while most everyone I know who’s heard her has been beguiled, the numbers that seems to amount to are far less than she deserves.
I`ll strongly second that comment - considering the attention some people get today in music all the while lacking in a comparable level of talent - if having any to begin with - she certainly deserves all the attention she has been getting and hopefully we are still only seeing the tip of the iceberg in that regards.
In other Jenn news, seems her new video for Dreamer is finding plenty of fans - Elbo.ws What’s Hot: Videos has Dreamer currently at number 10(although earlier this week it hit number 6).
A draft of the 2007 Music Sector Strategy has been made available for feedback. Music Nova Scotia will be accepting comments to sectorstrategy@musicnovascotia.ca no later than 5 pm Monday August 20th.
The previous strategy was responsible for programs that have assisted NUMEROUS bands, companies and individuals within the local music scene - myself included (I honestly would not have time to list the bands I personally know alone that have received funding assistance). The potential is there for additional opportunities as well as the continuation of existing programs.
Please take the time to review this and if you have any suggestions get them into MNS.
You have a week, take an hour or so and do this.
I can think of no better form of psychotherapy for inpatients at a mental health center than a live concert by the Cramps. See for yourself. - Mark Frauenfelde
So this has been on YouTube for a year now but I just saw it last week. It is a simple minute long clip but the song is so catchy and joyous it almost makes you think that no matter what you’re going to have a good day.
Norwood Cheek, director of over 70 music videos (by bands like Super Chunk, the Donnas, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Ben Folds Five), is teaming up with the www.atlanticfilm.com to pair 10 East Coast filmmakers with 10 East Coast artists to produce, over a four-day boot camp, the ultimate music video to be screened as part of the Inspired Music Showcases during the Atlantic Film Festival. Here is the call:
Applicants Sought for Music Video Project with New Inspired Music 10 X 10 Project
The 27th Atlantic Film Festival’s Inspired Music Program announces that the Call for Applications for the new 10 X 10 Project is now open.
The project will pair 10 East Coast filmmakers with 10 East Coast artists/bands to produce, over a four-day period, the ultimate music video. All finished videos will then be screened as part of the Inspired Music Showcases during the Festival.
The project is open to any Atlantic-Canadian filmmaker and to Atlantic-Canadian artist/band. Artists/bands must have released at least one professionally manufactured CD.
The deadline for application is Monday, July 30th, 2007 and there will be an entry fee of $25.
The 27th Atlantic Film Festival takes place September 13-22, 2007, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Here is a direct link to the PDF application. I should also disclose that while I do some freelance work with the festival, I have nothing to do with this program…I just want to give it a plug!
Boredoms started portentously, with the drummers tapping just their cymbals. It went on like that for a while, slow and patient–atmospheric. Then the crash came. It was loud. It was loud, but the result of 77 drummers drumming is as much a sensation as a sound. Thuds were thuds, onomatopoetically, and the finer points of rhythm got washed out in a smear of what could be seen and what could be heard. There wasn’t a stage–the spiral alignment of drummers sat flat on the grass–so the only visual cues were flailing arms, shivering metal, and Boredoms leader Yamatsuka Eye conducting it all from a slight elevation. He also banged on things, mainly a series of pads that triggered “rock” parts: swells of noise and synth sounds and what sounded more or less like guitar chords on occasion. The piece had a free improv feel within different movements, but the pacing spoke to compositional logic that played through rises and falls. It breathed. And seethed. And sighed.
