Canadian folk music legend, Willie P. Bennett, died of a heart attack on February 15. He was 56. I best knew Willie as the sideman for Fred Eaglesmith whose band he played in for over 22 years. But Willie was also widely known for being part of an early wave of Canadian folk music along […]
The vocal-only track of David Lee Roth singing “Running With The Devil” has been making the rounds of the Internets but this is the funniest mash-up I've seen – what if Diamond Dave took his act to the American Idol audition room? (I have no problem using the “humour” tag on this post but am […]
Nothing says romance like going to see an awesome independent country-rock artist like Roger Marin Jr. Check him out on February 14 if you're reading this in London (or click the link to see his other dates around SW Ontario.)
I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that. But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the last twenty-four (I won't get too graphic about how I spent the other eight hours but you can imagine… …I'm feeling a bit better so I decided […]
U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, recently came out heavily against Radiohead and file sharing in general. If you know U2's position on copyright, that's probably not a big surprise. So the main reason I'm posting this story isn't because of that revelation but because of this hilarious quote from the MetaFilter discussion:[McGuinness:] Notwithstanding the promotional noise, […]
There was a very significant development in the ongoing mutation of the music industry today. last.fm just announced that they are now offering limited, on-demand streaming of various artists and tracks. Naturally, there's also all kinds of commentary, speculation and further linkage on MetaFilter, Reddit and TechCrunch (and probably a bunch of your other favourite […]
I joked a few entries ago that being on the road doing computer training in rural libraries might mean I have more time for blogging. Wrong! I'm just back to my hotel now, at the end of a jam-packed 13-hour day. Tomorrow will potentially be an even longer day as I will hit two nearby […]
Radiohead are usually extremely innovative with any multimedia products they put out – from videos to concert films to web sites (although the current version is quite traditional compared to what they've done in the past.) That makes this hour long video they recently released of them performing all the songs from “In Rainbows” in […]
Quinn has posted a great article on his site (I've bolded the really fascinating part below):At the risk of jinxing things – I think it’s pretty clear that there’s a historic shift underway between activities we used to engage in offline and things we now do online. It’s no surprise, for example, that CD saleswere down […]
Not really a music video but a fine example of the “emotionally ambivalent” style of Christmas song I wrote about recently.
