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Entertainment One signs The Wild! to exclusive license agreement

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Dec 1, 2014

Entertainment One Music Canada (“eOne”), the country’s leading audio physical and digital distributor, is proud to announce the exclusive Canadian license agreement of BC-based The Wild! for their upcoming “GxDxWxB” album.

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We’ve been longtime fans of The Wild!’s live show and music they’re working on in the studio,” said Greg Pappas, General Manager, eOne Music Canada. “We’re more than pleased to be working with the band, their manager Lyle Chausse, with his long-term vision and unflagging integrity.”

“It’s great to be working with the eOne team,” said Lyle Chausse. “We couldn’t be more excited to have eOne Music Canada connect with retailers, as well as music fans, and help grow the bands’ audience.”

The Wild! are making waves in the industry as well, with one of Canada’s rising bands, One Bad Son impressed with their live show. Lead singer Shane Volk says, “The Wild! are easily one of our favourite bands to hit the road with. Not only do they take life offstage to a new level, but their professionalism, energy, and sheer power onstage pushes us to new heights each night. Just what a rock n roll brotherhood should do!!”

The Wild!’s reputation of unspeakable acts of debauchery hasn’t been seen in rock and roll since the days of Guns N Roses and the Sunset Strip. eOne Music’s A&R asked The Wild! after the contract was done if they’d like to go out for dinner and celebrate. He came home Saturday afternoon. All he’ll say is it involved a high-end restaurant to start, Toronto’s Bovine and Cherry Cola’s bars, a stretch limo, a sunrise, and an unbelievable bar tab.

The Wild!, made up of Dylan Villain, Boozus, Pistol Pete and Reese Lightning, will be bringing their blues- drenched, loud-rockin, nasty, precision-played rock across Canada in January with Buckcherry:

January 20 Winnipeg, MB The Oak
January 22 Lloydminster, AB The Kooler
January 23 Edmonton, AB River Cree Casino
January 24 Calgary, AB Deerfoot Casino
January 26 Red Deer, AB Wild Bills.

The Wild!’s ‘Party Till Your Dead’ single will be sent to radio in January 2015 with their “GxDxWxB” debut album out in Spring, 2015. It was produced by Mike Fraser (Aerosmith, Jimmy Page, Dave Ghrohl, Van Halen) at the legendary Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC with additional production completed at the city’s Armoury Studios. Fraser says, “This is the best band I’ve come across in a long time. I’m very excited to be working with The Wild! and have them teamed up with eOne! Sounds like a winning combo to me!”

The Wild! accidentally had a top 30 Rock track for “Road House” this past summer, garnering over 72,000 views with a genre-busting video from acclaimed Video Director Stuey Kubrick. Watch the video:

Richard Pryor Invented Black Metal? Could Have…

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Richard Pryor Invented Black Metal? Could Have…

From the first episode of The Richard Pryor Show, check out this rarely-seen sketch – it’s like Jimi meets KISS meets Funkadelic and creates Black Metal in the process.

Watch vinyl records being cut at Abbey Road Studios

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Watch vinyl records being cut at Abbey Road Studios

Last month, The Vinyl Factory were given unprecedented access to the mastering suites at London’s world-famous Abbey Road Studios to meet some of the best engineers in the business. The final stage of the production process before the masters are shipped off to the factory to be pressed, mastering is a fine art and its practitioners highly technical craftsmen. Responsible for some of the most important records in history, from The Beatles to Pink Floyd, there’s no better place to learn than Abbey Road.

Having explored the art of vinyl mastering in our short film earlier this year, their visit to Abbey Road was an opportunity to receive a one-on-one tutorial of what actually goes on when you cut music to disc for the first time. Veteran mastering engineer and the man behind the half-speed and direct to metal mastering which make Abbey Road unique, Miles Showell talks you through the process, from keeping the levels tight to spacing the grooves on the record.

A Day In The Life Of Freddie Gibbs

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R&R recently spent the day with Gary, Indiana native Freddie Gibbs to take a look at his daily routine and lifestyle. In this feature they hang out with Gangsta Gibbs at his house, go and check on his custom Monte Carlo, grab some drinks, smoke up some Cali kush and do some shopping in LA. In between his daily activities, they also sat down for an extended discussion about everything from the state of the rap game and how he approaches each verse.

R.E.M.’s manager and lawyer Bertis Downs on how he knew the internet would change music

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R.E.M.’s manager and lawyer Bertis Downs on how he knew the internet would change music

R.E.M.’s manager and lawyer Bertis Downs had his first inkling of just how serious the digital revolution was going to be at an entertainment law symposium at Duke University in the late 1990s. “This was right before Napster,” he says. “It was possible to download music then, but it was difficult. You had to know what you were doing. I was talking to a bunch of law students, and I asked, ‘How many of you download music?’ Ninety percent of the hands went up. I thought, Oh no. And these are law students.”

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Meghan Trainor’s Thanksgiving Carols

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There are so many Christmas songs, but none about Thanksgiving. Fortunately a very talented young artist is hoping to fill that gap. Jimmy Kimmel Live are pleased to announce “All About That Bass” singer Meghan Trainor’s brand new album of what they believe will soon be considered Thanksgiving holiday classics.

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Diplo & Mad Decent Premiere Awesome Christmas Mixtape

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From The Fader:

The jolly fools over at Mad Decent couldn’t wait to get this new mixtape off their hands, for good reason: it’s a hilarious pack of remixes of your favorite Christmas jingles featuring Jesse Slayter, DJ Fire, and more. Davoodi’s flip of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker score sounds like the Yeezus Tour meets the Radio City Christmas Show, and Kstylis’s verse on “6th Gear” is drunk with holiday cheer. “Christmas was always lonely for me,” Diplo tells FADER. “I only got switches in my stockings. I wish I had an album like this to keep me warm… now you can!” Cop it here.

But The Man can’t bust our music.

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Vinyl Music Sales Hit 18-Year High in U.K.

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Vinyl Music Sales Hit 18-Year High in U.K.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Having mostly been written off in the past by a music industry dominated by digital, vinyl is continuing its resurgence in the U.K. after last year racking up its highest sales in years.

So far this year, more than 1 million vinyl records have been sold in Britain, marking the first time this milestone has been crossed since 1996.

“In an era when we’re all talking about digital music, the fact that these beautiful physical artifacts are still as popular as they are is fantastic,” said Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official Charts Company, which tracks music sales in Britain, in an interview with the BBC.

“Only five years ago this business was worth around £3 million [$4.7 million] a year. This year it’s going to be worth £20 million [$31 million].”

This month, Endless River, Pink Floyd’s first album in 20 years, became the fastest-selling vinyl release in Britain since 1997, racking up 6,000 sales in its first week. 2014’s best-selling vinyl album in the U.K. so far is the Arctic Monkey’s AM, followed by Lazaretto by Jack White.

It Costs at Least $500,000 to Break a New Artist

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In a study released last week by major label organization IFPI, breaking an artist in a major market requires at least $500,000, and sometimes as much as $2 million. Of course, there’s no guarantee ‘breaking’ will result in the record label, or the artist making money.

Overall, the IFPI counted $4.3 billion in upfront talent-scouting and marketing costs coming from labels last year alone. “Record companies remain the largest upfront investors in artists’ careers,” the IFPI noted. “Common features of contracts signed with emerging artists include the payment of advances, recording costs, tour support, video production and marketing and promotion costs.”