Two Hours Traffic
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
This week Grimes gets her Game Of Thrones on, Dan Mangan goes Cosmo and Two Hours Traffic find their rhythm.
To read the column, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Stompin’ Tom Connors postage stamp
When Canadian country hero Stompin’ Tom Connors died earlier this week one of the subsequent discussions was about how Tom fearlessly did what he wanted. For someone who created folkie songs about ketchup, hockey and potatoes, he was essentially… a true punk.
As such, I wrote about the life lesson I learned the one time I had the opportunity to spend a day drinking in the Connors’ family rec room. The story, called “Stompin’ Tom Connors Was More Punk Than You: A Memorial,” can be found here.
In related Tom tributes, over at my other workplace the Polaris Music Prize I also wrote an article collecting the many tweets from various past Polaris nominees who were also touched by Tom’s music. You can read that article here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion, The Misadventures Of
How To Destroy Angels ‘Welcome Oblivion’
Because I care only about the hippest, newest, youngest emerging musical acts I recently reviewed the following albums for Spinner:
How To Destroy Angels‘ Welcome Oblivion — Trent Reznor with his wife singing. Click here.
Johnny Marr‘s The Messenger — The Smiths still aren’t reunited. Click here.
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Ron Sexsmith
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
For this one we discovered what karaoke songs Ron Sexsmith likes, go to the theatre with Stars and learn about Two Hours Traffic‘s favourite bands.
To read this week’s column, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Bruce Springsteen
My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This week we learned how long it took Bruce Springsteen to get his just rewards, revisited Jim Morrison getting arrested onstage and Ray Charles getting strangled onstage (seriously, he didn’t see it coming).
To learn more about these things and to read a bunch of other stuff that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 