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Top 10 Worst Leonard Cohen Album Covers
In the latter half of the 20th century, three Montrealers – Leonard Cohen, Pierre Trudeau and Mordecai Richler – redefined the spheres of popular music, politics and writing within Canada. With Trudeau, the day of the Canadian politician who look...
Top 10 Tips for Becoming a Successful Indie Band
As we all know, ‘indie’ is a euphemism for ‘not successful enough to pursue music full time’ and synonymous with ‘hobbyist’ or ‘dabbler’. Indie though can also refer to a cheap marketing gambit devised to give big-label ar...
Jimmy Buffett Review
The more traditional 'barrel in the mouth' works just as well. by guest columnist Mike Sauve More than anything else I am a Bob Dylan fan. Nothing gets my blood boiling like an ignorant staff reviewer sent to the local Bob Dylan show. Th...
Steven Tyler Not Leaving Aerosmith
Aerosmith, like their idols the Rolling Stones, have followed the “pretty much great for the first two decades, appalling for the last two” career trajectory. The cornball soundtrack ballad “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” (...
Songs About Writers
We’ve previously covered Cocaine Songs, Drinking and Driving Songs and Songs about Bars so we thought we’d class it up a notch by focusing on something just as near and dear to our hearts—writing. The Guardian invited readers to s...
Karaoke My Way or the Highway
Gladstone Hotel Karaoke Night, Toronto “You haven’t lived until you have seen a Japanese salaryman sing the Frank Sinatra ballad “My Way”. It is one of those quintessential said sights that seem to define Japan. What an odd an...
Van Halen on Tour
Unless you’re fashioning paper plates into cymbals for the rubber room marching band, you’re no doubt aware that Quentin Tarantino is out promoting Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino, who, if he was a boxer, would lead with his chin, has bec...
Top 10 Bass Songs: How Low Can You Go
While much attention is given to the likes of Mariah Carey, whose multi octave high end range can shatter the Popemobile’s glass, relatively little attention is given to the other end of the vocal spectrum, the one we’re most familiar scr...
How to be a Rock Critic
In his autobiographical Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe showed a generation of less than discriminating movie-goers, what it was like to tag along underage with a rock band without availing oneself of cocaine or groupies (and, even if Crowe himself ab...
Top 10 Swine Flu Songs
Just when you thought it was safe to venture into the barn again, after Bessie’s ozone layer destroying farts and Mad Cow disease, along comes the swine flu – the latest assault on humanity perpetrated by a creature most commonly seen on brea...
US State Songs Part II
Most songwriters will at some point pen an ode to the place that gave them the early inspiration to pursue a career in music — i.e. the taunts of jocks or the realization that guys who can play guitar stand a better chance of getting laid than ...
US State Songs Part I
We previously delved into the (if you’ll excuse the redundancy) world of geography with our 25 Horrible Bands Named after Places and in doing so incurred the wrath of hardcore fans of Kansas/Boston, bands we perhaps unfairly dumped on because t...
10 Rihanna and Chris Brown Duet Ideas
You may not have guessed this, but we’re the kind of guys who simply CANNOT get enough celebrity news. We were bottle-fed Mary Hart and John Tesh (his groundbreaking entertainment reportage, not his, for lack of a better word, music career). So, ob...
Top 10 Songs About Gin
As we noted in our Top 10 Bar Songs of All Time, many musicians have adopted the ‘write what you know’ credo, and given that they spend a considerable part of their waking hours in taverns (this isn’t nearly as much as it seems as they sleep in...
Top 20 Jesus Songs
Legends about a one-for-one swap of a soul for musical proficiency abound. (though the guy who plays the spoons and passes around a hat at the bus depot might’ve sold his for a ticket to Cleveland) Such is the extraordinary power of song that n...
Neil Young and Wilco, Toronto
Neil launched his hometown show with a shotgun blast from Weld–Love and Only Love– and proceeded to pummel his guitar into submission with the Frankenstein monster guitar calisthenics he’s been known for since Old Man ‘put him...
New Guns ‘n’ Roses Album Chinese Democracy Finally Here
Axl Rose sounds like Edith Bunker of All in the Family set on fire and as a result, what is essentially a solo effort from him would be less anticipated than one by any other member of the band save for drummer Steven Adler, whose only contribution t...
I Got You Babe: Top 10 Karaoke Song Duets
Generally, it’s well known that more ear pleasing noises can be heard at a hog-calling contest for the hearing impaired than your average karaoke bar. Now, there are some songs that take a certain amount of panache to bring down the house andÂ...
Top 10 Drinking and Driving Songs: Contents May Shift in Transit
!!!!!!!DISCLAIMER!!!!!!! First off, let’s be clear that the authors in no way condone drinking and driving, unless it’s done on a closed course by professionals while filming a car commercial or approaching a club house where you’re...
