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Taking the recession on tour
When U2 put out an announcement about their North American tour recently, there was one detail in the press release that stood out: $30 tickets.
It’s a move, the band’s manager Paul McGuinness said, that was designed to “ensure that U2 fans can purchase a great priced ticket with a guaranteed great view.”
While that’s a welcomed gesture from thousands of followers who are struggling to make...
Travel: Rock Cities
Don’t be a slave to your iPod–pack up your leather pants and hit the road to explore these rock ’n’ roll towns.
Winnipeg
It may be easy to knock the ’Peg for its sub-zero climes, but without the frigid temps Neil Young may have taken up surfing instead of the guitar. There’s not much else to do in the winter besides bundling up and heading out to watching top-notch indie talent, such as...
This album brought to you by — you
It’s unlikely you’ll see Walter Braunsteiner on the Grammys’ red carpet or rubbing shoulders with Kanye West, but that doesn’t mean this 36-year-old Austrian can’t be the world’s next big music mogul. An insurance industry IT specialist by day, Braunsteiner has given up buying CDs of up-and-coming artists, instead focusing his energies, and money, on developing them....
Digital music: Don’t blame your public library
Unfortunately for the thousands of Canadians who borrow music from the library, the days of flipping through a library’s CD collection could be numbered. In 2007, the Toronto Public Library saw music checkouts decline by seven per cent, while the Winnipeg Public Library saw its numbers drop by five per cent. The reason? More people are finding music online.
Like retail music stores, which saw...
Kathleen Edwards: Lyrics to empower
After years of performing in clubs and concert venues, you’d think Canadian folk singer Kathleen Edwards would have her live performance down to a science. On January 27, she sang the national anthem at the NHL All-Star Game, and everything she’d previously learned went out the window.
“It was the most foreign thing I could have possibly done,” Edwards says, speaking to Inside...
Marketing: Independent thinking
“You coming to bed?” asks a woman, wondering if her husband is ready to stop watching the hockey game that’s playing on their large plasma TV. “I’m just going to catch the end of the game,” he responds, moments before his young son appears saying he can’t sleep. When the father uses his PVR to show his restless boy a stellar goal and the two enjoy a spontaneous...
Picture Worth a Thousand Songs?
When Aaron Katchen stopped buying compact discs four years ago, he was forced to abandon one of his favourite time killers—flipping through CD booklets. The London, England-based Rabbi used to spend hours with his Grateful Dead and Phish records, checking out band photos and delving into the lyrics. Now, when Katchen purchases albums from iTunes he’s given a graphic of the cover art that he...
Live & Learn: Paul Anka
I love the business side of life. It allows me to make decisions, have some freedom. And it allows me to spend money, which I love to do. I don’t believe in saving and hoarding. For who? For what?
Initially, I was an artist, but I realized very quickly that you have to have some sense of who you are. If you wanted to stay in this business, you had to treat it like a business and you needed to...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, PROFIT, MoneySense and the Advisor Group. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and recently co-authored