SOUNDPROOFLISTS: TEN CHARACTERS FROM SONGS YOU'D WANT TO DRINK WITH ON ST. PATRICK'S DAYIt's not much more than an excuse for college kids to get drunk in the morning, so for those of us whom St. Patrick's day exists mostly in our imagination these days anyway here is our list of ten great fictional drinking buddies.
SOUNDPROOFLISTS: ART ON OUR SLEEVES: THE STORIES BEHIND GREAT ALBUM ARTIn this edition of Art On Our Sleeves we look at some of the most prolific album art and the stories behind it.
SOUNDPROOFLISTS: BATTLE OF THE BANDS: AC/DC VS. IRON MAIDENWhich rock legends will prove victorious in this virtual clash of the titans?
SOUNDPROOFLISTS: ART ON OUR SLEEVES: GROSS ANATOMYSome of the most stomach-churning album covers ever.
SOUNDPROOFLISTS: TEN SONGS THAT CODY HATESLike that scene in Darren Aronofsky's film Pi in which the main character takes a drill and puts it through this brain.
SOUNDPROOFLISTS: BATTLE OF THE BANDS: LYKKE LI VS. LITTLE BOOTSIs Little Boots really the new Lykke Li?
SOUNDPROOFLISTS: ART ON OUR SLEEVES - BOOBSBreasts! Boobies! Knockers! Tits! Jugs! Hooters! Honkers! Cans! Cantaloupes! Mazoombas! And the album art that features them. (Um, not so much safe for work.)
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isnt considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
