Please check out this youtube video of spiders being studied under various psychoactive and otherwise intoxicating substances. The findings are very true to life, and downright hilarious. I'm absolutely flabbergasted at the quality of research put into this particular study, and urge you all to take a close look at what could provide fascinating insights into our own lives and livelihoods together.
I'm almost at the point of weeping, it's just such a beautiful and harrowing tale that these spi...
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In news that may or may not be related, depending on how cynical or optimistic you might be, I recently recorded an interview with ex-Headstones singer and Flashpoint/Hard Core Logo star Hugh Dillon, for my inaugural podcast entitled "Sex, Drugs, and Spoken Word".
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Terrible news to report: Sparklehorse genius Mark Linkous, perhaps best known for that Wish You Were Here cover with Radiohead, was found dead Saturday after committing suicide in his Knoxville, Tennessee home.

His recent collaboration with Gnarls Barkley's Danger Mouse, Dark Night of the Soul, is coming out shortly.

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While the Jays had at least two offensive juggernauts by the end of 2009 in All-Star starting Second Baseman Aaron Hill, and .305 average, 35 home run hitter Adam Lind, they were still a shadow of the team they might have been at the plate. Gold Glove center fielder and former 30/100 man himself Vernon Wells was recovering from a wrist injury that underwent surgery in the off-season, and bright light Travis Snider was still struggling with coming into his own as a power hitter in the major le...
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It's finally through.
The shortlived career of Don't Mind Dyin', spanning less than two years, has come to an end.
Last night at the Jimmy Jazz in downtown Guelph, one of the fastest growing metal phenomenon's in the region called it quits, as previously reported on this blog.
The Time the Destroyer opened performance was a genuinely sold out free show, christening the Jazz's brand new PBR tap, and it was a stellar night. Free t-shirts abounded, bouncing off the walls all night from the merch bo...
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The Toronto Blue Jays continued pre-season action today, clobbering the New York Yankees 9-1 with the help of young but nearly forgotten starter Shaun Marcum, who came back to pitch for the first time since 2008.
Marcum pitched two scoreless innings, allowing only one walk and striking out two, showing that the Blue Jays may have more help for the bullpen this year than has been expected since Marcum and Dustin McGowan were announced to be missing out on the entirety of the 2009 regular campai...
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If you're anything like me, you're interested, expentant, and maybe even a little sceptical about the new Spoon album that's just come out, called Transference.
We all know that Kill The Moonlight, the Austin, Texas band's 2002 masterpiece, was, well, their masterpiece, and that Paper Tiger from that record is the best song they could possibly produce, and that people going GaGaGaGaGa over Gimme Fiction and it's single I Turn My Camera On thanks to the OC and the likes, are a little late to th...
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With electronic media being a dodgy source for legitimate information and news at the best of times, I feel it's necessary and even to a certain degree benevolent for internet sources to be up front about any conflicts of interest that arise out of their publishing of issues that may be, for lack of a better term, close to the heart.

So I'll come right out and say that this next item, though not without value as a general piece of Canadian trivia, is of particular interest to me in particular ...
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PFM reported yesterday that Toronto's Bloor St. W. by Palmerston is now home to Sky Blue Sky Sandwich Shop, a restaurant that features food exclusively named after songs by the great American rock band of our time, Wilco.

Though the best songs referenced in sandwich form are 'She's a Jar', 'Outta Mind (Outta Site)', 'California Sun' and 'Mermaid Avenue', these are obviously huge Wilco fans. Unfortunately, no food is represented by songs from the recently bygone decade's bonafide best album, 'Y...
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The regular Baseball season is just about underway, with Spring Training action begining tomorrow in Dunedin, Florida, and here's a little feature I put together on the subject for CJIQ 88.3 FM.

The source material is from a sit down that Blue Jays front office held at the Skydome last month called State of the Franchise.

Check out the short piece here and find the full feature from Blue Jays dot com here
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He's toured with Tom Waits and Billy Bragg, mastered the unlikely fusion of hip hop and country/blues flawlessly, and last Monday, CR Avery blessed Van Gogh's Ear with his ethereal presence.

He's a man who's reputation proceeds him, the hip hop/blues/beatboxing poet who's tagline might be Sex Drugs and Spoken Word, but he truly is both a gentleman and a scholar.

With honky tonk lines like "Folk singer, you make me wish that your mom never ****ed your dad", and Waitsian balladeering like "There ...
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As an addendum to my Covers Galore post, my good friend Justin Baily posted this version of Hot Chip's Boy From School by Grizzly Bear, and I thought I just had to share it, what with the new Hot Chip making huge waves, and Grizzly Bear being a real contender for band of the half-decade.

ENJOY!
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So I guess some of you might be interested in what kind of music a snobbish little punk like me actually makes myself... Well maybe you're not, but here's a taste of the best I've got in me, just in time for the Ides.

March on Air - A Pitchfork Writer (That's what I call myself) :)

If you're interested at all, the lovely man who recorded that song is named Colin Harrington, and his amazing band Adverteyes is playing at the Jimmy Jazz on Thursday, March, 4th.

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As of this week it has officially been FIVE LONG YEARS of the Anarcha-Feminist Kool Aid Acid Test on CFRU 93.3 FM!

To commemorate this, here are two promos I've put together for the two regular CFRU programs I host as Ken Cheesy.

AFKAAT

Gryphtalk

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Most of those who know me, also know what website shows up automatically on any browser I've had the chance to preset a homepage for; Pitchfork.

Well, I've got a few little nuggets off of PFM, as it's not-so-endearingly referred to, and you're going to love the wackiness of them all.

Yacht (ex The Blow) -- Holiday (Weezer)
Vampire Weekend -- Ruby Soho (Rancid)
Solange Knowles -- Stillness is the Move (Dirty Projectors)

Here are a couple I found on my own, with the help of some friends:

Of Mice and ...
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Great news!
As of the upcoming issue, Load Magazine has a new copy editor.

Me!

Load is a stellar Guelph based rag that covers everything from mega-monster artists like NIN, Dillinger, and G'n'R,to local stalwarts like Lifestory:Monologue and Farewell To Freeway inside the same covers.

Thanks to my good friends James Brown of Conestoga College's very own and very excellent Broadcast Radio program, as well as Benner, head honcho at Guelph's Year of the Sun Records.

If you're wondering whether or not...
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It is with my deepest regrets and immense sadness that I report to the blogosphere the official dissipation of one of the brightest and most promising new metal bands in the region, Don't Mind Dyin'.

The band, whose string of dates in 2008/2009 solidified a space in the 519's ever growing stable of competent to excellent bands who like it loud and local, is calling it quits after founding drummer Dylan Dawson has decided to leave the band.

Their final show in Guelph is Saturday, March, 6th at J...
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So one of the top ten performers to hit the Jimmy Jazz in my tenure there over the last four years, Maximum R'n'R came back to the Jimmy Jazz this past weekend with Sound One, a nine piece ska band from the GTA.

All I can say is that Jimbo Jak, former singer from Dayglo Abortions knows how to scream audibly over unfathomably loud collaborators. The show was absolutely blazing, with a room packed to the britches of ska-kids and punk rockers headbanging and arm-flailing over couches, tables, and...
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This is where you can find me on the internet in official, blogospheric form.

Check out the pages for my various radio programs, and alter-ego's, as well as other venture's I've undertaken in the interest of art and entertainment.

Check back soon for more info and updates!

Also, join my Facebook Page!

Feel free to call into CFRU 93.3 FM Wednesdays from 6-8 pm @ 519-837-2378 and I'll grant you requests, answer your questions, entertain your inane musings, and give critical perspective to your po...

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