YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
There’s lotsa stuff about the current Short Listers in this edition: Grimes has Catholic guilt, YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN became cover stars, and Kathleen Edwards almost died.
To learn more, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Johnny Cash
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This latest one was a bit of a bummer trip because we looked at when Johnny Cash and Johnny Ramone died.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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City And Colour
I interviewed City And Colour‘s Dallas Green awhile back and he gave me a bit of early inside stuff about his upcoming next album.
Basically, it’s not going to be some crazy free jazz freakout. Mostly it’ll be like past City And Colour albums, featuring “sad sounding, melancholy songs.”
To find out more, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
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Ice-T & Snoop Lion
Ice-T was in Toronto recently for TIFF 2012 to promote his film Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp. The film features numerous contributions from rappers talking about the original pimp-poet, including a pre-Rasta conversion Snoop Dogg.
Sarah interviewed Ice-T about the film, and when she had some down time she also asked him about Snoop Lion and Snoop’s other TIFF film, Reincarnated.
Ice doesn’t think “Snoop Lion” is going to last.
To find out why, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Arcade Fire
To coincide with TIFF 2012 the Arcade Fire, K’naan, Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk performed at a fancy charity show to help Haiti put on by a group called Artists For Peace And Justice.
The party was filled with A-listers like Jude Law and Eric the vampire (Alexander Skarsgard).
Sarah was there. And when she wasn’t somehow constantly running afoul of Paul Haggis (dude, you’re not that important) she managed to write about it for Spinner.
To read the story, click here.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 