Category: music
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Australian indie-folk act the Paper Kites release a new album, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It, today. Here’s an interview I did with the band’s frontman and primary songwriter, Sam Bentley, a few years back.
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Look, I get the fact that no one cares about my music. Here’s how I know: I regularly post about my band, the Starling Effect, and I see the stats. Exactly zero people have looked at anything I have ever posted on the topic. Literally no one. Ever.
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Exactly 12 years ago, the Georgia Straight published my interview with Panic! At the Disco’s frontman, Brendon Urie. By this point, Urie was effectively the last man standing; only he and drummer Spencer Smith remained from the original Panic! lineup, but even Smith was a member in name only and would soon depart altogether. All…
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ABBA’s “Happy New Year” is, in some ways, the perfect song for January 1, opening with lyrics that refer directly to the festivities of the night before. “From there, though, things take a decidedly darker turn.
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For the non-Gaels in the room, Hogmanay is what Scottish people call New Year’s Eve, an event traditionally celebrated with festive gatherings, fireworks, and the singing of “Auld Lang Syne”.
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He moves away from the mic to breath in. Let us all follow his example.
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Today is National Short Film, and while I’m pretty sure that “national” refers to the United States (the observance was started by the New York-based Film Movement), let’s not let that stop us from celebrating here in Canada. Or wherever you are as you read this.
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For those not familiar with it, Kwanzaa is an African-American celebration of culture and unity. It was created in the 1960s by a Black separatist named Maulana Karenga. He is a pretty controversial figure! Then again, so was Jesus, and we still celebrate his holiday, don’t we?
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There aren’t that many songs about what happens after the holiday, so while this song has a “visualizer” rather than a video, I’m posting it anyway, thus breaking more than one of my self-imposed rules.
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This is the definitive version, and I won’t entertain any arguments to the contrary.
John Lucas 