Caviare Days
Here are the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL empire:
Zeus do a live version of “Strong Mind.” Check out Neil’s hair.
Jack White isn’t interested in dance music.
Sled Island 2012 lineup gets announced.
Coldplay don’t really talk about the Olympics, say U2 rule (they’re probably lying).
Kay, she of My Name Is Kay, makes music with some guy.
Caviare Days: Hot pant-wearing Swedish sisters who make psychedelic dance pop. Yes, that’s exactly what it is.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
You can take the girl out of the Star Trek conventions, but you can’t take the Trekkie out of the girl. There’s really no other reason that Sarah started talking to Hanson about Star Trek and Star Wars when they were in town to promote their new album, Shout It Out.
In honour of May The Fourth, she shared their conversation with AOL Music Blog. You can check it out here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
Hanson
Some of you will be unbelieving of this, but Hanson, they of that song “MMMbop” from about 15 years ago, are still at it and are rather legit.
So legit, in fact, that one of the brothers is in a side-project band with one of the guys who used to be in the Smashing Pumpkins.
But when Sarah talked to the brothers recently that wasn’t what they were talking about. No, they were more into talking about soul music and Canada and how they make music according to something called the “Michael Jackson theory” — it apparently involves sleepovers, elephant man bones and setting your hair on fire (kidding). It’s mostly about rhythm and melody.
Anyway, to read the resulting story that ran on AOL Music Blog, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
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My tenure as the author of Spinner’s “This Week In Music History” continues.
This week was very exciting because I finally had the opportunity to (in some small way) discuss hologram rock stars. They’re the future, you know. So, yeah, there were holograms, We Are The World, Roger Waters almost getting bombed and that story about Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards falling out of a tree — drunken pratfalls are funny to me, even if dude almost died.
To find out more details of why these things and more made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Austra photo courtesy Polaris Music Prize.
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
There are tenuous Dan Mangan connections, bad Austra jokes, and an update on Holy Fuck‘s Brian Borcherdt.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 