Music

Appearing on MTV Canada’s “MTV Live” for Accordion Awareness Month

Last week, I got an email that went like this: I'm a producer at MTV Canada and we're looking for…

17 years ago

"I LOVE DURAN DURAN!"

"I fuckin' love Duran Duran!" he says, but in the video below (shot last night in Accordion City's Koreatown neighbourhood),…

17 years ago

Song of the Week: Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey”

I remember being introduced to Jonathan Coulton's music while staying at Ethan Zuckerman's and Rachel Barenblat's place in the Berkshires…

18 years ago

MySpace Band of the Week: Necromancer

If you can sing and there's a fifteen-year-old inside you touchin' himself to Boris Vallejo posters [warning: might not be…

18 years ago

Learn These Two Chords for Next Tuesday at the Press Club

If you plan to attend next Tuesday's open mic night -- a.k.a. "Geeks and Guitars" at the Press Club (850…

18 years ago

Song of the Week: "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb (1966)

For those of you living near Accordion Cityt's weather system, I hope that you had a chance to enjoy the…

18 years ago

Song of the Week: “Shock the Monkey”…by Don Ho?

After having attended a couple of Filipino-Canadian cultural events in Toronto, my good buddy George quipped that "deep inside every…

18 years ago

Song of the Week: "On a Plain", the Nirvana (1991) and Lullabye (2006) Versions

I was a DJ at the engineering pub at Crazy Go Nuts University in 1991. This meant that in the…

18 years ago

You Can Get a Master’s Degree for This?!

You may not remember the technology, but before the World Wide Web that we know and love today, there was…

18 years ago

Bum Rush the Charts and Send a Message to the RIAA

Today is Bum Rush the Charts day, a day on which we're supposed to send a message to the RIAA…

18 years ago