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by Aaron Brophy | March 14, 2012 · 2:23 pm

What Pop Music Teaches Us About Rain

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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by Aaron Brophy | March 13, 2012 · 3:05 pm

Mike O’Neill And A Trailer Park Boys Cat Named Fruitjack

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.

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by Aaron Brophy | March 13, 2012 · 2:33 pm

Carly Rae Jepsen Talks About Justin Bieber

Carly Rae Jepsen

Because AOL Music Blog is RIP, this story can now be found HERE.

Justin Bieber’s been in starmaker mode lately and the number one beneficiary has been Carly Rae Jepsen.

Basically, Bieber and his GF Selena Gomez are, like, totally swaggin’ (or whatever the kids say) over Jepsen’s song “Call Me Maybe.”

With that in mind, Sarah, our 21 Jump Street-style undercover detective, went and talked to Jepsen about the whole rollercoaster fame deal.

~~You can read about the resulting story at the AOL Music Blog here.~~

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by Aaron Brophy | March 12, 2012 · 3:36 pm

Welcome To Reunionmania

Bill Priddle of Treble Charger

Unless you hate music you’ve probably figured out there are a lot of bands from the ’90s and early 2000s reuniting.

Pretty much every big British band (except The Smiths is doing it) — Blur, Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays.

The same thing’s happening in Canada where the likes of Headstones, Change Of Heart, The Grapes Of Wrath, Thrush Hermit, The Watchmen, Eric’s Trip, Big Sugar, hHead, I Mother Earth, The Doughboys, King Cobb Steelie, Rusty, The Tea Party and Raggadeth are just a sample of the bands that have gotten back together in some form or another.

With that in mind Maclean’s sent Aaron off to figure out what the deal was. He ended up interviewing Treble Charger, Big Wreck, The Inbreds, Econoline Crush and Mystery Machine and the resulting story can be read here.