New Management Structure for NXNE’s 2015 Festival

NXNE enters it's third decade with the appointment of longtime NXNE music programmer Crispin Giles as Creative Director, and by welcoming Sara Peel as...

What Steve Jobs Said About Piracy and iTunes Back In 2003

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. You don't have...

Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For January 6, 2015

York Region Media Group/Bradford Topic has an immediate opening for a full-time reporter, covering local council and general assignment news and features. Availability for...

Will Oldham on Finding That Magical Take In The Studio

I was reading a Neil Young biography, and during his rough period in the ’80s, there’s a story about a sort of terrified young...

The Doors Perform…Without Jim Morrison

When Jim Morrison died in a Paris apartment bathtub at the age of 27 on July 3, 1971, the remaining Doors decided to continue....

News Reporter Warms Up By Performing “Alphabet Aerobics” And Wins The Internet

 Kim Powell has just won the 1st week of the internet. http://youtu.be/PKLxVpdXbTY For the record, I did it A Capella and the music was added...

Coachella 2015 Lineup Announced: AC/DC, Drake, Jack White Headlines

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will once again take place this year over two weekends, April 10-12 and April 17-19, in Indio,...

A Look At The Vinyl Revival, From A Canadian Perspective

Lots of Canadians here, save for the John Peel quote in the beginning. Extended Play is a documentary made by second-year broadcast journalism students...

New Music and Arts Camping Festival for 2015 Announced By Republic Live for Barrie, ON

Republic Live, producers of Boots and Hearts, Canada’s largest camping and country music festival, announced today that they will be holding an annual music...

Entertainment One + The Mark Gordon Company Partner In Television And Film Studio

Entertainment One (“eOne”) and The Mark Gordon Company are pleased to announce that they have partnered to create an independent studio that will finance...

Entertainment One + Amazon Prime Instant Video Sign Exclusive Multi-Year Multi-Territory Television Output Deal

Entertainment One (eOne) and Amazon Prime Instant Video are pleased to announce that they have signed a multi-year television content deal for the UK...

Entertainment One + First Take Entertainment to develop and produce Dr. Cabbie television adaptation

Entertainment One (eOne), alongside producers First Take Entertainment, are pleased to announce a partnership to co-develop and co-produce a television series based on the...

Why Fame Doesn’t Matter

It’s about the experience, not fame. http://youtu.be/qYjieXtLu-w

Lady Gaga’s Keyboardist Creates The PianoArc

It's hard to create a new instrument in music, and really, after the keytar, is there anything else we need? Yes. Bring on The PianoArc,...

Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts for January 5, 2015

The AGO has done extensive research into best practices and has committed to digital as a key pillar of its future identity. The new...

That Time The Keith Haring Foundation Created Animated Spots For Sesame Street

Keith Haring, the visual artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts...