Edgefest
The annual Edgefest concert series ended this weekend with a retro-themed show featuring Our Lady Peace, Sloan and I Mother Earth.
As a person who was there back in the day, Huffington Post Music Canada tasked me with coming up with a list of 25 memorable triggers from Edgefests which took place in the ’90s.
This ended up being an excuse to bring up the likes of Sandbox, Vertical Horizon and Holly McNarland.
To read the list go here.
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OVOfest
We didn’t get to attend the 2014 edition of Drake‘s OVOfest so it was lucky for us that D-Sisive, the award-winning rapper and man whose turds OB OBrien treats as religious artifacts, live-tweeted the whole event.
To the best of our knowledge here’s what went down at Toronto’s Molson Canadian Amphitheatre tonight.
Sugar Ray!
Great Big Sea!
Lou Bega!
Yakov Smirnoff!
Clay Aiken And The Cast Of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Raincoat!
Puppetry Of The Penis!
Garth Brooks As Chris Gaines (holy shit, guys)!
Bears!
The “I have no legs guy from KIDS”!
Motherfuckin’ Zack Attack!
Rick Moranis!
Smash Mouth! For all the all-stars…
And blammo, a true throwdown to that whole hologram guest star gimmick…
Jem And The Holograms!
Sounds like an amazing show. Sad we missed it.
Theory Of A Deadman’s Tyler Connolly and Jean-Paul Sartre.
It would be easy to pigeonhole Theory Of A Deadman — the guys that once covered Vince McMahon’s theme song “No Chance In Hell” and whose song “Got It Made” appeared on the Nascar 09 video game soundtrack — as that band active rock radio stations use to fill the empty spaces Nickelback leaves behind when they’re out of album cycle.
That, however, would be a disservice which fails to capture the sheer magnitude of the soul crushing angst found on Theory Of A Deadman’s just released fifth album, Savages. Like Ingmar Bergman’s sonic familiar, on Savages lead singer Tyler Connolly navigates a cruel, bleak world full of despair, betrayal and the heartsick realization that humanity, given the opportunity, will often choose to do the exact worst thing.
Connolly’s anguish is so deep we went so far as to compare the suffering found in the lyrics of Savages‘ 13 songs to various quotes from existentialist French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Go through all 10 lines and ask yourself, “Who said it, Theory Of A Deadman or Jean-Paul Sartre?”
1. “I give up. I give in. I surrender.”
2. “It’s all a bad dream. Who can we trust?”
3. “I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
4. “You took it all and you moved away and I’m living in a trailer by the interstate.”
5. “Nothingness haunts being.”
6. “Life begins on the other side of despair.”
7. “Will I never find peace?I look into the mirror and I hate what I’ve become, because I’m the only casualty from damage I have done.”
8. “Hell is other people.”
9. “I’m adjusting to the dark. Forget about the pain. Am I really that afraid or just insane?”
10. “It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.”
Answer key is below the video.
1. Theory Of A Deadman “In Ruins”
2. Theory Of A Deadman “Misery Of Mankind”
3. Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Theory Of A Deadman “Livin’ My Life Like A Country Song feat. Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts”
5. Jean-Paul Sartre
6. Jean-Paul Sartre
7. Theory Of A Deadman “World War Me”
8. Jean-Paul Sartre
9. Theory Of A Deadman”Panic Room”
10. Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jenny Lewis
At the recent TURF festival in Toronto I got to speak with former Rilo Kiley/current solo star Jenny Lewis about her newest album, The Voyager.
Some of the topics discussed: ’80s Nintendo promo movie The Wizard, Zach Galifianakis, Ryan Adams, insomnia, Beck and Oasis’ song “Wonderwall.”
To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.
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Nickelback
It could be argued that if you wanted to track down the worst Canadian songs ever created you could never succeed because there’s a shimmering, evil force endlessly churning out new and horrible variants of hoser songs.
Sarah, however, considered this a challenge and attempted to determine the 50 Worst Canadian Songs.
To read the list head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 