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Girl Talk's Feed the Animals

I love mash-ups.  I'm very happy with so-called illegal music put together by the Kleptones or Danger Mouse or whoever.  Last night, I learnt about Feed the Animals, the fourth album by Girl Talk. Girl Talk, it turns out, is actually a guy named Gregg Gillis.  Feed the Animals is
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Noel Gallagher Attacked

Oasis front man Noel Gallagher was treated in hospital after a man ran onto the stage and attacked him while he and his brother Liam were performing at the annual Virgin Festival here in Toronto.  As you'll see in the footage below, Noel Gallagher "fell heavily onto his monitor speakers,
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Working Songs for Labour Day

Labour Day in this country used to be all about union parades and picnics.  We'd celebrate the working class, advances in the labour movement, and the like.  Today, it's more about one last long weekend before the kids go back to school and the chill settles in. In keeping with
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Guest Playlist Ettiquette

Yesterday night I had a great time at a top secret party at an undisclosed location with a fun group of people you may or may not know that I can't mention.  It was to celebrate a well deserved happenstance and both Taryn and I had a blast.  Even the
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Plush or Interstate Love Song: You Decide

Without a doubt, two of the more popular Stone Temple Pilot songs are "Plush" and "Interstate Love Song".  They're also two very different styles of song. Which is your preference, "Plush" or "Interstate Love Song?"  You've got all day to respond, I'll be hearing both tunes live tonight. PlushInterstate Love
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Two Days To Edgefest

I'll be spending Saturday enjoying Edgefest 2008.  Back in the day that meant sitting in traffic on the 400 and hauling my ass up to Barrie, but now I can take the TTC to Downsview Park.  That's pretty sweet. I'll likely spend 12 hours outdoors, so I must remember the
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Jay-Z Sings Wonderwall for Noel

"99 Problems" is my favourite Jay-Z song.  I hear Jay-Z stole the show at Glastonbury this year and prior to busting into a "Back In Black" backed "99 Problems" he covered a little Oasis tune you might be familiar with. You see, guys like Noel Gallagher didn't think an American
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Jim's Child Of The '60s

Jim's Child of the '60s is a podcast of 60s tunes you don't hear that often.  He recently asked me for a digital copy of Jayson King's "Heartaches", Bobby Kris & the Imperials' "Walk On By" and Grant Smith & the Power's "Her Own Life".  I was happy to share.
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The Worst Song I've Ever Heard

Vanilla Ice's To The Extreme is not a very good album.  It was released in 1990 and was the most successful rap album by a white artist since The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill in 1987. Thanks to the monster hit "Ice Ice Baby", based on the baseline from Queen
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Never Surrender

My comp slo-pitch team, Raging Storm, is doing okay.  We just split a double header and we're 5-4 on the season. The struggles are with my other team, my beer league team.  How do I put this nicely... we're not a very good offensively and we're horrible defensively.  We're 0-3
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The Carpenters

I was 9 years old when Karen Carpenter died at the age of 32.  That means I completely missed The Carpenters, a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. I primarily know The Carpenters for two things.  They had a hit with "(They Long to Be)
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Kardinal Offishall is Dangerous

It's not really my cup of tea, but Toronto's hip-hop ambassador might have a big summer hit on his hands.  Featuring Akon, "Dangerous" is Kardinal Offishall's second single from his new album Not 4 Sale. Kardinal Offishall, of course, is a Toronto boy who's just about the biggest name this
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Prince's Creep and Radiohead's Order

We all love Radiohead's "Creep", right?  Apparently, even Prince loves "Creep", and he recently covered the song at Coachella.  The next day, YouTube clips of Prince's cover of "Creep" were super popular, but they were removed at the request of NPG Records who claimed a copyright violation. The videos were
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Sum 41 Redux

We've got the day off here in the T.Dot, thanks to Queen Vicky, so I'm going to step in the wayback machine and see what I was writing about on this date four years ago. I was writing about Sum 41, a band I really, really wanted to like.
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One-Hit Wonder Analysis

Andy Baio dove into the Whitburn Project data and came up with some interesting facts about one-hit wonders. For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the
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Sunday Morning Showdown

Ok, kids.  It's a "Sunday Morning" showdown.  Everyone gets one vote in the comments, make your voice heard. Which is the best "Sunday Morning?" No Doubt - Sunday MorningThe Velvet Underground - Sunday MorningK-OS - Sunday MorningMaroon 5 - Sunday MorningEarth, Wind & Fire - Sunday MorningJulian Lennon - Sunday
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I Liked That? Get The Funk Out!

I got asked an interesting question the other day.  I was asked what was the most embarrassing thing on my iPod.  My thoughts instantly turned to some rather cheesy late-80s rap I still enjoy, then I wondered if it could be Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone".  The question had
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