Decent week this week for shows in Toronto…and it all starts tonight…yes, a Sunday.
Xavier Rudd sings to the sold out crowd at the Danforth Music Hall tonight. Vampire Weekend play a hyped up ’show of the year’ at the Horseshoe Tavern.
The Kooks are at the Mod Club on Monday, The Bravery rock out the […]
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(She Plays Music)
BLOGGER: Deborah Ng
What blog(s) do you write?
I blog She Plays Music. I also maintain about ten other blogs.
How long have you been blogging?
I started my flagship blog, Freelance Writing Jobs, three years ago. I’ve been blogging on a full time professional basis for a little over a year now.
What do you like […]
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Another edition of the songs that paddled (or re-paddled) upstream and made their way into the top rotation.
This week, the songs seem to have a spring or summer vibe. As I add them to this post I’m listening to them and picturing summery stuff. When I listen to this acoustic version of Joel […]
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Do you follow Hype Machine? If you’re in to music, I suggest you do.
Easy and cool way to find (and listen to) bands generating hype. Everywhere.
The Hype Machine follows music blog discussions. Every day, thousands of people around the world write about music they love — and it all ends up there.
The Hype […]
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Everyone has their handful of websites that they check on every few days in hopes of new material. I get emailed when there have been new updates, but I still check back in case a notification got intercepted between the site and my inbox.
My vice for a long time was Bill Simmons’ Sports Guy […]
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A fellow friend and blogger Arjun at The Good Musician proposed the questions to a number of us bloggers, “what artists would you not want to trade places/lives with?”
A great question. I had to base my answers on a few criteria: I couldn’t immediately name the members of Nickelback one after another (it […]
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Missed Feist on tour this past year…you’ll be able to catch her on a few award shows in the next few months.
The singer is the leading nominee at Canada’s Independent Music Awards, receiving four bids. She joins such other Canadian favorites as Arcade Fire, The Weakerthans, and Emerson Drive as the frontrunners at this year’s […]
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There is one certain in Canada/United States relations right now…and that is: Everyone Loves Juno.
Here are how the most recent top 5 albums sales compare for Canada and the United States.
Canada
1. Juno, Soundtrack
2. Radiohead, In Rainbows
3. Cat Power, Jukebox
4. Various, Much Dance 2008
5. Michael Buble, Call me…
United Sates
1. Juno, Soundtrack
2. […]
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Local Toronto band Secret Japanese Girlfriend various is a collection of musicians from local bands - notably Mason Hornets. Secret Japanese Girlfriend will take the stage tomorrow night at the Horseshoe Tavern for Nu Music Nite. This should be an interesting gig, as Secret Japanese Girlfriend will float through some of their spacey minimalist material. […]
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Bit offbeat but big industry news…
Trailing badly in the lucrative business of online search marketing, Microsoft announced a bid to acquire Yahoo! for a staggering 44.6 Billion.
Google continues to dominate the online landscape with strategic acquisitions, added revenue streams and presence virtually everywhere. In order for anyone to rival Google, they’ve […]
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