TORONTOVIDEO: BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - THE SWEETEST KILLAs if you needed more reasons to love Broken Social Scene, here's Bijou Phillips doing some creepy, creepy shit.
VICTORIAVIDEO: DATA ROMANCE - THE DEEPEverything about this song and video reminds us of mid-to-late nineties trip-hop. That's a good thing.
VANCOUVERVIDEO: WE ARE THE CITY - HIGH SCHOOLWe Are The City making a video for each of the six songs on their excellent new EP is impressive, but doubly so is the fact that it turned out so well.
OTTAWAVIDEO: THE LOVE MACHINE - BE A PATHIt's just like that timeless maxim, "you can beat the hell out of your assailant with a frying pan but that doesn't mean they didn't stab you in the stomach". It's something to think about.
VANCOUVERVIDEO: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - MOVESToday's video is the trailer for Moves: The Rise and Fall of The New Pornographers - a film that does not exist. All biopics should be under 5 minutes in length anyway.
MONTREALVIDEO: THE LUYAS: EVERYTHING IS OUTTA SIGHTThe Luyas' multimedia performance at Red Bird Studios during last year's POP Montreal festival was lovingly captured on video for this concert film by Derrick Belcham and Vincent Moon.
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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.
