King Crimson Announce Rare Canadian Tour
Following their acclaimed tour of America in 2014, King Crimson returns to active service in 2015. With dates for the UK and Europe already in place during August and September, King Crimson are pleased to announce they will be performing a series of concerts in Canada during November.
Born on January 13, 1969 in the basement of the Fulham Palace Cafe, London, this is the eighth incarnation of King Crimson, with: Gavin Harrison (drums), Bill Rieflin (drums), Pat Mastelotto (drums), Tony Levin (bass and vocals), Mel Collins (Sax, flute), Jakko Jakszyk (guitar, vocals) and Robert Fripp (guitar).
In his DGM Diary for 6th September 2013, when King Crimson’s return to live performance was announced to an outbreak of media frenzy, fan adoration and spontaneous outpourings of affection, Fripp wrote: At 18.55 King Crimson VIII moved to its next stage of actualization This is a very different reformation to what has gone before: seven players, four English and three American, with three drummers. The Point Of Crim-Seeing was of a conventional Back Line reconfigured as the Front Line, The Seven-Headed Beast of Crim is in Go! mode.
King Crimson Canadian 2015 dates:
November 13-14 Québec, QC Palais Montcalm *
November 16-17 Montreal, QC Théâtre St-Denis *
November 19-20-21 Toronto, ON Queen Elizabeth Theatre
November 24 Calgary, AB Jack Singer Concert Hall
November 26-27 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
November 29 Victoria, BC Royal Theatre
Entertainment One and BBC Films To Co-Finance Ricky Gervais’ Life On The Road with Entertainment One Handling UK and Worldwide Distribution
Leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), in association with BBC Films, is pleased to announce that it is on board to finance the upcoming LIFE ON THE ROAD from David Brent, one of the world’s best-loved comedy characters.
Both Katy Perry and Sam Smith call this guy the next big thing. And they might be right.
Some young songwriters yearn for the moment they’ll get signed. Others dream about playing a big show.
And then there’s Kevin Garrett, whose big break happened in a way beyond what most artists could ever dream of. His lush, haunting instrumentals and soulful croon so captivated Katy Perry and Sam Smith that both mega-stars took to Twitter to proclaim their love for his work. His path changed in 140 characters.
Perry has the single biggest following in the Twitterverse, and Garrett’s music is constantly compared to Smith’s.
Kevin Garrett may be crafting pop’s next aural fascination. And his EP Mellow Drama is only the beginning.
Via Mic
Video: Revolutions On Air – The Golden Era of New York Radio 1980-1988
New York City Radio during the 1980s featured the most dynamic and influential soundtrack the city has ever heard.
Revolutions On Air is the story of mix show legends and studio wizards like Shep Pettibone, Tony Humphries, The Latin Rascals, Marley Marl, and Kool DJ Red Alert – innovators whose “anything goes” attitude pushed the emerging hip-hop, electro, freestyle, and house music scenes and kept radio listeners citywide hooked to their tape decks in order to record these now-classic mixes.
https://youtu.be/VeoA9Z2iQl8
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First Trailer Released For Steve Jobs Film
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for their upcoming biopic Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender as the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. The film was directed by one of my favourite filmmakers Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and written by Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom, The Social Network). The film is scheduled to be released in theaters on October 9, 2015 and it feels pretty Social Network-y.
Twitter CEO on Battling the Trolls
While Twitter has been receiving complaints about harassment for years, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo acknowledged it’s a particularly difficult issue to deal with as there are so many varying degrees of abuse. For example, he noted, after the aforementioned memo went public, he received messages from users complaining about abuse that’s actually “fairly rational political discourse.”
“We’ve drawn a line on what constitutes harassment and abuse,” Costolo said. “I believe that we haven’t yet drawn that line to put the cost of dealing with harassment on those doing the harassing. It shouldn’t be the person who’s being harassed who has to do a lot of work.”
Of course, drawing those lines means deciding what constitutes free speech and abuse, an undeniably difficult task. “Well, you set policies and then you try to stick to those policies,” Costolo explained. “One way of thinking about it is: I may have a right to say something, but I don’t have a right to stand in your living room and scream it into your ear five times in a row. Right? I think there are things you can do on the platform that are of varying degrees of severity — not just black and white.”
Via Rolling Stone
Upworthy’s co-founder gets it right on social media activism
Since Upworthy’s launch, its team has often been accused of encouraging slacktivism, which critics would describe as a kind of superficial, internet-based activism that takes the form of social media sharing rather than real-world action. To his detractors, the site co-found Peter Koechley offers the following response:
“I think that awareness actually matters and that we are in an all out war for attention between the forces of inanity and the forces of things that actually matter to society […] We feel like people paying attention and being aware of important issues is one of the big roles of media.
“The second argument is, I spent a lot of time before Upworthy doing direct political organising and it’s incredibly difficult to actually organise people to take action, to go to a protest or call their congress person or give money to a campaign if they’re not aware of the issue, or it’s not really high up on their priority list.
“I feel like we think of ourselves as trying to help create, get people focused on the most important issues and try to create the conditions for other people to make change.
“Brands know, young people have been telling them loud and clear for a while now, that if your brand doesn’t stand for something more than the jeans that you sell or the soap that you dispense, it’s not going to be enough.
“Young people actually make purchase decisions based on whether they agree with the company’s values and whether the brand stands for anything.”
Via The Guardian