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Rap is Now Colour Blind

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
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Ball Songs

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
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Who Are These AFI Fans?

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
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Dirty Songs

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
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2-Minutes for Inappropriate Use of Song

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.
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WHAM Live at the CNE in 1985

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.
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Bring Kiss To Peterborough

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
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Possum Kingdom is About a Rape

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
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That Seen My Ghost Song

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
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Backspin Old Skool Rap and Hip-Hop

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
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