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Kathryn Calder – Bright and Vivid
So obviously my flood of music reviews is looking more like a trickle at the moment, but I’m finding it tricky to sort through all my thoughts so I can articulate what makes an album great before I...
View ArticleThe Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Time for another music post! I have a friend with particularly excellent taste in obscure Canadian indie bands, so I trusted her intuition and followed her out to a Besnard Lakes concert in the fall....
View ArticleThe Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
More writing about my album pile! I discovered Chilly Gonzales on Q last summer and I can’t get enough of his brilliant orchestral arrangements and catchy dance riffs. He blends hip-hop lyricism and...
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Across the Universe
I’ve been pretty sick this past week, so I haven’t been motivated to do much but lie in bed and whine. You know you’re really done for when you can’t be bothered to read because it’s too exhausting....
View ArticleKathryn Calder’s ALS Doc
I blogged earlier about Kathryn Calder’s Bright and Vivid album being one of my favourites, ever, and have since become a big fan of her work. Her ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) documentary kickstarter is...
View ArticleHitmakers
I read the biography of Shel Silverstein a few years ago and was surprised to find out how prolific he’d been as a songwriter. It’s a secretive world, with songwriters often working uncredited or...
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Laurence Lesser at uOttawa
A nice perk to my job is that on special occasions we have musical royalty drop by to play for us in the Hugette Labelle hall, which is really just a stairwell away from my office. Cellist Laurence...
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Hey you, you got that something…
I had a couple of Beatles songs stuck in my head this evening, and it reminded me to look up this scene from the film Across the Universe, where T.V. Carpio basically runs away with the movie and sings...
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Misheard Lyrics – Roar
Up until recently I’ve been mishearing the lyrics of Katy Perry’s Roar, which is disappointing because I was impressed by the cultural reference. What I heard was: I used to bite my tongue and hold my...
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Tindervox at Raw Sugar
Over the Easter break I dropped into Raw Sugar on Somerset, a little cafe with a consistently awesome lineup of bands cycling through their calendar. The band I was there to see were awesome (more...
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