SXSW offers 1,291 free songs from artists performing this year
These torrents include tracks that can be previewed on the SXSW website for SXSW 2015. This year's includes 1,291 files totaling 8.42GB, making it...
SoundExchange, NPR And The Corporation For Public Broadcasting Ink Long-Term Agreement For Webcasting Royalty Rates
SoundExchange announced it has reached a settlement agreement with NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) on royalty rates for the next five...
Sony Music To Purchase Remaining Interest In The Orchard, The World’s Leading Independent Digital Distributor
Sony Music Entertainment announced that it has entered into an agreement with Dimensional Associates, LLC to acquire the remaining interest in The Orchard, the...
Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For March 23, 2015
Nature's Touch Frozen Foods in Saint-laurent, QC is looking for a dynamic and creative person, who wishes to join a dynamic and industry-leading company...
Neil Young built “a barn roof” out of 200,000 copies of Comes A Time
From Uncut:
Neil Young has admitted he once bought thousands of copies of his own album and used them as shingles on the roof of...
Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp Is Coming To Toronto June 4-7 Featuring Aerosmith’s Joe Perry
The legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp that has been making dreams come true in the U.S. for the past 18 years is now...
JK Simmons on the music of “Whiplash”
Whiplash stars JK Simmons as terrifying jazz teacher Fletcher, who pushes ambitious student drummer Andrew to breaking point in the pursuit of greatness. Here's...
Johnny Cash’s Unused Theme Song for James Bond’s Thunderball
Country musician Johnny Cash also submitted a song to Eon productions titled "Thunderball" but it wasn't used. The lyrics of Cash's "Thunderball" describe the...
Want Chad Brownlee Hockey Stick Guitar? Of Course You Do
This is a cool item for the country music fan - its Canadian Country Artist Chad Brownlee's custom-made guitar of over 20 SherWood hockey...
Mapping All the Cities in Willie Nelson’s Songs
From CityLab:
"City of New Orleans" isn't a song about New Orleans. It's a song about a train called the City of New Orleans. Willie...
Deezer Elite on Sonos expands to more than 150 countries
Deezer, the global digital music service today announced with Sonos, the leading manufacturer of wireless music systems, the launch of Deezer Elite outside the...
Jack White and Robert Plant on stage at Lollapalooza performing “The Lemon Song”
"I love Jack White's buccaneer spirit, and the way he dodges through the musical horizons. I'd be happy to make a single with him,"...
Bob DiPiero: “What you believe is what is true”
Since his first #1 in 1983, Hall of Fame Songwriter Bob DiPiero has been responsible for an uninterrupted string of country music hits. One...
Zach Galifianakis Realized The Key To Comedy Success Is Doing It for Preschoolers
Zach Galifianakis once took his monologue to a preschool. This is a clip from his prematurely cancelled show on VH1 called Late World With...
John Legend on Ending Racism
AP: Common received some backlash for his comments about ending racism on "The Daily Show" last week. What are your thoughts?
John Legend: Oh yeah,...
Monica Lewinsky’s Ted Talk: The Price Of Shame
In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of...
