Godspeed You! Black Emperor Return With New Album on October 15/16 One of my top 10 bands of all time is Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The Montreal instrumental post-rock / insert-a-million-adjectives band broke up after 2002’s Yanqui U.X.O., but reunited...
Post-Olympic Opening Ceremony Sales Boost So who here watched the Queen jump out of a helicopter with James Bond on Friday night? If you have no clue what I’m talking about, you were either as drunk as I was, or...
Okay, the last word in the headline is a little corny, but I needed a third word about the themes of this playlist, and my grasp of the English language is poor (as regular readers will know – pffft, “regular”...
Snoop Dogg to Release Reggae Album as Snoop Lion Everyone’s favourite pot smoking rapper is becoming a lion – Snoop Dogg will dip into the reggae world and release an album called Reincarnated (via Pitchfork). For lovers of Diplo and...
Main Stage Headliner: Snoop Dogg – Hip Hop day! Party Factor: A sloppy 8. Considering it is Tuesday, 9. Number of songs performed tonight about smoking weed: at least 5. Between A$AP Rocky and Snoop Dogg exclusively. Band 1: The...
New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience to be Headlined by Green Day, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Skrillex and others The first wave of acts have been announced for the Voodoo Experience, set for October 26-28 in New Orleans. Acts will include...
Yes, This is True: Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold to Write Soundtrack for LOLcats Movie The phenomenon known as LOLcats will be hitting the big screens – that’s the first weird part of this story. The movie, supposedly titled The Internet...
Check Out The Ottawa Bluesfest Lineup July 4-15 will see blues fans (and mainly NON-blues fans) descend on Canada’s capital for the Ottawa Bluesfest (I don’t get paid to report it as the RBC Royal Bank Bluefest, and no one...
If you like pot/weed/cannabis, you’ll know that April 20th is the unofficial Stoner Day, because it’s 4/20, slang apparently derived from a 4:20 meeting time for some cool kids in the 70s in California to smoke up (or some bullshit...
Brief news, as I’m lost and drunk in Glasgow (so I fit in perfectly). Coachella Wrap Up So Coachella was this weekend, and dominated my Twitter feed. Rihanna showed up and sung We Found Love with Calvin Harris, Justice ending...
Tupac Shakur and Nate Dogg to “Appear” with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at Coachella If the rumours are true, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are putting on a show for the ages. Besides having the coveted Sunday night headlining...
Lollapalooza Announces 2012 Line Up – It’s Pretty Good Perry Farrell’s Chicago festival, Lollapalooza, has unveiled their 2012 line up. I’m sort of bummed out that I won’t be heading to Grant Park on August 3-5 (since I have this...
Osheaga 2012 Line Up Announced for Montreal Festival Osheaga, also known as “The festival with the exact same dates as Chicago’s Lollapalooza”, has announced their line up for this August 3-5. Taking place in Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, the line...
St Patrick’s Day is tomorrow, and I’ll be drinking my face off in Ireland. To celebrate me crossing this off of my bucket list (drinking in Ireland on St Paddy’s Day, not me having beer), I’ve compiled 13 of the...
Facebook Joins the Listening Party Bandwagon; Will Hit 1 Billion Users Similar to the popular Turntable.fm, Facebook users can now simultaneously listen to music and have a group chat session (via Hypebot). The new feature is called Listen With, and...
