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- Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 10
The year is 2001. The setting is Kingston, Ontario, a beautiful old town with bitterly cold winters and chilling winds, located at the tip of Lake Ontario.
Your author, a 19 year old first year student, is tucked away in a small dorm room on the 6th floor of Vic Hall. It’s the beginning of […]
- Songs of the Year - Best of 07
Time to blow the dust off of this thing and revisit the songs that provided the soundtrack for 2007. Remember the rules:
1) Albums are dead. Tracks are all that matter.
2) It doesn’t have to be a song from this year. I had to discover it this year.
We’ll start the countdown tomorrow. “Sophomore jinx […]
- Jay Z - VH1’s Storytellers
Jay Z performed in Brooklyn the other night with a live band for VH1’s Storytellers series.
He did 9 songs from his American Gangster album and you can find high quality copies of the entire performance on the excellent 2dopeboyz blog.
Guilty pleasure? Sure, but one of my favourite albums of all time is Atmosphere’s Sad […]
- Sunset Rubdown
Sunset Rubdown (no, not a massage parlor in Mississauga) is my newest addiction. First discovered on the wonderfully rich AjiSignal - a place blogging site for indie music - I’ve fallen in love with the album and have recommended it to everyone I can.
There’s a line in the Pitchfork review that is so true […]
- Music of the Moment: My British Invasion Continues
I’ve tried to listen to other music. Really. I just haven’t had much success. Lately it’s been nothing but Jamie T and the new album from the Arctic Monkeys.
Here’s a Monkeys song from the excellent Music Like Dirt site.
To listen to any Jamie T song click through the above link to last.fm.
Buy the albums […]
