Car Crash Songs
One of the many songs that Sarah slays the old men with at karaoke is The Shangri-Las “Leader Of The Pack,” a tragic tale of love gone wrong by way of motorcycle accident.
Because that sort of morbidity is fundamentally appealing to her, Sarah found 10 other really sad musically driving tales and turned them into a list for Spinner.
To relive the harrowing moments from Meat Loaf, Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen and more, just click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Tina Turner and Mick Jagger
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This week’s column, though filled with all sorts of interesting information, is mostly a set-up to talk about how smokin’ hot a performer Tina Turner was back in the day. I know that’s hard to believe for anyone who only knows her for her hokey ’80s ballads, but seriously. I’ll help you out with this clip from ’71 below.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL Huffington Post empire:
The wonderful people of The Dears, who rank somewhere between 5th and 23rd best act in the world on any given day, have put out a new live album. They recorded it in Mexico because Mexico is crazytown banana pants for them.
That drunk dude who sung “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the back of a cop car? He had his day in court. And he lost.
Hilotrons did a video for “She Knows My Condition (Part 2)” so we premiered it.
Ariane Moffatt, who Sarah totes loves, debuted her “Too Late” video with us, too. It’s nominally about a chick bicycle gang. Hot.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
Grey Cup 2012
Toronto has been overrun this weekend by Canadian Football League fans partying it up in advance of tonights 100th Grey Cup competition between the Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders.
Those parties have also meant the CFL bringing in a ton of bands for street festivals, ticketed concerts, and during the game’s halftime show tonight, performances by Justin Bieber and Gordon Lightfoot.
We combed through the Grey Cup festival schedule and tried to figure out what was the most “football” song by the artists playing this weekend. Then we wrote about them for Huffington Post Music Canada.
To read the story, click here.
Filed under Concerts, Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Joel Plaskett
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
For this one we collect some of the latest Metric concert reviews, use a Joel Plaskett mention to justify talking about Clayton Park, and check in with Julie Doiron.
To read it, go here.
Filed under Music, The Misadventures Of
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