TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: PHOTO GALLERY - TOP 20 PHOTOS OF CMW 2009SoundProof delivers the top twenty photos captured by our photographers during Canadian Music Week.
TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: BLOC PARTY WITH HOLY FUCK @ THE KOOL HAUSExperimental indie rock went electronic and synthesized in harmony to mark the end of CMW.
TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: THE MASON RACK BAND @ THE TRANZACThe Mason Rack Band bring Aussie blues, beasts, snake charming, and voodoo to the CMW "Sounds Australia" showcase at the Tranzac.
TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: PHOTO GALLERY - WILL CURRIE AND THE COUNTRY FRENCH @ THE EL MOCAMBOSoundProof's Dave MacIntyre attended Will Currie and the Country French @ The El Mocambo on Friday and we have the pics to prove it.
TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: BASIA BULAT @ LEE'S PALACEBasia Bulat took the stage at Lee's Palace on Saturday, leaving another crowded CMW audience satisfied.
TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: CUFF THE DUKE @ LEE'S PALACEHailed as "Oshawa's crown princes of alt-country," Cuff the Duke had something for everyone at their CMW show at Lee's Palace. And so did their wardrobe.
TORONTOCANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2009: YOUNG GALAXY @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNAfter a small hiatus, Young Galaxy is back and out with new material, rocking out at the Horseshoe.
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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.
