There will be strobe lights
This looks amazing. It will be screening at the Bell Lightbox in the near future – see tiff.net/inni. If you’ve ever seen any of the band’s videos, watched them play […]
Tag Archives: Music
Video Friday
It’s more than a little melodramatic, but this first video is fairly interesting in terms of how we think about artistic ‘inspiration,’ creativity and imagination, especially in light of the […]
Free stuff
I love free stuff. It’s irresistible. From McDonald’s coffee to roadside office chairs to tickets to the Bata shoe museum, if it won’t cost me any money, I’m always hard […]
A little night music
Still figuring out all this embedding video stuff… here’s 2 David Bazan songs off his new record (still haven’t heard the whole thing – sorry Mike) “Strange Negotiations.” Bazan, formerly […]
Jesus Christ Pose
I am a great mono-tasker (the polar opposite of a multitasker) and so I will have to put Unfolding Forms on the back burner for the next week or two […]
Skalleluia
The buzz around Joel Heng Hartse’s recent book “Sects, Love and Rock and Roll,” which deals with the perhaps inevitable decline of Contemporary Christian Music, has got me thinking about […]
Why should the El Mocambo have all the good music?
Some of the best concerts I’ve ever been to have been in churches. In Toronto, we have The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr church near Queen West, […]
My name is Richard Nixon, only now I’m a girl
That strange statement is the first line in a new song from Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, which is getting a fair amount of airplay on CBC Radio 2. It asks […]
Pop culture, bloodletting and miraculous cures
Well, I’m a few days late but I did want to mention the Grammys on the weekend, which were quite a spectacle – from Cee-Lo’s dancing puppets to Justin Bieber’s […]
The politics of lonely
Just an update to my article on “Loneliness, King Midas and the Social Network” which I previously linked to here: When I wrote the article I vaguely remembered that one […]
