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In Toronto This Saturday ?
Drop on by at the Unsigned Sealed & Delivered No. 9 compilation release party, brought to you by Bullseye Records Canada.
The Tennessee - 1554 Queen Street West - 8 PM - $5 Door
Featuring live performances by Hailey Rose, Headframe, Tommy Gunn, Klutchfoot, Frank Marzano, Social Strife, Synners of Truth and Arson. Click here for more details.
Honeymoon Suite On PledgeMusic
Honeymoon Suite are working on a new nine track EP and are crowdfunding it through PledgeMusic. This campaign will end in two months. Click here for details.
For Star Wars Fans / Acoustic David Bowie Tribute
I know this isn’t about music. But aren’t you surprised that they just didn’t wait a month and release the film on Star Wars Day ? It would have been a great opportunity but I guess Disney had their reasons.
Anyhow, i’m going to wait for the blu-ray
Yes, I was tempted to buy it from iTunes yesterday. But i’ve decided to wait. I prefer the resolution of blu-ray over downloads and have not really started to go full force into collecting the latter.
Basically I download some of the films I get in the blu-ray packages but I might start downloading films once I set up a larger hard drive on my router. That would probably be more convenient because i’m running out of shelf space and I don’t think i’ll bother buying more shelved, unless perhaps if I decide to move.
By the way, if you’re eying the BB-8 Droid toy, you should know that you can get it from Indigo for 15% off this weekend, along with all regularly priced toys including light sabres, Funko Pops, Funko wobblers, bobble heads and action figures. Just click on this link and use the promo code mentioned : Take 15% Off Regular Priced Items at Indigo.ca! This Weekend, Online Only. Enter Promo Code: PROMO15.
You can also get up to 50% on select toys but the 15% offer only applies to regularly priced items, as previously mentioned. No promo codes are required for these select toys and as usual shipping is free for orders over $25.
Now back to regularly scheduled programming :
There will be a an acoustic tribute to David Bowie tonight at the Orbit Room in Toronto featuring Mark Holmes of Platinum Blonde and David Barrett of the David Barrett Trio. The club is located at 580A College St. and the show stars at 8pm. Click here for details.
Saturday/Sunday GIFT CARD OFFER
Participating Shopper’s Drug Mart stores are offering 10% discounts on $50 and $100 iTunes Gift Cards on Saturday and Sunday (April 2nd & 3rd, 2016). Consult your local flyer for details on this offer.
Unfortunately this purchase isn’t eligible for the Spring It On 1 Million Optimum Points Contest but you can purchase $10 worth of other items and get a PIN for those purchases.That contest ends at midnight on April 24th, 2016.
Vinyl Sales Back But…
AOL UK Finance report that sales of vinyl have returned to the level they have back in the states in 1988. But recording artists aren’t getting much of anything from streaming.
Back when I heard streaming was going to go legit and a royalty scheme was in the works, I had assumed that they would get rates like that of radio. Those were acceptable rates. But for some reason considerably lower rates were adopted for streaming and artists get pretty much nothing, as made apparent by Cracker’s “Low” royalties – Pun not intended.
That band’s single streamed a million times on Pandora and the guitarist of the band reported on his blog that he got US$16.89 for those streams ; Less than the amount of royalties obtained from a t-shirt sale, according to this 2013 blog entry.
The Spotify royalties were slightly better for “Low“, at US$12.05 for just over 116 thousand streams. But that is still quite low.
I guess all one can do to support their favourite artists is to buy their merchandise and see them live.