Merry Christmas!

Now that we're all walking around with video capture devices, we're all videographers, prepared to capture the latest fail at a moment's notice. That makes each year's collection of best fails better than the one before.  Here's the collection for 2011. Brought to you by the fine folks at TwisterNederland.

My kids are crazy about this song.  It's "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars, and Torontonian K'naan shares a writing credit. Here's the video they won't stop playing. Not exactly my cup of tea, but the sentiment is on point.

Today is the perfect day to share my favourite song from the first band I saw live in concert, Chalk Circle. April Fool

Youtube user maxluere created this nice little video he calls "A Life on Facebook". It happens to feature my favourite Rolling Stones song.  I doubt he properly licensed the tune, so you might want to view this before Mick finds out and calls his lawyers.

As 2005 wound down, I ambitiously decided to write about my 10 favourite songs from that calendar year.  On that list was my favourite song, "I'll Believe In Anything", from one of my favourite albums of the year, Apologies to the Queen Mary by Wolf Parade. Wolf Parade's latest album

Back in the day, I threw songs I dug into the Smells Like Sour pot.  Today, I just slap 'em up here in case you want to hear for yourself. I love this latest single from The Black Keys.

When was The Marshall Mathers LP released?  1999? 2000? I just looked it up, it was released on May 23, 2000.  That was a fantastic album and it converted me into an Eminem fan.  I even caught him on tour that year supporting the album.  I won't tell you who

I got an email from Arabesque.  Here's what he had to say: MikeI'm contacting you in regards to my project   possibly being featured on Toronto Mike. I'm a Juno nominated artist   out of the city, just released a video for my song "Understand," off my album Nuclear Ambition (being released

You can hear Broken Social Scene's new album, Forgiveness Rock Record, in its entirety at NPR. I like how they opened their article about BSS. It's hard to deny the influence of Toronto's expansive independent music community. As a vital part of the last decade's Canadian rock explosion, Toronto has

Shad is a hip-hop artist from London, Ontario who recorded one of my favourite albums of 2008, The Old Prince. He's got a new album coming out next month.  It's called TSOL and I can't wait to hear it. Here's his new single, "Yaa I Get It". [via Mondoville]

Last summer I was sharing The Dead Weather, a supergroup comprised of vocalist Alison Mosshart (of The Kills), drummer and vocalist Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), guitarist Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and bassist Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes). Of

Band of Horses' new album, Infinite Arms, is coming soon.  This is a cut from that album that I'm digging. Is it just me or is there a little of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" in there?

Back in the day, I'd have nominated a tune like this SLS consideration.  SLS is dead, so I'm going to share this because I'm digging it. It's "The High Road" by Broken Bells.  Broken Bells is Danger Mouse and James Mercer from The Shins. This is the first single from

The first video I want to share in the post-SLS era is this gem from the Gorillaz.  The song features Mos Def and Bobby Womack while the video features Bruce Willis.

Damian Kulash Jr. of the band Ok Go went off last month on EMI for cutting off its nose to spite its face. Now they've gone viral again thanks to their amazing new video for This Too Shall Pass and the fact it's embeddable.  It's embeddable, not thanks to EMI,

In the spirit of the season, I've kept all the MP3s I've shared this month online, so if you visit the Weekly MP3 category page you can help yourself. Yesterday, I shared my favourite Christmas song of all.  It's Fairytale of New York by The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl.  Howard

I tweeted about this film immediately after watching it for the first time yesterday.  Even though I added "(highly recommended)" to the tweet, only 36 people clicked through to watch.  This thing is better than that. This is called "Moments" and it's by Will Hoffman. This films is a celebration

I'm hearing it played over the loudspeakers in Chicago when the Blackhawks score and I just heard it in a beer commercial during the Jays game. The Fratelli's Chelsea Dagger is the song of the night.