Canadian feds promise $500 million for arts and creative industries
If you know someone who works in the arts, you’ll know that they’re really. really hurting. With all work dried up, how can they hope to pay the rent and put food on
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Culture
Play It Loud looks at the tools of the rock revolution
What is loud rock music without the guitar? We need never wonder, but we can take the time to reflect and trace its evolution over the past eight decades, thanks to a new
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The 2018 Coachella Lineup Poster Tells You Everything You Need to Know Where Rock Stands Today
The lineup for this year’s Coachella was announced yesterday, sending everyone to the poster to parse which bands are represented by which font size. But you don’t need a magnifying glass to determine
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Canadian Culture (Including Music) as an Economic Tool
Thanks to FYI Music for digging through a Statistics Canada report for these numbers. I quote: Statistics Canada has released a report measuring the economic value of culture to the Canadian economy. You
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Your Band Sucks: A Book on the Failed Revolution of Indie Rock
Now this sounds like an interesting book. Jon Fine, guitarist with Bitch Magnet, has a different take on the culture that emerged out of the indie rock of the 1980s, the music that
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How Did K-Pop Become Such a Good Thing? With Government Help.
That’s right: it’s all a South Korean plot. From NPR: In the late ’90s, when Asia went through a huge financial crisis, South Korea’s leaders decided to use music to improve its image
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40 Years of Hip Hop Presented by KRS-One
As KRS-One declares in the opening seconds of this movie, this isn’t your usual history of hip hop. It’s much, much more. If you have the time, give the whole thing a look.
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