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JUNO Gala Dinner and Awards to Stream Live on March 14

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Mar 9, 2015

JUNO Gala Dinner and Awards to Stream Live on March 14

Canadians won’t have to miss a beat of the 2015 JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards Presented by SiriusXM Canada as CARAS will live stream the star-studded event and the presentation of 35 JUNO Awards, on Saturday, March 14. For the second year in a row, music fans across the country will be able to tune-in to the exclusive Gala live stream at 6pm ET on www.junoawards.ca, in partnership Entertainment One (eOne), North America’s leading independent music label and distributor.

A sought-after industry celebration featuring the biggest names in Canadian music, this year’s Gala, hosted by Jessi Cruickshank, will be held at the Hamilton Convention Centre by Carmen’s the night before The 2015 JUNO Awards Broadcast. The evening will feature performances by 2015 JUNO Award nominees Alvvays, Dallas Smith, Daniel Lanois, Matt Andersen and a special Blues Jam featuring Crystal Shawanda, JW-Jones, Steve Hill, Steve Strongman, and The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer. This year’s special award recipients include Rush, who will receive the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award sponsored by Bell Media, and music executive Ray Danniels, recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award.

“The JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards unites and celebrates the best of the best in Canadian music for one special evening,” said Allan Reid, President & CEO, CARAS/The JUNO Awards. “We are excited that we are able to once again pull back the curtain so all Canadians can tune-in and enjoy what is otherwise an exclusive night for the industry.”

“SiriusXM’s involvement in the Gala is fitting as we celebrate our 10^th year in Canada providing subscribers and artists alike a platform to reach new music and new audiences,” said Mark Redmond, President and CEO, SiriusXM Canada. “We are very excited to join CARAS and our colleagues at the 2015 JUNO Gala and Awards and we’re looking forward to a night of amazing performances from our friends and award nominees.”

As part of JUNO Award week programming on SiriusXM, JUNO Radio will feature interviews and moments from the JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards along with performances from current and past JUNO nominees and award winners. JUNO Radio will be broadcast on SiriusXM’s The Verge (channel 173) and Iceberg (channel 161) starting March 13^th through March 15^th.

“Entertainment One is excited to join in the festivities honouring the past year’s best Canadian music and to celebrate our great partnership with the JUNO Awards,” said Greg Pappas, Vice President & General Manager, Entertainment One Music Canada. “We are committed to bringing all music fans together through live streaming and happy to share in the experience of the event.”

During the Gala, JUNO TV will be live streaming their interviews backstage JUNO TV’s hosts Lauren Toyota and Indie 88’s Carlin Burton will talk to winners that night and viewers will be able to interact through the live stream and ask questions by going to www.junotv.ca at 6pm ET. For more details check out our All The JUNO Awards You Don’t See On TV! Live! teaser video below.

http://youtu.be/U16Ty9jquiU

Jimmy Page on How He Created “Stairway To Heaven”

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Mar 8, 2015

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Stairway to Heaven was one of the biggest rock songs of the 1970s – loved, imitated and sometimes parodied. Now Led Zeppelin’s classic track is back on the turntable, on a re-mastered version of the band’s fourth album. 43 years after its release, the song continues to hold a place in many music fans’ hearts.

Guitarist Jimmy Page gives a personal account of how a rock anthem came together.

That Time Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick Taught You The Numbers On “Sesame Street”

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Mar 8, 2015

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That Time Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick Taught You The Numbers On “Sesame Street”

That’s the voice of Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane in the video below. She was featured in nearly every episode of Sesame Street‘s debut season in 1969, singing counting songs over psychedelic free jazz and groovy animation. The Jazz Number segments, featuring race cars and spies, debuted in the first test pilot, and was first broadcast in the first episode of the series. Jazz #3 appeared in the second test show.

Composer Denny Zeitlin remembers:

“John Magnuson of Imagination, Inc. hired me to compose and perform that soundtrack, which is called “1 to 10”. I’m playing piano and clavinet on it, with Bobby Natanson on drums, and Mel Graves, bass. Some time after we recorded it, Grace Slick over-dubbed her parts.”

Jazz #8 was often followed by an Ernie and Bert sketch, which begins with Ernie watching (and singing along to) the end of the segment on his TV.

The film for #2 was included on Old School: Volume 1, as part of episodes 1 and 536, and in Old School: Volume 2, as part of the test pilot. The film for #10 was included in the Sesame Street Unpaved special.

The Nick Cave Skateboard You Want Right Now

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Mar 8, 2015

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True legend of Australian music, Fast Times apparel’s good friend and Customer Nick Cave has teamed up with them to produce an exciting and rad collection. After discussing lyrics and a theme, it was agreed Nature Boy best suited the Melbourne Skate Scene and vibe of Fast Times. The lyrics are taken from Nature Boy, a track from’s Nick’s Abattoir Blues album which also features on the accompanying Fast Times Skate clip. Once the mood was set Artist Chuck Sperry hailing from San Francisco worked with them to come up with a design, one of Chuck’s women is seen tangled in her long golden locks wrapped in a psychedelic bed of flowers.

Changing the World, One Word at a Time

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Mar 8, 2015

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Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin, and Zariya Allen, members of the Get Lit organization perform “Somewhere in America”.

Music identification app Shazam will soon recognize objects

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Mar 7, 2015

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Music identification app Shazam will soon recognize objects

From The Next Web:

Shazam will soon extend its music identification service to include objects.

Speaking at this year’s Mobile World Congress, chief executive Rich Riley told Reuters, “Shazam is already a verb. We want to expand the universe of what you can Shazam. The famous blue button that our users love will remain on the home screen but will be able to do much more.”

The new feature is kind of like an advanced version of Google Goggles. The company says its app will soon let users identify products and learn more about them. For example, you could point your phone at a cereal box to get in-depth nutritional information, or at a DVD case to buy the soundtrack from your device.

If You Run A Facebook Page, Expect The Like Count To Drop Soon

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Mar 7, 2015

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If You Run A Facebook Page, Expect The Like Count To Drop Soon

From Techcrunch:

Do you run a Facebook Page? Heads up: your page’s “Like” count is probably going to drop a bit soon, and it’s totally not your fault.

The short version: Facebook is changing the way it’s counting likes, subtracting any accounts that have been either manually deactivated or “memorialized” after its owner passed. It’s something that probably should have been done since the beginning — but since it wasn’t, it’d be easy to think your Likes had dropped because of something you’d done.

One thing that’s important to note: it seems that this only accounts for profiles that have been manually deactivated. Likes from profiles that could be considered “inactive” because the user just hasn’t logged in for a while will continue to count.

‘A Single Life’, Animated Short About a Woman Who Travels Through Her Life by Spinning a Record

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Mar 7, 2015

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A Single Life is an animated short film in which Pia finds a vinyl single. When playing the mysterious single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life. If she spins the record forward, she becomes older. If she skips backwards, she gets younger.

Ha! So Wrong: News Anchor Didn’t Know How To React To This!

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Mar 7, 2015

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So wrong, and so funny.

http://youtu.be/AnBsFXIgAZM

Peter Gabriel’s Isolated Vocals For “Sledgehammer”

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Mar 7, 2015

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Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” was produced by Daniel Lanois and found on his massive “So” album. It hit number one in Canada on 21 July 1986, where it spent four weeks; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and number four on the UK Singles Chart, thanks in part to a popular and influential music video. It was his biggest hit in North America and ties with “Games Without Frontiers” as his biggest hit in the United Kingdom.

The song’s music video has won a number of awards, including a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards[5] and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards.[ Gabriel was also nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. As of 2011, “Sledgehammer” is the most played music video in the history of MTV.

Peter’s vocals start at the 0:50 mark.

http://youtu.be/RY5g5k8yqus

Here’s the original award-winning video: