http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/06/pbw-mj-video-tribute

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/popvox/archive/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dead-at-50.aspx

I don't believe it! And I feel so bad for grammardog -- she had tickets to one of his London shows!

Musical group "The Modern Men" performed selections from their recently-recorded CD in Halifax tonight. I was first turned onto the group by its lone female member, vocalist Lulu Healy. She sent me some unmixed tracks from the aforementioned CD which really blew me away, so I had to come out and see the group play live ( Read more... )

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I saw this for the first time in a telecast of the top 25 Grammy performances. Nessun Dorma is a surpassingly beautiful aria by Puccini which has recently been made popular by British cell phone salesman Paul Potts on Britain's Got Talent (see video), but this rendition by Aretha is truly wonderful. She doesn't try to sing it like an opera singer; ( Read more... )

Had a great gig tonight with an old group that was reunited for the first time in many years at this summer's jazz fest. Quatrain is a jazz quartet founded by a local bassist named Pete Johnston who's working on his Ph.D. at York University in Toronto right now, and the group showcases his original compositions ( Read more... )

How cool are these?

Musicovery
Select a mood on a matrix of dark vs positive, calm vs energetic, and a constellation of artists pops up and plays for you. Has to be tried to understand, but it's totally cool.

FineTuneNext-gen Pandora, basically. US citizens can stick with the real thing, but for Canadians and the other countries to whom Pandora ( Read more... )

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I’m just listening and watching a DVD with Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame, describing his approach to composing and arranging jazz and rock music by deconstructing his own tunes. He started with Chain Lightning, continued with Peg, and now he’s doing Josie. These are all great pop tunes, and most people would recognize them all immediately -- they ( Read more... )