Category Archives: Shameless Promotion

by Aaron Brophy | April 9, 2013 · 1:29 pm

Inside The Bizarre World Of Erotic One Direction Fan Fiction

One Direction

Recently Sarah put on her lurker boots and waded into the murky, muddy turf that is the One Direction fan fiction universe.

What she found in that swampy otherworld wasn’t pretty — Alexander Ovechkin tricking 1D members into kissing him, Oprah treating them like her bondage slaves… it was a dark place.

Understandably, she felt she needed to expose all of this so she did over at Spinner.

To read “One Direction FanFic: Wildest, Weirdest and Most Disturbing Stories About Brit Boy Band” click here.

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by Aaron Brophy | April 7, 2013 · 10:08 pm

Polaris People For The Week Of April 5 (Patrick Watson! Besnard Lakes! Metric!)

Patrick Watson

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

This week we point out that The Besnard Lakes are everywhere, ponder Patrick Watson with an orchestra and go to the warning track with Metric and the Toronto Blue Jays.

To read the column, go here.

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by Aaron Brophy | April 7, 2013 · 6:16 pm

The Black Angels & Crime And The City Solution Album Reviews

Black Angels’ Indigo Meadow

There’ve been a heap of good records released recently for the jean jacket ‘n’ airbrushed van art crowd and two of them have been The Black Angels‘ Indigo Meadow and Crime & The City Solution‘s American Twilight.

I reviewed both of those albums over at Spinner.

To read about The Black Angels’ Indigo Meadow go here.

To read about Crime & The City Solution’s American Twilight go here.

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by Aaron Brophy | April 5, 2013 · 12:43 pm

Heart On ‘Stairway To Heaven’ And Being Canadian (Sort Of)

Heart

Heart have made some of the best songs in the history of rock music — “Magic Man,” “Crazy On You” and “Barracuda” — and recently the covered another great, Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway To Heaven,” and did it so well they made the band cry. Before Heart came to Toronto for Canadian Music Week I got a chance to talk to Nancy Wilson about doing that song in front of Zep as well as what other covers they know. That story can be found at Spinner by clicking here.

I also tried to clear up that peculiar urban myth that says Heart are a Canadian band in a separate story for Huffington Post Music Canada. You can read about that one by going here.