Month: July 2007

  • Canadian Renaissance Project gets ready to launch

    Round one of the Canadian Renaissance Project will officially launch later this week. Round one will begin with a search for activists before the broader campaign begins. If you’re so inclined please read the draft statement now. and feel free to make comments or suggestions. If you would like to work as an activist to…

  • Random Video Time: Julie Doiron – No More

    2007 Polaris Prize nominee Julie Doiron video for “No More”

  • Random Video Time: How to Roll a Joint with Pierre Burton

    Classic from Rick Mercer Report with the late Pierre Burton

  • New Pronographers Tour Dates

    Sadly, very, very few of these are in Canada. JUL 15: Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork FestivalJUL 29: Toronto, ON @ Rogers Picnic Festival SEP 13: Victoria, B.C.- Canada @ McPherson BallroomSEP 14: Seattle, WA @ ShowboxSEP 15: Seattle, WA @ ShowboxSEP 16: Portland, OR @ Crystal BallroomSEP 17: San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre SEP…

  • Casting Call and Van Raffle

    Again via the R3 blog, Pride Tiger is looking for people to appear in a music video in Toronto and Bob Wiseman is raffling off a touring van: “i would like other people who cannot afford a good used van to have that possibility possibled.” If you’re interested in either, visit the CBC Radio 3…

  • American Internet Radio Calls for Help

    From Radio 3 Radio 3 The US Court of Appeals denied an emergency stay a decision which will effectively shut down American webcasters in the next few days. There is hope though.Wired reports, that the House Commerce Committee on Energy and Commerce will try to broker a deal between parties representing record labels and webcasters….

  • Random Video Time: Claire Brosseau

    Sure, you knew that Toronto Comic Claire Brosseau is funny but if you believe, as I do, that what you read in Facebook groups is the literal and indisputable word of god “Claire brosseau is the funniest comedian in the history of planet earth” so..you should definitely watch this, it’s historic.

  • R3TV 13: The one with um…me

    I love this weeks R3TV, know why? Because I’m in it. Actually, I briefly doubted the whole idea, I mean if they’ll put me on should they really have a national television show? But, then I watched Craig Norris quiz people quiz people on whether we really need R3TV and and yeah, it’s a R3TV…

  • Band Blogs get Better

    Now that MySpace has fixed their RSS feeds I’ve been able to do some serious work on the band blogs section. Sadly, some great people were omitted because they don’t use the myspace blogs – but today I added: New Pronographers, the Weakerthans, the Lonely Hunters, Said the Whale, , Bob Wiseman, the Islands, Junior…