Holcombe Waller, right, with band, in Loft 1011 at the Ace Hotel.
In the past couple of years, hotels have started to more fully embrace the role of music presenter: series like the Renaissance Hotel’s RLife Live and venues like the Maritime Hotel’s Hiro Ballroom offer guests access to big-name artists, while almost any hotel with a restaurant or a large-ish lobby offers exposure opportunities to the right kind of artist.
Recently, the chamber folk artist and composer Holcombe Waller has been showcasing his music in hotels in an even more exciting way: the bed-in. [click to continue…]
Album art for Altrice's album, Stem, available for download on iTunes via City Slang.
A couple of weeks ago, we published a post outlining the things that all good remix albums have in common.
This week, we came across another one, and the story was too good to pass up, so we now present the story of Altrice’s Stem, a remix record based on Caribou’s much-feted 2010 album, Swim. [click to continue…]
A particularly elegant piece of wreckage from the Ciara-Rihanna Twitter war.
At this point, you are hopefully aware that Twitter is an effective communication and marketing tool for musicians. Granted, it doesn’t do everything well, and there are certain unspoken rules one should abide by.
But is it okay to fight on Twitter? And, if you’re a musician, is it maybe even a good idea? [click to continue…]
The Songwriters Association of Canada (or, S.A.C.), “a friendly community of songwriters” which “advocate[s] on behalf of songwriters to protect the value of our work,” has worked out a proposal that could turn the Canadian music industry on its head. [click to continue…]
