How was your weekend? Ours was great, thanks for asking. While you were off doing whatever it is you do on your down time, there was a fair bit of live music news breaking on the internet. Get caught up.
Lorde's Kanye West and Bon Iver covers was let out on the internet
So the most important part of doing a good cover song is making it sound like your own thing without making it sound like you're mocking the original song. By that metric, Lorde has been hitting it out of the park over the course of her most recent tour, including covers of both Kanye West's "Flashing Lights" and Bon Iver's "Heavenly Father" in her set. Pitchfork dug up video from a Philadelphia show earlier in the month over the weekend. Check that out below.
People started a petition to release Grimes's Boiler Room set
Last year, synth-pop artist and national treasure Grimes played a DJ set as part of Richie Hawtin's Boiler Room music series. She was accused of trolling the event by showing up, plugging in her iPod and playing songs by Taylor Swift, Vengaboys and Mariah Carey. It's one of the few Boiler Room sets that hasn't been released yet, and now there's a Change.org petition to let it out of the vault. The petition calls the set "Probably the best set ever played in the history of Boiler Room but they can't get past their own pretentiousness to see that." You can sign it here.
Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj played the 'Flawless' remix live in Par is
We were concerned that the gravitational pull of their collective flawlessness might cause a rip in the space-time continuum, but apparently everything was fine. The event was being filmed for an HBO special that will air on Sept. 20. Sadly, all the full-length YouTube videos of the event have been taken down, but here's a quick Instagram clip to give you a taste.
The James Street Super Crawl was a wild success
For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the festival that is cementing Hamilton’s place as a Canadian capital of arts and culture, here are a few videos that should convince you to make the trip in 2015.
by Chris Dart via Electronic RSS
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