Going with an Amy Winehouse remix. It was released this week after her death and has been quite popular on Soundcloud. Very awesome. Have a good night.
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Purcell’s Scene of the Drunken Poet
This Friday’s interlude is a bit different only because I can say that I’ve also sung what you are about to watch. The Scene of the Drunken poet is not only comedic, but musically interesting as well. Listen in the chorus parts while the sopranos, alto’s, tenor’s and basses play with the melody line in […]
THE FIFTH COLUMN: Scary Bear Soundtrack Performs "Beaver Pond Forest"
I recently had the opportunity to hear Scary Bear Soundtrack perform both their acoustic and rock versions of “Beaver Pond Forest” live and I have to say that I prefer the rock version of it, and of all their music. Those women can really rock and thei…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Arbourist’s Kaslo Summer Vacation – The Pictures
Summer vacation is never complete without a trip to Kaslo British Columbia. Packing up the fiance and parental unit we embarked on the 12 hour car trip(Oh, and a stop off at Radium Hotsprings as well) to the funky/quaint town known as Kaslo. It is a week of intensive learning, singing and general revelry. This […]
Impolitical: Friday night
Loooove this one, Goodwill & Hook ‘n Sling, Take You Higher. It kind of cuts off at the end, that’s because it’s not officially out until next week.Other tunes for the week…a Kaskade remix, of course! Also, fun new Red Hot Chili Peppers for thos…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Classical Music Interlude Beethoven, Große Fuge, op. 133, string quartet
The Große Fuge (or Grosse Fuge, also known in English as Grand Fugue), Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. A massive double fugue, it originally served as the final movement of his Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major (Op. 130) but he replaced it with a new […]
Tattered Sleeve: Original Song #28: Phineas Gage
My name is Phineas GageNew Hampshire boy, born and raisedI drive a stagecoach here in ChileYou might say I’ve come a long way Drive the coach steady, drive the coach slowFrom Valparaiso to SantiagoSantiago to ValparaisoDrive the coach steady, take it slow The year was 1848I was blasting Vermont graniteFor
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Original Song #28: Phineas Gage
My name is Phineas GageNew Hampshire boy, born and raisedI drive a stagecoach here in ChileYou might say I’ve come a long wayDrive the coach steady, drive the coach slowFrom Valparaiso to SantiagoSantiago to ValparaisoDrive the coach steady, take it sl…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Original Song #28: Phineas Gage
My name is Phineas GageNew Hampshire boy, born and raisedI drive a stagecoach here in ChileYou might say I’ve come a long way Drive the coach steady, drive the coach slowFrom Valparaiso to SantiagoSantiago to ValparaisoDrive the coach steady, take it slow The year was 1848I was blasting Vermont graniteFor
Continue readingcartoon life: Ariana Gillis is damned remarkable
I’ll say it again.
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Weekend metal-blogging.
Chthonic, “Broken Jade”. Ridiculously good vids coming off this album.
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
An easy pick this week, Kaskade was in Victoria and Vancouver a few months ago, how can you not like that? Big flag and all… Have a good night.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not so Classical Music Fridays – Tori Amos – Caught a Lite Sneeze.
Tori Amos is a fabulous musician. Her dexterity and voice are quite amazing.
The video of the same song, with her commentary.
Enjoy.
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Trashy's World: U2 vid – the opening number
Shaky vid taken with my iPhone… but that was due to the stands which were shaking and swaying through the whole show! T’was a bit unnerving but once things kicked in, you kind of forgot about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDEb5iioL04
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Continue readingArt Threat: New old school: bringing back NYC hip-hop – The story of the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective
“We want to politicize people organically. We want to do it internally. We want to do it in the ‘hood,”
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
Have a good night!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Vivaldi – Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, “L’inverno” (Winter) (1st movement)
The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi’s best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. For example, “Winter” is peppered with […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wedding
Note the Saskatchewan and Roughtider flags over the wedding? The Imperial March was my entrance music. No, I forgot to do Live Long and Prosper in my vows.
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch: Punk rock band Rise Against confronts homophobia
Chicago-based punk rock band Rise Against have contributed to the It Gets Better campaign by producing a video for their latest release, “Make It Stop (September’s Children)” to address a string of reported suicides as a result of homophobic bullying…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Gotta gloat…
… about seeing the greatest band in the world over the past 20 years or so – U2!!!!
Yup! Heading to the Hippodrome in Montréal this Saturday to see Bono and the boyz… Been a long time since I took in one of their gigs… last saw them on the 1992 Zoo TV tour in T.O.
Too […]