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26 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Media

Britain changes 3 strikes to 2 strikes

“Legal framework for tackling copyright infringement via education and technical measure.” This innocuous looking sentence is the lead item in the BBC’s summation of UK government plans to gain control of the Internet on behalf of (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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21st Century Celebrities

Some people think that globalization is a process which tends to standardize cultures, and then to destroy our world’s diversity. Given that the Internet’s development is in line with this process, they also consider that the Internet is the (...)

18 Nov. 2009 | | Josse

Arts & Entertainment

Feel Good Tour : on the road again

With Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, it’s steal as much as you can get away with, give back as little as possible, and then sue your own customers, calling them criminals and thieves. Fortunately, however, their attitude (...)

18 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Lands in Toronto and Lands Supermarket Residency

Besides being a mouthful of a name, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald (MBF) has been steadily growing as a Canadian commodity in the west for the past few years. The Calgarian has become a staple in his hometown, playing the last two Virgin Festivals in his (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | BlogTO

Arts & Entertainment

The Hiphop Aesthetic : Producers, Consumers, Critics & Culture

The most interesting discussion I’ve heard in a long time about hiphop culture has been happening over at Respectable Negroes. Interesting because it has focused on the role of critics and tropes. Now I’ve done more than dangled my feet in (...)

28 oct. 2009 | | Cobb

People

Turning Borders into Music: A Magical Transformation Project

In a work he calls The Anta Project, Weyant transforms the U.S.-Mexico border wall into a musical instrument using, as he says: "a cello bow and implements of mass percussion." He literally uses that cello bow to make avant garde music from the (...)

26 Oct. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Arts & Entertainment

Fans want to pay musicians

By way of an update, a2f2a (artists-to-fans-to-artists), is now online with debates on payments to artists, writes and wrongs on copyright, and a lot of other items of immediate interest, going hot and strong, as p2pnet readers who’ve already (...)

26 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

We are the walrus. Or, thank you Lily Allen

“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” That’s from The Beatles’ 1967 song I Am The Walrus. The attribution is to both Paul McCartney and John Lennon, but the words are Lennon’s and for me, they sum up (...)

5 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

A slice of French life - Rigoletto at Vaux-le Vicomte

Name a château in France and the chances are pretty high that somewhere near the top of the list will be Versailles, 20 kilometres southwest of the capital Paris. Sorry folks from the outset, this piece isn’t about that most royal of palaces, but (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People

Carla Bruni to hit the big screen?

Isn’t it just the news you’ve been waiting for? France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is rumoured to be set to appear at a cinema near you sometime in the not-too-distant future. Well that’s if the Spanish national daily (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

The Most Serene Republic and Seven Minute Instrumental Symphonic Pieces (and Sean)

Arts and Crafts indie darlings, The Most Serene Republic, released their latest full-length ...And The Ever Expanding Universe on July 14th, 2009. For me, TMSR is a band that is due to start making big splashes in the national music pool. That’s not (...)

14 aoû. 2009 | | BlogTO

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I don’t give two fucks about your review

According to Will Page of the MCRS-PRS, the music industry is more than making back the money it’s losing from recording on live performance. That wasn’t in the Digital Britain Report, now was it ? We’re doing our best. Meanwhile, (...)

30 jui. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

People

About Michael Jackson’s erring ways

Is there such a thing as a well-adjusted artist? A letter to my good friend. A friend of mine I had a conversation with lately confided to me that she wasn’t as impressed as I was about Michael Jackson’s death, particularly on account of his (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Eric_Henry

Arts & Entertainment

Michael Jackson Tube Thriller

I only heard about Michael Jackson’s death on the radio this morning, which was a massive shock, specially as I didn’t hear it in a news item and was half asleep. He was a big part of my childhood and this video of a group of dancers on the (...)

26 jui. 2009 | | Annie Mole

People

Michael Jackson Dies

I was completely shocked to learn in the last few hours the news that Michael Jackson died. Apparently of a heart attack. I was huge fan of Michael Jackson as a child and he’s a huge influence. Of course we don’t know what’s happened (...)

26 jui. 2009 | | jultra

People

Michael Jackson is dead, aged 50

Pop star Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles today, says the CBC, quoting media reports. Captain Steve Ruda with the Los Angeles Fire Department said Jackson wasn’t breathing, “when paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about (...)

26 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

French soulstress, Miss Dominique, is back

France might well have a new star in the making after Soan Faya walked away with this country’s Nouvelle Star (Pop Idol) earlier this week, but another former contestant from a previous edition of the show has recently been making the music (...)

11 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

The Muhtadi International Drumming Festival

What is it about the beat of a drum that unites cultures from all over the world ? At the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival held this past weekend (June 6 and 7) at Queen’s Park, drum troupes from all over the world from, North America to (...)

10 jui. 2009 | | BlogTO

Arts & Entertainment

Whatever happened to....."Norway nul points?"*

After Saturday night’s clear win in the Eurovision Song contest for the Norwegian entry "Fairytale" (written and performed by Alexander Rybak) it surely leaves many a fan wondering what ever happened to the country’s appalling track (...)

19 May. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

French "nude" music video creates a buzz on the Net

It’s perhaps a lesson to all music makers on how to gain maximum "exposure" (forgive the pun - it’ll become clear in a moment) for your very first single release. The French electro-rock duo Make The Girl Dance, one of whose (...)

18 May. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

Do stadium-fillings artists still really play live ?

Nobody can deny this, music today just doesn’t work the way it used to fifty years ago... With all the digital technologies, powerful softwares and racks studios are equipped with, it’s now possible to create perfect sounding tracks, and make (...)

7 May. 2009 | | Blue

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Don’t you judge anyone too quickly!

AGAINST ALL ODDS Against all odds because Susan Boyle was starved of oxygen at birth, which left her with learning difficulties. Three in 1,000 babies in the United Kingdom still either die or become severely brain-damaged at birth, by the lack of oxygen (...)

20 Apr. 2009 | | J.N. PAQUET

Arts & Entertainment

Ivory Coast: Magic System for children Schooling

Asalfo and the band, now known as Magic System, author, of the title track “Premier Gaou”, sold worldwide, have come back to Anoumambo, the slum where they grew up. They have opened a primary school in order to fight against illiteracy and (...)

15 Apr. 2009 | | Selay

Arts & Entertainment

Madonna Fans Frolic at The Phoenix

Madonna fans united and celebrated their favourite pop icon at The Phoenix Concert Theatre last Friday night at the Can’t Stop Esther party, which featured a live tribute act, a couple of impersonators, sexy go-go dancers and a video retrospective (...)

24 mar. 2009 | | BlogTO

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