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This Week In Music History: January 13 – 19

Julie Cypher, Melissa Etheridge & David Crosby

Julie Cypher, Melissa Etheridge & David Crosby

My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

This week’s theme was “children” — how Melissa Etheridge used David Crosby‘s sperm to get them, Pete Townshend‘s peculiar relationship to them, and a lamentation that Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson never produced them.

To find out more things that made music history, click here.

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Spinner News Pack: Arcade Fire, Skrillex, Stars & More

Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire

Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL Huffington Post empire:

Arcade Fire played a secret show in Montreal.

Skrillex makes a video game about himself.

Stars talk about their “Backlines” video… on video.

Danger Bees get killed by a bunch of children.

Kid Koala explains his “8-Bit Blues” video… on video.

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20 Best Bieber Moments Of 2012

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber

Normally we here at Risky Fuel don’t care much either way for Justin Bieber, but when Sarah was tasked with putting together a list of the 20 best Bieber moments of 2012 everything changed.

See, if you disregard his music, just take it out of the equation entirely, and focus on only the weird and outlandish things he gets himself involved in, you’ve got some gold.

So, to read about the chrome-plated car he gave away to Sean Kingston, how disease scientists tracked his popularity like a legitimate infection, or how he vomited onstage head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.

 

 

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Polaris People For The Week Of January 11 (Besnard Lakes! Joel Plaskett! John K. Samson!)

Caribou

Caribou

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

In this edition we celebrate The Besnard Lakes putting out new music, contemplate a royally-endorsed Joel Plaskett and support one of John K. Samson‘s initiatives.

To read this week’s column, go here.

P.S. for bonus Polaris content, check out the story I did last week which compiled the Top Ten album lists of 35 separate Polaris jurors. It’s pretty good insight into their minds.

 

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This Week In Music History: January 6 – 12

Smash Mouth & Sean Paul

Smash Mouth & Sean Paul

My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

This one was particularly fun because I managed to subvert marquee birthdays by the likes of Elvis Presley, David Bowie and Rod Stewart in being about Sean Paul, Kris Kross and Smash Mouth. Real journalism.

To find out more things that made music history, click here.

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