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Daniel Lanois Announces Live Dates. Flesh and Machine Juno Nominated

Feb 14, 2015

Sonic explorer Daniel Lanois has just announced a series of North American live dates. The renowned musician and producer will be performing in support of his groundbreaking new album Flesh and Machine which has been Juno nominated for ‘Instrumental Album’ of the year. “Many thanks to the Juno folks for taking the time to listen to what I regard to be some of my most adventurous work”.

Examining the ever evolving relationship between musicians and technology, Flesh And Machine inventively takes organic instrumentation and alters the sounds with an assortment of recording technologies in real time. The record stylistically references the classic Brian Eno albums Lanois worked on while also charting new ground with it’s intense hypnotic rhythms and evocative soundscapes.

In a live setting, Lanois further explores the relationship between musician and technology, inventively bringing his studio process to the live setting in an absolutely riveting manner. “What I do in my laboratory is seldom witnessed but now all this is going to change,” he promised the Wall Street Journal recently. “I see this work as an opportunity for me to be part of a new congregation.”

Watch Lanois’ absolutely devastating performance of the track “Opera” here:

Live Dates:
03/01/15 Mon, Portland, OR – Doug Fir
03/02/15 Tue, Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
03/03/15 Tue, VICTORIA, BC – Alix Golden Hall
03/04/15 Wed, VANCOUVER, BC – Commodore Ballroom
04/30/15 Thu, OTTAWA, ON – National Arts Centre – Southam Hall
05/01/15 Fri, TORONTO, ON – Horseshoe – CMW
05/02/15 Sat, HAMILTON, ON – Mills Hardware
05/03/15 Sun, HAMILTON, ON – Mills Hardware
05/05/15 Tue, ST. LOUIS, MO – The Duck Room
05/06/15 Wed, IOWA CITY, IA – The Englert Theatre
05/07/15 Thu, MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
05/08/15 Fri, CHICAGO, IL – Empty Bottle
05/09/15 Sat, FERNDALE, MI – The Loving Touch

The Greatest Concert Posters, Courtesy of Globe Poster Company

Feb 14, 2015

The Globe Poster Printing Corporation, historically one of the nation’s largest showcard printers, has been telling the story of American music and entertainment through bright and iconic posters since 1929. Globe began by printing posters for vaudeville acts, movie theaters, drag races, burlesque houses, and carnivals and became known for its work with R&B, soul, and jazz performers—including James Brown, B.B. King, Otis Redding, Ike and Tina Turner, Billie Holiday, and Solomon Burke—as well as gospel, rock, hip hop, funk, and go-go acts.

Posters Via

This Is Greatest Clip Explaining Music Production

Feb 14, 2015

It’s from 1996′s Vibrations – and yes, that is Christina Applegate, as Anamika, a manager at the hottest dance club looking for the next new genre to exploit. Watch how this character explains techno and all its production glories right in front of you.

Advertisers Announce Effort to Keep Ads Off Illicit Sites, With The Help Of David Lowery

Feb 14, 2015

From Illusion Of More:

A longstanding challenge with regard to websites that profit from pirated media, counterfeit products, and/or malware is the frequent placement of major brand advertising on the pages of those sites. Musician David Lowery’s activist website The Trichordist has published lists of major advertisers whose banner ads have appeared on various pirate sites, seeking to hold advertisers accountable for supporting exploitation of musical artists. This kind of activism has drawn both public and industry attention to the problem. In its most basic form, the principle is that Legit Entity A should not benefit from a site that derives its traffic by exploiting Legit Entity B. That probably sounds reasonable to most people, including most advertisers themselves, but what to do about it is another matter — until now.

This morning, the advertising industry announced a new, voluntary initiative that helps advertisers better understand the nature of sites on which their ads may be placed. The initiative produced by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) is called the Brand Integrity Program Against Piracy and it was developed in collaboration with the three major advertising associations — the Association of National Advertisers, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Noel Gallagher on the current crop of British singer-songwriters

Feb 14, 2015

WE’RE LIVING IN “SAVAGE” times, reckons Noel Gallagher, but the ex-Oasis star says you’d be hard pushed to hear that reflected by the current crop of British singer-songwriters.

Speaking to MOJO, Gallagher has branded new music “bland”, arguing that, unlike previous generations, new artists make no effort to reflect the mood of the era in their songs.

“I hear mindless pop on the radio and then the news is: ‘The World Is Going To End!’ What’s going on? What has become apparent to me is that we live in ridiculous fucking times now. The music that’s being made now is so fucking bland. It’s nice and kind of meaningless and then you turn on the television and the news is so savage! The music doesn’t reflect the times at all. I hear Radio 1 in the morning when the kids are up and going to school and it’s just bland, meaningless, mindless pop music and then the news is: ‘The World Is Going To End!’ What’s going on? The music of George Ezra: Wow! I was talking to a mate recently who’s been in various bands and I was asking what he was doing and he was saying, ‘I’m trying to do my own stuff now.’ I said, ‘You should be in a band, you look great,’ and he said, ‘Nobody wants to be in bands any more, everybody wants to be a singer-songwriter.’ That’s his generation. Everyone wants to be Jake Bugg or George Ezra. The band thing is dying out. I blame it on the lack of rehearsal rooms and the lack of little tiny studios because it’s easier for a guy to sit at home with a tape recorder and send it to a record company than it is for a band. Back in my day, we used to go down the rehearsal room when it was 20 quid a night, or whatever it was, and you bash it out. Everybody’s got a home recording studio on their iPhone now. All the cheap studios and venues are going to go soon. You’re going to either be stuck at the bottom in [London pub venue] the Boston Arms or you’re going to be catapulted to the top at The O2 and there will be nothing in between.”

Via Mojo Magazine

Patti Smith on The Biggest Misconception About Her

Feb 14, 2015

What do you think is the biggest misconception about you?

The thing that bothered me the most was when I had to return to the public eye in ’95 or ’96 when my husband died. We lived a very simple lifestyle in a more reclusive way in which he was king of our domain. I don’t drive, I didn’t have much of an income, and without him, I had to find a way of making a living. Besides working in a bookstore, the only thing I knew how to do was to make records—or to write poetry, which isn’t going to help put your kids through school. But when I started doing interviews, people kept saying “Well, you didn’t do anything in the 80s,” and I just want to get Elvis Presley’s gun out and shoot the television out of their soul. How could you say that? The conceit of people, to think that if they’re not reading about you in a newspaper or magazine, then you’re not doing anything.

I’m not a celebrity, I’m a worker. I’ve always worked. I was working before people read anything about me, and the day they stopped reading about me, I was doing even more work. And the idea that if you’re a mother, you’re not doing anything—it’s the hardest job there is, being a mother or father requires great sacrifice, discipline, selflessness, and to think that we weren’t doing anything while we were raising a son or daughter is appalling. It makes me understand why some human beings question their worth if they’re not making a huge amount of money or aren’t famous, and that’s not right.

My mother worked at a soda fountain. She made the food and was a waitress and she was a really hard worker and a devoted worker. And her potato salad became famous! She wouldn’t get potato salad from the deli, she would get up at five o’clock in the morning and make it herself, and people would come from Camden or Philly to this little soda fountain in South Jersey because she had famous potato salad. She was proud of that, and when she would come home at night, completely wiped out and throwing her tip money on the table and counting it, one of her great prides was that people would come from far and wide for her potato salad. People would say, “Well, what did your mother do? She was a waitress?” She served the people, and she served in the way that she knew best.

Via Alan Light interview in Medium

The Kinks Star In Their Rock Opera “Starmaker”

Feb 14, 2015

Ray Davies starred in a live staged version of Soap Opera taped for Granada Television about eight months before it was released as an album, with Ray playing the double role of Starmaker/Norman. A Soap Opera adapted the same songs and plot to an audio presentation, with lead singer Ray Davies and actress June Ritchie in this bizarre spectacle. Plans for a full-scale theatrical tour were not realized, but the Kinks, with their extended mid-70s lineup, did perform the entire album on tour in 1975.

It was taped in front of a live audience on July 25, 1974, and broadcast on September 4 of the same year.

Cookie Monster Writes Jokes for Jimmy Kimmel

Feb 13, 2015

Cookie Monster showed interest in working on the show so Jimmy Kimmel hired him. Turns out he really can’t write jokes that aren’t about cookies.

David Carr’s Commencement Address to the Class of 2014 at Graduate School of Journalism

Feb 13, 2015

At a commencement address last year at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, David Carr, noted journalist with the New York Times, spoke of the need for decency in the future generation of journalists:

“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.”

R.I.P., David. You will be greatly missed.

Bertrand Russell Gets It Right. Again.

Feb 13, 2015

One last question: Suppose, Lord Russell, that this film will be looked at by our descendants, like the Dead Sea scroll, in a thousand years’ time. What would you think it’s worth telling that generation about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned from it?

I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed, but look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more closely and closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way; if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

– Interview of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician and Nobel laureate, on BBC’s Face to Face (1959)

http://youtu.be/O8h-xEuLfm8