I caught Dragonette at the launch party for MSN.ca a couple of weeks ago and was pretty impressed. I’m fond of their synth-pop-cut-with-guitars sound and am going to have to get my hands on their new album.
At the Mesh Conference held earlier this year, I was asked at the last minute to play an opening number for the big panel discussion on using social media for marketing. I decided to get cheeky and played AC/DC’s Big Balls, since having them is a quality that you need to really use social media and social networking to advantage. As I played, Kaz Ehara shot these photos:
Photos by Kaz Ehara. Click the photos to see them on their Flickr pages.
For those of you unfamiliar with the song, here it is, synced to clips from Spongebob Squarepants:
The anime-girl outfits that the YouTube user “hjfreaks” wears may be a little off-putting, but if the bass tracks on these video are really of him playing, he’s pretty good:
Sometimes a guy wants to take a break from blistering bass runs and just dance:
Not the fast food chains, but the amusing hip-hop number by the oddly-named duo “Das Racist”:
I’m with this commenter: someone needs to record the Canadian version:
I’m at the Swiss Chalet! I’m at the Harvey’s! I’m at the combination Swiss Chalet and [...]
The Toronto Garbage Strike of 2009 may be over (as might be David Miller’s reign come election time next year) and garbage collection is resuming today, but that’s no reason not have a song about it. The Toronto Star posted a story today about The Toronto Garbage Song (a.k.a. Flush Your Garbage), which was written [...]
If the taste I gave you of the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos yesterday left you hungry for more, I’ve got good news. There’s a full 14-minute infomercial that covers the upcoming event in greater detail:
Paste magazine goes into a little more details about the infomercial in their article Thirty Reasons Why the Insane [...]
Every now and again, I get an email or a phone call from someone doing a story on technical evangelism, community-building or some other Tipping Point-y matter. I’m always happy to answer their questions, and they usually take my answers seriously until they ask me for examples of people, organizations or groups that have [...]
If you’re a fan of the Violent Femmes (and if you remember rotary-dial phones), you’re going to recognize the reference in this piece of retro-themed art by so0meone going by the name “9 0 0 0”:
There’s more stuff like this in 9 0 0 0’s Flickr photoset titled Plan 9.001.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil was the one documentary I really wanted to catch at last year’s Hot Docs film festival. If you watched Canada’s MuchMusic station in the 1980s and its heavy metal segment, The Pepsi Power Hour (hosted by the mullet-sporting JD Roberts, who later became CNN’s silver-haired John Roberts), you might [...]
For no reasons other than I love the band and my stumbling across this list, here are the names of the bands who’ve opened for Queen:
After The Fire
Airrace
Al Stewart
The Alarm
Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
Ambach Circus
Andy Fairweather-Low
Angel Child (Änglabarn)
April Wine
Argent
The B-52s
The Bangles
Belouis [...]
If you’re looking for a name for your heavy metal band, you might find the chart below helpful:
Click the chart to see it at full size. Found via The Triumph of Bullshit.
In an earlier article, Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today, I posted a video in which jazz.funk sax man Branford Marsalis talked about his music students. His first lines in the interview are:
What I’ve learned from my students is that students today are completely full of shit.
That is what I’ve learned from my students. Much [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.