Inking a Deal and an Identity Challenge: Notes to Self
Torontonians really like board games. One in three Torontonians owns ten or more board games, while three in eight own more than 25 and play bi-weekly. Could it be the…
The StudioFeed Guide to: Press Releases for Music
We live in a world where almost everything that gets created digitally — good or bad — is archived on the internet forever. 72 hours of new content are uploaded…
The Art of the Remix: Functionality, Creativity & Collaboration
Remix culture is as popular as ever. Digital-only labels have contributed to a dramatic shift in the number of remix opportunities for artists, massively increasing the overall number of remixes…
The Rise and Folly of: ‘EDM’ in 2012
Whatever genre(s) of music you listened to this year, it was hard to avoid discussion around the explosion in electronic dance music; including the ubiquitous use of the obnoxious industry…
The Volume War: Square Waveforms and Negative Outcomes
Researchers in Spain recently analyzed a massive amount of music using the million song data set; an extremely large database of recorded music spanning a number of decades.The outcome of…
The Jimmy Chiale Experience
Two months ago I was sitting on a futon in Jimmy Chiale’s King West ‘studio’ when he told me about this film he likes called Great Expectations, a loose adaptation…
Album Art: Five terrible/funny vinyl covers
Anyone who’s ever dug through a pile of vinyl at a second-hand shop or record store knows that for every good album you come across, there are at least five…
Mike Parsons: Telling Toronto’s Story Through Art
Toronto is a polarizing place. Many of the people who live in the city view it as a cornucopia of culture and opportunity, but to many suburbanites living outside the…
Jungle Fever: How Toronto lost the drum ‘n’ bass crown
Geared towards the electronic music fan with more eclectic tastes, and usually relegated to some dark “second room” at clubs, for a short period in the 1990s, Toronto drum ‘n’…
Kickup: Kickstarter’s Foray Into Music
Launching from Finland-based free-rights advocacy group Kickstarter is Kickup; a veritable revolution in music distribution and rights management which aims to cut out the politicking and harmful contractual stipulations of…
Followers and Likes: Inauthentic Barometers of Artistic Integrity
Statistics are an objective method of measurement used to gage the significance of a particular factor in relation to some other factor or event. In music, social media statistics have…
This Is My Jam: Cut out the noise
There is a new revolution occurring in the way we share music; you may not realize it, but it’s happening. It has nothing to do with the government’s vendetta against…
Busking: Strangling Street Art in Toronto
Anyone who has been to New York City can attest to the high performance levels of its busking musicians and street entertainers; an aspect of the American city that helps…
The Harris Institute: From the Eyes of a Student
Toronto’s Harris Institute is one of the city’s most established and reputable post-secondary schools in the field of audio production and the business of music. StudioFeed had the opportunity to…
Playing Live: The Reputation of Toronto Crowds
Despite being home to such a wide variety of music and culture, one aspect of live entertainment that Toronto seems to be constantly struggling with is the receptiveness and general…
Music Streaming Services & You
Whether it’s entering a serious romantic relationship, investing a large amount of personal finances in something, or trying a new drug for the first time, weighing the costs and benefits…
What does winning a Grammy mean in 2012?
Last night, the Staples Center in Los Angeles played host to the 54th Grammy Awards; a show that has come to represent…what exactly? By now most have heard about the…
Changing Landscapes: The Death of the “Band”
When The Beatles quickly rose to fame in the early 1960s, one could argue that, despite their musicianship, it was impeccable timing that led them to such fame. America’s Tin…
In Search Of: Toronto’s Future Bass
Last week was party time for Toronto’s once and future bass music, namely the million-strong jamdown once known as Caribana. With it came a slew of parties displaying the many…
Denise Benson’s Toronto
“I’m always interested in what makes people move physically and emotionally. People respond to music. I’ve always seen my role as a conduit, a filter or an access point for…
AMBiENT PiNG
The AMBiENT PiNG is a Toronto based creative community of audio artists, performers, musicians and visual artists. The outer-space vibe of this collective has been opening the minds of audiences for…