Jason Collett and Hayden
Here’s the roundup of recent news stories I wrote for Huffington Post Music Canada:
The Barenaked Ladies released a cute video for the song “Boomerang.”
Slayer funeral becomes massive mosh pit.
Hayden & Jason Collett do a song together.
The Weeknd debuts new song “Kiss Land.”
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Tegan And Sara
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
We learned about Tegan And Sara‘s peculiar Bill Clinton connection, got a glimpse into Woodpigeon‘s crazy Turkey adventure and pondered why Jennifer Lawrence was hanging out with Win Butler of Arcade Fire.
To read the column, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Rob Ford
While the whole city waits patiently for the next round of scandals from Toronto mayor Rob Ford, I looked into a different aspect of the red-faced one’s role as T.0.’s figurehead — artistic muse.
There have been a number of songs written about Ford, so I collected them in one handy list and wrote it all up for Huffington Post Music Canada.
To listen to songs featuring D-Sisive, Peaches and more just click here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Iceis Rain
When covering the fascinating new documentary Oil Sands Karaoke Sarah felt that Fort McMurray, Alberta’s only drag queen Iceis Rain deserved a bit more attention.
As such, she wrote a profile about Iceis for Vice’s new music site, Noisey. It turns out Iceis is working on a proper music career and is recording an album.
That, and being the only drag queen in Fort McMurray has some perks — “I’m on this website called Plenty of Fish and I get, like, six pages a day of all these straight guys wanting Iceis in Fort McMurray.”
To read the full story go here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Broken Social Scene
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
There are a lot of folks starting to work on new music and we got the lowdown on a number of them — Drake, Braids, Patrick Watson, etc. We also learned some about Broken Social Scene‘s pseudo-book fair.
To read the column, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 