Sound In Motion is an independent electronic music festival presented by our friends at StudioFeed, a non-profit Toronto arts collective made up of members of the local music ecosystem. The festival is happening July 13th-15th at various venues in downtown Toronto (including a beach!) and will be featuring the likes of John Roberts, Sammy Dee, [...]
Those that know me well know that I’m rooting for the geopolitical underdogs to win the FIFA World Cup (I can’t shed politics, yo! And how thrilling would it be to see a European nation get their asses whooped by a country from the Global South?). So what does soccer have to do with music? [...]
In between obsessing over Toronto G20-related news – you know, when our fair city was turned into a repressive police state in order for the powers that be to stifle opposing voices (if the events piss you off too, join the call for an independent public inquiry) – I managed to sneak in a bit [...]
Late last summer, I wrote about the connection between taiko (a form of Japanese drumming) and jazz, and vaguely alluded to the history of taiko in North America and how it was connected to political movements brewing in North America at the time. I’m in the midst of applying for an arts grant right now [...]
Istolethesoul posted a link to an amazing, eclectic Turkish jazz mix by Onur Engin which got me wondering about the existence of Vietnamese jazz (the muthaland, yo). Did not come across any jazz but came across some good electronic music from a producer in Hanoi. Electronic music is fairly new in Vietnam but seems to [...]
It’s Toronto Palestine Film Festival time again. Here’s a music-related film that sounds pretty interesting: Checkpoint Rock: Songs of Palestine Javier Corcueran / Fermin Muguruza | 2009 | 70 min | Documentary | Spain This incredible Spanish production spotlights superb talents of the contemporary Palestinian music scene. The film begins with Marcel Khalife at Mahmoud [...]
Check out these recent videoblog entries from Ill Doctrine. If you haven’t yet checked out this smart hip hop videoblog, get on it! Full of sharp commentary, and of course, all things hip hop. I’ve been a fan of Jay Smooth for years and have to admit I have a bit of a cyber crush [...]
“Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy. They have exerted their portion of Detroit Techno’s cultural influence towards promoting political [...]
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