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Cassette making on the way back for Canadian music company
Montreal-based Duplication – formerly Analogue Media Technology – received its first order for 10 cassettes in 1989. Nowadays, cassettes account for a quarter of its business, which involves producing merchandise on behalf of bands. It began making cassettes and vinyl records for band, then CDs and DVDs, then Blu-ray, and now cassettes are back as a focus. "We've ...
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Thousand Oaks jazz wine festival raises money for school music programs
The Tin Drum Band featuring Mighty Mo Rogers (center) performs at the California Jazz & Wine Fest on Sunday afternoon in Thousand ...
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Iotapa wins Railbird Stakes at Hollywood Park
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -; Iotapa beat Ciao Bella Luna by 1 1/4 lengths Sunday in the $74,920 Railbird Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park, giving jockey Joe Talamo a sweep of the weekend stakes ...
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Billboard Awards Red Carpet 2013 Music Stars Shine In Las Vegas
MTV Video Music Awards ) are here! That means it's time yet again to honor the biggest names in the music biz, from Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 to fun. (each nominated in 11 categories). Also finalists: Rihanna, Carly Rae Jepsen and One Direction -- cue the T-Swift and Harry Styles drama But forget the awards -- it's all about the clothes! Since the award shows take place in Las ...
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Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner Joke About Their Marriage Kanye West Debuts New Music on Saturday Night Live Finale
"Steve Martin showed up [on that show]…Tom Hanks, Paul Simon…so I'm like, who's going to show up when I do it," Affleck said."Well, they were all just here for Justin Timberlake, so, no [one]," Bobby ...
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Music Review James Levine Returns to the Podium at Carnegie Hall
Against all odds, James Levine is back. On Sunday afternoon Mr Levine, one of the greatest living American conductors and a musician who has defined the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years, cruised onto the stage of Carnegie Hall in a motorized wheelchair and conducted the Met Orchestra in a substantial program, his first performance anywhere in more than two years. The audience, ...
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Op-Ed Contributor The Day the Music Died in Mali
EVERYONE has heard of censored songs, like Billie ...
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Toots Hibbert Injured By Bottle Thrown During Concert
reports that Frederick "Toots" Hibbert was struck in the forehead and treated at a hospital for the resulting cut. Toots and the Maytals were performing at the Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival when a glass vodka bottle was launched from the crowd. The reggae veterans' set was brought to an early end, and a 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with ...
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Human brains are wired to make music-color connections
When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...
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Bottle Hits Singer Vodka Bottle Hit Causes Laceration Needing 8-10 Stitches
Toots and the Maytals performs on the Congo Square Stage at the 36th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, April 30, 2005. A bottle has hit a singer during a concert in Richmond on Saturday night, leading to the arrest of a teenager, according to reports.Singer, Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, of the reggae band Toots and the Maytals, was singing in a concert at the Dominion ...
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Cannes Market Nightlife Bustles Despite Torrential Rains
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart visits THR's Martinez hotel soiree, appraises the "Hunger Games" beachside bash and catches up with Adrien Brody, who says: "This is a vacation, so to ...
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30 Rocks Katrina Bowden and Musician Ben Jorgensen Are Married
so that friends can contribute to making their getaway as memorable as possible."We are very excited to plan our dream honeymoon together-and can't wait to make our perfect honeymoon dream a reality," the post says. "This gift registry is very exciting because it allows you to contribute directly to making our honeymoon the best it can possibly be."In January 2012, ...
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Lawful After it became a theme song in Minnesotas gay-marriage debate Suburbs leader Chan Poling wants to take Love is the Law on the road
It started with an acoustic jingle in a Minnesotans United for All Families Internet video during the gay-marriage debate at the Legislature. Since then, Suburbs leader Chan Poling has watched the title of his band's 1983 classic single "Love is the Law" pepper political speeches and form a kind of musical backdrop for a downtown St. Paul block party of almost the same name. ...
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One More Time Singer Romanthony Dead at 45
, which featured Romanthony's autotuned vocals on the lead single, "One More Time." Romanthony also sang on the closing track, "Too Long" and is listed as a co-writer on both songs. "One More Time" took off to become a defining dance-floor hit of the era, particularly in France and Canada, where it topped the singles chart, and the U.K., where it hit Number ...
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‘Star Trek’ boldly goes to top of US box office
This undated publicity film image released by Paramount Pictures shows, Zachary Quinto, left, as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk in a scene in the movie, ';Star Trek Into Darkness,'; from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. The three astronauts in the International Space Station were offered a sneak peak of the movie days before it opens Thursday, May 16, 2013 on Earth. ...
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New Edmonton symphony program brings music to inner-city students
EDMONTON - A new pilot project to teach violin to inner-city kids is about much more than learning music, organizers say."The most important thing is that it's a social change program," says Shirley Nowicki of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, which is organizing the free, after-school program at Mother Teresa Catholic school."It's not to develop technically excellent ...
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Virginia Gibson Singer actress and dancer who starred in hit musicals of the 1940s and ’50s
The pert dancer, singer and actress Virginia Gibson brightened several film musicals of the 1950s, notably the classic Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), in which, as one of the brides, she danced in the barn-raising sequence, one of the most exhilarating numbers in movie history, and led the rest of the girls in the song "June ...
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Stone Temple Pilots Surprise at KROQ Weenie Roast Concert Review
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington acted as the Stone Pilots frontman as the band played an unscheduled set during the alt-rock radio station's annual spring ...
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Cannes where celebrity sells and celebrities sell
Jury member actress Nicole Kidman (R) and her husband Keith Urban pose on the red carpet as they arrive for the screening of the film ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' in competition during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 19, ...
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Star Trek does $70.6M on opening weekend but falls short of studios expectations
May 16, 2013: This undated publicity film image released by Paramount Pictures shows, Zachary Quinto, left, as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk in a scene in the movie, "Star Trek Into Darkness," from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. The three astronauts in the International Space Station were offered a sneak peak of the movie days before it opens on ...
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Jennifer Lawrence Wows in White During Catching Fire Party Before Almost Actually Catching Fire
party during the Cannes Film Festival, when she slipped into this gorgeous, white strapless Christian Dior dress with a printed detail on the side, which was accentuated by her bright fuchsia Manolo Blahnik pointed ...
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What Do Johnny Depp and a 505-Million-Year-Old Fossil Have in Common
after the actor, because of its scissor-like claws, which reminded the researcher of Depp's famous 1990 character, Edward Scissorhands."When I first saw the pair of isolated claws in the fossil records of this species, I could not help but think of Edward Scissorhands," David Legg said on ...
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Music Review Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field
The map of Electric Daisy Carnival, the two-day electronic dance music festival that began on Friday at Citi Field, was also a map of genres and subgenres. In 11 hours of continuous music from five stages, there were pop tunes and blasts of noise, immediate thrills and inexorable buildups, cheap shots and rich experiments. New York ...
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Music Review Rebecca Luker at 54 Below
The comparison of a soprano with a nightingale goes back at least to the time of Jenny Lind, the 19th-century opera diva known as ...
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Music Review Beka Gochiashvili and Gadi Lehavi at the Allen Room
Whenever a respected jazz musician ...
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