On World Heart Day, Sept 29,2011 Vancouver BC will be Hosting the Highest Vertical Stair Climb in the World to raise funds for the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation Heart Center.
What music do you suggest Trevor listens to that will inspire endurance during his 21-24 hour non-stop 61,000 ft climb? (enter your suggestions the comments below)
P.S. That is over twice as high as a passenger jet flies.
Thank You
Paul J Cody
Producer, ” Take The Stairs ” Kids, Corporate and Community Challenge http://www.gtwyh.org
Editor note: Off the top of my head, I am gonna suggest “Rise Above This” by Seether. That tune always gets me jacked up when I’m running. Good luck Trevor!
One of the most commonly asked questions I’m asked as a mastering engineer is whether analogue or digital equipment is better. There tends to be a latent assumption amongst musicians that analogue equipment is inherently nicer. This assumption often comes with enthusiastic fetishisation of unattainable vintage gear and its mythical ‘musical’ quality.
It is true that a lot of analogue equipment can do magical things to sound that digital, with its cold, hard precision, can’t replicate. However, as Paul White, editor-in-chief of Sound on Sound magazine points out in his recent leader column, obsession with this is often the result of rosey eyed nostalgia rather than empirical evidence. Vintage gear did funny things to sound because it was cobbled together out of whatever components were available. The technology has moved on a great deal since then, and what digital does is what the equipment was actually always supposed to do. Read the rest of this entry
Sing it Weezer style, “You got your big “G”, I got my… hashtag”… lol.
Anyway, a BIG THANKS is in order for Mr. Jason Jones who has started using a Musicgoat hashtag on Twitter. Great idea!
If you have any Musicgoat worthy music that you want to share via Twitter, use #musicgoat and then we can all swim in the variety that is the Musicgoat way.
Take a few minutes to enjoy this original take on Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself”.
New York based Tribrix (rhymes with try-bricks) manages to keep most of the classic Punk sound intact, but takes the song in a whole new direction. And as an added bonus, you get a great video with some really striking visuals.
You might even wonder how one DIY musician was able to pull off so much. But only if you watch.
If you’re a true music lover, you’re not waiting for the day the best musicians in the world come perform at your VFW hall. Instead, you are willing to travel to the best events in the world for your chance to be part of music history.
So, before you ascend your own stairway to heaven, here are six concert events you absolutely must attend.
1. SXSW
Is it a music festival, a technology expo, or both? SXSW in Austin, Texas, has the coolness of Woodstock mixed with the nerdiness of a Star Trek convention; in fact, it’s held at the Austin convention center. At SXSW the best indie rock bands perform, while leading innovators in technology lecture.
2. Lollapalooza
Over 100 bands performing on a dozen stages, all under the skyline of one of the country’s coolest cities: Chicago. The three-day music event of Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park is perfect for the music lover that never sleeps. Read the rest of this entry
It seems that now and again, there is always a musician who is doing his or her leg work, playing endless streams of shows and creating heavy buzz through word-of-mouth news. Yet, someway they happen to remain out of radar.
George Ellias, a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles would fall under this category. He’s a musician who has been playing for more than half his life, and it shows clearly. It’s that undeniable feeling a person get’s when they know they are seeing or hearing something profound. That is how I felt when Ellias finished his last song as special guest performance at a bar named Skinnys in North Hollywood, California.
According to George Ellias, his main motivator is none other than the folk-laureate-poet, Bob Dylan. Which is apparent, but there is more to him than just his attributes that pay homage to Dylan. George Ellias has a story behind him. Read the rest of this entry
