Ron Howard, Beyonce, Jay-Z
When Ron Howard blew into Toronto for TIFF recently he held a Q&A session after the screening of his Jay-Z documentary Made In America.
Sarah was there for the event and wrote a story about it.
One of the things Howard said: “I was watching Jay-Z and I thought of Frank Sinatra. Which doesn’t really make sense. But good is good.”
To read the whole story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Dan Mangan
The Sept. 13 edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
In this edition we learned about Dan Mangan, Arcade Fire and Tegan And Sara news.
To read the column go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
12-12-12 Concert Benefiting The Robin Hood Relief Fund To Aid The Victims Of Hurricane Sandy
The Risky Fuel household experienced an electric jolt of concern recently after finding out that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein didn’t appreciate an uncomfortably valid characterization Sarah made about Kristen Stewart in an article she wrote about the aftermath of the 12.12.12 documentary gala screening at TIFF 2013.
During a post-screening Q&A Weinstein talked about how, for $500,000, they had arranged for the Twilight actress to meet ‘n’ greet with an Arabian prince while at the charity concert to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy. And, there’s more… but you’ll have to ask her about it in person.
Let’s just say we had the conversation “What if I get blacklisted?” Our conclusion: you can’t blacklist people who don’t actually have much of anything to be blacklisted from, so here’s to being poor, powerless, insignificant and… free.
Weinstein was also mighty unhappy the concert’s organizing posse couldn’t force Led Zeppelin to reunite.
To actually understand what all I’m talking about, head over to Huffington Post Music Canada and read the story here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Shameless Promotion
Broken Social Scene
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
This week we investigate some of the many evolving new Broken Social Scene connections, track the excitement for Arcade Fire and find a use for Colin Stetson‘s music.
To read the column go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Prince doing the Batdance
The recent arrival of the Fan Expo — known casually as “Comic Con North” — to Toronto brought out all of the costumed nerd types.
It also got me thinking about the many superhero songs that exist. So I made a list of 30 of them for Huffington Post Music Canada.
There are songs about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, The Hulk, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, The Riddler and a whole bunch more.
To read the list go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 