In honor of Blue Rodeo’s U.S. jaunt happening this week, I’ve decided to celebrate with Blue Rodeo Week. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Day One: T is for The Days in Between Day Two: What am I doing here? Day Three: Five from Greg Keelor Day Four: Five from Jim Cuddy The brief run […]
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Blue Rodeo Week: Five from Jim Cuddy
In honor of Blue Rodeo’s U.S. jaunt happening next week, I’ve decided to celebrate with Blue Rodeo Week. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Day One: T is for The Days in Between Day Two: What am I doing here? Day Three: Five from Greg Keelor Yesterday we took an abbreviated snapshot of the Greg […]
Blue Rodeo Week: Five from Greg Keelor
In honor of Blue Rodeo’s U.S. jaunt happening next week, I’ve decided to celebrate with Blue Rodeo Week. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Day One: T is for The Days in Between Day Two: What am I doing here? That brings us to Day Three of Blue Rodeo week. The band’s early output in […]
Sarah McLachlan, Broken Headphones, and some other stuff
I’ve been grooving to “U Want Me 2,” one of two new tracks on Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan (pre-order regular or deluxe edition,) McLachlan’s first greatest hits collection, set for release on October 7th. It’s been a long time since McLachlan’s last proper studio album Afterglow in 2003, and long enough that hearing […]
Blue Rodeo Week: T is for The Days in Between
I’ve decided that I’m going to do a full-on “Blue Rodeo Week” to help promote the band’s brief run of U.S. shows next week, including the show that I will be attending in Detroit. Blue Rodeo Week is going to be kind of like Shark Week, although you’re really going to have to squint to […]
More on those Blue Rodeo live dates, and how about a live DVD/CD release?
I’m prepping for a road trip to Detroit next week to see Blue Rodeo at The Magic Bag. It is a much needed breather that will do a lot to preserve my fragile grip on everyday sanity. I was hoping to make a two-day trip out of it, and catch the BR show in Chicago […]
The Oasis/Noel Gallagher Video
I’m sure you saw the news stories online about Noel Gallagher from Oasis getting attacked by a fan onstage at Virgin Mobile Festival in Toronto. WTF people? Seriously. Props to whoever was running the light show, for the lightning-quick reaction turning the lights on as soon as the problem started.
Peter Hammill schedules U.S. and Canadian dates – My friend Jerry has a meltdown.
I love my friends, and the unique ways that they make me smile. I opened my email this morning, and got the following email from my friend Jerry: Subject: PETER mother f*cking HAMMILL… …so, PETER HAMMILL is on tour in the USA…in my market…DETROIT (10/09) and in CLEVELAND (10/10)…I had to send out an e-mail […]
If all else fails, you can blame it on me….
Barenaked Ladies – Gordon (original cover artwork) For the past few weeks, I’ve been jonesing to hear “Brian Wilson” by Barenaked Ladies, specifically the live version that appears on Rock Spectacle. In one of my rare excursions driving a car, I took the CD with me, popped it in the player, and it wouldn’t play. […]
Good Listening – Kathleen Edwards – World Cafe 5/16/08
I wrote previously about Kathleen Edwards following her mid-April appearance on David Letterman. And now, I’ve got a treat for you all. Quality well-recorded live stuff from Canada’s foul mouthed sweetheart isn’t an easy thing to find. In fact, with the exception of some Austin City Limits audio that was pretty far removed from the […]