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Spinner Mega News Pack: The Dears, Hilotrons, Ariane Moffatt And Some Drunk Dude

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.

 

 

 

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Polaris People For The Week Of Nov. 23 (Joel Plaskett! Metric! Julie Doiron!)

Joel Plaskett

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.

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10 Great Psychedelic Neil Young Moments

Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Young recently put out an album called Psychedelic Pill which, as the name suggests, is a bit of a bug out, maaaan.

With that in mind we were inspired to track down some of the most psychedelic things Neil’s done in his life — including onstage Jawas, Charles Manson songs and the ending to Journey Through The Past.

The result: 10 Great Psychedelic Neil Young Moments. Which you can find on Spinner by clicking here.

Enjoy the trip, dude.

 

 

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This Week In Music History: November 18 – 23

An artist rendering of the Michael Jackson baby dangle

An artist rendering of the Michael Jackson baby dangle

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

This one was particularly weird because not only did I get to talk about the infamous Michael Jackson baby dangling incident, but there was also not one but two rock ‘n’ roll child bride divorce stories. None of which involved R. Kelly.

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

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Polaris People For The Week Of Nov. 16 (Black Mountain! Chad VanGaalen! The Weeknd!)

Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen

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

Black Mountain are going to be part of an insane-o good sounding Austin Psych Fest, Chad VanGaalen has produced a weird cartoon, and The Weeknd may have done his first media interview. May have.

To read it, go here.

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