My comp slo-pitch team, Raging Storm, is doing okay.  We just split a double header and we're 5-4 on the season. The struggles are with my other team, my beer league team.  How do I put this nicely... we're not a very good offensively and we're horrible defensively.  We're 0-3

I recently shared the list of early Canadian rock songs that made up volume two of a homemade mix of such songs from the 1960s and 1970s.  On that mix is "I'm Running After You" by Major Hoople's Boarding House. Admittedly, I don't know much about Major Hoople's Boarding House.

I was 9 years old when Karen Carpenter died at the age of 32.  That means I completely missed The Carpenters, a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. I primarily know The Carpenters for two things.  They had a hit with "(They Long to Be)

It's not really my cup of tea, but Toronto's hip-hop ambassador might have a big summer hit on his hands.  Featuring Akon, "Dangerous" is Kardinal Offishall's second single from his new album Not 4 Sale. Kardinal Offishall, of course, is a Toronto boy who's just about the biggest name this

We all love Radiohead's "Creep", right?  Apparently, even Prince loves "Creep", and he recently covered the song at Coachella.  The next day, YouTube clips of Prince's cover of "Creep" were super popular, but they were removed at the request of NPG Records who claimed a copyright violation. The videos were

We've got the day off here in the T.Dot, thanks to Queen Vicky, so I'm going to step in the wayback machine and see what I was writing about on this date four years ago. I was writing about Sum 41, a band I really, really wanted to like.

Andy Baio dove into the Whitburn Project data and came up with some interesting facts about one-hit wonders. For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the

Ok, kids.  It's a "Sunday Morning" showdown.  Everyone gets one vote in the comments, make your voice heard. Which is the best "Sunday Morning?" No Doubt - Sunday MorningThe Velvet Underground - Sunday MorningK-OS - Sunday MorningMaroon 5 - Sunday MorningEarth, Wind & Fire - Sunday MorningJulian Lennon - Sunday

I got asked an interesting question the other day.  I was asked what was the most embarrassing thing on my iPod.  My thoughts instantly turned to some rather cheesy late-80s rap I still enjoy, then I wondered if it could be Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone".  The question had

I watched most of the Academy Awards last night.  At around 11pm I bailed, but I caught all five musical performances.  This entry is about the five songs I saw performed last night. Three of the five songs were just awful.  Not average or mediocre but awful.  "Happy Working Song"

I completely missed The Brit Awards this year.  That's too bad because I always enjoy the Brits.  In this new age of YouTube, however, all is not lost. Rhianna mashed her hit "Umbrella" with the Klaxons "Golden Skans" and the result was pretty cool.  Check this out.

Songerize is an "I feel lucky" button for SEEQPOD, a site I wrote about a year ago. You simply enter a song name and artist and it plays the first MP3 it comes across on the web that fits the bill.  It doesn't host any music, it just finds the

A two-disc collection entitled "Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran" is due March 18, and it boasts many of my favourite artists.  You might recall Eddie Vedder performed last September at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote the documentary of the same name. Joining Mr.

Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart reunited yesterday for the first time in four years to back Barack Obama.  Weir, Lesh and Hart are the three surviving members of the Grateful Dead.  "Deadhead" has become the generic term for super loyal fans who tour with a band as opposed

In June of 2006 I wrote about "Louie, "Louie", a 1990 remix of the song by Young MC featuring the rap stylings of our very own Maestro Fresh-Wes. For years this song only lived in my memories.  I couldn't find it anywhere.  This morning I awoke to find it in

I learnt a lot about my sacroiliac today, and it's giving me a case of deja vu.  Where do I know sacroiliac from?Oh yes, the year was 1989 and Canada's greatest rap song had just been released.  I heard it once, was hooked right away, and learnt the lyrics.

Back in '91, I listened to a lot of Shabba Ranks.  Don't look so surprised.  I wasn't just about the grunge scene.  A friend turned me on to Shabba and I spent a lot of time listening to As Raw As Ever and other singles from the popular Jamaican dancehall

I've never liked "The Twelve Days of Christmas".  It's so repetitive I'm usually bored by the third day.  Bob and Doug's 12 beers of Christmas is fun, but is there a version of the proper song that isn't terribly boring? I say there's one.  This is John Denver singing with

It was twenty-seven years ago today that John Lennon was shot four times in the back by Mark Chapman.  As my blogging years advance, it becomes harder to write these annual-type entries without repeating myself.  As a result, I'm blatantly ripping off this entry I wrote four years ago today.