Jazz Cartier
Drake isn’t the only rapper with a claim to Toronto.
Jazz Cartier, whose excellent debut album Marauding In Paradise is filled with Toronto-isms, is doing a mighty good job of his own to romanticize the 6.
I spoke to him for SOCAN’s Words + Music magazine about the city and how he created his unique cut ‘n’ paste songs.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Blue Rodeo
A few days before the Canadian federal election Sarah was commissioned to find a bunch of anti-Stephen Harper songs.
It wasn’t difficult.
After all, relatively mainstream acts like Blue Rodeo and Yukon Blonde had weighed in with their own related protest tunes.
Anyway, we’re pretty sure this list is the main reason why Harper lost to Justin Trudeau in the election.
To read the full list head over to Paste by going here.
Filed under Music, Politics, Shameless Promotion
Pumpkins, non-musical
We here at Risky Fuel are masters at the dark art known as the listicle.
Want proof? How about “8 Songs About Pumpkins”?
Sarah wrote this one for Paste Magazine.
To see the full list go here.
Filed under Food, Music, Shameless Promotion
Amy Millan of Stars/Broken Social Scene
Later this week Stars/Broken Social Scene singer Amy Millan will be receiving the Planet In Focus Eco-Hero award for her work in the past year on the USC “I Am A Seed Saver” campaign.
I asked Millan what that’s all about and how she got fellow musicians like Leslie Feist and Sam Roberts to participate.
To read the full story head over to Samaritan Mag by clicking here.
Filed under Environment, Food, Music, Shameless Promotion
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Sarah was on assignment covering the 2015 Toronto Film Festival this year for Consequence Of Sound.
One of the movies Sarah reviewed, a documentary we refer internally at Risky Fuel HQ as the Jackie Jormp-Jomp story, was Janis: Little Girl Blue. Sarah said a “quieter, previously unknown Janis constantly manages to steals the spotlight” during the film.
Read the full review at the Consequence Of Sound website.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
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