Lollapalooza 1991
If you grew of age musically in the “alternative” era just like I did, you probably consider Lollapalooza a pretty big deal.
And that would be because it WAS a big deal.
It turns out the 21st anniversary of the first ever Lollapalooza show happened a couple days ago, so I put together a wee gallery over at Spinner to celebrate.
To check out the Lollapalooza 1991 gallery, click here.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
Roger Waters spray-paints The Wall
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Some of the big stuff: Pink Floyd‘s The Wall, the movie, had its debut, that loser Beck was born, and Fatboy Slim had a big beach party.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Dallas Green of City And Colour/Alexisonfire
By now everyone who cares has heard that Alexisonfire will be reuniting for a few shows.
Well, to read original story of that announcement (written by me), via an interview with City And Colour/Alexisonfire singer Dallas Green just head over to Spinner and click here.
Filed under Concerts, Music, Shameless Promotion
Marie-Pierre Arthur and CBC’s Jim Corcoran
The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.
In it the Slakadeliqs find air conditioners, Shooting Guns want to take on Leonard Cohen, and Mark Davis does some gardening.
To read about it, go here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Religious protesters want Lady Gaga to go to hell
On any given day, in any town or city, anywhere in the world, there’s probably some crackdown/protest/sinister bullshit happening that’s attempting to prevent people from rockin’ and dancin’.
Basically, the people behind these crackdowns hate music and they hate life and they’re assholes.
Anyway, in lieu of the latest round of anti-Lady Gaga protests in the Philippines and such, Sarah was tasked to find other examples of The Man cracking down on rock ‘n’ roll.
It turns out there were no shortage of examples, from Elvis Presley to Eminem to The Beatles to you name it. Basically, the government is afraid of musicians.
To read about this story, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Concerts, Culture, Music, Politics, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
