Patrick Watson photo courtesy Polaris Music Prize
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
Patrick Watson is apparently EVERYWHERE, Owen Pallett is working with Linkin Park and Colin Stetson was on Ellen. The world is weird.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner, known throughout the world as Lieutenant Dunbar in Dances With Wolves and the Mariner in Waterworld, also happens to be a bit of determined country musician.
He’s been at it for years touring about and trying to, y’know, make it.
Sarah recently spoke to Costner when he was in Toronto to promote the forthcoming Boots And Hearts country music festival.
The resulting conversation ended up as a story double-shot.
The first story, about how Costner was the catalyst in getting Whitney Houston recording the song “I Will Always Love You” for The Bodyguard ran on AOL Music Blog. Click here for that.
The second story ran on country music site The Boot and went deeper into his country music career. Click here to read that one.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Ghostface Killah
I’ve been in-house helping do some editing at Spinner AOL the last couple weeks and it’s meant I’ve also written up a batch of quickie news stories. Here’s a bunch of ’em:
Metric inspired by Gary Glitter. Optics-wise, if Metric want to avoid lowbrow jokes they should avoid touring Thailand this year.
Ghostface Killah, Matthew Good, Bad Religion free shows at NXNE. This is super-exciting because I now understand what Ghostface is talking about.
Japandroids are covering Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. The song they’re doing is “Jack The Ripper.”
Mutek Festival gets all 0110011110110110111001011011011101100000010000011010111010101. Tim Hecker.
Hey Ocean! make a nice song.
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Hanson and Carly Rae Jepsen
UPDATE: Because AOL Music Blog is RIP this story can now be found in full here.
Taylor, Zac and Isaac Hanson, also known as the MMMBop Hansons, had the pleasure of touring with Justin Bieber-approved singing type gal Carly Rae Jepsen. The Hanson family thought Jepsen was a cool chick apparently.
At least that’s what the brothers told Sarah when she talked to them. So she then wrote a bit story about it for AOL Music Blog.
You can read the story by clicking here.
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The Dears
The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.
Natalia from The Dears goes on a rant, Malajube play a show, and Metric accuse people of having sex.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
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