Arcade Fire photo courtesy Polaris Music Prize.
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
This week was a banner one for team-ups and cover songs as members of Arcade Fire teamed up with members of Sonic Youth, The Sadies teamed up with Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet to cover Alice Cooper, and Metz covered The Damned.
To read the column go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Deadmau5
Last week Sarah had a moderately unpleasant interview with EDM musician and professional mouse-head Deadmau5 in advance of this weekend’s Veld Festival.
The one bright spot in the conversation came while discussing D5’s campaign to get on British car show Top Gear and how Justin Bieber derailed his Twitter campaign to get the show’s attention.
In said story he called Justin Bieber a “little prick.”
To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.
P.S. Pro tip: Listing the amount of money you made in your bio won’t give you artistic cred.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
Tiger
Tigers rule. They’re exactly like cats except they’re more giant and more killing machine-y.
They are also an animal that awful humans have almost driven to extinction in the wild.
In honour of the recent International Tiger Day I created a list of 15 grrreat songs about tigers for Huffington Post Music Canada.
To read the list go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Zanta
Team Risky Fuel has infiltrated another organization. This time it’s old school print style in This Magazine for my review of Jason Kieffer’s graphic novel Zanta: The Living Legend about the divisive shirtless character who stalked Toronto streets doing random push-ups last decade.
I always found Zanta to be an entertaining sideshow, but there are many layers of dark to his story and Kieffer captures them well.
Book and magazine shops which don’t suck should probably have the July/August 2013 issue in stock.
Filed under Books, Shameless Promotion
Moss from IT Crowd
Using her “mad meticulous and intensely focused spectral skills” Sarah has just contributed the article “Television on the Spectrum: The Best (and Worst) Depictions of Asperger Syndrome on TV” to the fine folks at Flavorwire.
In said article you’ll find discussion on folks like the Benedict Cumberbatch version of Sherlock, Abed from Community, and (apparently most contentiously) that decidedly unfunny Sheldon character from Big Bang Theory.
To read the whole story head over to Flavorwire by clicking here.
Filed under Shameless Promotion, Television
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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