ASAP Rocky
UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP this full story can now be found here.
Harlem rapper ASAP Rocky has a song called “Bass” whose chorus is just “Bass!… Bass!… Bass!… Bass!”
It’s fucking great.
ASAP’s also about 30 per cent more enlightened than the average rapper because, well, he doesn’t give a fuck if you’re gay.
The proof, and elaboration, on this stance can be read over at Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Fucked Up 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 a sweet story about Birdman Sound in Ottawa, lots of Arcade Fire and K’naan bits, some stuff on Radio Radio and a whole lot more.
Go read the story over at Polaris Music Prize by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Troll
Tonight at 7 p.m. (Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012) Aaron will be part of CBC Music’s Grammy Awards live chat.
Watch as he tries to troll people while staying within the CBC live chat guidelines prohibiting the following:
-Pornography, vulgarity, obscenity or sexually explicit content
-Anything illegal
-Hate speech
-Threats, harassment
-Personal attacks, insults and defamatory statements
-Threats or suggesting committing a criminal act
-Attempts to mobilise people for any purpose outside of a CBC event
The CBC Music Grammy Awards live chat will be taking place here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
Neil Young
Neil Young gets no respect. From the Grammys. Just like Rodney Dangerfield.
According to Aaron, that is. He went deep into the Grammy Award archives and found out Neil has won Grammys only twice in the 22 times he’s been nominated. And one of those was for packaging.
Heck, Weird Al has won more Grammys.
CBC Music wanted a closer look, so the resulting article tracked what other Canadians had won more Grammys than Neil, and what won in the years that Harvest and After The Goldrush didn’t.
To read the story click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Dream Theater
The fantastical new universe known as CBC Music has now launched and Aaron has begun contributing to it.
His first story was a Grammy Awards advancer with James LaBrie of Dream Theater about the band’s hard rock nomination. Both Aaron and James were born in the same hometown so the conversation quickly deteriorated into talk about mental institutions and local hockey games.
You can read the story over at CBC Music 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 