TORONTOLIVE: THE BLACK LIPS @ THE PHOENIXAtlanta's Black Lips may have toned down their onstage antics but the audience at their Toronto show took up the slack.
LONDONLIVE: JIM BRYSON AND THE WEAKERTHANS @ AEOLIAN HALLJim Bryson and the Weakerthans Band rocked out, but weren't even the highlight of this great show. That honour goes to supporting act Daniel Romano of Attack In Black and his slower, more soulful performance.
TORONTOLIVE: SHEEZER @ THE GARRISONAfter a long week at work, what more can you ask for than a room full of sweaty people belting out Weezer songs?
TORONTOLIVE: THE DEAD WEATHER @ THE SOUND ACADEMYJack White's side project evokes the ghosts of blues-rock's past, present and future at Toronto most reviled venue.
TORONTOLIVE: ARCADE FIRE @ THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALLThey're back.
TORONTOLIVE: STARS @ THE MOD CLUBThe indie stalwarts try out new material from their upcoming disc on a hot and sweaty Toronto crowd.
TORONTOLIVE: DINOSAUR JR @ THE PHOENIXA night of heavy-riffing, feedback-drenched, ear-bleeding country from J Mascis and Lou Barlow.
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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.
