Symphony's golden season

The curtain that rises next week in celebration of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orcestra’s golden anniversary is in a word exceptional.Not only will this city’s premiere orchestra launch its Masterworks series by featuring a young Canadian violinist who claimed his place on world-class stages well before he was into his second decade, but also by introducing to this community its newest music director Arthur Post. Next Thursday evening Maestro Post claims his podium to lead the symphony into its 50th anniversary season of fine, fine music simply and appropriately themed as “listen to the future.” Guest violinist Jonathan Crow’s mercurial career began to take shape when the now 33-year old virtuoso was only six and enrolled in the Suzuki method at Prince George Music School. By age 15 he was...

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sum41

Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario,[1] active since 1996. The current members are Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Jason McCaslin (bass guitar, backing vocals), Steve Jocz (drums, backing vocals), and Tom Thacker (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboard).In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records. The band released their debut album, All Killer No Filler in 2001. The band achieved mainstream success with their first single from the album, "Fat Lip", which reached number-one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains the band's most successful single to date.[2] All Killer No Filler...

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Weezer-Inspired Clothing Line Hits Shelves

The confusion over Weezer‘s new album Hurley continues… First the story was that the guys named it after Jorge Garcia’s character on Lost. Then Brian Bell said that the band had forged a partnership with the clothing brand Hurley, which made us all think that the brand must have footed the bill for the new album.He also said that Hurley had given the band some clothes and that they would be selling the clothes in malls. Then he retracted what he said. But now it’s pretty obvious that there’s a direct connection between Weezer and the brand, because the band just released a limited edition clothing line through Hurley on Friday.The line consists...

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Reading Festival 2010

The UK longest consistently running music festival returns and this year there was no shortage of controversy, and no shortage of mud either. Background:Reading is one of the UK's (and the world’s) longest running music festivals. It’s origins date back to 1961 and the National Jazz Festival before it transformed into Reading 1971 and later, Reading & Leeds in 1999. While it’s always been a music festival, it has tended to learn heavily towards hard rock, alternative and indie. Reading’s brief dabble with pop in 1988 headlined by Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler was a disaster of epic proportions leading to wide scale bottling and abuse. Over the...

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Michael Been, lead singer for Santa Cruz band, 'The Call,' dead at age 60

He played John the Baptist in a Martin Scorsese film. He once beat John Belushi in a comedy competition. He counted as friends Bono and Peter Gabriel. Al Gore borrowed one of his songs as the theme for his 2000 presidential campaign.But before all that, Michael Been began his eccentric and brilliant career as a musician in Santa Cruz, arriving in the mid '70s and maintaining a residence here for nearly 20 years.Been died Thursday at the age of 60 at a music festival in Belgium where he was working as a sound engineer for the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, which includes his son Robert Levon Been.He was best known as the lead singer for the 1980s rock band The Call, which during a period in the Reagan era was poised to break into post-punk rock 'n' roll stardom. But despite a high-profile...

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Scissor Sisters In Concert

Formed in 2001, Scissor Sisters may well be the last band standing from the New York electroclash scene that blew up in 2004. That year, the group's B-side "Comfortably Numb," a cover of the Pink Floyd track, become a worldwide hit and pushed vocalists Jake Shears and Ana Matronic, multi-instrumentalist Baby Daddy and guitarist Del Marquis to the top of pop's A-list. U2's Bono even called Scissor Sisters "the best pop group in the world at the moment." Today at noon ET, Scissor Sisters will bring a stadium-sized sound to the relatively tiny World Cafe Live stage in Philadelphia — and you can listen to the whole show live as it happens. You can bet the band will perform songs from its new record, Night Work, which has already sold a million copies in the U.K. ...

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Arcade Fire take The Suburbs to The Daily Show

America's funniest fake news programme is filmed in an unassuming building in the middle of the unremittingly bleak stretch of run-down brownstones and warehouses just west of Midtown Manhattan known as Hell's Kitchen. Once you've obtained backstage clearance, however (with a wristband printed with the words "I am not a threat to The Daily Show"), the place opens up like a Tardis to reveal a rabbit's warren of hallways that appear to meander for miles. There are dogs everywhere: lounging in empty offices, hanging out by the water cooler, possibly running the control room. Open offices reveal huddled writers, TVs all tuned to different channels, and bespectacled comic John Hodgman straightening his tie. Near the Green Room, meanwhile, members of Arcade Fire are spilling out into...

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Does Linkin Park's 'The Catalyst' Rank Among Their Best Videos?

At 12:01 a.m. on Thursday (August 26), Linkin Park premiered their brand-new video for "The Catalyst," the first single off their upcoming A Thousand Suns album. It's a dark, moody, abstract affair, full of swirling smoke, charred earth and rising tides, and, judging from the comments we got on MTVNews.com, Linkin Park fans totally love it. So that got us thinking: Is it good enough to rank among their all-time best videos?Even though "The Catalyst" is barely 13 hours old at this point, it's clear the clip takes the band to places they've never gone before. But the short answer is ... no, not just yet. Sure, the video would probably land in the LP top 10, but we're talking about the best of the best here. So while it's undoubtedly good, it's not quite good enough to crack the band's...

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