Steely Dan – Why Their Music Matters.
I remember first hearing Steely Dan at a record store on Bloor Street in Toronto in 1977. At seventeen years of age, I didn’t have a surplus of cash, so …
I remember first hearing Steely Dan at a record store on Bloor Street in Toronto in 1977. At seventeen years of age, I didn’t have a surplus of cash, so …
Many of us with a passion for music would love to turn this into a career. Most of us don’t have the musical talent to be the next Kanye (speaking …
I have a very vivid memory of first hearing Caverna Magica by the Swiss electro-harpist Andreas Vollenweider. It was about 10:30 am December 22, 1983. I had been married for …
The idea of listening to music that you don’t own isn’t new. It was originally called radio. But you were limited to whatever the stations that you could receive were …
As this article states, there is not a word sung, spoken or whispered by the Beatles, or anyone remotely associated with the Fab Four, that has not been analysed to …
I remember my first MP3 player. It was a thumb drive with a couple of controls for volume and play/pause. It held 128 meg of music – maybe 35 songs …
Wow – 93% of Canadians were listening to music in 2016. I’m not sure why it isn’t 100%, but that’s a personal bias. Still, this represents an increase from 89% in …
The more I read about the compensation that music creators receive for their work, the more frustrated I get with the seemingly myopic perspective of the streaming music services like …
Very interesting article that follows up nicely to a post on where streaming music subscriptions go. Sharky Laguana presents a case for a new revenue sharing/distribution model for musicians and …
“Music has a strange temporal permanence; as art decorates space, so does music decorate time.” Very interesting article about the increasing importance of music in our work life from the …