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• Pixies’ Frank Black Gives A Break to Millennials Via Age Based Ticket Pricing

  

    This is fairly cool news for those of us under 30. Frank Black gets it. If you want to attract a younger demographic to your shows in 2013, you can’t charge $45 because we just don’t have that kind of expendable income to spend when we also have to

  by turntherecordover - May 20, 2013

• TGIF – Dan Mangan, Thatcher and Hearing Loss

  

  VICE interviews the guy who’s Slagging Off The Canadian Music Industry The obsession with Paul’s honesty continues to grow, and I love watching it unfold...

  by turntherecordover - April 12, 2013

• Is Audio The Next Big Thing In Digital Marketing?

  

  This infographic from Crazyegg makes some great points about the value of portable content. Almost makes me think about starting a podcast (but listening to my voice in interviews is painful enough for me, so that’s not likely to happen anytime soon)...

  by turntherecordover - March 31, 2013

• The History of Radio

  

  Thought you guys might enjoy this infographic from Sonos on the history of radio (click to make it larger). It’s from 2011 so it doesn’t have completely up to date information, but it’s still fascinating to see how much things have changed...

  by turntherecordover - March 11, 2013

• Jason Collett’s Acting Debut in Cowboy Mouth

  

  I recently had the pleasure of attending the media performance of Patti Smith and Sam Sheppard’s Cowboy Mouth - which happens to be my favourite play. It is my favourite for two very obvious reasons...

  by turntherecordover - February 11, 2013

• Jimi Hendrix – Somewhere

  

  What – a new Jimi Hendrix song! Yes please. And it’s sexy as hell, of course – it is a Hendrix song. Those of you who are big JHE fans definitely already know it, so it’s technically not ‘new’ – having been featured on the 1975 album Crash...

  by turntherecordover - January 27, 2013

• The Dirty Nil – Zombie Eyed

  

  This weeks song comes via my favourite Hamilton boys, The Dirty Nil. Their latest is a split 7 inch with another great band (from my hometown, which makes me happy) Northern Primitive. Both songs are very, very different – but somehow they work well...

  by turntherecordover - January 13, 2013

• Teenage Kicks – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

  

  It’s Christmas eve, and I have the perfect song for you to play to celebrate the night before the morning of gifts. Far too often, Christmas music is shitty, predictable and annoying. I wish all artists took this kind of interesting approach when...

  by turntherecordover - December 24, 2012

• My Final Whisky Soaked Thoughts

  

  Here’s my final guest post for AUX for the Whisky Rocks competition, in which I say goodbye to the good times! Just kidding, I’ll save that for later tonight! But really, it was super fun to be a part of this contest...

  by turntherecordover - November 08, 2012

• The Mixtape – Songs for Stormy Weather

  

  Welcome to November’s mix! It’s mix # 12, meaning I’ve been doing this for a year now. This might actually be my favourite mix in the series (it opens and closes with two of my most favourite artists best songs)...

  by turntherecordover - November 05, 2012