A recent article in the Toronto Star by Douglas Bell alerted me to the fact last Monday's New York Times contained an erroneous review of the new Broken Social Scene album. Much of the review seems to focus on Broken Social Scene as a Montreal-based band. Broken Social Scene, of
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Stray Cats - Rock This TownSupertramp - The Logical SongSystem of a Down - Chop SueyThe Beach Boys - Good VibrationsThe Beatles - YesterdayThe Clash -
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To YouSkid Row - 18 And LifeSloan - UnderwhelmedSnoop Doggy Dogg - Who Am I (What's My Name)?Soul Asylum -
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know ItRadiohead - CreepRage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name OfRed Hot
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Our Lady Peace - ClumsyOutkast - Bombs Over BagdhadOzzy Osbourne - Crazy TrainPaul Simon - GracelandPearl Jam - AlivePink Floyd - Comfortably NumbPrince - Purple RainPublic
It's been about seventeen months now since I installed the Audioscrobbler plug-in to track the tunes I play on my computer. This thing operates so far under the radar I totally forgot about it. My personal Last.fm page has been keeping track of every song I've played since then
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Moby - Natural BluesMoist - PushMotley Crue - Home Sweet HomeNaughty By Nature - O.P.P.Neil Young - Heart of GoldNick Cave and the
Here's a list of every song in my collection with the word "boogie" in the title. For absolutely no particular reason whatsoever. Boogie Man - AerosmithB. B. Boogie - B. B. KingRockin' My Boogie - Big Walter Horton's Blues Harp Band with Memphis CharlieThe Hypnotizin' Boogie - David WilcoxBoogie Wonderland
The other day, a friend and I were discussing Beck's "Loser". It is a slacker anthem of sorts and as such it comes up in conversations now and then. At some point during this chat, I recited the lyric "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?". My
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Ice Cube - It Was a Good DayIce T - New Jack HustlerJames Taylor - Sweet Baby JamesJanis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGeeJimmy Hendrix -
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My MindGreen Day - LongviewGuns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' MineHayden - Bad As They SeemHole - Miss
Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" is our other national anthem. It's both musically and lyrically worthy of this honour, and two events over the past few months have cemented its status as the song that unites. On July 2nd of this year, Canada's Live 8 concert took place
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Counting Crows - Mr. JonesCyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have FunCypress Hill - Insane in the BrainEminem - Lose YourselfEverlast - What It's LikeFleetwood Mac
We'll continue with another block of ten as I name artists and their definitive songs. We're knocking down ten a day, in alphabetical order. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your RightBeck - LoserBig Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half-Steppin'Blink 182 - Adam's SongBruce Springsteen - Born to RunBush - Everything
Last month, I started listing artists and their definitive albums. I banged off ten a day until I hit ZZ Top. I'm going to do the same thing with the same artists, only this time I'm listing their definitive song. 2pac - Dear Mama3rd Bass - The Gas FaceA Tribe
I recently posted ten Canadian tracks that I believe collectively epitomize the spirit of Canadian music. Getting that list down to ten was a serious pain in the ass, so here are some of the songs that were on the bubble and eventually fell to the cutting room floor. Canadian
My two favourite bands live are The Tragically Hip and Pearl Jam. When James showed up, I made a decision to restrict my concert going activities to these two bands. I've been faithful to this rule ever since. Last night, I saw Pearl Jam at the ACC. There's a long
It's September 19, 2005. If you were paying attention on May 28, I wrote an entry in which I alluded to the fulfillment of a dream this night that I will write about tomorrow. Although I can't share many details, everything is falling into place quite nicely. This is going
I've got the new Our Lady Peace album "Healthy In Paranoid Times" and now I'd like to rip it to MP3. Once I have it in MP3 like the rest of my collection, I can hear it wherever I want in my iRiver and add it to playlists on my
I'd like to thank Kevin Brereton, better known as K-OS. I'm thankful for the following: My belief in the Canadian hip-hop scene has been restored. From Maestro to K-OS, there is substance once more.Joyful Rebellion is a wonderful listen-through. It's a funky tour de force.The lyric "Emcee, Tragically
Throughout the past week, I've been trying to assemble a list of ten songs that collectively epitomize the spirit of Canadian music. Pruning this list to ten hasn't been easy but I was up to the challenge. Here are ten Canadian tracks that, to me, represent all that is right
This morning, I listed the top 102 albums of 1993 according to CFNY and highlighted the ones I loved and crossed out the ones I hated. This was a spin on a meme and now I'll do it the way it was intended to be done. The rules are simple.
The meme is out there, but Accordion Guy put a spin on it I dig so much I'm going to follow suit. The challenge is to find the Top 100 songs from the year you graduated from high school, list 'em on your site, highlight the ones you like and
I decided to start tagging the music I listen to on my last.fm page, powered by Audioscrobbler. The first tag I created was entitled "Canadian" and I applied it to every artist I've listened to on my computer since May 2004 that was Canadian. By the time I was
We'll continue with our final block as I name artists and their definitive albums. This is it! Weezer - The Blue AlbumWhale - We CareWhite Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1Willie Nelson - Red-Headed StrangerWu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 ChambersWreckx-N-Effect - Hard Or SmoothWyclef Jean - The
