Smash Mouth & Sean Paul
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This one was particularly fun because I managed to subvert marquee birthdays by the likes of Elvis Presley, David Bowie and Rod Stewart in being about Sean Paul, Kris Kross and Smash Mouth. Real journalism.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Top Album And Songs Of 2012
The overlords at my day job Spinner.ca went into to their data mines and determined the top 50 albums and songs of 2012.
I ended up writing about a number of the artists included in these lists, like Flaming Lips, Lana Del Rey, Lee Fields, Dirty Ghosts, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Watson, A Tribe Called Red and D-Sisive.
To read the Top 50 album list go here.
To read the Top 50 song list go here.
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James Brown & Creed’s Scott Stapp
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This edition was all about considering the difference between a good showman and a bad one. For example, James Brown = good showman, Creed‘s Scott Stapp, while whacked out on pills and whatever = bad showman. Unfortunately for Brown, this particular edition of History isn’t about his hard-working show.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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The Dears
The Dears, one of Risky Fuel HQ’s favourite bands, have spent the last year or so in a sort of cataloguing phase, having the book The Dears: Lost In The Plot written about them, then releasing the documentary film/live album combo Never Destroy Us: Live At Pasaguero about their history.
After all that lead singer Murray Lightburn told Sarah, amongst other things, that for 2013 the band are done looking backwards. It’ll be all about doing new stuff from here on out.
You can read the full interview by heading over to Spinner here.
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Elton John and Bill Haley
My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.
This edition had a fancy “trailblazers” theme which highlighted vanguard-y stuff by Elton John, Bill Haley, Run DMC and Swedish House Mafia.
To find out more things that made music history, click here.
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I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 