I recently discovered Metric after I recently discovered Feist, and then I went on to recently discover that they both play together in Canadian band Broken Social Scene, as well as having successful solo careers on the side. Emily Haines, frontman of Metric, even has another side project called “Emily Haines and the Soft Skeletons”. […]

How excited am I to be writing about 1990s? So excited. Record shopping this weekend, (Rhino in Claremont- sorry Frank!) I just wasn’t finding anything I was looking for. I just happened to pick this record up, and it was the best thing that I could have found.
Ex-Yummy Fur frontman John McKeown and Michael McGaughrin […]

I admit, I don’t know too much about Magnet. I found him while browsing the new albums that came out last week on iTunes. He is a singer from Norway that sounds like he may fit in well with the Jason Mraz and Matt Costa crowd.
Because he is from Norway and doesn’t seem […]

One of the most vivid collection of month’s in my mind’s past life was kickstarted by a christmas gift Concert to see Bright Eyes in Raleigh NC. It was a quiet kind of show - unlike the anticipated debaucherous affair full of funny boys and girls smashed up against a stage so hard that your […]

This may be an off-path way to start this posting, but hopefully my intentions will become apparent upon its conclusion. One of my favorite quotes of all-time is by Muhammad Ali. He said, “The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
I […]