Thom Yorke
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
In this edition we investigate the strange cosmic bind between Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Simon Cowell. Maintaining the space theme, there’s info about ZZ Top trying to get to the moon.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Triumph Live At Sweden Rock Festival
UPDATE: The full story of Triumph’s Sweden reunion can now be found HERE.
The first rock concert I ever attended by choice was Triumph at Maple Leaf Gardens somewhere around 1984 for the Thunder Seven tour (there was a Sha Na Na concert before that when I was a kid, but it doesn’t count because an aunt made me go). I never saw them after that because they put out The Sport of Kings album (poop) and then basically dissolved.
A few years back, however, the band made their first furtive attempts at a reunion, mainly by playing a big one-off gig in Sweden.
That gig was recorded and videotaped and has become the CD/DVD release Live At Sweden Rock Festival.
I spoke to band bassist Mike Levine about the reunion on behalf of Noisecreep and the results can be found in two separate feature stories.
The first, found HERE, is about how the actual Sweden reunion show almost didn’t happen.
The second, found HERE, takes a look at where the band are at right now, if they are actually ever going to tour again, and compares them to peers like Journey and Foreigner.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
Neil Young
Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL Huffington Post empire:
Japandroids were among the nominees for the ECHO Prize.
Neil Young has totally gone straight edge.
The tastiest songs for Canadian Thanksgiving.
Arcade Fire and Celine Dion team up to help shooting victim’s family.
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Ben Howard
At least one half of the Team Risky Fuel household has identified Ben Howard as totally dreamy night time melancholy beach music, so there was a certain amount of swooning when he played a show recently in Toronto.
That swooning also resulted in a feature interview on Spinner about how his next album is going to be more electric.
To read it, go here.
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Kathleen Edwards
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
In the latest edition of PP I checked in with what some of the past Polaris champs have been up to, so we have updates on Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, Karkwa and Patrick Watson amongst other.
To read it, go here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 