Cadence Weapon
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
Cadence Weapon is fully media deployed, Joel Plaskett could end up in your backyard, The Weeknd may become Week.Piddy and Karkwa have an album.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Jeff Buckley
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Jeff Buckley died this week 15 years ago. That tends to make people sad. I prefer his father Tim, myself. Also celebrating an anniversary this week, the great Franz Ferdinand spy scandal… where Russian authorities thought lead singer Alex Kapranos was an international spy. Oh, and almost 50 years ago this week 11 students were suspended from school for having hair like Jagger, hair like Jagger.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Former Ottawa Senator Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood
If you follow hockey you know that two seasons ago the Ottawa Senators dismantled their hockey team to begin a rebuild. Chief amongst those moves was trading heart and soul player Mike Fisher to the Nashville Predators.
The move worked — Ottawa was a better team last year. Thing is, Nashville became a much better team, and made a quality run in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
An aside to all this is that many Senators fans considered Fisher’s wife, country superstar Carrie Underwood, as some sort of Yoko Ono who has some part in breaking up the band.
Sarah talked to Underwood about the whole thing and the singer says she and Ottawa have made peace.
You can read the whole related story at the AOL Music Blog by clicking here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
Metric
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
In it Emily Haines of Metric gets a sexy new keyboard stand, Cadence Weapon gets angry, and Sarah Harmer gets on a bicycle.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Interestingly, it was this very week 33 years ago that John Lennon and Yoko Ono holed up in Montreal to have a bed-in for peace, and to create the song “Give Peace A Chance.” Contrast that to the provincial government trying to clamp down on student protests in Montreal lately. Also, Bobby Dylan was born.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 