
I guess I'm just a stubborn kind of fellow. I know that our focus tends to be on Brit-pop and Indie-rock, but I just can't help myself from asking you to free your mind. I remember growing up in Detroit, listening to the Canadian national radio station (CBC) and learning about "new wave/punk". They had a show called Brave New Waves and it aired from midnight to 4am, Monday thru Friday. Whenever anyone disparages Canadian music, I tell them that the entire base of my music knowledge starts with this Canadian radio show. Much to [...]
I learned a valuable life lesson last evening. If your buddy pisses off a table of dudes by talking to one of their girlfriends, sending the alpha-dude a Pina colada does not smooth out the situation. Anyways, today's song comes from the Canadian hip-hop band Grand Analog . I Play My Kazoo can be found on the band's sophomore full-length album "Metropolis is Burning", released in May of this year. Typically, I don't listen to a lot of today's hip-hop, but I've made an exception for Grand Analog because of two reasons. The first is that the [...]