Seeing as many of the good bands are still out there to be added to a concert, the Toronto part of Live 8 might work out really well:  •  “Wherever it will be held — Downsview, the Molson Amphitheatre, Molson Park in Barrie — the concert, one of eight being held worldwide July 2 to shine the …

I understand in a few weeks I will be spending a Saturday laying on the sofa for social justice watching Live 8. That is good. I have laid around on the sofa for far worse reasons and I need a good lecturing/hectoring on how I am not pulling my weight. I know I do so don't even start. But I wonder …

I don't know if I can forgive you. Have any of you told me about "Girl" from Beck's release Guero of earlier this year? No.  •  Fortunately the timing was perfect despite your indifference, with this warm evening, the apricot light turning to candy floss, I could get six listenings in while in the …

The new White Stripes CD is good. Deconstructedness is a general theme and it's less Jimmy Page loud than Elephant but good.  •  More if I have anything to add later but it strikes me I haven't bought a record on release day for 20 years.

It's back. Grown men, many gone grey, dressing up in bright colours and short pants to run around like eight year olds. It's great. With the league restructuring, not this one - this one, I am on a tentatively nameless yellow team, that sort of yellow yellow with a bit of orange yellow. Numbers of …

This review of the impending release of the new album by the White Stripes is so over the top I may just buy it on its first day on the shelf:  •  “On June 7, the White Stripes return with a thrilling new album, "Get Behind Me Satan" (Third Man/V2/BMG), that goes a long way toward dismantling the …

My Armenian Bostonian family knows how to through a party.   'Nuff said on that but for one observation. "Hey Ya!" is the new "Bird Dance".

Up early, not blogging the papal funeral (would anyone?), reading Kottke quote Lessig and I read this:  •  “Lessig: Fair use doesn't apply to music or movies like it does for text. I can excerpt a book and critique it, but if I wanted to play a clip of a new Fischerspooner song on a podcast and …

Listening to this for the first time, I am struck how my Elton John, Queen and disco pre-teen pre-punk junior high self was as entirely immersed in what gay culture made it to Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia AM radio. It does make one want to revisit the discography from Captain Fantastic... and …