Friday night
Going with a Deadmau5 fave this week. If you want new stuff, check out the NXNE music festival going on all over Toronto, lots of variety there. These highlights are…
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Tony Awards With Manly Opening Act
Broadway has never looked straighter. Featuring Stephen Colbert, Brooke Shields, and not Al Pacino.
Friday night
Going with this full version of a remix that was given mucho attention this week by one Pete Tong: Also kicking around from the last week of listening, Example, some…
Friday night
OK, Coldplay, I have been known to like you in the past, so I give you a shot here. This does sound like an effort to catch the popular electronic…
DJ Mister Cee pleads guilty to prostitution offence
In New York Criminal Court on June 1, hip hop DJ Mister Cee, a.k.a. Calvin Labrun, entered a guilty plea on charges of loitering for the purpose of engaging in…
In Winnipeg
It’s not often I have so many days go by without blogging, but it’s been a busy week. Along with buying a motorbike, we had a trip to Winnipeg for…
Haydn Makes You Healthy
Well not just Haydn, or classical music for that matter – a recent study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has shown that the greater an individual’s engagement…
Vote for "The Sheepdogs" for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
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30 Years On: Bob Marley Still Matters
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class…
Original Song #27: Walking
I was walking todayAnd I passed a manA man I know named HarryWho always wishes everyone well I was walking with a womanNot just anyoneBut the only one The only…
A voice of African resistance and exile – Review of Mama Africa
An new doc on Miriam Makeba shakes with revolution.
Harper Bloody Harper – The Harper Song by John Roby
Take a moment to enjoy a cathartic laugh and watch Toronto composer John Roby's rousing performance of his latest ditty.
Paint and piano reflect Mideast resistance – Uprising by Sundus Abdul Hadi & Stefan Christoff
Uprising is a mixed-media painting by Sundus Abdul Hadi in collaboration with her sister Tamara Abdul Hadi's photography, in which her flying figures grace the work. Visuals go hand in…
Monday Music: Duet for Abdelrazik – MP3 features cellist Rebecca Foon and Stefan Christoff on piano
We invite you to download this exclusive duet performance featuring celebrated cellist Rebecca Foon and pianist, community activist and Art Threat contributor Stefan Christoff.
Late Friday Night Ode To … The Future (Again)
Yet another war, another election campaign (Canada), Christian fundamentalists posing as Conservatives doing everything they can to impose their religious views and beliefs (Canada and USA), so-called liberals/progressive/democrats cowering or…
Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live…