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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TORONTOTHE POLYMORPHINES @ RACHO RELAXORock 'n' roll: still totally a valid, real, tangible thing.
TORONTOTHESE ELECTRIC LIVES @ THE EL MOCAMBOThe SoundProof showcase veterans took to the El Mo's upstairs stage as if it was Wembley stadium.
TORONTOBY DIVINE RIGHT @ THE SILVER DOLLARThe Toronto indie legends rocked a packed room for their 20th anniversary show.
TORONTOATTACK IN BLACK @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNThe only good thing to have ever come out of Welland, Ontario.
TORONTOBRUCE PENINSULA @ THE HORSESHOE TAVERNIn the long wake of their debut album, Bruce Peninsula are still gathering steam.
TORONTOTHE STOOGES @ YONGE AND DUNDAS SQUAREEnough to convince you that punk isn't really dead after all.
TORONTOBOXER THE HORSE @ THE DRAKE HOTELThe best PEI power pop you'll experience at NXNE.
TORONTOEVENING HYMNS @ THE DAKOTA TAVERNMaybe the town of Peterborough, Ontario isn't as lame as we thought...
TORONTORICH AUCOIN @ THE EL MOCAMBOLike kindergarten all over again. Except drunken and sweaty and with a much better soundtrack.
TORONTOTIMBER TIMBRE @ THE GLADSTONE HOTELAnother performance by Taylor Kirk and company, another ridiculous line up to get in.
TORONTOWHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA @ THE EL MOCAMBOFire and booze and sex and rock 'n' fuckin' roll.
TORONTOX @ YONGE AND DUNDAS SQUAREThe LA punk originals treated the assembled crowd to some legendary nihilism. With a smile.
TORONTOTHE RACOON WEDDING @ THE GARRISONIf you were expecting songs about woodland animals led by a bunch of skinny boys singing puss rock, you came to the wrong place.
TORONTOMUDHONEY @ YONGE AND DUNDAS SQUAREWhatever the opposite of phoning it in is – that's what Mudhoney does.
TORONTODD/MM/YYYY @ THE GARRISONThe band named after the world's favourite date format will blow your mind... just don't forget to wear earplugs.
TORONTOZOLA JESUS @ SNEAKY DEE'SPetite, yet powerful, Zola Jesus kicks off NXNE with a sensually gothic performance at Sneaky Dee's.
TORONTOGHOSTKEEPER @ THE DAKOTA TAVERNCalgary's most buzzworthy band offer an amazing set of country-infused tunes for everyone to fall in love with.
TORONTOTHE BESNARD LAKES @ THE MOD CLUBThe Besnard Lakes are rock gods.
TORONTOYOUNG GALAXY @ THE MOD CLUBFresh off their Polaris Prize nomination, Montreal's darkly epic rockers disappoint.
TORONTONXNE 2010 PREVIEWThe festival goes big with appearances by everyone from Iggy and The Stooges to Surfer Blood and Wavves.
