STU professor up for ECMA
A St. Thomas University professor might be bringing an East Coast Music Award back to campus. Fine arts professor Steven Peacock’s music duo, Duo Cantilena, has been nominated for the upcoming awards. The duo’s latest album, The Green Bushes: Dances, Airs & Lullabies, is nominated for classical recording of the year. “The nominations are juried [...]
I was in high school when I decided I had been missing out on the genius that is Tom Waits. His name came up in music discussions often enough – and I just so happened to see him in theatres playing the devil in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – that I said: “I should [...]
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It’s a lifelong dream of Tyler Lombard’s to have a deal with a major record label. This week, he’ll find out if he’s one step closer to that dream. Lombard, a member of Fredericton electronic trio The Arka Teks, said the band will likely know by the end of this week whether they’ll move one [...]
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Redwood Fields is saying “in with the new” by welcoming a female band member and working to refine their sound. Heather Ogilvie, the group’s bass player, is the most recent addition to the band. She is only one show deep with Redwood Fields since joining last month, but she’s had experience in the Fredericton music [...]
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Electro, funk-and-dance outfit Whale Skin makes their mark on the Maritimes It was a warm night in June last year when Willow Bell, front-man of the band Whale Skin, was nervously waiting to hit the stage. It was the band’s first-ever live show and they were the headliners. Bell says Whale Skin’s first show was [...]
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If Fredericton band BlueCarpit had a middle name, it would be fun. Front-man Ryan Gallen said the band doesn’t like to take themselves seriously. They love to make fun of themselves in their lyrics and music. “I don’t really like music that’s too serious,” said Gallen. “If an artist as a group can’t even, you [...]
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(Photo courtesy of Shayne Kaye via Flickr Creative Commons) KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CUP) — I’ve been able to bottle it up until now. It has been boiling in the background, but I put a lid on it and let it be. But now — now you’ve done it. You have, once again, ended up (almost) at [...]
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MONTREAL (CUP) — In the last decade or so, the way we experience music has changed drastically. Many now walk around with a miniature library of music in their back pockets, downloading music directly to their computers for a fraction of what they used to pay in stores. Still others have gone retro, touting the [...]
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Victoria based OuterSphere Recordings want to rep more artists VICTORIA (CUP) — OuterSphere Recordings is looking to expand an entire genre of music. The local collective wants to see dubstep — a South East London genre of electronic dance music — continually grow by meshing the cross-Atlantic styles of the genre. By splicing the big [...]
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Despite restrictive copyright laws, online vandalism is not the answer EDMONTON (CUP) — It shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone that Limewire, one of the more popular choices for Internet freeloaders worldwide to download illegal music, videos and software, has been shut down. Despite these measures to curb illegal downloads, the Internet “vigilante” [...]
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“1, 2, 3… 4,” says Adam Guidry before tossing a tiny egg shaker in the air, leaping off a chair to catch it, and flailing across the ground. It’s his third miss in a row, and his band, the Hungry Hearts, have started to grow weary with his coordination incompetence. “Did you forget how to [...]
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From vinyl records to mp3s, music has changed. But does how we listen to music effect what we get from it? Elizabeth Sullivan – The Aquinian – What does music mean to you? Don’t just think about the individual artist or the genres. What does having music on your computer, having CD’s, and having digital [...]
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