Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson, the rather enigmatic force behind the Beach Boys’ most creative moments, made a bit of a surprise appearance at TIFF this year when he showed up for the premiere of the new biopic Love And Mercy.
Sarah wrote about his whirlwind trip to Toronto for Huffington Post Music Canada.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Roger Waters
When Pink Floyd released their album The Wall some decades ago it was considered lead singer Roger Waters’ personal statement on loneliness and isolation.
In recent years he’s tried to re-imagine The Wall for a modern world and one part of that puzzle was creating a documentary film about his 2010 concert tour of the album.
Waters’ talked about the film for a premiere screening at TIFF 2014 and Sarah was there to cover it for Huffington Post Music Canada.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Edgefest
The annual Edgefest concert series ended this weekend with a retro-themed show featuring Our Lady Peace, Sloan and I Mother Earth.
As a person who was there back in the day, Huffington Post Music Canada tasked me with coming up with a list of 25 memorable triggers from Edgefests which took place in the ’90s.
This ended up being an excuse to bring up the likes of Sandbox, Vertical Horizon and Holly McNarland.
To read the list go here.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
Jenny Lewis
At the recent TURF festival in Toronto I got to speak with former Rilo Kiley/current solo star Jenny Lewis about her newest album, The Voyager.
Some of the topics discussed: ’80s Nintendo promo movie The Wizard, Zach Galifianakis, Ryan Adams, insomnia, Beck and Oasis’ song “Wonderwall.”
To read the story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Nickelback
It could be argued that if you wanted to track down the worst Canadian songs ever created you could never succeed because there’s a shimmering, evil force endlessly churning out new and horrible variants of hoser songs.
Sarah, however, considered this a challenge and attempted to determine the 50 Worst Canadian Songs.
To read the list head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by going here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 