The Shins
People are pretty hot on the revival of vinyl records, but The Shins are bringing back a different recording medium — reel-to-reel tape.
Shins leader James Mercer explained all about the band’s reel-to-reel release of their recent album Port of Morrow.
Why’d they do it? Basically because it’s neat.
To read the whole story head over to Spinner by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
SARSstock
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Remember how SARS was a big thing like 10 years ago and then the Rolling Stones held a concert and it was like, dusts of hands, our work here is done. This was also the week that Bob Dylan disappeared/hurt himself in a motorcycle accident, and John Lennon called the Beatles bigger than Jesus.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
The Jackson Family
It’s become obvious over the last couple weeks that things have gotten crazy town banana pants in the Jackson family, what with accusations of kidnapping, Janet Jackson slap fights, Paris Jackson lashing out on Twitter, crazy maneuvering to control Michael Jackson‘s estate and other weirdness.
Jacko’s isn’t the only family to have nutty internal fights, though.
There’ve been the fist-fighting Gallagher brothers in Oasis, the soap opera antics of James Brown‘s family, the cake stomping antics of The Kinks and a whole bunch more.
Sarah compiled a list of cuckoo in the coconut musical families for Spinner. You can check out that story by clicking here.
Filed under Music, Politics, 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
Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
Aerosmith got burned, The Rolling Stones got bombed, John Lennon got banned and Guns N’ Roses blasted off.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 