Author Archives: Aaron Brophy

The Trailer Park Boys’ Guide To Music

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys

While you weren’t paying attention, Bubbles, Julian and Ricky, the reprobates that make up the Trailer Park Boys, have gone international.

Thanks to a new deal with Netflix for multiple seasons and a cussin’ movie called SwearNet the boys are poised to critical mass. That, or at least get the opportunity to get drunk and stoned in strange places.

With this in mind I had the opportunity to talk about music with the Boys for AUX. Some of the topics covered: Rush, Loverboy, Shania Twain and the trailer park hip-hop genre.

Not included in the interview: my attempts to get them to compare Joel Plaskett to Groot.

To read the story go here.

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Holy Shad Explain Who Cy Borg Is

Holy Shad

Holy Shad

Electro jam rockers Holy Fuck and smart rapper Shad got together recently to create a way-out project called The Legend Of Cy Borg, the story of tennis star Bjorn Borg’s vigilante brother.

It is… wild.

I wrote about this peculiar project for the Polaris Music Prize website.

You can hear the tracks, watch a related documentary and read the whole story by clicking here.

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Roger Waters Explains What He Wants The Wall To Become At TIFF

Roger Waters

Roger Waters

When Pink Floyd released their album The Wall some decades ago it was considered lead singer Roger Waters’ personal statement on loneliness and isolation.

In recent years he’s tried to re-imagine The Wall for a modern world and one part of that puzzle was creating a documentary film about his 2010 concert tour of the album.

Waters’ talked about the film for a premiere screening at TIFF 2014 and Sarah was there to cover it for Huffington Post Music Canada.

To read the story go here.

 

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Eye Of The Tiger: The Fight Anthems Of Survivor

Rocky

Rocky

Jimi Jamison, the lead singer for Survivor, passed away recently at the age of 63 and it’s left those of us with a yen for inspirational jock jams with a burning hole in our hearts.

Sarah took some time to look at some of the best songs Survivor created for Fightland.

To read the story go here.

 

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Wu-Tang Tiger Style: All The Fight References From 36 Chambers

Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Clan

If you’ve ever wondered exactly how many fight references there are in the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) album, well, wonder no more.

That’s because Sarah went through the whole thing to crosscheck the various boxing and karate mentions throughout.

To read the story head over to Fightland by going here.

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