Arcade Fire
Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL Huffington Post empire:
Arcade Fire played a secret show in Montreal.
Skrillex makes a video game about himself.
Stars talk about their “Backlines” video… on video.
Danger Bees get killed by a bunch of children.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Carmen Electra
For those of you not up on your back-in-the-day music history, former Baywatch babe Carmen Electra was once a protege of Prince and put out an album in 1993 that he helped guide.
Then she became a Baywatch babe and never really recorded any more music. Because, well, Baywatch was the biggest show in the world at one point.
Anyway, Electra’s making music again and Sarah talked to her about it for Spinner. Electra wants to do a song with Skrillex.
To read the story go here.
Because Spinner is RIP you can now read this interview here.
Here’s a wonderful video of her called “Go Go Dancer”:
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
A Tribe Called Red
Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL empire:
With “EDM” being the new breakout thing in music, DJ A-Trak wants people to remember to respect the turntablist.
One of my new faves, Ottawa DJ crew A Tribe Called Red released an exclusive mixtape to Spinner to celebrate their appearance at Toronto’s Mad Decent Block Party. You should get it here.
Carly Rae Jepsen is not involved in a nude photo hacking scandal. Which, awkwardly, Vancouver Police say they have a suspect for.
Hey, I added two more news bits from the week of August 3:
1) Drake is finally gonna graduate from Degrassi.
2) Tiesto and Skrillex were the world’s highest paid DJs last year.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
Florence of the Machine and Katie Stelmanis of Austra
It’s World Goth Day.
Because we enjoy darkness we enlisted Encyclopedia Gothica author Liisa Ladouceur to answer the question “How goth is X?” about a bunch of bands.
Among them: Paramore, Skrillex, Austra, Florence And The Machine and Crystal Castles.
To read the article head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 