In what may be the coolest pop culture related social experiment ever, the BBC convinced a 13-year-old to swap his iPod for a Sony Walkman, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, for seven days. The results are nothing short of hilarious, as the teenager comes to the conclusion that he knows little about the technologies of yesteryear. (More after the jump.)
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Exclaim! readers favourite roots band of 2008, Elliot Brood, are planning a string of live dates in their home province of Ontario and west. It all starts on July 1 at Victorias huge Canada Day celebrations and continues on through October. (More after the jump.)
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Like it or not, the Killers are setting up to release a covers record by years end. The bands Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vanucci recently leaked word of the project during an interview with NME, telling the mag that the record may include songs by the likes of Iggy Pop, Genesis, Tom Waits and get this Fleet Foxes. (More after the jump.)...
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The Red Bull Music Academy is coming to Toronto. Learn, create and perform with the players, arrangers and producers who wrote modern musics history, as well as those who continue to rewrite and resample the book...
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Earlier this year I wrote an article about the persistence of the term "world music," and cited France's dub colossus Brain Damage as being one of the few artists capable of actually achieving a global sound without dumbing down their approach. Spoken Dub Manifesto, their last album, was an absolute triumph of dub poetry in several different languages mixed with diverse yet teeth rattling grooves....
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Canadas rising nueva-nueva trova star provides Exclaim! with an exclusive track from his forthcoming album due in October. What the hell is nueva-nueva trova? Take out the first nueva and youve got a term applied to Cuban singer-songwriters of the 60s and 70s who were highly influenced by Bob Dylan and the Beatles. (More after the jump)...
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One of several groups invited to play TARA Sessions over the North By North East weekend, Josh Reichmann Oracle Band delivered a fantastic, minimalist version of the track "Believing" from their spring debut Crazy Power. (More after the jump.)...
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"If you shoot ten music videos, someone's liable to die." George Pettit, the harsh-voiced counterpoint in Alexisonfire's three-vocalist assault, is sipping a beer in the cosy back room of his new Hamilton home. He is genially recalling the dead body that surfaced while his band was shooting the video for "Young Cardinals," the first single from their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals.
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David Last Vs. Zulu - Musically Massive
There's no shortage of talented electronic producers collaborating with vocalists to create globally informed, dancehall-inspired beats. MusicallyMassive works this massive palette of rhythms and sounds with superior songwriting. While the vocal content of many big, bass-y choons...
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Gordon Monahan
Since the late '70s, Gordon Monahan has been making a career of extracting the unheard from pretty much anything he can get his hands on. A seasoned composer and performer, he's worked with string instruments played by wind, Theremin-controlled water droplets (which "play" various amplified objects) and even with fake speakers....
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A Buena Vista of Rocksteady
Jamaica's ska explosion and its golden age of reggae show no sign of losing their international appeal decades after their heyday, but sandwiched in the middle of these two much-chronicled phenomena is the short and sweet rocksteady era. Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae is a film and CD that...
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Exclaim! readers favourite roots band of 2008, Elliot Brood, are planning a string of live dates in their home province of Ontario and west. It all starts on July 1 at Victorias huge Canada Day celebrations and continues on through October. (More after the jump.)
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Like it or not, the Killers are setting up to release a covers record by years end. The bands Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vanucci recently leaked word of the project during an interview with NME, telling the mag that the record may include songs by the likes of Iggy Pop, Genesis, Tom Waits and get this Fleet Foxes. (More after the jump.)...
Canadas rising nueva-nueva trova star provides Exclaim! with an exclusive track from his forthcoming album due in October. What the hell is nueva-nueva trova? Take out the first nueva and youve got a term applied to Cuban singer-songwriters of the 60s and 70s who were highly influenced by Bob Dylan and the Beatles. (More after the jump)...
One of several groups invited to play TARA Sessions over the North By North East weekend, Josh Reichmann Oracle Band delivered a fantastic, minimalist version of the track "Believing" from their spring debut Crazy Power. (More after the jump.)...
"If you shoot ten music videos, someone's liable to die." George Pettit, the harsh-voiced counterpoint in Alexisonfire's three-vocalist assault, is sipping a beer in the cosy back room of his new Hamilton home. He is genially recalling the dead body that surfaced while his band was shooting the video for "Young Cardinals," the first single from their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals.
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There's no shortage of talented electronic producers collaborating with vocalists to create globally informed, dancehall-inspired beats. Musically Massive works this massive palette of rhythms and sounds with superior songwriting. While the vocal content of many big, bass-y choons...
Since the late '70s, Gordon Monahan has been making a career of extracting the unheard from pretty much anything he can get his hands on. A seasoned composer and performer, he's worked with string instruments played by wind, Theremin-controlled water droplets (which "play" various amplified objects) and even with fake speakers....
Jamaica's ska explosion and its golden age of reggae show no sign of losing their international appeal decades after their heyday, but sandwiched in the middle of these two much-chronicled phenomena is the short and sweet rocksteady era. Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae is a film and CD that...
