Musician Builds A Band of Musical Instruments Controlled By Robots

Octant, aka Matthew Steinke, is an artist, musician and inventor that combines the analog and digital worlds to create and express music in a...

Willie Nelson On The Time Ray Charles Beat Him In A Chess Match

An avid chess player, country music legend Willie Nelson is used to winning. But he received a great lesson in humility when Ray Charles...

Canadian Music Week is bringing back the start-up pitch competition Launch Pad next year

Canadian Music Week, running from April 18-22, has announced that it will be bringing back its start-up pitch competition Launch Pad again next year. The...

ATB Anthem: Call for Artists In Alberta

ATB Financial will be launching a brand new campaign that’s main theme will be “listening”. They are currently looking for Alberta artists to perform,...

The ‘Damn Fine Coffee’ edition of the newly reissued vinyl soundtrack for the ‘Twin Peaks’ television series

Death Waltz have unveiled details and artwork of their long-awaited reissue of Angelo Badalamenti’sTwin Peaks soundtrack. Over twenty five years since its initial release, and...

How Vinyl Records Are Made

In 2015, sales of vinyl records in the United States grew by an astounding 30%. That figure brought the total number of records sold...

Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For August 23, 2016

Hudson’s Bay Company in Brampton, ON has an opening for a Marketing Project Coordinator. The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) invites applications for the contract...

Helen Mirren Storms Back At This Sexist Reporter In 1975 Interview

Even when she was a 30-year-old actress starting out, Helen powerful. In this 1975 interview, Mirren takes on British talk show host Michael Parkinson...

“We’re Not Gonna Take It” Is Now A Ballad To Make You Cry

Magician Criss Angel has directed a video of Dee Snider performing Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” — as a solo piano ballad....

Metallica, Roger Waters booked for Bridge School benefit

Neil Young’s annual Bridge School benefit concert will be headlined this year by Metallica and Roger Waters — in addition to Young himself, with...

Coldplay and James Corden cover ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’

On Sunday night at the Rose Bowl, Coldplay invited James Corden to join them onstage for a cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.”...

How Old Bridges Are Turned into Turntables

There are more than 600,000 bridges in the United States alone. When those bridges can no longer do their job, every ounce of steel...

Koko The Gorilla Plays Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea’s Bass Guitar

When Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea was visiting the Gorilla Foundation in Northern California, he loaned his bass to the amazing Koko. "My...

BBC sells music rights to Luther, Doctor Who and Wolf Hall

The BBC has sold the rights to theme tunes and music from hit shows including Idris Elba's Luther, Doctor Who and Wolf Hall. BMG, the...