NPR polled their listeners and have come up with the best music of 2009 (so far). They're even sharing many of the songs. Here's their list. Remember, if you visit the NPR link above, you can hear some of these online. First, the Best Songs of 2009 (so far)1.
I was recently reading about Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys and his battle with cancer. He's got a cancerous tumour in his parotid gland and a lymph node. I wish him luck, I've always been a big Beastie Boys fan. Back in the day, their album Licensed to
When Derek and the Dominos first released "Layla" back in 1971, it was 2:43 and didn't include Jim Gordon's piano coda. Don't get me wrong, Eric Clapton and Duane Allman had a classic rock gem with that version of "Layla", but it really was missing the best part. Personally,
Happy Independence Day to my American friends and readers. Here are all the American songs in my MP3 collection. American Jesus - Bad ReligionLook Inside America - BlurAmerican Skin (41 Shots) - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street BandAmerican Dream - Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungYoung Americans - David BowieReal
The BBC had a 13-year old swap his iPod for a Sony Walkman. It's a pretty fun read as the kid compares the two portable music devices. I loved my Walkman. I took it everywhere and spent a great deal of time making perfect mix tapes. Here I am gushing
I just published a list of Dad and Daddy songs for all the dads out there, and now I've filtered my MP3 collection for songs with "father" in the title. Here are Father songs for Father's Day. The Godfather - B.K.S.Child Is Father Of The Man -
I just filtered my MP3 collection for songs with "dad" in the title. After I pruned the list, removing the many Puff Daddy remixes and dupes, I was left with the following list of Dad and Daddy songs for Father's Day. Daddy - BeyoncéDaddy's Getting Married - Bif NakedGo Daddy-O
I played softball tonight for the Piranhas. We won 20-4. I've got two games tomorrow night for Raging Storm. I love playing ball in the summertime. I just searched my MP3 collection for songs with the word "ball" in the title. Then, I discarded songs about a formal gathering and
I'm going to Edgefest 2009 at Downsview Park this Saturday. My pal has hooked me up with tickets and I like enough of the bands that I think it'll be a great day and night of music outdoors. Here's the bands and set times for the main stage: 1:30pm
Back in January, I got a haircut. I got it cut pretty short. Then, I had an epiphany. I decided to grow my hair for one full year. I've got pretty thick hair, so it didn't take long for me to alter this experiment. I decided I could get my
I loved the closing montage aired on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada shortly before midnight yesterday. It was set to City and Colour and Gord Downie's "Sleeping Sickness". Pension Plan Puppets just posted the montage, so I'm going to follow suit. It was such a great playoffs, and such a
Today I'm enjoying Just Look Them Straight In The Eye and Say.... POGUEMAHONE!!, a boxset of rare and unreleased tracks from The Pogues. One of my favourite Pogues songs is "Dirty Old Town", a song I never get tired of. It's been scientifically proven that you can't listen to "Dirty
I rarely do this, but I'm in love with a 4-disc compilation I just borrowed entitled "Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground". It's all the best stuff we heard on CFNY in the 80s. Seriously, if you find yourself missing the spirit of radio, you have to
30 years ago The Sugarhill Gang released Rapper's Delight, the beat that signalled the birth of hip hop on the world stage. To mark the occasion, BBC aired a 60-minute mix by Jaguar Skills that covered all 30 years. 538 tracks charting the entire history of hip hop, from block
I caught the end of one of those VH1 list shows. This one was counting down the top 10 one hit wonders of the 1980s. Naturally, I started compiling my own list. This list is from a Canadian perspective. I don't care what they say in the USA, Bruce Cockburn
I'm awarding TSN a 2-minute penalty for the inappropriate use of a song during one of their promos. Just before this third period of the Penguins / Capitals game, I sat through yet another promo for their 2009 NHL playoff coverage. The visuals were set to Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot.
Have you heard about the swine flu? The WHO raised their alert level to Phase 4 today. Next stop: global emergency! If we're going to have to grapple with this pandemic, we're going to need a swine flu playlist. Here are swine flu songs to spin while this thing goes
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. Molson Music presents WHAM! Explosive! Make It Big for '85. August 28th at CNE Stadium. With special guests, the Pointer Sisters.
You have homework. My buddy Fred wants to bring Kiss to Peterborough. In his words: Kiss is holding an on-line contest that will determine 40 dates on their upcoming tour and the way its set up, absolutely any town, village or hamlet in North America could host a concert.It's
Today is the perfect day to share my favourite song from the first band I saw live in concert, Chalk Circle. April Fool
A maid. A man needs a maid.
I should just get over it and move on. It's been five years. Why do these things bother me so?. Five years ago today, I wrote about the Best of Hootie and the Blowfish. Watching this painful Leaf game, I needed a good laugh. I just got one.It seems
I received an email the other day about "Possum Kingdom", a great little song from the Toadies that I put on SLS4. Back in the day, I used to run smellslikesour.com. I stopped actively caring for the site a couple of years ago because something had to give, and
Wintersleep's "Weighty Ghost" came out in 2007, but I seem to be hearing it all over the place these days. It's the song prominently featured in this fantastic trailer for the upcoming Canadian film One Week right after Sam Roberts' "Hard Road." It's also the song that opened this afternoon's
I've got this cool XMP3 player and a year's subscription to XM Radio. I pipe it through the Bose SoundDock II digital music system I got for Christmas to set the music free. There is lots of content to choose from. There's a Disney channel for the kids, a top
