CONTEST – Don’t Forget To Vote

All the submissions are in. Don’t forget to vote people. Also, you can check out what myself and the other blogger panel are sayin’ right here

CONTEST: Whisky Rocks Concert feat Big Sugar

Big Sugar cemented their place in the Can Rock pantheon with their first single, the pumpin’ “Diggin’ A Hole.” Later, they rocked some slick reggae jams while lead singer/double-necked guitarist Gordie Johnson fuzzed out some mad solos. After a seemingly endless hiatus (which saw Johnson move to Austin,TX to rock out with Stevie Ray Vaughen’s [...]

CONTEST: Whisky Rocks!!

Tapedek has teamed up with Aux and the LCBO (the people that you buy alcohol from) to bring you the Whisky Rocks Contest. By executing a great cover version of the song “Fade Away,” you could just, er, walk away with the big prize (and booze?).

As part of a team of blogger judges, I’ll be discussing my favourite entries on the site. Basically, I’ll be Simon, Indie Music Filter’s Chris Budd will be Randy, Nicole Villeneuve will be Paula and Anne Donahue will be William Hung, natch.

For more info and to enter the contest head here. Note, the contest closes for submissions on October 21st.

Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Arcade Fire’s Regine Chassagne and Owen Pallett cover Springsteen’s “My City of Ruins”

Add Michael Cooper of 77 Admiral Rd as a person you should get to know. A TIFF event organized by Paul Haggis’ Artists for Peace and Justice at Mr. Cooper’s (very lovely) home this week featured performances by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder (in town for his band’s Cameron Crowe directed doc ‘Pearl Jam 20′ as well as two Neil Young-guesting shows at the ACC) and Arcade Fire’s Régine Chassagne (in town because…she loves her some glam?). At some point, the duo, along with AF buddy and man-about-town Owen Pallett, turned their tuneful attention to Bruce Springsteen’s poignant ‘My City in Ruins.’

Apropos of 9/11′s 10 year anniversary, here’s Springsteen and friends performing the same song nearly a decade ago at a WTC Benefit.

Sirius: Face The Music’s Bedouin Soundclash Infographic

Click here for the full Size Bedouin Soundclash Infographic

Hey Kiddies, here’s a reminder to play the Sirius: Face the Music contest, “where one lucky (and skilled) town in Ontario will win an intimate concert with Bedouin Soundclash and Broken Social Scene.” (!!)

I’m still kicking most of your asses with a sweet 315550. Think you can do better? Maybe this chart above will help.

C’mon, you can do it. It’s getting lonely at the top.

SIRIUS: Face The Music [Contest]

Face The Music gives fans from across Canada the chance to win an intimate concert in their city by playing a “name that tune” style music game. Whichever city ends up with the highest score will host one of these “big-band-in-a-small-venue” shows, while anyone who’s competing has the chance to win a trip to the concert of your choice in the next two weeks, just by getting the highest score in the game.

My top score is 315550. Think you can do better? sure you do! Go on, put me in my place….

More details plus find out which bands could be headlining your city after the jump

My Chemical Romance and the Death of Emo

The article began its incendiary report rather matter-of-factly: “A girl of 13 killed herself after becoming obsessed with a fashion which links death with glamour, an inquest heard. Hannah Bond hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an ‘Emo.’”

The date was May 9, 2008 and the British paper the “Daily Mail” was reporting on the sudden suicide of a teenage girl after her parents wouldn’t let her sleep over at a friend’s house. Though her musical tastes were certainly put into question by the coroner, with its next sentence the paper would set off a firestorm of controversy and anger whose ripples can still be felt today: “Emo fans wear dark clothes,” it read. “Practise self-harm and listen to ‘suicide cult’ rock bands.”

The article went on to name only one band in its attack on ‘Emo.’

“One of the foremost of these “suicide cult” bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey,”

Girl Talk’s ‘All Day’ Sample Breakdown

I don’t know if y’all heard but shit goes down fast on the internet. A couple of days ago I mentioned I was looking forward to the sample breakdown for the new Girl Talk album All Day.

48 hours later, here it is: www.alldaysamples.com

Boom!