Songwriting and Production
Since 1997’s Time Out of Mind, an atmospheric return-to-form after a long period of wandering, death has been Dylan’s chief concern, to the extent that some have read it as a personal obsession. Which, of course, has only aggravated him. Yes, his recent songs deal with mortality. “But I didn’t see any one critic say:…
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4. Toronto, Canada I recently hung out with one of Toronto’s heads of Government arts funding. Let’s just say she had an annual arts budget comparable to the salary of an NBA superstar. All of that money went to Ontario-based indie artists to release their own albums. Toronto also has perhaps the highest talent per…
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…very well done and enlightening documentary on Marc Bolan and his bands. 1:17:00
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Former supermodel Iman has opened up about the pain and loneliness following the death of her legendary husband David Bowie, who passed away January 2016 after a battle with cancer. The 63-year-old fashion icon, who was married to Bowie for 24 years, says the past two years without her husband have been difficult. One thing…
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It was Beatlemania gone mad around Christmas 1964. The Beatles played a residency of seasonal shows at a theatre in West London from Christmas Eve right through the first few weeks of the new year. Paul played his Hofner bass, Ringo thrashed a Ludwig set, George switched between his Rickenbacker 12-string, a Gretsch Country Gent,…
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young May Reunite Over The One Thing They Hate More Than Each Other George Pimentel / WireImage / Getty Images Wait…What? Folk rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have had an on again-off again relationship that’s nearly as famous as their music, their feuds stretching on for decades; in fact,…
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Source: Spotify Is Booming, But What Are We Sacrificing For Streaming? | Digital Trends I sell lots of songs through Spotify as streams. But unless you are really big and selling millions of them, there is not money in it. But, if the system were made fair for musicians and the product was more robust…
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Canadian music icon Burton Cummings says he is recovering from several injuries he suffered in a car crash last Sunday in Los Angeles. Source: Burton Cummings recovering from several injuries suffered in L.A. car crash | CBC News