What Was Said
I loved jazz, played it all through high school. That’s where I learned how to arrange and write music, how to play in every key. People thought I was this strange, tiny, small-town kid, the son of working-class parents, going to California to learn jazz. My family was in the dry-cleaning business. But that jazz training built the foundation for all these years. – Gordon Lightfoot, Tulsa World
Whether you talk, whether you send video, whether you send a fax, an email … it’s just bits that are being sent over the same wire. That has completely changed our traditional definition of broadcasting and telecom. It’s now essentially the same thing. It’s time to review this legislation, it’s 20 years old. We want a system that carries bits, carries them efficiently and gives Canadians as much access as possible. – Outgoing CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein advocates for an overhaul of the regulatory environment, CTV
Somewhere between the hysteria of the last few days and the tunnel vision of the Hollywood and the music industry, lies a solution. The real problem is both sides just brought out their big guns. — Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation on the collapsed US anti-piracy bill
Congress got lobbied hard by the RIAA to write a new law that allows its label members (note: the RIAA is the trade association for the major labels) to have a new legal weapon to go after “rogue” websites and services that give the middle finger to copyright by allowing people to get music for free from artists that do not want to give it away for free.
The problem is that the bills lobbied for were done so by the RIAA, the organization that no longer represents the music industry. The majority of today’s music is being created, distributed, bought, streamed and shared from artists outside of the RIAA label member system. The RIAA and its members are no longer the voice of the industry; they are the voice of what was, and an ever-shrinking part of what is. Congress needs to wake up to this fact. – TuneCore CEO Jeff Price
A couple of recent newspaper articles (The Grid and NYT) paint Toronto as the next big thing (read Seattle) in music. Without doubt, a growing parade of musicians and bands is crowding world stages with a seemingly limitless portfolio of genre-bending songs and sounds. One only has to look at the Top 10 lists of albums in 2011 on Metacritic to get a sense of just how influential our musical ambassadors have become, and just how much credibility they have inspired in an august collection of foreign peers and pundits, including the Guardian UK, NYT, LA Times, Pitchfork and on and on. But the new wave of success isn’t limited to Toronto. In fact, many of the acts playing world stages today are amalgams drawn from various cities across Canada, and infused with a wonderful chemistry drawn from far-flung nations that more often than not speak in foreign tongues.
The music is first and foremost, always. The tsunami effect of Canada’s music igniting interest at home and abroad can be traced back to a variety of formative influences and mentorship programs. We often overlook the incredibly supportive cradle that has helped nurture and promote our natural talents, in many ways far more effective and far-reaching in their productivity than other Arts and entertainment sectors enjoy. For starters, Canada has developed a strong agency sector. People such as Sam Feldman, Vinny Cinquemani, Ralph James and others have, over the years, created loyalties and friendships with agents and promoters around the world. These guys know their music, know the ins and outs of talent development, know how the biz works—and have working relationships with the major labels that work more than not.
And in an age when it seems everyone is out to bollock the major labels, here we have a small but effective cluster of guys that have earned their spurs, dig music and don’t act like prima donnas. At least most don’t, most of the time. Randy Lennox is everywhere, even when he’s not. Talk with Steve Kane at Warner Music and you know the guy is into music, knows who’s doing what—and is one of us few that still loves to roam a record shop and talk music with the staff. And then there’s Deane Cameron, a guy who’s walked more political minefields and lasted longer than anyone at EMI—and who has put his money where his mouth is a thousand times, earning him the moniker “Captain Canada” in some circles.
Let’s not overlook the incredible opportunities that FACTOR and CIMA offer working musicians and Canadian-owned record companies, or MuchFact that has helped fund or co-fund innumerable artist videos. We have a fantastic farm teams across the country in the form of satellite FACTOR operations, the provincial music industry associations. Then there’s the Polaris Music Prize, CMW, NXNE and the grand-daddy of them all, the Juno Awards.
Then there’s the dream weavers that find funds in improbable places and stretch dollars like rubber bands around inflated balloons. I speak of the quiet enablers that fund artist dreams under imprints such as Six Shooter, Stony Plain and an alphabet more across the country. Often overlooked, more often than not underpaid, they draw energy from what they do and the artists they help give voices to.
And there’s a lot to be said in giving the broadcasters a lot more credit than they generally deserve. Yes, the system is bust, the music directors are overworked, rigid adherents to head-office prescribed formats that are more narrowcast than a worm hole, but give these people credit where credit is due. Love them or not, broadcasters shell out a bucket of money annually in tariffs and in Canadian Talent Development funds. On occasion, they sometimes even exhibit a buttoned down enthusiasm for the music (and plied with a few drinks can often times surprise one with the amount of arcane knowledge they hold, and a genuine fondness for music they can only hope to be allowed to play).
Need I go on?
What all of the above and others have in common with the musicians who are taking Canada out into the world (could we ask for a more respectful and respectable ambassador than Leonard Cohen?) is an abiding sense of dignity and a general aversion to puffery and the kind of idiocy that we are all too often exposed to by often self-proclaimed superstars with elephantine egos. Going back to the era of Robert Service, Canada has had a long history of engaging story tellers, and pioneers that have created empires out of threads. The larger than life egos that have populated the pages of Vanity Fair and the like are largely disdained in Canada. And while I’m paying tribute to the many at large, let’s not overlook the quiet diplomacy of Gary Slaight, an entrepreneur who has never made quiet over his passion for up-and-coming Canadian talent and who mentored a generation of broadcasters who to this day continue to owe him a debt of gratitude for pushing them hard in an earlier day.
Canada’s growing success in international markets can be traced back to a strong support system at home. A system that took a long time to forgo the crippling cycle of investing in the safe and predictable and learned to let the cream rise, the musicians be heard and to savour the creations they invested back in us all.
In the event anyone should feel slighted, the names mentioned are but a few of the many that have helped to make a difference. The feels expressed above are meant to mirror the underlying reasons for success, and not spell out a roadmap of who is and isn’t a part of this ongoing process. — DCF
> OTTAWA: CRTC out-going topper von Finckenstein proves himself to be a pragmatic and tech savvy interview subject in a recent Globe & Mail farewell feature, suggesting that the Conservatives may be wise to find a successor for the regulatory body that can pave a path in the jurisdictional jumble of regulatory fiefdoms between the Commission and Industry Canada. KF also suggests that cultural imperatives aren’t likely to be diluted under the Harper regime.
> LOS ANGELES: Canadian Consul-General David Fransen held an intimate garden party for a throng of VIPs invited to preview Leonard Cohen’s next album. The guest of honour was mostly quiet, but described his role in the creative process as being mostly passive: “I know the spiritual journey is going on but I have so little mastery over it. I act as a secretary. I don’t really know how it works. I wish I did.”
Reporting on the event, a crotchety Globe & Mail reader commented: “How much is this one costing Canadian taxpayers?”
> Lefsetsz fans will likely enjoy reading Brian Thompson’s editorial posted on the Thorny Bleeder blog about the joy of listening to music, and the value proposition or lack thereof in ownership of same.
Is a song still worth 99 cents if I only listen to it once?
or…
Is a song still worth 99 cents if I listen to it a thousand times?
If that is indeed the value of a song, per listen, then how do we justify the micro payments a songwriter receives when their song is aired for free to millions of people on the radio?
Oh, that’s right… it’s called promotion.
And because its been given that label, you agree to accept virtually no money in exchange for it.
So if I can listen to a song on the radio for free, why can I not listen to it on the Internet for free?
International
WASHINGTON: Every digital locker service and file linking website is on notice now that MegaUpload and TVShack are down as a result of the US Federal Government ramping up its fight against illegal file sharing and hosting. MegaUpload was a massive digital locker service. So large in fact that the site accounted for 4% of the Internet’s total traffic. The site boasted 50 million daily users and 180 million registered users. MegaUpload’s downfall was that they seemingly promoted the sharing of copy-written material. The Feds stated that MegaUpload utilized third-party sites to publicize the “infringing content” and “manipulated the perception of content” by omitting infringing content from the top content lists (pdf indictment here)
The case against TV Shack is rather more bizarre. Hosted by Richard O’Dwyer, a Brit student living in New Zealand, the 23 year-old now faces an extradition charge to the US for simply linking to sites hosting illegal content, a crime which could land him in a US jail for five to ten years under pre-SOPA and PIPA laws.
> NEW YORK: Filesharing site Megaupload was taken down Thursday by the US Department Of Justice and FBI with key execs arrested. Hackers Anonymous retaliated shutting down the sites of the RIAA, BMI, MPAA, DOJ, UMG and WMG. Warner Music’s site remained down early on Saturday morning. UMG parent Vivendi was forced offline Friday night, but it and WMG were up as of 10:50AM ET Saturday.
> WASHINGTON: According to the Department of Justice, Megaupload.com and other related sites generated more than $175 million in profits through ad revenue and premium memberships, while causing more than $500 million dollars in damage to copyright owners. While the DOJ did not elaborate on how these figures were calculated, it did say the case is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States. The indictment states that the conspirators promoted the uploading of popular copyrighted works including movies, music, television programs, electronic books, and software on a massive scale so that millions of users could download the content.
> NEW YORK: The recent arrests and shut-down of popular file sharing site MegaUpload may be making other sites question their positions. FileSonic and FileShare, two of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, appears to have bowed to pressure about illegal file sharing on its network, now only allowing personal upload files to be retrieved. In addition to disabling all sharing functionality, the sites appear to have discontinued their affiliate rewards programs. The sites are among the top 10 file-sharing sites on the Internet, with a quarter billion page views a month.
Separately, one of Finland’s largest ISPs has begun blocking access to the Pirate Bay, the Swedish music and film file-sharing site, following a law suit mounted by the film and music industry trade bodies. Internet service provider Elisa, which has more than 2M customers, is blocking customer access to more than 30 affiliated Pirate Bay websites.
>LOS ANGELES: KTS Karaoke, a CD and DVD manufacturing giant became so fed by Sony claiming that the Company owes them $1.28 billion for 6,715 acts of alleged song infringement that the company decided to drag Sony/ATV Music Publishing into a California federal court for being an aggressive nuisance in the karaoke marketplace. But Sony has upped the ante and filed a new action in Nashville, and wants a recall on the company’s numerous karaoke CDs. – Hollywood Reporter
> AUSTIN: The start of South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival is fast approaching and countless events are being finalized. In preparation for 6 full days of events, SXSW Music presents a sampling of new panels, specialized programming for musicians, band highlights and the launch of the event’s schedule at sxsw.com. SXSW takes place Tuesday, March 13 – Sunday, March 18, in Austin, TX at the Austin Convention Center and at numerous venues throughout downtown.
> NEW YORK: It was a big week past for Irving Berlin Music as they re-signed Rodgers & Hammerstein and Imagem Music Group for international brand management, grand rights exploitation and music publishing in North America.
> Jim Cady – CEO of internet radio service Slacker Radio – is concerned that streaming music may not be a sustainable model for the music industry
> SoundExchange reported Q4 distributions of $89.5 million bringing year-end payments to $292 million (up 17%).
> The U. Supreme Court upheld a ruling last week to afford copyright protection to international works once considered ‘public domain’. The ruling is a blow to a group of artists, film archivists and educators – backed by Google and others – who wheeled out the Constitution’s ‘Progress Clause’ to try avoid the need for royalty payments on the works in question.
Talent & Touring
> Bruce Springteen announced on his Web site Thursday that he would release a new 11-song album, his 17th, entitled Wrecking Ball, on March 6. The lead-off single, We Take Care of Our Own, is an upbeat sounding number that belies the subject matter that alludes to the tumultuous economic and political climate in his beloved US of A.
> Coldplay and Rihanna will perform together for the first time at the Grammy Awards, and Paul McCartney will sing a song as well, the National Academy of Performing Arts and Sciences announced Thursday. LL Cool J will host the Feb. 12 Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. And Virgin Records founder Richard Branson is to be honoured during the ceremony with the President’s Merit Award in recognition of his impact and contributions in the music biz. Past recipients of the award Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, Clive Davis, Ahmet Ertegun, David Geffen, Berry Gordy, Doug Morris, and Mo Ostin.
> Adele has passed another chart milestone as her album 21 remains in its 16th week at #1 on the Billboard chart, a feat achieved by only four other records in the last 20 years: Whitney Houston’s Bodyguard soundtrack, Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ The Wind, Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All and the Titanic soundtrack. In the UK, 21 has spent more weeks at number one than any album since 1971. Total sales of 21 in the UK, US and Canada are now in excess of 10 million.
> Legacy Recordings is set to release an expanded version of Janis Joplin’s Pearl album on April 17. The Pearl Sessions, a newly-curated definitive two-disc edition of Joplin’s final studio album that is to include “newly discovered” studio outtakes, live performances and “other rarities”. The only album Joplin ever recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, the touring ensemble that had backed her on the Festival Express, disc one includes the original album as well as the original mono singles from the album (“Cry Baby,” “Get It While You Can,” “Me and Bobby McGee“) and the 2nd disc is a collection of behind-the-scenes, studio dialogue, song demos and alternate takes including nine previously unissued tracks.
> The 50th anniversary of the legendary soul label Stax Records will kick off with the release of a deluxe edition 50-song, 2-CD box set titled Stax 50: A 50th Anniversary Celebration, set for release March 13.
> Mighty Sparrow, born Slinger Francisco in Grenada and raised in Trinidad, was given the name Mighty Sparrow after incorporating James Brown moves into his stage shows. He was named Calypso King of the world after the success of songs like ‘Jook for Jook’ and ’Ten to One Is Murder’ which are included on Sparrowmania! (Strut) – a 29 track double-disc -set that spans the years 1962-1974, the era which many consider to be his creative peak.
> Montreal pop punk band Simple Plan performed at Kuala Lumpur Live last week to an exuberant, 2,000-strong audience, who had been waiting in the hallways since morning. The fans chanted “Simple Plan” repeatedly until the boys appeared on stage and performed the opening number, which ironically was Shut Up. The audience, between teenyboppers and those in their early 30s, clapped their hands and sang their heart out to almost every song, including Thank You which the band cleverly changed to “Terima Kasih”. Midway through the show, singer Pierre Bouvier cheekily lamented, “I do not have a Malaysian girlfriend”, to which the girls in the audience went into a frenzy. – Jennifer Jones, New Straight Times
Out Now
Newfoundland born Elton Adams has returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and completed work on his 1st album in Halifax, having earned a degree of earlier success with the single, What A Soldier Left Behind. In advance of the debut album release, Adams has released the single My Canadian Girls, co-featuring Julian Austin on vocals.
> Former Constantines lead singer Bry(an) Webb has released his solo album Provider on the Idée Fixe label. Betw
een writing and demoing for his debut record Bry participated in the much-lauded National Parks Project by travelling to The Queen Charlotte Islands and collaborating with Jim Guthrie and Sarah Harmer and collaborated with Leslie Feist on her Metals album.
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A lot has changed in Kathleen Edwards’ life since her last record, 2008’s Asking for Flowers: she ended a four-year marriage to musician Colin Cripps, took up with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and moved her songwriting even further from the alt-country terrain she first tread and into a much more mature, mainstream pop sound on Voyageur (Zoe/Rounder)
Upcoming Canadian
Leonard Cohen’s upcoming Old Ideas album is set for release Jan. 31. A synopsis of advance reviews of the album can be read here; meantime, the Montrealer has indicated he is prepared to tour again, and that he has enough new songs set aside to record another album. Hallelujah!
> John K. Samson doesn’t believe his music will change the world, but he’ll settle for getting Reggie Leach into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The hockey star known as the Riverton Rifle played 13 seasons in the NHL, winning a Stanley Cup with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1975 and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy the following year when he scored a record-setting 19 goals in the post-season. With a record of 381 goals and 285 assists in 934 games, Leach might not have the numbers to make the hall, but Samson believes it’s more than points that should be taken into consideration. To achieve his goal, Samson(who is also frontman in the Wearkerthans) wrote the song www.ipetitions.com/petition/rivertonrifle/ and created an online petition that he will present to the hockey hall in Toronto after spreading the word about his proposal and touring in support of his debut solo album, Provincial, set for release Tuesday on the Epitaph Records imprint, Anti-. – Rob Williams, Winnipeg Free Press
>Nelly Furtado tweeted recently that she is coming out with her new yet-to-be-titled LP in the summer and also touring to promote this follow-up to her multi-platinum selling album, Loose.
> Alert Music is pleased to announce that jazz artist Holly Cole will be releasing her first live concert CD/DVD, Steal the Night: Live At The Glenn Gould Studio, on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
Broadcasting & Media
> VICTORIA: Janet Rogers has been named Victoria’s latest poet laureate. Rogers hosts Native Waves Radio on CFUV radio and Tribal Clefs on CBC Radio One. Her video poem, What Did You Do Boy, earned nominations at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and the Native American Music Awards. Her radio documentary, Bring Your Drum (50 Years of Indigenous Protest Music) won the best radio award at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Festival last year.
> OTTAWA: In a wise, although belated decision, the CRTC recently announced a policy to encourage the country’s incumbent telephone companies to adopt Internet Protocol (IP) throughout their networks, putting them on a similar footing with their wireless colleagues. The regulatory body says that several phone companies have already started the IP transition and the new policy would ensure compliance across the country.
> Top of the Pops to relaunch online as BBC aim to lure more young listeners
Top of the Pops is making a comeback – but on the internet rather than on TV as the BBC hope to entice more young listeners to the show. Radio 1 is set to revamp its Official Chart Show from Feb. 26 with a new online version featuring videos, live performances and interviews. Controller of BBC Radio 1 Ben Cooper said: ‘This is the Chart Show for the 21st century. I’m very excited about this innovation. – Metro.co.uk
> As of Sunday, there are 10 Internet radio apps you can install on your Kindle Fire. Seven of the 10 are free, so it will cost you nothing to download most of them and try them out, assuming of course that they are available in Canada.
Obits
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins) the singer who turned “At Last” into a multi-generational standard and was an acknowledged influence on singers from Janis Joplin to Melissa Etheridge and Christina Aguilera, aged 73
Johnny Otis, dubbed the “godfather of rhythm and blues”, aged 90
Careers
VP, Music Publishing Controller, Warner Music Group NY
Director, Network Program Development — CBC Toronto
Senior Manager, Sales and Marketing, Glenn Gould Studio / — Toronto
Administrative Assistant (Production and Resources) — Ottawa
Administrative Assistant (Productions – Producer Services) – Montreal, Temporary
Senior Researcher (French Services) / Premier recherchiste (Services français) –Toronto
Associate Producer – Technician (English Services) / Réalisateur associé — technicien — Sudbury
Maintenance Technician, Remote Areas (Transmission Divison) / Technicien de maintenance, endroits isolés (Division de la Transmission) – Montreal, Temporary
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Host – English Radio 80% of Full-Time / Animateur radio anglais 80% — Edmonton
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Video Journalist / Vidéojournaliste — Saint John
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Host (Sports) / Animateur (Sports) — Edmonton
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Manager, Media Operations and Technology/Poste de chef, Exploitation et Technologies médias (CBC North) — Yellowknife
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Reporter/Editor (Weather) / Reporter/Redacteur – (spécialisé en météo) –Edmonton
Reporter/Editor (CBCNews.ca) / Reporter-Rédacteur (CBCNews.ca) – Edmonton
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Regional Lineup Editor — Rimouski
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Job Posting Jan 9, 2012
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Worth Reading
The Year Rock Just Spun Its Wheels
By Jon Caramanica — Is rock music dead? Or is it just “zombified?” How would you assess that pop music genre’s fortunes for 2012?
It is pure historical re-enactment, interrupted only to write new material in the style of the band it’s standing in for, like the hired hand who steps in for the mystery-novel author who keels over before finishing a trilogy. It’s designed to satisfy fans who still crave the feeling, if not quite the author himself. It quenches pre-existing thirst.
Antipiracy Case Sends Shivers Through Some Legitimate Storage Sites
By Nicole Perlroth and Quentin Hardy — The Megaupload indictment reminds companies that how they manage copyrighted material on their sites could determine whether they continue to operate freely or face legal consequences. At the same time, it offers a look at just how widespread such piracy is and how tricky it can be to cut down on it, given the many ways people can send files to each other online.
A Clash of Media Worlds (and Generations)
By Amy Chozick –Technology types don’t see this as a battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. They see it as a battle between old and new.
Five Lessons From The SOPA/PIPA Fight
By Matthew Yglesias — 3) In America, always bet on change not happening:
The Story Behind Etta James’s Greatest Song
By David Haglund — Etta James was no one-hit wonder. In fact, as truly great as “At Last” is, James recorded another that was even better—and it’s one she co-wrote, although, for tax reasons, she gave songwriting credit to her then boyfriend. (“It bugs me to this day that he still receives royalties,” James wrote in 1995.)
“I’d Rather Go Blind” (also, as it happens, sung by Beyoncé, when she played Etta James in the film Cadillac Records) was reportedly begun by Ellington “Fugi” Jordan, a friend of James’s, when he was in Chino Prison for robbery, and then completed by James later.
Chicago Celebrates Musical Past With Motor Row
By Mark Guarino – Music that went silent nearly 40 years ago on an historic stretch of Chicago’s celebrated Michigan Avenue is poised to return, thanks to an unlikely mix of rock stars, politicians and real estate developers. The city has rezoned Motor Row — near Chess Studios, the famed “home of the electric blues” — as a live entertainment district, set to open in early 2013. Music bloomed nearby — just north of Motor Row was Record Row, the center of Chicago’s recording industry between the late 1940s and the mid-1970s, once second only to New York City. Record labels Vee-Jay, Chess, Wonderful and King all operated studios along the strip, which mainly housed large record distributorships.
Why January Is The time To Launch A Pop Career
By Adam Sherwin — There are few certainties in hit-making but one motto used to ring true – January is a dead month for music. However the new year has now become the most fertile period to create new stars as artists who might never have earned a coveted No 1 discover a shortcut to pop’s summit.
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David,
Great article today on the state of Canadian music and the support mechanism we have created. It’s nice to see a positive and uplifting spin on the business of radio and music in Canada in these (still) challenging conditions.
Ross
Amen to that. Fantastic piece, David!
Great article today on the state of Canadian music and the support mechanism we have created