Music Rags: MC Abdominal jams with mom for new album

Music Rags: MC Abdominal jams with mom for new album

by | May 9, 2013 | Culture

Over the years, what has been presented to the listening public as “hip-hop” has become increasingly homogenized, catering to listeners’ most basic (and often destructive) desires. Luckily for those wanting more from their hip-hop music, Toronto rapper MC Abdominal...
The dog is his

The dog is his

by | Apr 19, 2013 | Culture

Canadian hip-hop icon k-os has always been an uncompromising artist intent on pushing hip-hop forward. On Wednesday, April 17, at Sugar Nightclub, he put on a show that was as much a tribute to the past as it was a peek into the future. Flanked by a full band that...
Music Rags: A legacy on stage

Music Rags: A legacy on stage

by | Apr 2, 2013 | Culture

On “If I Had It All,” Dave Matthews’s trembling voice sings “If I were giant-sized, on top of it all/Tell me what in the world would I sing for, if I had it all?” On Wednesday, March 6, University Centre Farquhar Auditorium B.B. King delivered a resounding answer to...

Music Rags: The art of the song

by | Mar 28, 2013 | Culture

My introduction to Dan Bern went something like this: “I got big balls, big ol’ balls/Big as grapefruits, big as pumpkins, yes sir, yes sir/And on my really good days they swell to the size of small dogs . . .” You can imagine how much amusement a group of guys in...