Dallas Green of City And Colour/Alexisonfire
By now everyone who cares has heard that Alexisonfire will be reuniting for a few shows.
Well, to read original story of that announcement (written by me), via an interview with City And Colour/Alexisonfire singer Dallas Green just head over to Spinner and click here.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
Marie-Pierre Arthur and CBC’s Jim Corcoran
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
In it the Slakadeliqs find air conditioners, Shooting Guns want to take on Leonard Cohen, and Mark Davis does some gardening.
To read about it, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Religious protesters want Lady Gaga to go to hell
On any given day, in any town or city, anywhere in the world, there’s probably some crackdown/protest/sinister bullshit happening that’s attempting to prevent people from rockin’ and dancin’.
Basically, the people behind these crackdowns hate music and they hate life and they’re assholes.
Anyway, in lieu of the latest round of anti-Lady Gaga protests in the Philippines and such, Sarah was tasked to find other examples of The Man cracking down on rock ‘n’ roll.
It turns out there were no shortage of examples, from Elvis Presley to Eminem to The Beatles to you name it. Basically, the government is afraid of musicians.
To read about this story, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Concerts, Culture, Music, Politics, Shameless Promotion
Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones and The Doors’ Jim Morrison
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This one was kind of a bummer because this was the week Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones died as well as Jim Morrison of The Doors. It was also the week that the Sony Walkman debuted, but whatever.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Dan Deacon remixed Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”
Yesterday I broke Sarah’s Risky Fuel near-monopoly on Carly Rae Jepsen stories.
Apparently Dan Deacon did a nutter remix of her “Call Me Maybe” song that was her voice layered over itself 147 times.
The song’s on a compilation of 42 other smartass pisstakes.
Anyway, I wrote about the whole thing for Spinner.
You can find out more by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 