Category Archives: Music

by | February 12, 2012 · 7:50 pm

Neil Young Is The Rodney Dangerfield Of The Grammys

Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Young gets no respect. From the Grammys. Just like Rodney Dangerfield.

According to Aaron, that is. He went deep into the Grammy Award archives and found out Neil has won Grammys only twice in the 22 times he’s been nominated. And one of those was for packaging.

Heck, Weird Al has won more Grammys.

CBC Music wanted a closer look, so the resulting article tracked what other Canadians had won more Grammys than Neil, and what won in the years that Harvest and After The Goldrush didn’t.

To read the story click here.

 

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by | February 12, 2012 · 7:29 pm

Dream Theater Talk Grammys And Smalltown Bush Parties

Dream Theater

Dream Theater

The fantastical new universe known as CBC Music has now launched and Aaron has begun contributing to it.

His first story was a Grammy Awards advancer with James LaBrie of Dream Theater about the band’s hard rock nomination. Both Aaron and James were born in the same hometown so the conversation quickly deteriorated into talk about mental institutions and local hockey games.

You can read the story over at CBC Music by clicking here.

 

 

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by | February 10, 2012 · 10:10 pm

Polaris People For Feb. 10 (K’naan! Cadence Weapon! Besnard Lakes!)

Cadence Weapon photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize

Cadence Weapon photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize

This week’s edition of the Polaris People blog Aaron does over at the Polaris Music Prize website is now live. The Feb. 10 post featured news about K’naan, Cadence Weapon, The Besnard Lakes and a bunch more.

You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.

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by | February 10, 2012 · 9:18 pm

Polaris People For Feb. 3 (Feist! Tegan! Sara! Caribou!)

Patrick Watson photo by Dustin Rabin. Property of Polaris Music Prize

Patrick Watson photo by Dustin Rabin. Property of Polaris Music Prize

Aaron has started contributing to the Polaris Music Prize’s blog section, namely keeping track of what past Short List nominees have been up to week-to-week and writing a column about it.

His first post, for the week of Feb. 3 featured news about Feist, Tegan And Sara, Caribou and a bunch more.

You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.

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by | February 5, 2012 · 5:10 am

Stupid Jokes I Made About Lana Del Rey and Madonna Tonight

I have a cold, so I stayed home and stuck wads of toilet paper up my nose while Aaron went out into the world, played hockey, saw other people and acted like a functional human being. About an hour into my quarantine, I started to get really bored. I turned to social media for amusement, and then I made some dumb jokes in an effort to get people to pay attention to my sad, sickly ass.

First, I compared Lana Del Rey and her unique(?) stage presence to SCTV’s Perry Como skit. It’s uncanny!

Then I came up with the following equation to explain Madonna’s new video:

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