In honour of the Thursday night lineup, (well, re-runs of the line up) here is a jam by Community star and former 30 Rock writer Donald Glover a.k.a Childish Gambino. He put out his first album in 2008 and has already put out 3 mix tapes in 2010. I was a little skeptical about what I might hear coming from a comedian, and had my fingers crossed that it had [...]
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I had first heard The Balconies in Hamilton at Club Absinthe when they opened for SPIRITS a couple of months ago. We got there late and weren’t expecting much, but The Balconies catchy melodies and inviting vocals hit me like a rhino on the loose. This brother/sister/friend combo had a sound that made me wonder if The Weakerthans got drunk one night and hooked up with Kings of Leon, but [...]
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Come June and July, I am always on the lookout for a great album that can keep my attention for the 4 hour drive to the cottage. Last year was Passion Pit’s Manners that came out in May, and by June, it was full force on my iPod. This year, Suckers new album Wild Smile was a great way to start my summer. The album has a great mix of [...]
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What Toe Jam Mondays is all about: Like most people I definitely have a strong sense of what I like; but if a song is good, it’s good. It doesn’t matter if it’s been done before or if it’s something you’ve never heard. Look at Elvis, he didn’t invent rock ‘n’ roll, he just brought it to us white folks and changed music as we know it. So I don’t [...]
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