The Weeknd is slowly releasing some tracks from his upcoming album, Kiss Land. He also had time to partake in an excellent remix with Kavinsky. The latest track is called Love in the Sky, which I’m assuming is about astronauts...
Ottawa Folk Festival Reveals Lineup Ottawa should just quit naming festivals after genres of music. They have the Bluesfest, which has seen bluesy acts such as Metallica, Snoop Dogg, and Skrillex play. They also have the slightly more appropriate but...
Young Cats Like Me Are Listening to More Music Online Than On Radio A new study shows that, based on the final quarter of 2012, people between the age 13 to 35 spent as much time streaming music online or...
Warner Music Acquires Parlophone from Universal Music Time to pack your bags, Parlophone artists – you’re moving to Warner Music. Since Universal acquired EMI in September, it was required to sell off some of its assets (via Gigwise). The deal...
Indie Music Accounted for Almost One Third of All 2012 Sales in the USA The American Association of Independent Music has pointed out that 2012’s Soundscan stats show that indie labels accounted for 32.6% of music sales in the USA...
Facebook recently emailed everyone their new “Updates to Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.” This caused a few angry status updates from my 5 Facebook friends (4 of whom I’ve never met IRL). Anyway, people wrote lengthy...
What do you use Facebook for? Do you inundate your friends with pictures of your dog/baby/insert annoying possession, or are you looking for pics of your friends, your friends’ friends or your ex-girlfriend, preferably in as skimpy an outfit as...
Despite drawing some amazing stick figures – I mean, just look at that PHM logo! – I will never have anything in the Paris art museum, the Louvre. However, thanks to a new project, my (and your) Facebook profile picture...
If Detox Finally Appears, It Might Only Be an EP Hip hop’s version of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy album would clearly be Dr. Dre’s Detox. This is not in terms of quality, but the fact that the albums were...
Stream the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor Album There’s a moral grey area when it comes to embedding album streams onto a site. Websites claim they have the ‘exclusive’ first listen, and I don’t actually know whether they pay the...
Love Me Do Turns 50 It was 50 years ago today Sgt Pepper taught the band to play that the Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do (via Guardian). Sadly they were never heard from again. Well, the single...
How is this for a self-esteem boost and positive re-enforcement: Melissa Chow, Andy Payne, and Phil Seaton at the MIT Media Lab have created Like-A-Hug, which sort of hugs you when a friend likes your Facebook photo, video, or status...
If you’re going to do something illegal and brag about it to your friends, do it verbally, or show them the pictures in person. Don’t tag you and your super smart buddies on Facebook – this leads to criminal charges....
I’m not disturbed or troubled enough to take anyone hostage – at least not at this point in my life. If I was though, I don’t think I would go on Facebook and provide updates or comments to people about...
Adam Yauch Lyric Skateboard to Be Auctioned Off The recently deceased MCA from the Beastie Boys is still helping out charities from beyond the grave, because he’s that nice. Adam Yauch wrote out the lyrics to Bodhisattva Vow across three...
