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Peanutize Me is a new web app for The Peanuts Movie that lets you become a Peanuts character. You can select different skin tones, facial characters, clothes, even shoes and accessories.
You can find me on November 6, 2015 lining up for the Peanuts Movie when it gets released in theatres.
Morrissey has released an excerpt – 37 words – from his debut novel List of the Lost. The book will be published in the UK on Sept. 24.
The theatrical trailer for the long-shelved Green Day documentary Heart Like A Hand Grenade is officially here. The documentary follows the band during the recording of the album American Idiot, released 11 years ago on Sept. 20. John Roecker, the director of the film, released a statement on the band’s website calling the project “a fly on the wall art house piece.” Heart Like A Hand Grenade will be released in theaters nationwide on Oct. 15.
Green Day – Heart Like A Hand Grenade (Theatrical Trailer) from Heart Like A Hand Grenade on Vimeo.
Via Billboard
In a deleted clip from the documentary Amy, Amy Winehouse and a friend pretend to be Russian tourists in New York.
Via The Current
In a video for CBC Music, members of Arcade Fire play “Jam or Not a Jam?” – a game in which they rate tracks by artists including Mark Ronson, the Weeknd, the B-52s, and Justin Bieber. They also reveal that they’re “30 percent” into the process of making a new record.
Via The Current
Chris Cornell sat down for an in-depth interview and acoustic performance in the SiriusXM Studios for an Artist Confidential where he performed a cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U.
Having a music career might seem like an unattainable goal. Thousands try to break into the industry, few succeed.
But what if I told you there was a different way to be a part of the music scene? One that doesn’t require Aretha Franklin’s singing chops or Madonna’s wardrobe changes. By apprenticing in one of Ontario’s skilled trades you can earn while you learn, and help create the concerts and festivals you love.
There are all kinds of trades associated with live music – from carpenters building the stages, electricians installing the lighting and electrical systems, truck and coach technicians maintaining tour buses, to cooks, hairstylists, heavy equipment operators and more.
Learning a skilled trade can really amp up your future. According to an Ontario Chamber of Commerce study, the province’s music industry generated over $400 million in revenue in 2010 and live music added hundreds of millions of additional dollars in economic activity. The industry is growing and the skilled jobs that support it will continue to be in demand.
Now that’s sweet music for those looking for a rewarding future.
Sound interesting? The Ontario College of Trades has just released a video showcasing the work of tradespeople at two major summer music festivals. Check it out here. This behind the scenes look at WayHome and Boots and Hearts details how skilled tradespeople play an integral role in making these amazing events possible.
While you’re there, you can get information and answers to any questions you might have about apprenticeship programs and getting started in the trades.
What’s more, a music-related contest is coming soon (stay tuned on Twitter and Instagram by following @collegeoftrades). Rumour has it the winners will be getting VIP treatment at a ‘gotta be there’ concert.
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God has given us music so that above all it can lead us upwards. Music unites all qualities: it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up, or break the hardest of hearts with the softest of its melancholy tones. But its principal task is to lead our thoughts to higher things, to elevate, even to make us tremble… The musical art often speaks in sounds more penetrating than the words of poetry, and takes hold of the most hidden crevices of the heart… Song elevates our being and leads us to the good and the true. If, however, music serves only as a diversion or as a kind of vain ostentation it is sinful and harmful.
Nietzsche wrote these lines two months before his fourteenth birthday – a detail doubly poignant when contrasted with the “vain ostentations” marketed to teenagers today. But his profound reverence for music never left him. Toward the end of his life, he immortalized it in an aphorism included in his 1889 book Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer:
What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake.
Via Brain Pickings and Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
Watch what happens when a CBC News interview with a police officer is interrupted by a road rage incident on a nearby road.
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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