R.E.M. Murmur
Recently WNYC’s Soundcheck allowed me on its airwaves to talk about the story I wrote about R.E.M.‘s discography where I ranked all the band’s albums “from ass to awesome.”
Now, thanks to the marvel that is modern technology you can relive these amazing 20 minutes of R.E.M. by downloading it here.
Enjoy. Monster forever.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Feist and the Holograms
Feist recently performed simultaneously in three cities in hologram form. Also, Regine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire gave birth to a baby boy last week.
While these two news stories were both of tremendous interest to the indie Can-rock gossip community, they have a dubious distinction as well: they’re the last two stories ever published on the now suddenly-dormant Spinner website. Yeah, it’s true. AOL Music very promptly shut down the site on Friday.
So now I’m the answer to a trivia question nobody will ever ask, “Who wrote the last story ever on Spinner?”
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Timber Timbre
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
For this one we contemplated designer Timber Timbre t-shirts, checked in on the latest from John K. Samson and gave a thumbs up to Grimes for her recent blog post.
To read the column, go here.
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Stevie Nicks
UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP this full story can now be found here.
Fleetwood Mac recently performed in Toronto and by all accounts put on a pretty heartening show.
While she was in town Mac singer Stevie Nicks had a sideline agenda of sorts, heading down to the TIFF Lightbox theatre for a screening of her documentary In Your Dreams and a related Q&A.
Sarah was there and wrote about the whole thing for Spinner.
You can read about it by clicking here.
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R.E.M.
UPDATE: Because Spinner is R.I.P. this full story can now be found HERE.
We recently passed the 30th anniversary of R.E.M.‘s debut album Murmur and to celebrated I decided to go through all the band’s studio albums and rank them “from ass to awesome.”
Understandably, there were people who didn’t think particularly highly of this exercise. Especially after I ranked Out Of Time 14th out of 15.
To read the full ranking head over to Spinner by clicking here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 