Patrick Watson
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
This week we point out that The Besnard Lakes are everywhere, ponder Patrick Watson with an orchestra and go to the warning track with Metric and the Toronto Blue Jays.
To read the column, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Black Angels’ Indigo Meadow
There’ve been a heap of good records released recently for the jean jacket ‘n’ airbrushed van art crowd and two of them have been The Black Angels‘ Indigo Meadow and Crime & The City Solution‘s American Twilight.
I reviewed both of those albums over at Spinner.
To read about The Black Angels’ Indigo Meadow go here.
To read about Crime & The City Solution’s American Twilight go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Heart
Heart have made some of the best songs in the history of rock music — “Magic Man,” “Crazy On You” and “Barracuda” — and recently the covered another great, Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway To Heaven,” and did it so well they made the band cry. Before Heart came to Toronto for Canadian Music Week I got a chance to talk to Nancy Wilson about doing that song in front of Zep as well as what other covers they know. That story can be found at Spinner by clicking here.
I also tried to clear up that peculiar urban myth that says Heart are a Canadian band in a separate story for Huffington Post Music Canada. You can read about that one by going here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Shad
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
This week we checked into what Braids were up to, found out a bit about Shad‘s new album and saluted Rich Aucoin‘s Prism Prize win.
To read the column, go here.
Filed under Photos, Shameless Promotion
The Highest Order If It’s Real (Idee Fixe)
This is how I feel about the new Highest Order album.
Flying Eagle gif by RejectedBot
Filed under Music
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 