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Worse Songs To Play In A Fitness Class

Worse workout song list

Worse workout song list

The problem with being both a music writer and a fitness instructor is when you try to add your deep music knowledge into a fitness class setting the results can be… mixed.

Sarah knows this from experience and she’s much wiser from having attempted to shepherd an all-Wu-Tang Clan spin class in the past.

She wrote about these music ‘n’ fitness misadventures for Huffington Post Music Canada.

To read the story go here.

 

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Broken Bells On Disco Comedowns, Question Marks & Non-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi

Broken Bells

Broken Bells

Broken Bells have a new album out called After The Disco.

This, immediately, causes a reflexive “Disco?!” And demands further investigation.

Sarah did that further investigating for Huffington Post Music Canada.

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Scariest Music Celebrity Stalkers: When Fan Obsession Goes Too Far

Mark David Chapman

Mark David Chapman

Sometimes there’s a darker side to musical fandom. Where a person cares too much about an artist, in the wrong way, and it manifests itself in stalking and other unacceptable behavior.

In light of Taylor Swift recently receiving a restraining order against one of her more unsettling stalkers, Sarah invested this world for Huffington Post Music Canada and came up with a list of scary celebrity stalkers.

To read the whole article go here.

 

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Women And Their Cauliflower Ear

Rhonda Rousey's cauliflower ear

Rhonda Rousey’s cauliflower ear

Female mixed martial artists have to navigate a minefield of societal expectations that men never have to deal with. One of the surprisingly complex ones to manage is “What happens when you start getting cauliflower ear?”

The unmistakable sign that you roll is a badge of honour for many fighters, but in the normie world it’s not quite the same.

Sarah talked to four high level female fighters about their perspective on cauliflower ear.

To read the story head over to Fightland here.

 

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Miss United States Takes Up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Whitney Miller

Whitney Miller

Miss United States 2012 Whitney Miller has decided to train in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and this has meant a number of practical concerns for the beauty queen.

Like, is she worried about cauliflower ear? Or, what happens when she has to wear a fancy dress and she’s got mat burn?

Thankfully, Sarah got to the bottom of these questions and more when she interviewed Miller for Fightland.

To read the story go here.

 

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