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Some Music Posts.
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10 Toronto songs from 2010
This ostensible "best of" list serves as a good sampler of Toronto's indie/electronic sound
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Art lives in the suburbs
Dave Bidini talks about Arcade Fire's new album and the changing views of suburbia
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The music of Scott Pilgrim
Exclaim! explains the audio inspiration for the movie adaption of the graphic novel series
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Bono and Geldof: editors?
The rock legends are guest editing The Globe and Mail's special Africa issue in advance of the G8/G20 summit
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Spin on Google Books
Every issue of Bob Guccione Jr.'s Rolling Stone competitor scanned and available online
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
The original hipster, as captured in a 1965 NFB documentary
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Pictures of you(th)
Pictures from a cultural moment that is definitively gone...grunge
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Julie Doiron wins NxEW's Shadow Polaris Poll
My one-time house guest's latest album, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, is picked as the NxEW's readers favourite
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6,000 status updates per minute
Somehow, it's appropriate Michael Jackson's funeral breaks a number of social media records
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Polaris 2009 shortlist
Given the prizes intention, this year's list seems strangely disappointing despite the quality of the acts selected
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With glowing hearts
A run-down of the best Canadian music for Canada Day 2009.
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Canada's best music for 2009
The Polaris 2009 long list has been announced
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The Anti-MySpace
Khoi Vinh reviews the design aesthetic of the new Muxtape
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Aggregating the buzz
New music service aims to create a chart of the emerging music tracks
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Kurt Cobain is dead
Fifteen years later, nothing much remains the same
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Sample dating pop-culture
Andy Baio crunches the numbers on the samples in reveals some interesting details.
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Holy Fuck!
Ironically, I never saw the Toronto band name-checked in the title when I lived in that city yet I heard lots about them (and again missed them) when they played a few block away from where I now live in Seattle. The band got rave reviews for their two recent performances and helped raise Toronto and Canada’s reputation amongst the often jaded scenesters in that U.S. city. Not good enough for the government of Canada who cites Holy Fuck as a reason for cutting funding to Canadian artists.
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49:00
Only Amazon would sell Paul Westerberg's latest album for 49 cents
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Eric's Trip: the movie
A low-fi documentary about the low-fi pioneers filmed by band member Rick White
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CBC loses The Hockey Theme
Hockey Night in Canada will no longer have its iconic theme now that CTV has bought the rights to the song
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Translating Pork and Bean
Weezer's new video broken do into its 24 parts
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