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Another one bites the dust. Last week, music website Paper Thin Walls announced that it would cease to post new content, and bowed out with a roundup of their best original articles, lists and other typical (though excellent) music mag content.
BY Dave Morris
David Byrne and Brian Eno’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is not much like anything they’ve done before.
Mississauga MC JD Era’s latest mixtape, Coming to America, is one of the most solid local sets in recent memory
“This fake grunge turd is an aural kick in the taint… I’ll personally piss on the First Amendment if we can ban this song.”
It’s time to celebrate diversity in this column.
Piracy Funds Terrorism was a popular mixtape, and it still is. It’s probably a bad sign that Santogold has resorted to making her version of it, though.
Music snobs hate when a song by one of their obscure favourites appears on television in commercials or theme songs because it deprives them of one more way to feel superior.
It’s Radiohead’s internet, we’re just living in it.
There’s no shortage of shows to see in Toronto this summer, which is why reading about the lineup of concerts —?many of them free?— at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool on various music blogs isn’t as tantalizing as it might be.
Read the news and it’s all “piracy is killing the music industry” this and “kids don’t even think about paying for music” that. But there’s a bigger problem that having thousands of illegally downloaded songs at your fingertips hath wrought — Gregg Gillis...