City And Colour
I interviewed City And Colour‘s Dallas Green awhile back and he gave me a bit of early inside stuff about his upcoming next album.
Basically, it’s not going to be some crazy free jazz freakout. Mostly it’ll be like past City And Colour albums, featuring “sad sounding, melancholy songs.”
To find out more, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Ice-T & Snoop Lion
Ice-T was in Toronto recently for TIFF 2012 to promote his film Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp. The film features numerous contributions from rappers talking about the original pimp-poet, including a pre-Rasta conversion Snoop Dogg.
Sarah interviewed Ice-T about the film, and when she had some down time she also asked him about Snoop Lion and Snoop’s other TIFF film, Reincarnated.
Ice doesn’t think “Snoop Lion” is going to last.
To find out why, head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Culture, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Liam Gallagher of Oasis
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
For anyone who had floppy hair and thinks they’re British it was a week to celebrate the debut of Oasis‘ Definitely Maybe album. To guitar geeks it was the week Stevie Ray Vaughan died. And to Elvis fans it was the week that someone almost successfully dug up and stole his dead body.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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Elijah Wood
Remember that epic half-hour Beastie Boys video for “Fight For Your Right (Revisited)”?
There was hooliganism, Will Arnett getting hit with a flying beer, and a literal pissing contest… man, it was great stuff.
One of the principal actors in the video was Elijah Wood and Sarah spoke to him recently about it for Spinner.
Basically Wood called it one of the best experiences of his life.
To read the story click here.
And do yourself a favour and watch the video:
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Morrissey
UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP I’ve unearthed this listicle at the following location.
As the (proud?) owner of over 50 Morrissey and The Smiths CDs, and as someone who qualifies as at least two different things that Morrissey loathes (being Canadian and a music journalist), I felt I was uniquely qualified to mine the depths of the Mozzer’s hatescape to create the feature “16 Things Morrissey Hates” for Spinner.
To find out why the Brit miserablist hates rain, dogs and Natalie Merchant, click here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 