TORONTOCMW 2011: BLUE KING BROWN @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNOne of our Canadian Music Week reviews fell through the cracks and we'd hate to not introduce you to Australian 'Urban Roots' band Blue King Brown, so better late than never.
TORONTOCMW 2011: HUMANS @ EL MOCAMBOHumans' set quickly turned into an ordeal when their electro-pop went on too long.
TORONTOCMW 2011: DIE MANNEQUIN @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNDie Mannequin rocked hard, but perhaps for too long.
TORONTOCMW 2011: LES BREASTFEEDERS @ EL MOCAMBOThe most pure fun I had at any show during CMW...the only reason Les Breastfeeders aren't huge is that they sing in French, and that's a pretty lame reason.
TORONTOCMW 2011: MONSTER TRUCK @ THE BOVINE SEX CLUBTaking us back to a time where sludgy metal, 70's rock and punk sensibility converged to force the underground to take the stick out of its ass, Monster Truck is here to do the same in 2011.
TORONTOCMW 2011: THE PACK A.D. @ THE BOVINE SEX CLUBThe Pack A.D. overwhelmed a crammed-to-capacity Bovine with their ballsy brand of blues based noise, and pretty much made me feel like a girlie man in comparison.
TORONTOCMW 2011: LAND OF TALK @ OPERA HOUSELiz Powell and company release such incredible music that they don't have to put on a great show to maintain the love, but they do it anyway.
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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.
