’t understand the science beneath it.”

Right now, the main way places like concert halls are studied is by measuring decays in sound. Researchers play a test sound from a stage and then place microphones around a room to try and understand what happens to the sound when it travels.

Belanger thinks that’s all wrong. He believes that it may be possible to predict almost everything about the way a room will sound by how much its surface area deviates from the surface area of a perfect sphere, like Boston’s Mapparium. The idea here is that the total surface area of a room is more important to the way sound waves bounce around it than any particular characteristic on its own. So you can swap out chairs or carpeting or puffy jackets and it doesn’t really matter so long as it all adds up to the right number.

Via Fusion

Hear the World Foundation 2016’s Calendar Features Tina Turner, Naomie Harris, Wim Wenders And More

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Hear the World Foundation 2016’s Calendar Features Tina Turner, Naomie Harris, Wim Wenders And More

Hear the World foundation puts together a celebrity calendar every year featuring its celebrity ambassadors as part of an effort to raise awareness and support for people with hearing loss all over the world.

This year’s calendar will feature Tina Turner, Rosamunde Pike, Theo Hutchcraft, Naomie Harris and Wim Wenders, to name a few. Other ambassadors featured will be similarly recognizable names among the “Who’s Who” of the cinema, music and fashion worlds. Star portraits always speak a thousand words and the Hear the World 2016 calendar is a powerful collection of shots photographed by legendary Canadian musician and Ontario native, Bryan Adams.

As well as running a long-term campaign to raise awareness, the foundation primarily focuses on providing aid. In particular, it supports projects that support children with hearing loss by giving grants to groups looking to run hearing healthcare programs globally. These programs, which vary in length and broad objectives, ultimately enable children to hear, which in turn allows them to develop at an appropriate rate for their age and to gives them access to school education. All proceeds from the calendar go to the Hear the World Foundation in support of these grants and hearing healthcare projects. The Foundation has supported more than 60 projects across five continents since 2006, and it has already given countless people the chance of better hearing.