Michael Jackson
Spinner’s still letting me do my “This Week In Music History” feature.
Wait until they figure out I intend to turn this thing into the definitive T’Pau chronicle.
Anyway, besides T’Pau this week’s column featured Michael Jackson, Freddy Mercury, The Cure’s Robert Smith, The Kingsmen vs. the FBI, Joey Ramone, Buddy Holly and Sonny Bono.
To find out why they made music history, click here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
The Iron Sheik
If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember The Iron Sheik. That jabroni Hulk Hogan stole his belt. Hak! Phew!
Well, in an era that isn’t the ’80s, one of professional wrestling’s greatest villains has found a new forum… Twitter. And there’s no way Hogan’s stealing his belt there because he’s the undisputed champion of ridiculous, hilarious threatening tweets.
Mostly he spends his time making fun of Hulk Hogan, calling the Ultimate Warrior raisin dick and telling people he’s going to fuck them and make them humble old country way, but recently he’s been branching out into music. He’s tweeted about Chris Brown, Kings Of Leon, Whitney Houston and a whole host of others.
Sarah pulled together some of the best tweets for AUX TV. You can read the story by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Music, Shameless Promotion
ASAP Rocky
UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP this full story can now be found here.
Harlem rapper ASAP Rocky has a song called “Bass” whose chorus is just “Bass!… Bass!… Bass!… Bass!”
It’s fucking great.
ASAP’s also about 30 per cent more enlightened than the average rapper because, well, he doesn’t give a fuck if you’re gay.
The proof, and elaboration, on this stance can be read over at Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Cadence Weapon photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize
This week’s edition of the Polaris People blog Aaron does over at the Polaris Music Prize website is now live. The Feb. 10 post featured news about K’naan, Cadence Weapon, The Besnard Lakes and a bunch more.
You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Patrick Watson photo by Dustin Rabin. Property of Polaris Music Prize
Aaron has started contributing to the Polaris Music Prize’s blog section, namely keeping track of what past Short List nominees have been up to week-to-week and writing a column about it.
His first post, for the week of Feb. 3 featured news about Feist, Tegan And Sara, Caribou and a bunch more.
You can read the story by clicking over to the Polaris Music Prize site here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 