Foals ‘Holy Fire’
Over at the Spinner salt mines we’ve started to do the occasional album review. My contributions to this make-work project include Foals‘ Holy Fire and Cuff The Duke‘s Union.
Go read them by clicking here for Foals and here for Cuff The Duke. Or not.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Hayden
Back in the late 1990s my first ever-cover story for Chart Magazine (RIP) was with grumbling indie moper Hayden. Now, some 15 years later Sarah has interviewed the spotlight-shy singer to promote his new album Us Alone.
In Sarah’s story Hayden talks about his new affiliation with Broken Social Scene’s record label Arts & Crafts as well as his new, family-friendly worldview. More importantly, her story indicates that, in one way or another, Hayden has been helping to feed the Risky Fuel household for 15 years now.
To read the story head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Lindi Ortega
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
For this one we did a little bit of radical narrowing, deciding to only look into the comings and goings of some of the 30 artists who made the 2012 Polaris Long List, but not the subsequent Short List. It turns out that country croonin’ gal Lindi Ortega wants to start creeping on the Stompin Tom demo, Ariane Moffatt finally made her return to Toronto and Coeur de Pirate has made a romantic new video.
To read this week’s column, go here.
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Beatles & Ed Sullivan
My latest “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
In this edition the Beatles fight Apple Computers, John Lennon has a run-in with the U.S. government, and Britney Spears has a run-in with sanity.
To read about these things as well as a bunch of other stuff that made music history, click here.
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Ben Folds Five
The Grammy Awards are tomorrow so I’ve had to put together a few different mini-pieces to help advance that event. These include:
Tegan And Sara accusing their mom of being high.
Melanie Fiona assessing her chances of beating Beyonce.
And the important internet grabber, “what time are the Grammys?”
I did a few other briefs recently, including:
Another SEO-bait story “what time is the Super Bowl?”
And the story of Ben Folds Five encountering characters from Fraggle Rock.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 