Black Angels’ Indigo Meadow
There’ve been a heap of good records released recently for the jean jacket ‘n’ airbrushed van art crowd and two of them have been The Black Angels‘ Indigo Meadow and Crime & The City Solution‘s American Twilight.
I reviewed both of those albums over at Spinner.
To read about The Black Angels’ Indigo Meadow go here.
To read about Crime & The City Solution’s American Twilight go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Heart
Heart have made some of the best songs in the history of rock music — “Magic Man,” “Crazy On You” and “Barracuda” — and recently the covered another great, Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway To Heaven,” and did it so well they made the band cry. Before Heart came to Toronto for Canadian Music Week I got a chance to talk to Nancy Wilson about doing that song in front of Zep as well as what other covers they know. That story can be found at Spinner by clicking here.
I also tried to clear up that peculiar urban myth that says Heart are a Canadian band in a separate story for Huffington Post Music Canada. You can read about that one by going here.
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Shad
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
This week we checked into what Braids were up to, found out a bit about Shad‘s new album and saluted Rich Aucoin‘s Prism Prize win.
To read the column, go here.
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The Highest Order If It’s Real (Idee Fixe)
This is how I feel about the new Highest Order album.
Flying Eagle gif by RejectedBot
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Pink Floyd
UPDATE: Because Spinner is no longer available in Canada you can read the story HERE.
When you talk about guys who’ve been around in the music world, super-producer Bob Ezrin ranks right up there.
Ezrin’s responsible for producing mega-records like Pink Floyd‘s The Wall and Alice Cooper‘s Welcome To My Nightmare. One thing he didn’t do though, was get Pink Floyd to consider ways of incorporating rap into their music in the ’80s.
He told me as much in an interview for Spinner before an appearance at the recent Canadian Music Week.
To read the full story 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 