LEMMY (Netflix) – I love that they have Ozzy talking about Lemmy… I wonder what a conversation between the two of them would sound like. Interesting story about a surprisingly accessible rock legend.
Read more →I’m not now, and have never been a Record Snob. I don’t care how the music comes to me, I just want to hear it. That’s one of the reasons that I actually dislike Record Store Day and some of the artists who seem to sit back and giggle with glee as they make record [...]
Read more →I didn’t do this much stuff in Halifax or in Vancouver… technically I’m not doing most of it in Toronto, either, but this is a lot of travel cost that’s immensely cheaper from this end of the country. I’m still considering going back to Vancouver for a session of film overdose with the Vancouver International [...]
Read more →I sent the following email to federal opposition member Charlie Angus who recently tried to beat a dead horse on the floor of Parliament. These copyright “reforms” are just stupid – treat us all like criminals, and then use the funds generated from this tax to support artists who don’t need the support anyway. You [...]
Read more →Three photographic projects that even fit together nicely in theme, and one large music project that needs a bit more attention in the next month and a half. Photography first A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA LEFT BEHIND: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AMERICAN TOWNS AND SPACES $1429/3000, 42 days to go I have fallen for small town [...]
Read more →I was reading Amanda Palmer’s blog entry about what she calls virtual crowd surfing or what others have called crowd-sourcing. I followed Kim’s link to her project, and then looked around for other interesting projects. Impossible Girl: Solo Record Project by Kim Boekbinder (of Vermillion Lies) This is the project that I went to today [...]
Read more →Heavy Metal in Baghdad. I wasn’t sure about this film, especially with the Vice Magazine connection. I was a bit worried that this would be some sort of hipster bullshit ironic crap. I was pleasantly surprised by the film and the story it had to tell; metalheads are pretty much the same everywhere, but these [...]
Read more →I was listening to the “new” live CD soundtrack for Iron Maiden’s Flight 666, and thought “How odd, this sounds so familiar…” I compared the song lineup of this new compilation of live tracks to the listing for 1985′s Live After Death, an album that featured in embarrassingly heavy rotation in my stereo back in [...]
Read more →Colour me surprised to come home to a special package from the west coast today; the brand new, soon to be release 7″ split single from Nardwuar’s Evaporators and Andrew W.K. Andrew W.K. from the press release: “I’ve recorded my own cover versions of two classic Canadian punk tunes: The Leather Uppers Don’t Sell Hot [...]
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