Mystery Machine
Under-appreciated ’90s British Columbian shoegazers Mystery Machine recently released Western Magnetics, their first album in 14 years. For anyone who had a campus radio show back in the day the slicing noise rock of it will be comfortingly familiar.
I spoke to the MM guys about their coming out of hibernation for Spinner.
You can read the story by clicking here.
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Macy Gray
Musician Macy Gray is one of the main stars in TIFF 2012-debuting film The Paperboy — a movie that’s getting a lot of attention in part because it features Nicole Kidman peeing on Zac Efron. (Good for them?)
When Sarah spoke to Gray for Huffington Post Music Canada they talked about that luridness as well as deeper stuff, including the improved roles in major films for black characters.
You can read the whole story by going here.
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YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
There’s lotsa stuff about the current Short Listers in this edition: Grimes has Catholic guilt, YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN became cover stars, and Kathleen Edwards almost died.
To learn more, go here.
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Johnny Cash
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This latest one was a bit of a bummer trip because we looked at when Johnny Cash and Johnny Ramone died.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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City And Colour
I interviewed City And Colour‘s Dallas Green awhile back and he gave me a bit of early inside stuff about his upcoming next album.
Basically, it’s not going to be some crazy free jazz freakout. Mostly it’ll be like past City And Colour albums, featuring “sad sounding, melancholy songs.”
To find out more, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 