
MUSIC NEWS - A young Canadian folk musician was attacked and killed on Wednesday by coyotes while she hiked alone during her concert tour to promote her new album, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Taylor Mitchell , 19, a rising star of the folk music scene, had recently gotten a Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination. Ms Mitchell was hiking alone on the Syline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when a pair of coyotes attacked her. Others hikers rushed to help her and found Mitchell bleeding heavily [...]
![Dark Of The Matinee: Let's Predict The Oscar Nominees For Best Original Song [For Your Consideration]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1473348_lg.jpg)
Nominations for the Academy Awards are announced tomorrow, and we can't help but wonder what five tracks will be in the running for Best Original Song. It's been an oddly good year for music in movies—relatively speaking, anyway—and while there's no reason to have faith that the Academy will make anything other than a tacky choice for the winner, there might be some surprises in the nominations. The Golden Globes nominated songs from Wall-E , Gran Torino , Cadillac Records , Bolt , and The Wrestler , ultimately going with Bruce Springsteen's song [...]

ZACH THAT: City and Colour – Bring Me Your Love Released Feb 12th Label: Dine Alone/Vagrant Records Hailing from Ontario, Dallas Green took a literal approach in naming his solo project as City (Dallas) and Colour (Green)…yeah. The album is your typical guy with a guitar who has a lot of venting to do…but as with Elliott Smith, Sam Beam, and others, the sound fits Green. [...]

HANK ALTOGETHER: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight Released April 14, 2008 Label: Fat Cat Comprised of Scots, The Midnight Organ Fight (yeah it's a euphemism for... you know ...) is Frightened Rabbit 's second album and vastly different from their first. Displaying a kind of intensity, passion, and vigor that has become kind of [...]