LOVE it. 🙂
The Cinematic Orchestra is a British nu-jazz and electronic music group, created in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe. …
“To Build a Home“, from the album Ma Fleur and featuring the vocals of the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, has been used extensively in film and television. …
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Erik Francis Schrody (born August 18, 1969 in Valley Stream, New York) – stage name Everlast – is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter …
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Everlast’s music ranges from blues to hip hop and rock. His influences include N.W.A., Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Ice-T, Gang Starr, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Run-D.M.C.
This is why I love the internet.
A talent like this can rapidly gain an international audience without some corporate middleman.
Listen to Molly Kate Kestner, a high school senior from Minnesota, perform an original song, “His Daughter.”
With a voice that shows more range than those of a lot of famous singers today, Kestner sings about a girl abandoned by her alcoholic father who’s looking for love in the wrong places, but eventually creates a family of her own. …
High School Student Stuns The Internet With Breathtaking Original Song (Video)
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(via our Uncle George)
I spent the Easter weekend in Birmingham, my first visit to the State. For the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.
In Birmingham they love the Governor. (boo boo boo)
Segragationist Democrat Governor George Wallace.
The don’t love judgmental Canadians.
Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
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That’s the classic and controversial hit by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974.
“Sweet Home Alabama” was written as an answer to two songs, “Southern Man” and “Alabama” by Neil Young, which dealt with themes of racism and slavery in the American South. “We thought Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two,” said Ronnie Van Zant at the time …
In 1976, Van Zant and the band supported Jimmy Carter for his presidential candidacy, including fundraising and an appearance at the Gator Bowl benefit concert.
At the peak of their success, three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in an airplane crash in 1977, putting an abrupt end to the band’s most popular incarnation.
related – Free Bird was Skynyrd’s greatest song. Perhaps the greatest live rock anthem of all time.
By the way, it turned out that Montgomery, Alabama is a great place. I have not a single complaint.
Song of the year. 🙂
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If that link gets taken down, you can watch it on Gawker.
Live in Japan is a 1977 live album from The Runaways.
They disbanded in 1979.
A very young Joan Jett – lead vocal
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I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air
So thereI’m kinda older than I was when I revelled without a care
So there
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It’s amazing how often I think of the Monty Python song. 🙂
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parody of “Royals” – Borde
“written by a kid I probably used to babysit / Killing it by puberty while I can barely stay fit.”
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via HuffPo
Bruce Ian McCulloch (born May 12, 1961) is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. …
McCulloch was born in Edmonton, Alberta. … a graduate of Mount Royal College located in Calgary, Alberta. …
I’m 4yrs older than Bruce. Grew up right next to Mount Royal College.
Bruce just published a retrospective on his formative years called Growing up weird in Calgary:
Thirty years ago there were no wine bars. Only bars. The Shamrock, the Calgarian, the Port o’ Call Inn. …
In Alberta in the ’80s it was easy to be a punk. You just slept in one day and you were labelled. As young punks we drank at the Calgarian. Yep, first we took the natives’ land, and then we took their watering holes. These bars were so crappy, they chained up the toilet paper in the bathroom. …
It’s almost certain that Kate, Barb, Jude, myself and many of our friends drank at the next table to Bruce in the Calgarian. We had the same PUNK phase.
Click PLAY or watch Hüsker Dü at the Calgarian 1981 on YouTube.
Of the many bands I saw there, my sentimental favourites were The Breeders.
One New Years Eve (1978/79?) I got blitzed at the Calgarian, finally crashing into the band’s equipment on stage. Friends rushed me out and into Barb’s Volkswagen Beetle. I threw up in it. Rich was so irked he dumped me unconscious on to the snow boots in a basement apartment closet. Then closed the door.
On regaining consciousness next morning, I had no idea what had happened.
December 1986 The Calgarian was gutted by fire. And finally torn down. 😦
There wasn’t a lot to do in Calgary 30 years ago. On the weekend, groups of people would “go out for cheesecake.” This actually happened …
We drove to Tom’s House of Pizza, drawn by the resplendent neon sign and the jukebox. We played Nazareth and “Cold Ethel” by Alice Cooper. One of the most exotic things you could do here at that time was order a Hawaiian pizza. And we did. I remember the summer that guacamole came to town. …
… I went to 4th Street Rose, an upscale establishment that served salad in a jar (and, yes, cheesecake) …
read more – Growing up weird in Calgary
How many Caesar salads in a jar did I enjoy at 4th Street Rose?
HUNDREDS. 🙂
related article on Punk Rock in Canada – weird scenes from the 5 and the TCH: metropolitan structure and rock in Canada
Another article published 2011 – Punk at the Calgarian Hotel
Rick McCharles 