Blog: Soul On A Rock

Well, I mean it was coming. The End, I mean. After almost 6 years of inconsistently blogging about music, starting off what would be my career in writing, It is over. I started this Blog when I was in Gr 9, lying about my age (lol) and during the 6 years, I landed some writing gigs, writing for well-known magazines to ezines, locally, nationally, and internationally. Through which, I met alot of great people in the industry. But now, at the age of 20, I feel it needs to end, I mean I don't even blog on here. Mainly because [...]

Hello all, As some of you know, this year marked the 20th anniversary for most Grunge bands and/or their albums like Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam's and their album Ten, Soundgarden's BadMotorFinger, etc. WELL, here's your chance to partake in something which has been organized by the tumblr Grunge community. This is taken straight from the Official Grunge Shirt page: "For many of us finding grunge music was one of the best things to ever happen in our lives. It gave us something to confide in whatever our emotions may be. It [...]

I've got a twitter, feel free to follow me at: twitter.com/chanicassetti An update: I know I rarely post on here, but I've started working for a few local and international music and fashion zines, and that's where most of my 'free' time is spent. I've also semi-moved out of Vancouver: I live part time in Seattle and Vancouver, the music life is a thrill in both cities, but in Vancouver I am also busy with school- University is hell when you've switched your major three times, I'm now majoring in Geography whilst minoring in Political [...]

Vancouver metal band Ancients have just released a digital EP featuring songs, "Humanist" and "Built To Die". The ep can be downloaded for free on the band's Bandcamp . For a live-show review+ video footage of Ancients check out on the Riffs Not Riots post for a preview! [...]

So, post below mentioned a charity event hosted by a bunch of Metalheads, and here's the show review post! I'm not late in posting it, it was posted up on North by East West following the show, I just forgot to post it up here!! Riffs Not Riots: VANCOUVER: On Wednesday evening, a bunch of [...]

Eight of Vancouver's finest Metal bands will be playing a Charity show called "Riffs Not Riots" on July 13, 2011 at The Fortune Sound Club. ALL proceeds from this event will be donated to the Canucks Place Children's Hospice, and this event is to honour the brave citizens, who stood up for of our great city, during the embarassing Vancouver Riots. Tickets are $15 (extra donations are greatly accepted) at the [...]

So my love for local music is once again at its high, with band Bison BC. It's not that I haven't heard of them before, but becuase I never really appreciated them as much before, partially because I didn't really listen to them as much either which was due to the fact that I was underage and couldn't attend the live shows because bands never did all-agers..Moving on... So I've been listening to Bison since I was in grade 11, a good friend of my introduced me to them; and here I am 3 years later blogging about [...]

Hey Kids! So here's the thing, My friend and I are thinking of turning this into a LOCAL printed magazine, which will feature things such as local bands, International Artist Spotlight, Local Artist Spoltlight, Out-Of-Province-Artist Spotlight, free giveaways, fashion trends, album reviews, Venues & reviews of the venues, Tour listings, concert listings, etcc. Pretty much anything and everything you need to know about music in Vancouver (FOR FREE!!). Now this 'zine won't be biased to my favourite genre of metal, it will be open to all genres, and its just gonna be awesome. However, we NEED writers, (who [...]

Friday night was a depressing night, as Vancouver band Black Wizard played their last show with the original members at the Interurban Gallery. Guitarist Johnny De Courcy has left the band. From my pov, Black Wizard is one of the best bands to come out of Vancouver (My favourite local band), there sound is exactly what I love it's really a combination of classic rock, metal, psyche, and blues, I would say that their kinda Led Zepplin-ish. So I was deeply saddened when I awoke to check my facebook and find this on [...]

The sudden death of my Grandfather had set be back a little, this post should have been up earlier, I apologize! So Dad Rocks is an Icelandic-Danish solo project of Snaevar Albertsson from the band Mimas! What makes Dad Rocks awesome is that the sound in a combination of folk, psychedelic, country, and even some hip-hop. Sometimes, what happens when an artist mixes genres, the sound can be displeasing, however, Snaevar captures the right amount of each genre [...]

Follow me on Tumblr! Not kidding, but Tumblr is so much more easier than blogger and I post frequently like more that once a day, however, I will try to post here too! tumblr: http://soulonarock.tumblr.com/ http://soul-on-a-rock.blogspot .com/feeds/posts/default?alt=r ss

So guys here's the thing; PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION -The CRTC may pass a huge loophole to the "fair and balanced" rule that currently prevents media from outright lying to the public - 70,000 signatures in 48 hours - spend less than a minute to sign petition - 48 hours to go - Sign the petition here! What this means is that with the Fox News North, the 'canadian' version of Fox News coming up here to Canada, the law that prevents the media from producing false news stories is an obstacle in their way, so the [...]

Okay, so after a night of heavy moshing, here's a nice little post about last night's show: The Wrecktals/NinjaSpy/Left Spine Down/Fake Shark-Real Zombie! **Just A Note** ALL MUSIC IS ON ZSHARE, SO CLICK THE LINK TO GET TO THE DOWNLOAD!! Sorry, but Googlepages closed down along with Drop.io First band to perform: Wrecktals. Now the show was supposedly starting at 9pm according to band member Chris, however it began at 8pm. With a few people in attendance they did a remarkable job opening up a night of intensity. Slowly as [...]

• Left Spine Down- Reset » Left Spine Down - Reset.mp3
• Out of Tampons- NinjaSpy » Out of Tampons.mp3

No, I'm not talking about these Braids;  But rather these Braids, or I should say Braids the band! This lovely quartet is originally from Calgary, Alberta, but at the young age of 18, made the bold move to Montreal! Their music is as textured as a braid, thus, I truly reccommend you give them a listen! I don't want to say much, as I'm writing this in-between doing my assignments, so [...]

A coincidence I suppose. The day I started summer classes/attended the weather was 23- 36degrees Celsius, however, now that I have finished, the weather is about 13degrees C. with rain. A coincidence, or just bad luck? With a little less than a month of summer left, I have some serious planning to do, 1. I''ve decided not to go back to school until Jan. 2. I'm thinking of heading to Australia in Sept. but if the dough is low, then Montreal. But life [...]

So, fellow viewers from Squamish, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, etc, just incase you haven't heard already, today is GHPR fest's start, so if you have the time, head down to Squamish today as it starts at ONE, this fest is a Metal/Thrash/Speed/Punk Fest and takes place in my favourite musical town: Squamish with bands from pretty much all over. Some bands expected to play are Black Wizard , T he Baptists , Infamy , Rehashed , Abandon , Congress and Hoopsnake , Just to name a couple, but this line-up is sick, so get [...]

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How are we all doing this lovely Wednesday afternoon? Summer has started for most of us; not me, I stupidly took 2 summer classes, I know, blasphemous! So I haven't blogged lately, well I think in almost 6 months..I swear, I had like 12 drafts, I just never got to completing them. What did ya miss? Well nothing really, except I sadly dropped my precious two year old in a lake- my Mp3 Player. No kids for me I'm dating a hockey player, so that is a bit out of the question, hmm, except now [...]

(art credit: Jesjit Gill; http://jesjit.blogspot.com/ ) Have you ever felt really artsy? At the moment I'm taking a course on Art History, when I tell most people, the reaction I get is that "It must be very boring"..but it's actually not. I think this is the most [...]

I feel bad. Why? because I hardly have time to update this blog anymore. However, I am trying to the best of my ability to do so! Anyways, a few things first: Hopes for haiti donations; everyone should try to donate as much as they can, the country really needs it. The Winter Olympics in Vancouver..There's no fucking snow, how can you have "winter olympic " in a place that has no 'winter'? , and last but not least Gordan Campbell is a fucking retard...Do you all agree with [...]