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Mike O’Neill And A Trailer Park Boys Cat Named Fruitjack

Mike O'Neill

Mike O'Neill

Mike O’Neill, formerly (and occasionally still) one-half of The Inbreds, has a new solo album out called Wild Lines.

It’s great, but one of the most fascinating things about the record to Aaron had nothing to do with its songs, it was about the album cover.

O’Neill is photographed with a cat on his shoulder. Being cat fans, we got to the bottom of this shoulder cat situation. It turns out said shoulder cat is named Fruitjack and is owned by Mike Clattenburg, the creator of Trailer Park Boys.

You can read the whole story over at AUX TV by clicking here.

 

 

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Welcome To Reunionmania

Bill Priddle of Treble Charger

Bill Priddle of Treble Charger

Unless you hate music you’ve probably figured out there are a lot of bands from the ’90s and early 2000s reuniting.

Pretty much every big British band (except The Smiths is doing it) — Blur, Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays.

The same thing’s happening in Canada where the likes of Headstones, Change Of Heart, The Grapes Of Wrath, Thrush Hermit, The Watchmen, Eric’s Trip, Big Sugar, hHead, I Mother Earth, The Doughboys, King Cobb Steelie, Rusty, The Tea Party and Raggadeth are just a sample of the bands that have gotten back together in some form or another.

With that in mind Maclean’s sent Aaron off to figure out what the deal was. He ended up interviewing Treble Charger, Big Wreck, The Inbreds, Econoline Crush and Mystery Machine and the resulting story can be read here.

 

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Polaris People For March 9 (Elliott Brood! Grant-Damian-Masterblaster! Arcade Fire!)

Grant Lawrence and Damian Abraham photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize.

Grant Lawrence and Damian Abraham photo by Dustin Rabin. Courtesy of Polaris Music Prize.

The latest edition of the Polaris Music Prize weekly news roundup is now online.

There’s news about Elliott Brood kidnappings, Dan Mangan puppetry, Arcade Fire going to school and a whole lot more.

Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.

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Monocyte/Saltillo And The Koffin Kats In Rue Morgue

Monocyte, an unholy comic

Monocyte, an unholy comic

This one’s a bit of a follow: There’s a great new comic book series called Monocyte by artist/musician Menton J. Matthews III and writer Kasra Ghanbari about this badass servant of death named Monocyte who goes around killing everything. Menton also has a creepy-awesome violin industrial trip-hop thing (seriously) called Saltillo. Saltillo just put out an album called Monocyte that’s almost like a companion soundtrack to the comics.

Anyway, Aaron wrote about the whole thing in old fashioned print form for issue #120 of Rue Morgue.

He also wrote a review of The Koffin Kats new album as well.

You can find out more about the latest Rue Morgue issue by going here.

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The Order Of Good Broken Social Scene

Jason Collett and Kevin Drew

Jason Collett and Kevin Drew

So there’s this event happening in Toronto tonight called the Juno Concert Series. It’s basically a musical variety show where three bands: Arkells, The Beauties, and The Order Of Good Cheer each take a turn playing for an hour with a pile of special guests.

The whole point is to do cheeky covers of classic Canadian songs in the lead up to the Juno Awards.

Anyway, Aaron talked to the members of The Order Of Good Cheer about their set because they’re tight with the Broken Social Scene guys and Jason Collett and Kevin Drew from BSS are going to be performing and they’ve hinted that they’ll be debuting a new song so it’s a kinda big deal and… whew… deep breath.

You can read the story about the whole thing over at Spinner by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

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