Tag: music

  • Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

    Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

    If you’re a music fan of a certain vintage, this book by Lizzy Goodman is absolutely essential.

  • SPRINTS on KEXP

    SPRINTS on KEXP

    Karla Chubb of SPRINTS talks to Emily Fox at KEXP about her band’s music, queerness in Catholic Ireland, her adult ADHD diagnosis and a lot more.

  • Streams and Spins for Jan 15, 2024

    Streams and Spins for Jan 15, 2024

    New fire from Sprints, Ontario bands Good Kid, Rusty, Cowboy Junkies, plus REM, GVSB, Eric B. Plus Bob and Doug Mackenzie!

  • Best of 2023: Music

    Best of 2023: Music

    Toronto bands Featurette and Good Kid, plus Panic Shack, Blondshell, Snapped Ankles, Bully, CIVIC, Pool Kids and 100 Gecs.

  • Watch the drummer

    Watch the drummer

    I’m the guy at the live show who’s always watching the drummer. My kid actually shares songs with me that have unusual or crazy-good drummers. Openculture posted this video of Ulysses Owens Jr. improvising the drum part Nirvana’s In Bloom. It’s great. It reminded me of another video I’d seen a year or so ago,…

  • Listen – November 2023

    Listen – November 2023

    A wild cover of Bulls on Parade, plus Buju Banton, Panic Shack, DJ Krush, Blondshell, Bully, and an older Toronto track from Petty Victories

  • No Silverchair covering Men at Work though

    Triple J is an Australian radio station that seems to be doing kind of what CBC Radio 3 tried to do in Canada — focus on independent music to appeal to a younger demographic. One of the series on their YouTube channel is called ‘Like A Version’. It’s bands covering bands, but the choices are…

  • Nightmare fuel

    Also on the latest Web Curios link dump, there was also this video that I didn’t know anything about, but will be having nightmares about for a while, I think. It’s kind of a perfect relic of early AI image generation.  The music is by Japan-based artist who goes by Gorgonn. The images were made…

  • Technically accurate, colloquially useless

    This feature from Pudding.cool isn’t new, but it feels like it was meant for me: You should look at this chart about music genres. It starts with deconstructing a headline about how the ‘most popular music genre on Spotify’ has changed since 2016. It might be listening habits or culture, but it’s most likely a…

  • You can’t just be the most powerful observer in the world for two decades and not deeply warp what you are looking at.

    It’s taken me all day to read this, but it’s worth it. In The Verge, Amanda Chicago Lewis does a deep dive into SEO – the scammers, honest brokers and how (whether?) Google has gotten mostly useless these days (hint: it’s less about AI than you may think.) I’ve run web design and dev teams…