David Bowie‘s album Blackstar is the inspiration and soundtrack for an upcoming “InstaMiniSeries” of 16 episodes that will begin Thursday on Instagram. The series, which will star Tavi Gevinson and Patricia Clarkson, was approved by Bowie in concept, though it’s not clear whether he saw the finished product before his January 10 death.
Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For February 22, 2016
Randstad’s client in Burlington, ON is looking to permanently hire an Marketing Assistant.
Luminato Festival has an opening for a Development Assistant, Individual Giving.
An Executive Assistant/Administrator is required for downtown Toronto production company.
CTV London has an opening for a Creative Producer.
Young Drivers of Canada is looking for a Public Relations and Marketing Manager.
A Communications Officer is needed for Altis’ High Tech client located in downtown Ottawa.
What happens when you miss your chance at rock and roll stardom? You put the band back together and make a doc
The year was 1985. Thousands of miles away from the sonic debauchery of the Sunset Strip, two teenage friends shared aspirations of glam rock grandeur. Freshly permed and taking a page straight out of Hit Parader, a hungry, determined band was born. Fame and fortune, however, remained out of reach and the group unceremoniously imploded.
Fast forward thirty years.
Facing a mid-life crossroads, Kyle Kruger and Steve McClure set out on an improbable journey in order to fulfill their dreams of achieving rock & roll stardom. With credit cards maxed out and the 401K cashed in, the pair risk everything in hopes of reclaiming the magic they had as a band over a quarter century ago.
It’s a story about a lifelong friendship, insurmountable odds and dealing with the always present thought of “what if”? It’s a tale of rediscovery, determination, triumphs and failures.
Because first and last chances happen only once.
Featuring candid interviews with some of the most influential musicians and industry professionals in the business, including Eddie Trunk (That Metal Show), Jeff Keith and Frank Hannon (Tesla), Ron Keel (KEEL), Steve Blaze (Lillian Axe), Frank Bello and Joey Belladonna (Anthrax), Les Warner (The Cult), as well as members of Kix, Stryper, Queensrÿche, Quiet Riot, Warrant, Motörhead, LA Guns and more.
How to make subversive trousers with Malcolm McLaren
From a French TV special called “Being Malcolm” via Dazed Digital, Malcolm McLaren discusses the inspiration for bondage pants, which is going to come in handy when punk rolls around again.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Keith Richards, And Gary Busey Rocking Out “High School Confidential” In 1983
One day, we’re going to lose Jerry Lee Lewis, a legend who should, by his own accounts, been buried a long time ago. In this clip from Salute! in 1983, Keith Richards and Gary Busey isn’t essential, but this rarely-seen clip is fascinating, a chance to hear these three legends (hey, Busey was astounding in The Buddy Holly Story) coalesce over High School Confidential.
https://youtu.be/5xjYTTbyfg0
The Beatles vs. Wu-Tang Mashup Of Magical Mystery Tour Is Brilliant
When Danger Mouse released The Grey Album, it was one of the first time anyone had attempted to mashup the untouchables – The Beatles. In 2010, Tom Caruana decided to take some Wu-Tang raps and connect Beatles samples on his Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers project. Deep inside his head, this idea worked, and it comes out brilliantly.
Watch Slade in Flame, a gritty tale of the rise and fall of a fictional 1960s group
Slade in Flame (also known as Flame) is a 1975 film starring the members of the band Slade. In 2007, BBC film critic Mark Kermode called it the “Citizen Kane of rock musicals” and included its soundtrack among the 50 greatest soundtracks in cinema’s history. The film charts the history of “Flame” a fictitious group in the late 1960s who are picked up by a marketing company and taken to the top, only to break up at their zenith. The film begins with the future members of Flame playing in two rival bands, one with a singer named Jack Daniels (Alan Lake), and the other, The Undertakers, fronted by Stoker (Noddy Holder). Flame are formed from the two bands, with Charlie (Don Powell) joining on drums, making up the same line-up as the real-life Slade. They are picked up by marketing man Robert Seymour (Tom Conti) and with the help of publicity stunts the band’s fortunes improve, but their former agent (played by Johnny Shannon) stakes a claim to their earnings, and uses violence to try to get his way.
All this, from the band who sold over 6 million copies in the UK.
https://youtu.be/z20QI2MoWEo
Street Drummer KILLS IT performing on buckets, pots and pans
Street drummer Dario Rossi amazes a crowd of people (and me at home) by performing an incredible drum roll on a collection of old buckets, pots, and pans at the Dam Square in Amsterdam.
Nathaniel Rateliff on Led Zeppelin will make you run to listen to them again
hen I was a kid, we weren’t really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a Led Zeppelin IV cassette tape in the garage and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I’d heard before. I remember thinking: ‘Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?’”
– Nathaniel Rateliff
Wein’s World: The Godfather Of The Music Festival At 90
There’s no one person responsible for creating music festivals — or for making them such a huge part of how we witness live performances today. But starting in 1954, one person developed a recipe for their secret sauce.
George Wein still goes to his signature event every year, checking out performances and greeting the artists. These days, he does it on a golf cart which drives him between stages — he’s about to turn 90, after all — but he says he takes his job as producer very seriously.”If I don’t hear the music, I don’t know what my festival is all about,” Wein says. “So I have to hear the music.
“Wein was already running a jazz club in Boston — and playing some piano himself — when he met a wealthy tobacco heiress named Elaine Lorillard. She spent her summers with New England’s rich and famous in the seaside town of Newport, R.I. She thought jazz could entertain where the New York Philharmonic couldn’t. So she and her husband laid out a line of credit, Wein booked some big names (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday), and the Newport Jazz Festival was born.
Via NPR
