The Grammy-winning Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour recently announced he’s planning to run for president in his country’s upcoming election.
This, naturally, sent Sarah on a fact-finding mission to hunt down other musicians-turned politicians. She came up with 20 people, including amongst others, Krist Novoselic from Nirvana, Martha Reeves, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell, Fela Kuti, Sonny Bono, and her personal favourites, the guys from Iceland — Jon Gnarr and Einar Orn — who are part of a political movement called The Best Party.
You can read her story over at Spinner by clicking here.
The good folks at AUX TV were looking to incentivize their New Year’s workout resolution so they looked towards the only role models they respect — rock stars — for exercise advice.
The natural author for a story like this, of course, would be fitness professional and personal trainer Sarah Risky Fuel.
To read the workout advice of Bob Mould, LMFAO, Hawksley Workman, Patrick Stump and Amanda Palmer, click here.
“Black Water” was my most listened to song this year. Not sure what that says about me.
2. PJ Harvey Let England Shake
It took me awhile to “get” Let England Shake. The song that did it was “In Dark Places.”
3. Chad VanGaalen Diaper Island
If you told me at the start of the year that CVG would create my third-most favourite album of 2011 I’d have eaten my shoe. It’s a good thing I don’t hang around with fortune tellers. This is “Blonde Hash”
4. Austra Feel It Break
Everybody’s all about Austra’s electro-dance-witch-goth vibe. I’m on it, too, but the song on this album that really got me was the spooky piano ballad “The Beast.”
5. Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes
“I Follow Rivers” is heavy.
6. Young Galaxy Shapeshifting
This album was a bold experiment and it completely worked. This is “Peripheral Visionairies”
7. Herpes Symptome und Beschwerden
This is the exact real world manifestation of what I believe the nihilists from The Big Lebowski would sound like. I understand absolutely none of what’s being said in “Das Karnickel im Hut.”
8. D-Sisive Run With The Creeps
The more caustic, outsider and marginalized D-Sisive gets, the more pointed his music becomes. P.S. I found that GG Allin doll, D!
9. Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin’
There are at least three songs on this record that are genuinely magic. “Movin’ Down The Line (Don’t You Go Away)” is one of them.
10. Destroyer Kaputt
This one’s a personal shocker because I’ve always hated Dan Bejar until this album. I appreciated the audacity of a yacht rock almost-concept record, though. And “Chinatown” is pretty groovy.
Other album lists…
2015 Top Ten — SUUNS + Jerusalem In My Heart SUUNS + Jerusalem In My Heart is #1 2014 Top Ten — Sharon Van Etten’s Are We There is #1 2013 Top Ten — M.I.A.’s Matangi is #1 2012 Top Ten — Dirty Ghosts’ Metal Moon is #1 2011 Top Ten — Timber Timbre’s Creep On Creepin’ On is #1 2010 Top Ten — The Black Angels’ Phosphene Dream is #1 2009 Top Ten — Gallows’ Grey Britain is #1 2008 Top Ten — Portishead’s Third is #1 2007 Top Ten — Joel Plaskett Emergency’s Ashtray Rock is #1 2006 Top Ten — My Brightest Diamond’s Bring Me The Workhorse is #1 2005 Top Ten — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Howl is #1 2004 Top Ten — Morrissey’s You Are The Quarry is #1 2003 Top Ten — The Dears’ No Cities Left is #1 2002 Top Ten — Archive’s You All Look The Same To Me is #1 2001 Top Ten — Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow is #1 2000 Top Ten — Songs: Ohia’s The Lioness is #1 1999 Top Ten — The Boo Radleys’ Kingsize is #1 1998 Top Ten — Baxter’s Baxter is #1 1996 Top Ten — Tricky’s Maxinquaye is #1
In direct contrast to everything else Sarah loves about Niagara Falls — namely all the gaudy, ridiculous tourist attractions — her go-to hotel of choice is the super-nice boutique-y Sterling Inn & Spa.
She like the place so much, in fact, that she wrote about it for AOL Travel. You can read about the hotel here.
There’s shady work afoot in Peterborough, Ontario where the local arts-focused high school Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School may end up getting closed.
Some enterprising students are campaigning against this happening, though, and a pair of singers named Kate And Janelle have gone viral with their protest, which comes in the form of a Neko Case cover.
Aaron tracked the gals down to talk about their school and meeting Neko, all with some bonus commentary from PCVS alumni Serena Ryder.
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