Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
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TORONTOCOURTNEY FARQUHAR @ THE SAVANNAH ROOMMAR 10 - Toronto-based singer-songwriter delivered a set of cozy, intimate folkpop.
TORONTOBIRDS OF WALES @ LEE'S PALACEMAR 10 - Local rising starts provide a pleasant night in Pleasantville
TORONTOCANCER BATS @ THE REVERBMAR 10 - These Torontonians provided a fountain of youth during their raucous Canadian Music Week appearance.
TORONTOPHAROAHE MONCH @ THE OPERA HOUSEMAR 10 - After a disappointing weel of rock and roll, hip hop saves the day.
TORONTOWE ARE WOLVES @ LEE'S PALACEMAR 9 - The Montreal 3-piece proved just how much music is changing with a truly abstract performance for CMW.
TORONTOUNITED STEEL WORKERS OF MONTREAL @ THE SILVER DOLLARMAR 9 - Frontman Gern F is the Prototype of the hard-living, gravel-voiced bar circuit singer.
TORONTOPUBLIC ENEMY @ THE DOCKSMAR 9 - Hip hop legends reunite to resusitate hip hopwith a rare and powerful set of their greatest hits.
TORONTOBOBNOXIOUS @ THE KATHEDRALMAR 9 - Toronto band launched a full on sonic assault at the 30 people who bothered to show up to their Canadian Music Week appearance.
TORONTOMUTE MATH @ THE OPERA HOUSEMAR 9 - From the moment the drummer casually duct-tapped his headphones aroundhis face, you just knew that this wasn't going to be just another show.
TORONTOHARMONICA @ THE SOUNDPROOF CMW SHOWCASE - SNEAKY DEESMAR 9 - the best looking band on the CMW circuit led the charge @ SoundProof's showcase Friday night.
TORONTOPSYCHOTIC 4 @ THE REVERBMAR 9 - These hard rockers delivered blast after paint-peeling blast of the most intense hair metal known on earth!
TORONTOAMERICA'S SWEETHEART @ RANCHO RELAXOMAR 9 - New York City combo delivered 45 minutes of charged up sassiness.
TORONTOTHE INDIES @ THE DOCKSMAR 7 - No one at SoundProof would ever do drugs. Ever. They're illegal. And They're bad. So we certainly didn't hit the Indies high as fuck on MDMA.
