Toronto band the Craft Economy who promoted their work last year by stapling free CD’s to utility poles is asking people to remix their work. All of their stuff is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported which means that you can share it, and remix it provided you’re not making money off…
Will Currie and the Giant Beaver
Will Currie and the Country French stopped along the roadside in Alberta to file a video diary about the World’s Largest Beaver and celebrate Amada’s 24th birthday. If you’re looking for some listening, grab a copy of CBC Radio 3 sessions podcast with Will Currie and the Country French (one of my all time favorites.)…
United Steelworkers of Montreal Coming to the Rancho
Next weekend is Canadian Music Week. We’re just going to skip over the fact that Canadian Music Week is actually only four days and pretend we didn’t notice. I’ll be talking alot in the lead up about things you need to be doing, places you need to be going or at least stuff you should…
Happy 175th Toronto
In case you somehow managed to miss the cheering from the centre of the universe today is Toronto’s 175th birthday. The Star has a great list of great things about Toronto (175 of them to be exact). As a special gift from mother nature it hit 18(ish) degrees in Toronto today and actually felt like…
CD Review: APlotAgainstMe – Deuce
It’s ironic that Ottawa’s APlotAgainstMe has christened their new album Deuce, as it perfectly describes what to expect: an album with two distinctive appearances. Deuce is an independent release by the hard rock group and features ten tracks which are dark and intense, and are reminiscent of material produced by Tool, Marilyn Manson and Metallica.…
There’s No Good Timing Anymore: But We Still Need Funny
Denis McGrath has an excellent and readworthy post today about Geri Hall‘s ambush of Dalton McGuinty at a press conference yesterday. Apparently Hall tried to ambush agoraphobic Premiere Dalton McGuinty at a press conference about his new rule that reporters have to stay at least five feet away from him. It turns out though that…
Ohbijou Delays New Album & Tour: Signs New Deal
Photo cred to Dusty Parr Toronto’s Ohbijou announced today on their Myspace blog that they have delayed the launch of the highly anticipated CD Beacons and signed a new deal with British label Bell Union. Congratulations to the band and I know I speak for every music lover in Toronto in wishing them the very…
One Week Opens Tomorrow
This week’s film for Boost: Candian Film is Joshua Jackson’s cross Canada motorcycle film One Week which opens tomorrow. Torontoist has a great note about the film’s full page ad in Eye. It seems rather than go with the opinions of critics they’ve decorated the ad with comments from their YouTube trailer. (Let’s face it,…
the Burning Hell Baby
The Burning Hell new baby (which is an album, not a child, is due on St. Patrick’s day. Mathias Kom says: “On the feast day of St. Patrick, we will birth our baby! That is, we will release our new album, which is called “Baby”. We are not actually delivering a small human person baby.…
Be An Online Drummer
Via John Gushue: Buckle, which is apparently an American clothing retailer that would like to be cool has put up a virtual drum kit on their site that actually is pretty cool (too bad they sell clothes instead of drums) – anyway, click on the image below to give it a try (you play with…