TORONTONXNE 2010: THE POLYMORPHINES @ RACHO RELAXORock 'n' roll: still totally a valid, real, tangible thing.
TORONTONXNE 2010: THESE ELECTRIC LIVES @ THE EL MOCAMBOThe SoundProof showcase veterans took to the El Mo's upstairs stage as if it was Wembley stadium.
TORONTONXNE 2010: BY DIVINE RIGHT @ THE SILVER DOLLARThe Toronto indie legends rocked a packed room for their 20th anniversary show.
TORONTONXNE 2010: ATTACK IN BLACK @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNThe only good thing to have ever come out of Welland, Ontario.
TORONTONXNE 2010: BRUCE PENINSULA @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNIn the long wake of their debut album, Bruce Peninsula are still gathering steam.
TORONTONXNE 2010: THE STOOGES @ YONGE AND DUNDAS SQUAREEnough to convince you that punk isn't really dead after all.
TORONTONXNE 2010: BOXER THE HORSE @ THE DRAKE HOTELThe best PEI power pop you'll experience at NXNE.
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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.