The Shins
People are pretty hot on the revival of vinyl records, but The Shins are bringing back a different recording medium — reel-to-reel tape.
Shins leader James Mercer explained all about the band’s reel-to-reel release of their recent album Port of Morrow.
Why’d they do it? Basically because it’s neat.
To read the whole story head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
SARSstock
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Remember how SARS was a big thing like 10 years ago and then the Rolling Stones held a concert and it was like, dusts of hands, our work here is done. This was also the week that Bob Dylan disappeared/hurt himself in a motorcycle accident, and John Lennon called the Beatles bigger than Jesus.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Eminem, Peaches and Rob Zombie
The Toronto International Film Festival announced a number of its music related movies earlier this week and Sarah was in on the announcement.
There’s going to be some fascinating stuff: Peaches is going to be doing a musical, that will be a film, Rob Zombie‘s horror flick Lords Of Salem will premiere, and Snoop Dogg will document his transformation into Bob Marley’s ghost as Snoop Lion. There’s also a movie with Eminem in it. And more.
To read all about it, head over the latest place Team Risky Fuel has started contributing to, Huffington Post Music Canada, by clicking here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
The Jackson Family
It’s become obvious over the last couple weeks that things have gotten crazy town banana pants in the Jackson family, what with accusations of kidnapping, Janet Jackson slap fights, Paris Jackson lashing out on Twitter, crazy maneuvering to control Michael Jackson‘s estate and other weirdness.
Jacko’s isn’t the only family to have nutty internal fights, though.
There’ve been the fist-fighting Gallagher brothers in Oasis, the soap opera antics of James Brown‘s family, the cake stomping antics of The Kinks and a whole bunch more.
Sarah compiled a list of cuckoo in the coconut musical families for Spinner. You can check out that story by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Politics, Shameless Promotion
Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the newly redesigned Polaris Music Prize website.
There’s some fascinating stuff in this one: Owen Pallett now has a comic book, K’naan has a True Blood connection, and the Polaris Music Prize Fantasy Draft is a real thing that actually exists.
To read about them, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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