Music Biz Headlines, Oct. 27, 2017
Facebook tests change that is catastrophic for music marketing
Facebook is testing a change that would shift all non-promoted posts coming from pages out of its news feed. The shift would be disastrous for artists, music marketers and all content creators who rely on the social network to build and engage an audience — Digitalmusicwire
Jim Steinman’s passion for Bat Out of Hell is still glowing
Composer is incredibly proud of stage musical inspired by mega-hit 1977 album now playing in Toronto — Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
Dolly Parton's bedtime story could be CBeebies' greatest hit
The singer is the latest megastar to read a book at bedtime on BBC kids show CBeebies – and the show is drawing a whole new audience of grownups. So who is behind all the big name bookings? — Stuart Heritage, The Guardian
Dvsn get stark and sentimental on Morning After
The Toronto duo's second album is full of beautiful-sounding mid-tempo R&B jams, yet it's also beset by breakup ballad clichés — Kevin Ritchie, NOW
Joni Mitchell is pretty much peerless
We speak to Barney Hoskyns, the legendary music critic and editor of a new collection of writing on Mitchell, 'Joni: The Anthology' — Philip Eil, noisey
Elise LeGrow takes liberties playing Chess
After playing Toronto rock 'n roll bars and jazzy dinner crowds her debut album provokes with reimagined standards — Mike Doherty, Toronto Star
Darius Rucker and the perplexing whiteness of country music
For many years, he has been the only black country artist making the singles charts — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker
Local Broadway star to join Rocky Horror Show's one-night-only fundraiser
On Oct. 28, for one performance only, Patrick R. Brown will reprise his role as Frank N Furter for Calgary fundraiser — Louis B. Hobson, Calgary Herald
Here's what three ex-Guns N' Roses' guitarists are up to these days
A check on Gilby Clarke, Buckethead, and Bumblefoot — Brett Callwood, LA Weekly
From the Vault: A Vancouver classic by Young Canadians
It probably seemed like a great idea at the time to name a punk-rock band after K-tel, the purveyor of the most middle-of-the-road, crowd-pleasing music imaginable. Unfortunately, the folks at K-tel didn't think it was such a great idea, so the K-Tels became Young Canadians — John Lucas, Georgia Straight
50 underground albums you've likely never heard of before
Sexed-up Canadian synthpop, Japanese junglism, ritualistic Finnish bear hunting music … our writers select treasures from the darkest corners of their record collections —The Guardian
The story behind Christopher Owens's scrapped Toronto gig is deeper than a run-of-the-mill cancelled show
The California songwriter says a well-intentioned fan found him homeless and booked him to play the Garrison without his knowledge — Jonathan Dekel, NOW
Downtown Hamilton church re-envisions itself as a concert hall
New Vision United Church is trying to raise funds for renovations that would allow it to become a mid-size concert space and fill a gap in the city's live music scene — Graham Rockingham, Hamilton Spectator
Monteverdi’s landmark opera Orfeo comes to Chan Centre
Orfeo is a landmark piece that helped define just what opera was at the turn of the 17th century, and also set a course for what opera could become — David G. Duke, Vancouver Sun
What does a $225,000 piano sound like?
Toronto's Tapestry Opera is about to find out as it inaugurates its Imperial Bosendorfer with two benefit concerts this week — John Terauds, Toronto Star
