James Brown & Creed’s Scott Stapp
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This edition was all about considering the difference between a good showman and a bad one. For example, James Brown = good showman, Creed‘s Scott Stapp, while whacked out on pills and whatever = bad showman. Unfortunately for Brown, this particular edition of History isn’t about his hard-working show.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
The Dears
The Dears, one of Risky Fuel HQ’s favourite bands, have spent the last year or so in a sort of cataloguing phase, having the book The Dears: Lost In The Plot written about them, then releasing the documentary film/live album combo Never Destroy Us: Live At Pasaguero about their history.
After all that lead singer Murray Lightburn told Sarah, amongst other things, that for 2013 the band are done looking backwards. It’ll be all about doing new stuff from here on out.
You can read the full interview by heading over to Spinner here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan likes to do good things for the world and because it’s do-good-things season our Sarah spoke to her about some of those things.
The double Ss talked about McLachlan getting Bill Clinton to make an appearance for her right in the middle of the U.S. election run, her music school’s charity single, and those ASPCA commercials she does that have those sad puppies you want to adopt.
To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Politics, Shameless Promotion
Elton John and Bill Haley
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This edition had a fancy “trailblazers” theme which highlighted vanguard-y stuff by Elton John, Bill Haley, Run DMC and Swedish House Mafia.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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Grimes
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
In this edition we check out some of the 2012 Best Song lists from various publications, learn about Grimes and bingo, worry about Weeknd‘s smolder problem, and behold Japandroids continuing world dominance.
To read this week’s column, go here.
Additionally, I also recently created the first official Polaris Music Prize gift guide, which predominantly features books written by members of the Polaris jury. I know many of these authors personally and have read many of the books they’ve written and give all of these people gold star thumbs up recommendations. And besides, if people don’t support these folks what hope is there for the rest of us?
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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