For those late to the party, a recap: A couple months ago, I decided to post some of the various Magnetic Fields covers I had in my music collection. Along the way, I went a little overboard and ended up posting pretty-much every Magnetic Fields cover known to man. The result was a six part series titled, "Let's Listen To Some Magnetic Fields Covers", which featured 35 songs in total. The links for all of them can be found below. Since it was the most popular thing we've done around here, I solicited [...]
Jan 15, 2010, 2:47pm
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Norman Wong After being out of sight for what seemed like the longest time following the 2004 release of Darby & Joan , Toronto's Reg Vermue, aka Gentleman Reg , has been nigh-inescapable since the release of fourth album Jet Black just under a year ago. He's played many shows big and small, toured North America with The Hidden Cameras and late last year, released a new digital EP in Heavy Head . And now, following his set opening [...]
Norman Wong After being out of sight for what seemed like the longest time following the 2004 release of Darby & Joan , Toronto's Reg Vermue, aka Gentleman Reg , has been nigh-inescapable since the release of fourth album Jet Black just under a year ago. He's played many shows big and small, toured North America with The Hidden Cameras and late last year, released a new digital EP in Heavy Head . And now, following his set opening [...]
The blogosphere has been abuzz recently with the video of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy choking an overly-excited fan who jumped on stage to plant a sloppy wet kiss on the singer: But the Tweedy incident is no new phenomenon. The classic Maysles brothers documentary " Gimme Shelter ," captures the stabbing of a black man at a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Motor Speedway in California in 1969. During the song "Under My Thumb," a gun-toting attendee was stabbed to death by the Hell's Angels who were providing security: [...]
I used to be in this local power-pop band called Lake Holiday . We wrote some songs, played some gigs, went through a lot of personnel and generally had a good time. We also made a record called This Is How We Say Goodbye and it was supposed to come out at various points in the past year, year and a half but never did for a variety of reasons - I think at one point the masters got as far as the CD pressing plant and they subsequently lost them. As the delays [...]
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