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Mike O’Neill And A Trailer Park Boys Cat Named Fruitjack

Mike O'Neill

Mike O'Neill

Mike O’Neill, formerly (and occasionally still) one-half of The Inbreds, has a new solo album out called Wild Lines.

It’s great, but one of the most fascinating things about the record to Aaron had nothing to do with its songs, it was about the album cover.

O’Neill is photographed with a cat on his shoulder. Being cat fans, we got to the bottom of this shoulder cat situation. It turns out said shoulder cat is named Fruitjack and is owned by Mike Clattenburg, the creator of Trailer Park Boys.

You can read the whole story over at AUX TV by clicking here.

 

 

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Carly Rae Jepsen Talks About Justin Bieber

Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly Rae Jepsen

Because AOL Music Blog is RIP, this story can now be found HERE.

Justin Bieber’s been in starmaker mode lately and the number one beneficiary has been Carly Rae Jepsen.

Basically, Bieber and his GF Selena Gomez are, like, totally swaggin’ (or whatever the kids say) over Jepsen’s song “Call Me Maybe.”

With that in mind, Sarah, our 21 Jump Street-style undercover detective, went and talked to Jepsen about the whole rollercoaster fame deal.

You can read about the resulting story at the AOL Music Blog here.

 

 

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Welcome To Reunionmania

Bill Priddle of Treble Charger

Bill Priddle of Treble Charger

Unless you hate music you’ve probably figured out there are a lot of bands from the ’90s and early 2000s reuniting.

Pretty much every big British band (except The Smiths is doing it) — Blur, Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays.

The same thing’s happening in Canada where the likes of Headstones, Change Of Heart, The Grapes Of Wrath, Thrush Hermit, The Watchmen, Eric’s Trip, Big Sugar, hHead, I Mother Earth, The Doughboys, King Cobb Steelie, Rusty, The Tea Party and Raggadeth are just a sample of the bands that have gotten back together in some form or another.

With that in mind Maclean’s sent Aaron off to figure out what the deal was. He ended up interviewing Treble Charger, Big Wreck, The Inbreds, Econoline Crush and Mystery Machine and the resulting story can be read here.

 

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Polaris People For March 9 (Elliott Brood! Grant-Damian-Masterblaster! Arcade Fire!)

Grant Lawrence and Damian Abraham photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize.

Grant Lawrence and Damian Abraham photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize.

The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.

There’s news about Elliott Brood kidnappings, Dan Mangan puppetry, Arcade Fire going to school and a whole lot more.

Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.

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Monocyte/Saltillo And The Koffin Kats In Rue Morgue

Monocyte, an unholy comic

Monocyte, an unholy comic

This one’s a bit of a follow: There’s a great new comic book series called Monocyte by artist/musician Menton J. Matthews III and writer Kasra Ghanbari about this badass servant of death named Monocyte who goes around killing everything. Menton also has a creepy-awesome violin industrial trip-hop thing (seriously) called Saltillo. Saltillo just put out an album called Monocyte that’s almost like a companion soundtrack to the comics.

Anyway, Aaron wrote about the whole thing in old fashioned print form for issue #120 of Rue Morgue.

He also wrote a review of The Koffin Kats new album as well.

You can find out more about the latest Rue Morgue issue by going here.

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