Music

“Must-Know” Canadian Tunes?

The two weddings that I've attended with Wendy have both been for Canadians of my generation, which meant that the…

20 years ago

A Question Mixing Pop Music and History [Updated]

If I were to start a very image-conscious commercial-sounding boy band named Gavrilo Princip, would anybody get the joke? Update:…

20 years ago

R.I.P. Rick James

It was announced only 20 minutes ago: Rick James, the man behind the hit single Super Freak and Dave Chapelle's…

20 years ago

Weekend Update

For those of you not familiar with Canada, today is that most generic of Canadian holidays, the Civic Holiday, the…

20 years ago

From the backlog: Kickass Karaoke 5th Anniversary Photos

Another entry in the series of things that have been sitting on my hard drive, awaiting posting: photos from the…

20 years ago

This Land is Your Land [Updated]

[via Guile] Woody Guthrie's classic folk song, This Land is Your Land, is the basis for JibJab's funny Flash animation…

20 years ago

From the backlog: Movies from the White Cowbell Oklahoma concert at the El Mocambo

They're trashy, they're vile, and they're ugly paunchy men who  sometimes play the guitar butt naked. They're White Cowbell Oklahoma,…

20 years ago

Stuff from really cool Blogware blogs, part 1: Suw Charman breaks the news about Shatner covering Pulp!

Suw (who used to be "Sue" until a misprint in an academic paper transformed her name forever) Charman, one of…

20 years ago

Elektronik Supersonik

Will Rigby of the guitar band The dB's once remarked that "Giving synthesizers to the Europeans was like giving whiskey…

20 years ago

Horace X Show Tonight!

Meryle tells me that Horace X, whom John Peel has described as "The Muppets on Meth", are playing tonight at…

20 years ago