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Steve Albini to Deliver Keynote Address At 2015 Eastlink East Coast Music Week Conference

The East Coast Music Association is thrilled to announce Steve Albini as its keynote speaker for the 2015 Eastlink East Coast Music Week Conference.The address takes place on Saturday, April 11 from 4-5pm at the Harbourview Salon in Delta St. John’s.

Steve Albini is a Chicago based musician, recording engineer, and owner of the famed Electrical Audio studio. He has fronted several influential acts, including Big Black and Shellac.

His production work has been featured on over a thousand recordings, including Nirvana’s In Utero, PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Low’s Things We Lost in the Fire, and many other semenal works by acts such as Pixies, Magnolia Electric Company, Will Oldham, Iggy & The Stooges, Cheap Trick, and Neurosis.

In 1993, Albini published The Problem with Music, an essay expounding his belief that the major label dominated industry of the time was inefficient, exploited musicians, and led to subpar music. Albini continues to offer constructive insights into what makes for a healthy music ecosystem.

“Having Steve Albini deliver the keynote address at the 2015 ECMW conference is huge for us. As both an artist and recording engineer, Albini has played a significant role in defining what rock music has sounded like for the past 30 years,” says ECMA Executive Director Andy McLean. “Not only has he worked with some of the most influential acts of our time, including Nirvana and The Pixies, he has also doled out invaluable music industry insight and criticism as both a writer and speaker. This announcement gives a great boost to what is already shaping up to be an unforgettable ECMW.”

Taking place in St. John’s, NL from April 8-12, Eastlink East Coast Music Week brings together internationally renowned musicians and industry professionals for five days of performances, conferences, and a gala award show hosted by Jonny Harris.

Tickets and festival passes for the 2015 Eastlink East Coast Music Week are available now. For more information, visit here.

Famous Filmmakers as Recognizable Band Logos Created By NYC’s The IFC Center

If you’re a music or film fan, and find yourself in New York City, stop by The IFC Center – they’re currently selling concert-style T-shirts that feature the names of famous film directors as recognizable band logos. Their concession stand is the only place in New York to get these rockin’ shirts.

The shirts can be purchased for $27, but these T-shirts that go to eleven!

Chris Elliott Sings “To Dave With Love” on David Letterman

In his final appearance on David Letterman’s show, Chris Elliott pays tribute with his performance of “To Dave With Love.”

http://youtu.be/tzMEPl7KKtE

New York City to build affordable housing for musicians and artists

From Consequence of Sound:

“New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling,” Patti Smith said in 2010. “But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is now seeking to dissuade young musicians and artists from taking Smith’s advice with a new housing initiative. During his State of the City address on Tuesday, de Blasio announced plans to provide 1,500 units of affordable housing reserved exclusively for low-income creatives.

The plan is to develop 150 units a year over the next 10 years, alongside a separate 500 total units of work space. Exactly where these units will be located is still being worked out, though one of two city-owned pieces of land will be chosen by December for the first part of the project. Overhauls of existing structures may take place, but most of the project is expected to be brand new construction.

Bruce Cockburn on God and Raccoons

In recent years, Bruce Cockburn’s spiritual odyssey has come to include Jungian-based dream therapy. “That’s what gave me the image of Christ as a collective animus,” he says. “But is he more of a collective animus figure than Buddha? I don’t think so.” The dream therapy has also led to an interest in neuroscience and the nature of consciousness. “The idea of God as the boundless, as an undefinable and in a certain way unapproachable being except by proxy, has a lot of validity,” Cockburn says. “That means sometimes he’s going to seem like a hallucination or a motivator of things we don’t really want to see. There’s a juicy element of chaos about that, and that’s where I tip over into ‘I don’t have a clue.'”

He continues: “Why are we different from raccoons? We believe we’re special, historically and by nature, but who knows how raccoons see things? In some universe, parallel to this one, raccoons may be running the place. That’s a nice thought. None of us knows shit from Shinola, and the people who claim they do know are grasping at straws – or worse.”

Via Rolling Stone

Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone From the Sun” outakes and laughter

Found on Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 “Are You Experienced” album, “Third Stone From the Sun” is mostly an instrumental, but includes brief spoken passages by Hendrix over the music.

Voice recordings of Hendrix and his manager Chas Chandler are heard at a slower speed. At normal speed, the dialogue includes

Hendrix : Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. Over.
Chandler : I am in orbit around the third planet of star known as sun. Over.
Hendrix : May this be Earth? Over.
Chandler : Positive. It is known to have some form of intelligent species. Over.
Hendrix : I think we should take a look (Jimi then makes vocal spaceship noises).

In this version, though, a great time was had by all.

Love Boat vs. WKRP in Cincinnati on Family Feud

Amazing. They should bring this concept back, right after they do Battle Of The Network Stars.

http://youtu.be/udDCBsutHzA

Science And Music Experiment Remix Music Video Is Amazing

Musician and science geek Nigel John Stanford demonstrates the power of musical vibrations in his latest music video in which he performs mind blowing science experiments while creating huge music at the same time.

How Henry Thomas Got The Role As Elliott in E.T.

Casting Director Marci Liroff (‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’, and ‘Mean Girls’) recounts the story of how Henry Thomas was cast as the lead in ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.’

…and here’s Henry Thomas’ audition tape:

Record Royalties Sourced for Canada’s Music Creators

Canada’s songwriters, composers and music publishers will collectively see a record amount of royalties from the public performance of their copyright works in 2014, according to early analysis by nonprofit SOCAN.

A snapshot of the preliminary1 2014 financial results for SOCAN – the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada :

  • Another record year for total revenue, $299-million was collected from domestic, international and private copying proceeds – a year-over-year increase of eight per cent from $276-million brought in during 2013, already a record setting year for SOCAN..
  • International revenue from Canadian-created music of $55-million , an increase of nearly eight per cent from 2013. This was another record for Canadian-made music performed outside of the country, following surpassing $50-million in 2013 for the first time.
  • Revenue of $20-million from Internet streaming properties, up from $3.2-million in 2013.2
  • SOCAN’s corporate net expense ratio was less than 10 per cent for the first time in the history of the organization, positioning it as one of the most cost-effective major music rights organizations worldwide.

“SOCAN is bringing in more while spending less to do it, resulting in record overall royalties for our more than 125,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members,” said CEO Eric Baptiste . “Creating music is difficult, complex and rewarding work, and so too is the job of finding where our members’ music is used in business domestically and around the world. While 2014 was another record year, the economic challenges faced by the large majority of our members and professional musicians in general are real, and it’s imperative that we find every penny that our members have rightfully earned for their work.”

In the recent past SOCAN has invested wisely in technology and talent, making intelligent business decisions, all designed to produce more value for its members.

Canada’s music creators are enjoying a surge in popularity around the world, resulting in a consistent rise in export music from international royalties – an area that SOCAN has identified as a growth priority and also in which it has sharpened its focus with the addition of Catharine Saxberg as Vice President, International Relations. The increase in international revenue is a gain of 41 per cent since the $39-million identified and distributed to members in 2007.

“Canadian music creators are beloved worldwide,” Baptiste added. “Ask anyone in the world to name a famous Canadian and they are very likely to mention a songwriter or composer.”

While collective revenues are up, so too are the challenges for Canada’s songwriters, composers and music publishers. More music is used in more public places for the benefit of more businesses than ever before. To license these uses efficiently, SOCAN has created eSOCAN for music users to license their establishment or activities easily and quickly. During 2014 eSOCAN use was up over 400 per cent and the company is planning further growth in 2015.

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