by Blake Morneau | Mar 14, 2013 | Culture
Cody ChesnuTT is a musical renaissance man. He embodies everything an artist should be: daring, brave, intelligent and willing to do it all on his own terms. Listening to his music is like getting a lecture from a black music historian, a man who has absorbed all the...
by Blake Morneau | Feb 28, 2013 | Culture
You probably know Canadian rock icons the Odds. And if you don’t think you do, you probably do anyway. Songs like “It Falls Apart,” “Eat My Brain” and “Love is the Subject,” among others, have burrowed their way into the Canadian consciousness, even though many people...
by Blake Morneau | Feb 14, 2013 | Culture
In 1973, music aficionado Roger Steffens stumbled upon this line in a Rolling Stone piece written by Australian gonzo journalist Michael Thomas: “Reggae music crawls into your bloodstream like some vampire amoeba from the psychic rapids of upper Niger consciousness.”...
by Blake Morneau | Feb 7, 2013 | Culture
Hip-hop is a young genre of music, but despite its age, it has spawned an incredible number of subsections and styles within itself. Here, I open up the vaults and dig out a couple of gems (one for partying and one for philosophizing) from two very different eras in...
by Blake Morneau | Jan 24, 2013 | Culture
For 35 years, Joe Keithley and D.O.A. have been bringing politically charged, socially aware punk music to the masses. An entirely new genre when Keithley entered the realm, punk grew from the same base that fuelled another genre closely aligned with the struggles of...