Joel Plaskett photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy Polaris Music Prize.
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
There’s news about Kathleen Edwards’ fertility, Tegan And Sara ward off alligators, Joel Plaskett gets super-high and a whole lot more.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
The Temper Trap
The Temper Trap, the Australian Snow Patrol, have been hereabouts performing and promoting and stuff. So Sarah spoke to them about nerves and SXSW and some other stuff.
You can read the story over at Spinner by clicking here.
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Unicycle Loves You and Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt
This story is exactly what the headline says it is. Aaron combed through the SXSW 2012 band listings and then talked to 11 bands with the weirdest names for Spinner.
Here’s your dangle: Diarrhea Planet, Bitches, Unicycle Loves You, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Cassettes Won’t Listen, Delicate Steve, DJ Jester The Filipino Fist, I Hate Our Freedom, Not In The Face, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Letting Up Despite Great Faults.
You can read the story by clicking here.
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Rihanna needs an umbrella-ella-ella in rain
Pop stars are sometimes not the most ruthlessly literal people in the world. In fact, it could be argued they spend most of their lives in a world that has little to do with reality.
So it should come as no surprise then, that these same pop stars have been attributing various properties to rain that, quite frankly, aren’t true. Professor Sarah Honeydew isn’t a fan of such abuses so she catalogued a number of these infractions for the AOL Music Blog.
You can read about Purple Rain, Black Rain, Fire Rain, November Rain, Dishonest Rain… you name it, there’s a type of rain for it… by clicking here.
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Mike O'Neill
Mike O’Neill, formerly (and occasionally still) one-half of The Inbreds, has a new solo album out called Wild Lines.
It’s great, but one of the most fascinating things about the record to Aaron had nothing to do with its songs, it was about the album cover.
O’Neill is photographed with a cat on his shoulder. Being cat fans, we got to the bottom of this shoulder cat situation. It turns out said shoulder cat is named Fruitjack and is owned by Mike Clattenburg, the creator of Trailer Park Boys.
You can read the whole story over at AUX TV by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
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