Category Archives: Music

by Aaron Brophy | July 21, 2012 · 1:55 pm

2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List Gets Announced + Fast Facts

Polaris Robots

Earlier this week the 2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List got announced.

Said list included the following albums:

Cadence Weapon — Hope In Dirt City
Cold Specks — I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Drake — Take Care
Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur
Feist — Metals
Fucked Up — David Comes To Life
Grimes — Visions
Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital
Japandroids — Celebration Rock
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN — YT//ST

Over at the Polaris website I did a bit of digging and came up with some fast facts about the 10 nominated acts for this year. You can read said facts — like the complete list of acts who’ve been on the Short List twice in their careers — by clicking here.

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by Aaron Brophy | July 21, 2012 · 1:46 pm

This Week In Music History: July 15 – 21

Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses

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

Aerosmith got burned, The Rolling Stones got bombed, John Lennon got banned and Guns N’ Roses blasted off.

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

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by Aaron Brophy | July 20, 2012 · 12:30 pm

When B.o.B Met Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift and B.o.B

Country sweetheart Taylor Swift and rapper B.o.B have a hit song together called “Both Of Us.”

With that in mind, it was a pretty natural topic of conversation when Sarah spoke to B.o.B recently.

As it turns out, his song with Swift came together pretty naturally, too.

To find out why head over to AOL Music Blog and click HERE.

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by Aaron Brophy | July 20, 2012 · 3:32 am

Remembering Lollapalooza 1991

Lollapalooza 1991

If you grew of age musically in the “alternative” era just like I did, you probably consider Lollapalooza a pretty big deal.

And that would be because it WAS a big deal.

It turns out the 21st anniversary of the first ever Lollapalooza show happened a couple days ago, so I put together a wee gallery over at Spinner to celebrate.

To check out the Lollapalooza 1991 gallery, click here.