After A LOT of planning and A LOT of work, Canada Arts Connect has re-launched!

That includes:

• a new website
• a new logo
• new memberships
• new magazine columns
• and so much more!

Our website was set up by our amazing webmaster, Beth Smith. The new logo was designed by the awesome Eugenia Catroppa from Golden Spruce Entertainment. Our incredible Managing Editor, Natalie Zina Walschots, has been busy working with our team of writers on the super cool new magazine columns. Our wonderful new Editor, Chloe Vice, has jumped right on board. Our Listings Manager, Ryan Drew Hayward, is now our Listings & Memberships Manager as he takes on the responsibilities of our growing community.

There’s so much more going on at CAC, but to fully appreciate it, you should visit both the main site as well as the magazine site regularly.

Canada Arts Connect: http://CanadaArtsConnect.com

Canada Arts Connect Magazine: http://CanadaArtsConnect.com/magazine

CAC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/CANArtsConnect

CAC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CanadaArtsConnect

Season’s Greetings!

Merry Christmas!

Yuletide Blessings!

Happy Hanukkah!

Joyous Kwanzaa!

And a Happy New Year!

- Desirée O

The Kills’ Live Concert Film

Alison Mosshart and James Hince have the kind of presence that makes you believe that these people were truly born to be on stage and rock as hard as they do. Which is why it’s awesome that The Kills have announced that they will be releasing a live concert DVD.

“A bunch of friends and fans filmed our second show at L’Olympia in Paris for us.” The performance took place just a couple weeks ago, on November 13, and included backing from the band’s own Black Rooster Drum Corps and Choir. [Exclaim.ca]

Check out the trailer:

The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson ‘Provincial’ Solo Album

The landscape of this country is a familiar theme in Canadian music and John K. Samson, the frontman of the Weakerthans, is following true in that tradition with his new solo album.

John K. Samson has released seven-inch records about roads in his home province of Manitoba. These low-key three-song releases have now spawned a full-length, Provincial, due out January 24 via Epitaph Records.

According to a press release, the collection includes newly recorded versions of the songs from the seven-inches, plus unheard tracks.  [Exclaim.ca]

Check out Provincial below:

The Purity Myth Trailer

Have you read The Purity Myth? Yes or no, you’ll definitely want to check out the new film now on DVD.

“Jessica Valenti, author and founder of Feministing, penned The Purity Myth in response to cultural pressure women face to remain virgins until a handsome prince deflowers them after an elaborate, expensive ceremony.

The film visits the places the book visited… From the creepy father-daughter “purity balls” where young women promise their dads that they won’t let anyone’s penis inside of them until God says it’s okay to the fearmongering but charismatic pro-virginity speakers who claim a link between female sexual activity and sterility, parts of the film (like parts of the book) would be hilarious if they weren’t so scary.” [Jezebel]

This is how you play baseball in space

Have no one to play a quick game of ball with? In space, you can cover all of the bases yourself.

“Life on the International Space Station has its ups and downs (well, technically its ups and ups or downs and downs). Thanksgiving dinner comes in bags, but the views are undeniably ravishing. Another added perk of microgravity? You can play baseball by yourself. Allow ISS astronaut Satoshi Furukawa to demonstrate.” [io9.com]

Nine Inch Snails on The Muppets

With the latest Muppets movie creating renewed popularity around the characters, films, and show, links of older material have been popping up a lot lately. Nine Inch Snails is one I had never seen before and definitely enjoyed.

Take a look:

[via @LiisaLadouceur]

Check out my recommendation for Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth on the Advent Book Blog.

Amphetamine Heart is a debut poetry collection that wanders through that disoriented time between insomnia and blackouts, drunkenness and desperation, with all of the possibilities that can sweep you away when you’re trapped in impossible places. Infused with punk and metal, it’s a collection that’s as hard and raw as the music and “party culture” it’s influenced by…

Read the rest of my recommendation and find out where you pick up the book by clicking here.

“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
– Sappho

There’s been SO much talk about the new Hollywood version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and perhaps just as much chatter about the hugely-hyped soundtrack.

Composed by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the full track listing has now been released.

“A sprawling three-hour opus” with 37 tracks including a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, Reznor calls the collection (which took 14 months to create) “some of the most beautiful and disturbing music of our careers.”

The full release will be available for download December 9th. You can find out more from this post by Trent Reznor on the NIN website. You can also download a six-track, 35 minute sampler just by entering your email address here.

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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Immigrant Song (feat Karen O) by ArtemK

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo track list:
1. Immigrant Song
2. She Reminds Me Of You
3. People Lie All The Time
4. Pinned And Mounted
5. Pinned and Mounted
6. What If We Could?
7. With The Flies
8. Hidden In Snow
9. A Thousand Details
10. One Particular Moment
11. I Can’t Take It Anymore
12. How Brittle The Bones
13. Please Take Your Hand Away
14. Cut Into Pieces
15. The Splinter
16. An Itch
17. Hypomania
18. Under The Midnight Sun
19. Aphelion
20. You’re Here
21. The Same As The Others
22. A Pause For Reflection
23. While Waiting
24. The Seconds Drag
25. Later Into The Night
26. Parallel Timeline (Alternate Outcome)
27. Another Way Of Caring
28. A Viable Construct
29. Revealed In The Thaw
30. Milennia
31. We Could Wait Forever
32. Oraculum
33. Great Bird Of Prey
34. The Heretics
35. A Pair Of Doves
36. Infiltrator
37. The Sound Of Forgetting