Monocyte/Saltillo And The Koffin Kats In Rue Morgue

Monocyte, an unholy comic

Monocyte, an unholy comic

This one’s a bit of a follow: There’s a great new comic book series called Monocyte by artist/musician Menton J. Matthews III and writer Kasra Ghanbari about this badass servant of death named Monocyte who goes around killing everything. Menton also has a creepy-awesome violin industrial trip-hop thing (seriously) called Saltillo. Saltillo just put out an album called Monocyte that’s almost like a companion soundtrack to the comics.

Anyway, Aaron wrote about the whole thing in old fashioned print form for issue #120 of Rue Morgue.

He also wrote a review of The Koffin Kats new album as well.

You can find out more about the latest Rue Morgue issue by going here.

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Las Vegas: Where The Party Never Stops

Marquee Beach Club

Marquee Beach Club

Now seems just about the right time to remind everyone that Sarah went on a whirlwind junket to Las Vegas awhile back where she ate and drank and danced and partied ’til all hours of the night.

On her adventures she went to places like Hard Rock Hotel, The Marquee Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan and the Encore Beach Club, part of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore facility. Then she wrote all about it for AOL Travel.

You can read that story by clicking here.

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The Order Of Good Broken Social Scene

Jason Collett and Kevin Drew

Jason Collett and Kevin Drew

So there’s this event happening in Toronto tonight called the Juno Concert Series. It’s basically a musical variety show where three bands: Arkells, The Beauties, and The Order Of Good Cheer each take a turn playing for an hour with a pile of special guests.

The whole point is to do cheeky covers of classic Canadian songs in the lead up to the Juno Awards.

Anyway, Aaron talked to the members of The Order Of Good Cheer about their set because they’re tight with the Broken Social Scene guys and Jason Collett and Kevin Drew from BSS are going to be performing and they’ve hinted that they’ll be debuting a new song so it’s a kinda big deal and… whew… deep breath.

You can read the story about the whole thing over at Spinner by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

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Foxy Shazam Like Big Butts

Foxy Shazam

Foxy Shazam

Foxy Shazam like bums. Same with asses, behinds, butts… you get the idea.

So Sarah talked to them about hind-quarters for Spinner.

You can read that story here.

 

 

 

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Polaris People For March 2 (The Dears! Owen Pallett! K’naan!)

Dan Mangan photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize.

Dan Mangan photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize.

The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.

There’s news about the awesome-tacular band The Dears, a jealousy-causing Austra party, some tracking of K’naan’s media dominance and a whole lot more.

Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.

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