Some recap/top/best of lists for 2007 From TV, eh? a recap of the Year in TV From VoCA (View on Canadian Art) the Best of 2007 From Quill and Quire the Year in Quillblog The Top 10 Albums as chosen by Young Galaxy. The Top Albums Volcanoless in Canada. The Best Music As chosen by…
Age of Confusion in Music Biz
The Toronto Star has an excellent overview of the ‘music industry’ – an industry that is exploding and dying off at the same time. “The undeniable reality is that CD sales continue to fall so dramatically – down 20 per cent from 2006, and down 35 per cent in Canada – that the industry as…
Post #600 And A Happy New Year
This is the 600th post on this blog. As you will see, I’m still very busy with the site. The CanCon Cast will shortly be a reality and I’ve added several things to the aggregators (I still have a long list of things to look at so more additions will be coming sortly.) Happy 2008…
Your New Year’s Present from the Diableros
If you go, right now, to theDiableros.com you can download a free acoustic remix of “Broken Barns” the closer on the new album “The Diableros Aren’t Ready For the Country.
American Music Industry Gets Even Dumber
Have you been, like most reasonable people, amazed and astounded at all of the music industry lawsuits in the U.S.? Did you find them a trifle unfair? Did you, for example, think that it was absurd that a single mother in Minnesota was ordered to pay $222,000 for 24 ‘illegal’ songs on her hard drive?…
RVT: Volcanoless in Canada – Invincible
Volcanoless in Canada perform “Invincible” at Lydia’s Pub in Saskatoon. Volcanoless in Canada will be playing a New Year’s show with the Blood Lines at Amigos in Saskatoon, so if you don’t have plans yet…well now you do.
New CBC TV Shows for January
The CBC has a whack of new shows coming in January. I had hoped to post Trailers for them, but in classic CBC style the only trailer they have on YouTube is for the least interesting of the bunch. There was a spat during the fall between intelligence creator Chris Haddock and the CBC because…
The World Says a Reluctant Goodbye to Oscar Peterson
The great Oscar Peterson was laid to rest today. Not knowing what to say that hasn’t already been said I thought I’d just post a bit of a roundup of some of what is being said. First from the family at OscarPeterson.com A Message from Kelly & Celine Peterson: We would like to thank everyone…
Eyes on Toronto Returns January 7
Stephen Eyes & company are returning Monday, January 7 to the Gladstone Hotel for the next installment of the Queen West talk show Eyes On Toronto. Cueing up for the show are: Poet, performer and author Zoe Whittall – who Now Magazine named the best emerging author of 2007. Zoe’s blog and more info on…
Venture 2.0 (Fortune Hunters) coming to CBC
Anyone remember Venture? The CBC show that served as a business how-to and all too often how-not-to show for entrepreneurs was axed at the end of last season after 22 years on the air. It’s pseudo replacement Fortune Hunters premeirs January 12. According to the show’s web site: FORTUNE HUNTERS is Canada’s only show on…