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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