I rarely do this, but I'm in love with a 4-disc compilation I just borrowed entitled "Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground". It's all the best stuff we heard on CFNY in the 80s. Seriously, if you find yourself missing the spirit of radio, you have to
30 years ago The Sugarhill Gang released Rapper's Delight, the beat that signalled the birth of hip hop on the world stage. To mark the occasion, BBC aired a 60-minute mix by Jaguar Skills that covered all 30 years. 538 tracks charting the entire history of hip hop, from block
I caught the end of one of those VH1 list shows. This one was counting down the top 10 one hit wonders of the 1980s. Naturally, I started compiling my own list. This list is from a Canadian perspective. I don't care what they say in the USA, Bruce Cockburn
I'm awarding TSN a 2-minute penalty for the inappropriate use of a song during one of their promos. Just before this third period of the Penguins / Capitals game, I sat through yet another promo for their 2009 NHL playoff coverage. The visuals were set to Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot.
Have you heard about the swine flu? The WHO raised their alert level to Phase 4 today. Next stop: global emergency! If we're going to have to grapple with this pandemic, we're going to need a swine flu playlist. Here are swine flu songs to spin while this thing goes
YouTube user Retrontario frequently uploads fantastic retro-Toronto-centric gems. These clips never fail to bring back a ton of memories for me, so I feature them from time to time. Molson Music presents WHAM! Explosive! Make It Big for '85. August 28th at CNE Stadium. With special guests, the Pointer Sisters.
You have homework. My buddy Fred wants to bring Kiss to Peterborough. In his words: Kiss is holding an on-line contest that will determine 40 dates on their upcoming tour and the way its set up, absolutely any town, village or hamlet in North America could host a concert.It's
Today is the perfect day to share my favourite song from the first band I saw live in concert, Chalk Circle. April Fool
A maid. A man needs a maid.
I should just get over it and move on. It's been five years. Why do these things bother me so?. Five years ago today, I wrote about the Best of Hootie and the Blowfish. Watching this painful Leaf game, I needed a good laugh. I just got one.It seems
I received an email the other day about "Possum Kingdom", a great little song from the Toadies that I put on SLS4. Back in the day, I used to run smellslikesour.com. I stopped actively caring for the site a couple of years ago because something had to give, and
Wintersleep's "Weighty Ghost" came out in 2007, but I seem to be hearing it all over the place these days. It's the song prominently featured in this fantastic trailer for the upcoming Canadian film One Week right after Sam Roberts' "Hard Road." It's also the song that opened this afternoon's
I've got this cool XMP3 player and a year's subscription to XM Radio. I pipe it through the Bose SoundDock II digital music system I got for Christmas to set the music free. There is lots of content to choose from. There's a Disney channel for the kids, a top
Some* are calling this the Best. Party. Playlist. Ever. I premiered this playlist on Thursday night to rave reviews. Keep in mind, I avoided songs with swears (although a few slipped through the cracks) and tried to appeal to the masses, thereby avoiding my mosh anthems. The objective was to
The first vinyl album I ever bought was Duran Duran's Rio. That same year, I bought my first cassette tape. I had golden oldies cassette tapes that were bought for me at gas stations, but the first cassette album I ever purchased was the Stray Cats' Built for Speed. Do
I first wrote about Feed the Animals, the fourth album by Girl Talk, back in September. Feed the Animals is one massive mash-up of dozens and dozens of sampled songs, an orgy of tunes you know and love. As you can imagine, this isn't an album that could ever be
Yeah, I listened to hair bands in the 80s. I admit it. I liked Motley Crue, Poison, Skid Row, Cinderella and, the best of the bunch, Guns N' Roses. Hair bands all followed the same strategy. Hard rocker singles were followed by a power ballad. Def Leppard would release "Pour
DJ Earworm put together a video for what he called "United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop)". It's a very slick mashup of the Top 25 Hits of 2008, according to Billboard. There's lots of the typical R&B pop in there, Coldplay aside, with one glaring exception.
Listen up music fans. Wolves, Hawks and Kites, maintained and written by Paul Watson, is sharing his favourite Canadian songs of 2008 as sweet MP3s. He's broken up his 30 top Canadian tunes of the last 12 months into two parts. I've downloaded the tunes, most of which I haven't
I was 15 when the 1990s arrived and 24 when the decade ended. I don't care who you are, it's unlikely you'll ever again love music the way you loved music between the ages of 15 and 24. Between the ages of 15 and 24, music is everything. It's no
I call it the show I love to hate. Californication is a David Duchovny series my wife and I watch and it drives me batty. It's so damn contrived and cringe inducing. It's that guy you know who tries so bloody hard to be cool, he's anything but. We just
Although I listen to less and less terrestrial radio these days, with MP3s so accessible and my XM satellite radio subscription, my go-to station for tunes continues to be 102.1 The Edge. Even before this past weekend's 90s Weekend theme I could sense a dramatic increase in the frequency
Has it really been five years since I bitched about local radio stations playing holiday music 24/7? I reference that entry today because that's the entry in which somebody in the guise of "Nobody" started his or her own blog of sorts. I haven't heard from "Nobody" since April
I apologize for not posting today, but I've been listening to Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968. Neil Young was just a few days shy of his 23rd birthday when he took the stage at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Mich., for what would become a legendary
I've pruned my Christmas playlist down to a 430 songs. That wasn't easy, as I've got days worth of Christmas tunage. I'm working on the ideal holiday playlist for 2008 but this entry isn't about those 30 songs. This entry is about the five Christmas songs I dislike the most.
