35 years ago this week, a not-yet-born me was introduced to the Sony Walkman. “Wow – imagine what this will lead to!” I would have thought. Considering that today you can listen to every album ever made through your wristwatch,...
We have another song from Ottawa singer songwriter Kalle Mattson. We featured his stunning track, Darkness, and now we have An American Dream, which is the lead track on forthcoming album Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold. The horn-filled track...
Those unorthodox and highly creative sounds from SOHN are back in another new track. After featuring the tracks Bloodflows and The Wheel, as well as the SOHN-produced Banks track Waiting Game, SOHN have a new track called Lessons (of which...
No Parole for Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Last night at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary film festival, I saw Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. Since I read music news pretty much all day, I knew a decent amount about the Russian...
Oscar Wrap Up on a Music Site The Oscars were last night, and doesn’t my bookie know it, as I locked down on Christoph Waltz at 21:1 odds back in December, Argo at 5:1, and Ang Lee at 5:1 –...
“Free Pussy Riot” Written in Blood Next to Murdered Russian Women I don’t think this is what Rage Against the Machine had in mind when they wrote ‘Killing in the Name Of’. Recently prosecuted Russian band, Pussy Riot, have inspired...
The National’s, er, national tour of Canada just hit Montreal. Who else is from Montreal? Why, the Arcade Fire! And since they are doing nothing (but composing a fourth, brilliant album – right, guys?), lead singer Win Butler and other...
As PHM told you (and you better have listened), there was a recent charity basketball event in Toronto called Rock the Court. It featured musicians such as Win Butler from Arcade Fire and Dallas Green from City and Colour, alongside...
