Category Archives: Music

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DRM free Songbird Media Player is out of the nest with R1.0!

By Ian | December 2, 2008

in the works since 2005 has SongBird has reached a major milestone with is 1.0 release!!
What is it? A DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, or they “restrict your rights to digits”. ) free, non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible (plug-in services!!), open-source, customizable music player. That’s what!
It’s built atop XULRunner platform (also used by Mozilla [...]

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3 points towards a new business model for Music and Books.

By Ian | March 16, 2008

Free ebooks appear to boost sales | Blog | Futurismic – There has been a lot of criticism of the practice by some writers and lots of praise from other corners. At the moment, it looks like the practice works.
- Books ebooks business
Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers – Frankly, book reading just [...]

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Link-o-Rama for June 25 – 30

By Ian | June 29, 2007

in the video category:

Evolution, the Dove Self Eesteem short film – that exposed the manipulation of the female image in the media. (advertising)
Die Hard – Music Video (YouTube) The story of John McClane (Yippie Kah Yay Motherf**ker!) and an updated with 4th verse for “Live Free or Die Hard”
Sex and the City / Matrix parody [...]

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David Virelles Quintet in Motion

By Ian | June 25, 2007

David Virelles Quintet’s debut jazz album “Motion” is out…

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The Music of Falcon Beach

By Ian | March 18, 2007

In Canada, Falcon Beach is about to show the last 2 episodes of the second season (whereas the first season is wrapping up, and the second season starts in April in the USA on ABC Family).
Watching the second Season, you notice it has showcased a lot of established and upcoming Canadian Indie music (and [...]

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David Virelles Quintet at the Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival (Now with YouTube)

By Ian | July 29, 2006

Following up on my recent jazz post, we saw the David Virelles Quintet at the Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival. You can check a bit of it out yourself

You can always checkout their myspace page : David Virelles Quintet, but I know of 2 upcoming Toronto gigs are at the Lula Lounge (Sepmeber 3rd) [...]

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David Virelles Quintet @ Beaches International Jazz Festival 2006

By Ian | July 19, 2006

Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival presents David Virelles Quintet playing on the MainStage KEW Gardens at 11:30 AM (seen a few time since last year a the Rex). (Yes that’s the My Space page of the David Virelles Quintet. Go listen to some tracks! )
Beaches International Jazz Festival: July 29- 30, at the [...]

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Toronto’s Global Divas Gala Concert March 30th

By Ian | March 12, 2006

St. Stephen’s Community House is agian running The 4 th Annual Global Divas Gala Concert, on Thursday March 30, 2006 at Kool Haus, 132 Queen’s Quay East.
St. Stephen’s Community House is a unique, community-based social service agency that has been serving the needs of Kensington Market and surrounding neighbourhoods in downtown West Toronto since 1962.
This [...]

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NYT Mag : Broken Social Scene and Toronto’s Alternative Music Scene

By Ian | February 26, 2006

Today’s Ney York Times Magazine (feb 26, 2006) has a article Guided by (Many, Many) Voices, looking at Toronto band Broken Social Scene (It’s more like a network, or, as Emily Haines, a sometime BSS’er and lead singer of the Toronto band Metric, put it, “somewhere between a tribe and a cult.”) and other aspects [...]

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José Aquiles at Toronto’s Caju

By Ian | July 31, 2005

Cuban folk musician José Aquiles is performing at Toronto’s Brazilian-inspired Caju Restaurant (Queen & Shaw in the West Queen West part) on August 4st. Tell them False Positives sent you.
Having heard José Aquiles at the Free times Cafe last Thursday along side his son, and Jazz Pianist, Davide Virelles (hinted about here), we [...]

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