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Iceis Rain Is Fort McMurray’s Only Drag Queen

 

Iceis Rain

Iceis Rain

When covering the fascinating new documentary Oil Sands Karaoke Sarah felt that Fort McMurray, Alberta’s only drag queen Iceis Rain deserved a bit more attention.

As such, she wrote a profile about Iceis for Vice’s new music site, Noisey. It turns out Iceis is working on a proper music career and is recording an album.

That, and being the only drag queen in Fort McMurray has some perks — “I’m on this website called Plenty of Fish and I get, like, six pages a day of all these straight guys wanting Iceis in Fort McMurray.”

To read the full story go here.

 

 

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‘Oil Sands Karaoke’: The Secret Singing World Of Fort McMurray

Oil Sands Karaoke

Oil Sands Karaoke

People have a lot of preconceptions about the ground zero of the oil sands, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Like, that it’s an obscenely expensive city surrounded by gaping wounds in the earth filled with endless pits of toxic slurry. Then there are the workers in the patch, who, to be charitable, don’t have a reputation of cultural refinement.

So when Sarah found out about a documentary film called Oil Sands Karaoke, which investigates a fascinating little art bubble amidst this massive industry, she had to talk to some of the people involved.

To read her interview with director Charles Wilkinson and perhaps For McMurray’s only drag queen (and openly gay citizen) Iceis Rain, head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.

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Hot Docs Film ‘Alias’ Shows The Struggling Side Of Toronto Hip-Hop

Alias

Alias

One of our favourite events is the annual documentary film festival Hot Docs in Toronto.

This year Sarah went deep in her coverage of some of the films. Of particular interest was Alias, a film that followed some decidedly un-Drake rappers as they struggled to pursue their art.

The resulting story can be found over at Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.

 

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Stevie Nicks’ ‘In Your Dreams’ Documentary Tracks Fleetwood Mac Singer Gone Solo

Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks

UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP this full story can now be found here.

Fleetwood Mac recently performed in Toronto and by all accounts put on a pretty heartening show.

While she was in town Mac singer Stevie Nicks had a sideline agenda of sorts, heading down to the TIFF Lightbox theatre for a screening of her documentary In Your Dreams and a related Q&A.

Sarah was there and wrote about the whole thing for Spinner.

You can read about it by clicking here.

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10 Great Psychedelic Neil Young Moments

Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Young recently put out an album called Psychedelic Pill which, as the name suggests, is a bit of a bug out, maaaan.

With that in mind we were inspired to track down some of the most psychedelic things Neil’s done in his life — including onstage Jawas, Charles Manson songs and the ending to Journey Through The Past.

The result: 10 Great Psychedelic Neil Young Moments. Which you can find on Spinner by clicking here.

Enjoy the trip, dude.

 

 

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