SOUNDPROOFMP3: TWO GREAT CHRISTMAS PODCAST SPECIALS!So, This American Life, or CBC Radio 3's Breakfast Club? Which Christmas special to choose? We couldn't pick one so here's both, for your spoken-word holiday listening pleasure!
SOUNDPROOFMP3: ALL DAY BY GIRL TALKIllegal Art is offering the newly recorded All Day by Girl Talk for free!
SOUNDPROOFMP3: LIKE MOOSE DO BY GHOSTKEEPERThey celebrate their longlist nod for the Polaris Prize by giving you a song for free.
SOUNDPROOFMP3: EYESORE BY WOMENThe Jagjaguwarians pick up where they left off with the new single from Public Strain, due out in the Fall.
SOUNDPROOFMP3: PERMANENT RECORD BY THE GOLDEN DOGSOne of Canada's bset live bands are back with a new record.
SOUNDPROOFMP3: HERE SOMETIMES BY BLONDE REDHEADGlitchy and kind of upbeat and haunting all at the same time.
SOUNDPROOFMP3: ROUND AND ROUND BY ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITIThe first single off the lo-fi master's new record, Before Today.
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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.
