Broadcasting: After what is it, 30 years? Barry Stewart has left his post as MD at CHUM-FM to explore new frontiers and can be reached at barry_stewart@sympatico.ca..,
Jason Barr, longtime co-host of the Dean Blundell morning show at 102.1 The Edge is no longer with Corus Radio…
Vista Radio has launched Nelson, BC community-based Adult-Alt FM The Bridge 103.5 (listen here)…
Huffington Post columnist/blogger Art Brodsky praises the CRTC for last week’s ruling that opens competition in the ISP sector, and particular commissioner Timothy Denton…
Duff Roman “and friends” have Little Caesar & the Consuls booked into Massey Hall on Nov. 17 for a charitable fundraiser. The band, originally formed in 1956, includes one-time super-agent turned realtor Tom Wilson (who continues to book the band) on bass, and former Rush co-manager Vic Wilson on sax. The early line-up included Snowbird/Put Your Hand In the Hand songwriter Gene MacLellan and Robbie Robertson …
In what appears to be part of a another facelift at CFRB, Dave McKee leaves Montreal’s CJAD to join Toronto’s oldest AM, founded 83 years ago by the Rogers Vacuum Tube Co….
Westwood One founder Norm Pattiz moves to consultant status with a contract that pays him A$340k through 2013 with various terms, conditions and enhancements attached…
With the Sirius XM contract that’s paid him over $600m over the past five years due to expire the end of this year, Howard Stern was musing on the air again last week about what he might be doing in 2011 and beyond. Here’s a real shocker: He’d like to be paid a lot of money, but work less. Gee, who wouldn’t? — RBR
Biz – A U.S. court ruled Friday that due to encumbrances, songs downloaded from the iTunes store aren’t actually purchased but “licensed” – and for that reason producers affiliated with Eminem are entitled to a larger royalty than defendant UMG was offering to pay. Most post-analogue contracts explicitly address the status of paid digital downloads, thus avoiding this particular contract dispute. However, the term has been a sticking point for acts such as Pink Floyd, Bob Seger and the Beatles in recent years as physical recordings are turned into downloadable files. UMG is set to appeal the decision that can be viewed here…
ASCAP members can now view various data, including royalty statements via free iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad apps…
Warner Music Aussie boss Ed St. John makes a sudden departure following stormy weather at the music firm…
The lineup of artists playing this year’s BreakOut West festival and Western Canadian Music Awards show in Kelowna, will be announced at a press conference on Wed. Sept. 8
As the continent pushes toward pan-Euro licensing, Wales is going it alone. Music Week reports that the Welsh music industry is one step closer to establishing its own independent music licensing and royalties collection agency, after publishing a feasibility study into the move earlier this month…
US duo The Gregory Brothers has turned TV source material about an Alabama rape victim into an unlikely iTunes hit –The Bed Intruder Song –with an accompanying YouTube video that’s been viewed 16m times so far
Digital Media – After publishing Fuck The System and Woodstock Nation, the late Abbie Hoffman ran into problems finding a publisher or book chain to carry his controversial 1971 credo and almost impossible to find Steal This Book. One can now do just that by linking here…
Media — News has fallen to the level of infotainment. We have been reduced to McNews – the trouble is we’re still hungry a half hour later. To paraphrase Kim Campbell: a newscast is a terrible place to talk about serious issues – Carl Patrick, SOWNY Board
Music – Michael Bublé’s current multi-platinum Crazy Love album is to be re-issued in a “deluxe” format on Oct. 25 with several new songs attached, including the next single, Hollywood–plus live versions of Haven’t Met You Yet and Billy Vera’s At This Moment…
During his lifetime Glenn Gould was often portrayed less as a real person than a collection of tics and so Canadian filmmakers Peter Raymont and Michèle Hozer set out to demystify the man, with the support of the Gould estate – NY Times…
Joel Plaskett starts his tour with the Barenaked Ladies in the UK on Sept. 9… A pair of tickets to Sunday’s SRO CCMA Awards at Rexall Place in Edmonton available on eBay now for $327.00…
New releases of note this week include vinyl reissues of Zep 1 and Tom Waits’ The Early Years, Avo Part’s Symphony No. 4, Richard Thompson’s Dream Attic, and Rocket In My Pocket—A Hipsters Guide to Rockabilly Music…
NPR is offering a streamed preview of Mavis Staples upcoming Jeff Tweedy-produced Your Are Not Alone album…
Doc Walker’s Dave Wasyliw has plenty of good things to say about his native land, hometown of Winnipeg and Canadian country radio in a recent Edmonton Journal article. The singer says Corb Lund wouldn’t be heard on commercial country radio in the US, and tells of a Nashville producer who became so bored with the Music City radio he tuned it out completely…
Randy Bachman’s catchphrase “taking care of business” has gone on to become of the 10 most covered songs of all time and it made him rich and famous. Heck, he even got to play himself on The Simpsons. Now he’s out to re-create music from an era when radio was hip and rock n’ roll was subversive – Vancouver Sun
If you thought the life of most musicians was comparable to the blissful and blinged-out existences of Kanye and Rihanna, you’ve clearly not heard much about our ever-desiccating music industry. In fact, there’s a whole lot of people standing in front of the musician when it comes to pay-out time – The Root
Johnny Reid’s latest mixes gospel with a bagpipe, blue-eyed soul and a fiddle driven song: “This sort of detour might not work for others but Johnny Reid’s adoring legion of female fans will eat this up like an overloaded bowl of Rocky Road after a bad breakup” – Bruce Leperre, Winnipeg Free Press
K’Naan tweeted an apology to Irish fans following a duff show on Saturday: “all my years of touring, today marks the 1st time I’ve played an entire concert w/out feeling a thing. Just going through the motions…”
Obit — ELO cellist Mike Edwards , struck dead by falling hay bale, aged 62
No, that’s not a typo in the headline. I got two emails over the weekend that saddened me deeply. One, a shock and a personal loss even though the person in question was part of my life well over 40 years ago, and the other, because of how random and idiotically absurd life can be. How can a man beat disease and survive a potentially life threatening condition, only to be felled by a bad driver and worse timing.
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I am now officially a Senior. I can shoo people off my lawn, keep the Frisbees that get tossed in my yard, take my damn sweet time crossing the street, hold up long lines in grocery stores and banks by showing pictures of my grandkids to the cashiers and tellers, bore the pants off of people by telling stories that all start with, “Back in my day…” and all end in “…at least, that’s how it used to be, before everything went to hell.”, and tell people to “Turn that shit down!” if they play anything recorded after 1975. Sweet…
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