Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the newly redesigned Polaris Music Prize website.
There’s some fascinating stuff in this one: Owen Pallett now has a comic book, K’naan has a True Blood connection, and the Polaris Music Prize Fantasy Draft is a real thing that actually exists.
To read about them, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
A Tribe Called Red
Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL empire:
With “EDM” being the new breakout thing in music, DJ A-Trak wants people to remember to respect the turntablist.
One of my new faves, Ottawa DJ crew A Tribe Called Red released an exclusive mixtape to Spinner to celebrate their appearance at Toronto’s Mad Decent Block Party. You should get it here.
Carly Rae Jepsen is not involved in a nude photo hacking scandal. Which, awkwardly, Vancouver Police say they have a suspect for.
Hey, I added two more news bits from the week of August 3:
1) Drake is finally gonna graduate from Degrassi.
2) Tiesto and Skrillex were the world’s highest paid DJs last year.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
2012 Polaris Short List announcement
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
It’s the first in a post-2012 Short List world, so there’s lots of news about nominees like Grimes and Cadence Weapon and some of the more interesting coverage of the announcement.
To read about it, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Polaris Robots
Earlier this week the 2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List got announced.
Said list included the following albums:
Cadence Weapon — Hope In Dirt City
Cold Specks — I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Drake — Take Care
Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur
Feist — Metals
Fucked Up — David Comes To Life
Grimes — Visions
Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital
Japandroids — Celebration Rock
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN — YT//ST
Over at the Polaris website I did a bit of digging and came up with some fast facts about the 10 nominated acts for this year. You can read said facts — like the complete list of acts who’ve been on the Short List twice in their careers — by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Aerosmith got burned, The Rolling Stones got bombed, John Lennon got banned and Guns N’ Roses blasted off.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 